Learning & development

With secondments becoming part and parcel of the modern workplace, would you be willing to swap roles and try something completely new?

Roisin Woolnough takes a look at how a new managing director turned around the fortunes of T-Mobile

Costa Coffee continues to share its experiences of implementing a bespoke modern apprenticeship/ NVQ training programme. This month, regional learning and development manager Helen Thompson brings us up to date and introduces feedback from some of the staff involved

River Island's project manager Steve Cassidy explains why training is the key component to success in any systems project

Neville Pritchard gained accolades as head of training at Abbey National. Now he's moved to Barclays to run the bank's corporate university.

Enhancing the skills and responsibilities of learning and development professionals is the aim of this month’s Learning Technologies 2004 exhibition...

Employers are turning to the arts to cultivate creativity in their managers.

Blended learning promises much but is often no more than online and classroom-based elements slapped together. Vodafone, however, shows what can be achieved when it is built from the ground up

When planning ahead, employers must understand not only their imminent skills needs, but also the gamut of changing attitudes to learning. In the first of a two-part series, Alison Thomas looks at how organisations are winning over hearts and minds

Derek Simpson argues the business case for workplace learning

The size of the challenge
As the 2011 DDI/CIPD Global Leadership Survey declares at its outset “Quality of Leadership can...