Learning & development

Rachel Burlton found leadership development such a powerful force that she headed to London to embrace it. She's since discovered succession planning.
Graduates and final-year students still expect more than a bowl of muesli from employers. And training is at the top of their wish list, according to a poll by recruiter TMP Worldwide .

Traditional measurement techniques for assessing organisational training success are out of date, argues Arif Ahmed, co-founder and director of learning consultancy Ikonami.

The rise in Web 2.0 tools and resources such as blogs, wikis, podcasts and webinars, means there are more informal learning opportunities available. How can this be controlled by L&D?

At this year’s Learning Technologies conference and exhibition, being held at London’s Olympia, Giunti Labs, a leading learning and mobile content...

To generate sales, your front line team need to be up to date on what you sell, and how you...

The Learning and Skills Network (LSN) – an independent not-for-profit organisation – has concluded a deal to distribute Echelon Learning’s series...

Cardiff Community Housing Association (CCHA) has chosen the HR Unity range from Carval Computing to manage its HR, and training processes and...

Breaches of health and safety law carry stiffer penalties from this month , making the need for professionally delivered training even more imperative.

A government-backed scheme to introduce graduate internships has been backed by several high-profile employers.Banking giant Barclays, global IT firm Microsoft...

HR is going to have its hands full during the tough year ahead. But which weighty issues will it be focusing on in the coming months?

The government drive for more apprenticeships must not be used by employers as an excuse to hire cheap staff while...

Ethnic minority police recruits are twice as likely as white recruits to drop out in their first six months of...

How did you get to where you are now?I took a fairly traditional route, working my way up the HR...

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As the government steps up efforts to urge employers to offer apprenticeships, HR practitioners are...

Marriott is to run its graduate management development programme again for 2009, despite the global economic downturn.The international hotel chain...