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Summer Newsletter Page 2

Here's page 2 of our Summer Newsletter.  Enjoy!

What's the ROI on Training & Development?

Are you constantly asked to justify the amount spent on employee training and development?  Here's the President of the Canadian Society for Training and Development, Lynn Johnston.  She raises some great points about the multitude of benefits acr...

Outstanding Leadership

I was lecturing at Christ Church University in Canterbury this week and part of my lecture mentioned the amazing work of Marcus Buckingham with the Gallup Organisation.  It was quite staggering that the Business Studies students, who were at the e...

Evaluation is Flawed

I found this an interesting article, given the fact that I've just put in a proposal for a major tender with a global company, who will be looking in detail at how we will evaluate our learning proposals.  Graham O'Connell will be part of the 'gre...

What does a 21st Century team need to do?

I came across this article recently and quite like what it says.  In today's corporate world, the skills of teams are very different to those written about by management gurus 50 years ago.  My experience of working with corporate teams in recent ...

In or out of the classroom?

OD guru, Peter Honey, has written a very interesting article about classroom training and the bad press it has received. He talks about his 40 years in the classroom and how industry is giving it a good 'kicking'.


Personally, as a classroom base...

Our first ever newsletter!

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Newsletter Page 2

Here's page 2 of our first ever newsletter.  Enjoy!

An Entrepreneurial Mindset in a Global Company?

Is it possible to create an entrepreneurial mindset within a large global organisation?  Some think not.  Speaking to a local entrepreneur recently, he laughed at the prospect.  His view was that process and procedure will always scupper any attem...

Team Hoyt - truly inspiring

I use the Team Hoyt video clips all the time during many of the training programmes that I run for large multi-national companies.  They demonstrate just how inspiring people can be and how they overcome the struggles of their lives.  I think thes...

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