Suicide Prevention role for employers
The World Health Organisation’s Suicide Prevention Day highlights the need to do more to help people thinking about taking their own life. Over the last couple of years there have been numerous campaigns and initiatives that have aimed at reducing the stigma around mental health and to get...
Free Guide: how to deal with unconscious bias
A free guide to how anyone can manage the unconscious bias of other people. It was back in the early nineteen-nineties, when I first raised the issue of unconscious bias in a management training programme. I was working for a big-name supermarket chain. To me it seemed like an easy...
Free guide to getting more done in less time
Our latest free guide focuses on explaining how you can get more done in less time, by emulating the work habits of the most productive people in your organisation. If you want to get something done, so the old saying goes, the best person to ask to do it is the busiest person you know. It is...
Do more engaged employees deliver better customer service?
Links between employee engagement and customer service and vice-versa are investigated with Adrian Swinscoe We were in that stalwart of the high street, which is supposed to be on the verge of collapse, the one were we all buy our underwear, and desserts that we surreptitiously pass-off as...
Employee experience is the key to employee engagement
Could retailers show how creating a customer experience can be applied to any work place to enhance employee engagement and productivity? The big financial story this week seems to have been the sad demise of high street department store chain House of Fraser, when it went in to...
Coaching has become over complicated and needs to get back to the basics
Coaching has got over complicated and needs to get back to the basics if it is to deliver results. I am one of those trainers who likes to keep ahead of the game when it comes to new techniques and tools, so, when twenty years ago the opportunity to learn how to be a coach came up I...
The power of story-telling in business
We look ahead to theLondon HR Summit and the seminar that William Montgomery will be presenting on the power of story-telling as a tool for achieving business change. I recently had the pleasure of making a journey from Leeds Railway station. As is my habit I had arrived a little...
Free guide to overcoming procrastination and getting things done
Somehow there is always a reason why you can’t get things done, or even get started this free guide will help you find focus and be more productive. When Olympic athletes are asked, how they have improved and achieved higher standards they often say that they found someone who was better...
Time to de-clutter coaching
We look ahead to the London HR Summit where Paul Furey will discuss how over complicating coaching has reduced the results it can achieve. A few years ago, when I was leading the learning and development team for a hi-tech manufacturing company, I was faced with a dilemma. The...
Free Guide to Managing Conflict
We offer a free guide to managing conflict at work with a view to getting a positive outcome. All too often selecting the right candidate for a professional or management role is not about which one is the most technically competent, it’s who will be the best fit with the existing...
The Magic of Tiny Business
In, The Magic of Tiny Business Michael Millward finds that a company doesn’t have to be huge to successfully fulfil its purpose. I remember when I first established my business I seemed to be surrounded by people who told me what a fantastic idea I had, and how I was bound to be a...
A focused approach to business events delivers business benefits
How can executives maximise the return on investment for the time spent at exhibitions. Michael Millward investigates Summer has definitely arrived, there is even talk of hose-pipe bans in some parts of the country. Of course, that also means that every morning I receive an email from some...
getAbstract of the week The Lost Art of Closing
One of the abiding memories that I have of being head of HR for the sales and marketing division of a global hi-tech company is a discussion with the vice president of sales (VP) about a long-standing sales person. We were reviewing the sales persons’ figures and performance ahead of their...
getAbstract summary The Toyota Kata Practice Guide
This weeks' free getAbstract summary is The Toyota Kata Practice Guide by Mike Rother There is much to admire about the Japanese approach to manufacturing. My grandfather always used to say that the Japanese were very good at working out how British manufacturers made things and then...
getAbstract summary of The Tyranny of Metrics
This weeks’ sample getAbstract book summary features The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Z Muller. In, the Tyranny of Metrics, Muller provides a riposte to bean counters everywhere, and explains how to use statistics properly within the context that recognises the value of experience and...
getAbstract of the week Emotional Habits
The first in our series of sample getAbstract book summaries features Emotional Habits the seven things that resilient people do. Peak performance coach Akash Karia discusses the seven major habits of “emotionally resilient” people and explains how to integrate those behaviors into your...
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CIPD Qualifications added to Work Place Learning Centre
Work Place Learning Centre has selected DPG as a partner for the delivery of a comprehensive range of CIPD qualifications for human resource management and learning and development professionals. DPG is an accredited CIPD delivery centre. WPLC founder and managing director...
getAbstract available on WPLC
Work Place Learning Centre has added getAbstract to its ever-increasing on-line catalogue of learning resources. getAbstract is a compact knowledge source that enables anyone with a job to do, to maximize how effectively they use their most limited resource, time; whilst simultaneously...
ClueGo treasure hunt based team building
The hottest day of 2016, and at the London Eye I am all set for ClueGo, an experience that I have been promised is sure to be an action-packed ‘treasure hunt’ team building game. Following our briefing, (health and safety etc) we were split into 2 teams, Each team gets a pre-loaded iPad...
UK World Skills 2013 squad takes shape
The London 2012 Olympic Games have closed but as the Olympic Park prepares to welcome the Paralympic Games the United Kingdom squad for World Skills 2013 in Leipzig is also starting to take shape. It is not so long ago that London hosted the WorldSkills festival of acheivement in work...
Work Experience Campaign launched by European Commission
The European Commission has launched the "We Mean Business" campaign, which aims to encourage companies across Europe to create more trainee placements to boost young people's skills and employability. The campaign will provide 280,000 placements during 2012/2013 funded by the Leonardo da Vinci...
TUC seeks positive experiences of right to train
In April 2010, the right to request time to train became law for larger businesses. The Government is monitoring the impact the legislation has had on the big employers that are affected by it. Some business groups are using this as an opportunity to call on the Government to...
Learning maps aid learning and build learner confidence
The most important step in any journey is the first, but if you are going to start a journey with confidence then it helps to have a map that shows the most effective route, the hazards you may encounter on the way and where you will be able to take a break. For this reason maps have...
Half of managers too frightened to sack a poor performing employee
Half of all employers would rather put-up with a poor performing employee than deal with the issue and terminate a contract. Why? They are worried about the employees reaction and the potential costs of legal action. In a study of 1,000 employers just over half (53%) said that they found...
Employment Tribunal statistics highlight threats to business
The new 'Employment Tribunals and Employment Appeal Tribunals Statistics 2010-11' published by the Ministry of Justice and the HM Courts & Tribunals Service show that businesses that don't train their managers to engage fully with employees and comply with the latest employment legislation...