For a professional trainer, the greatest measure of success is the success of the participants. Therefore, it’s essential for a professional trainer to have a special set of skills designed to impact the course participants in the desired way. The New Zealand Skills Quality Authority states that the most vital skills a trainer needs are […]
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Top 8 Leadership Skills Required by Today’s Managers According to a report by Harvard Business Publishing[i], the eight key capabilities leaders need to handle today’s complex business landscape include acting strategically, managing complexity, and promoting employee engagement. The report also puts emphasis on personality development, especially on adaptability and resilience. Lack of important skills in
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Top 10 New Zealand Supervisory Skills Supervisors in New Zealand have the difficult job of bringing the best out of their staff. Though it sounds simple, this requires a unique set of skills. According to Indiana University Bloomington, the role of a supervisor includes goal setting, decision-making, time management, delegation, and communication.[i] But that is
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Top 10 Required Business Skills: Having the capability to work cohesively in teams, using effective communication skills, and analytical and problem-solving abilities are highly desirable skills in employees; a report by the Directorate-General for Education and Culture says.[i] Apart from sector-specific skills, and basic computer knowledge, graduate recruiters believe the following skills to be “very
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Positive psychology teaches us that if you improve the lives of your people you’ll improve the organisation’s performance. When people are happy, positive and resilient, organisations are healthy, stable and profitable. HR professionals know that if employees are disengaged with the company culture and lacking in motivation and spark, they’re likely to be thinking about
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PD Training recently analysed the levels of investment in professional development training (non IT) during the past 18 months by clients belonging to the “government” sector, which included local, state and federal agencies across New Zealand, and identified this sector concentrated the bulk of their spending on Lean Six Sigma (LSS) training courses and certifications
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Your company’s motto is ‘learning that people remember’. Do you see this as a problem with a lot of corporate training? …ie perhaps there is a lack of ‘learning transfer’ once the student is back in the office – what is learnt simply does not get applied and therefore it gets forgotten? How can this
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70:20:10; its guaranteed mediocrity at best. For those L&D professionals among us who want to help their businesses, and be invited to the next senior management strategy meeting, please stop preaching this stuff (if you haven’t already). If my research serves me correctly, this model is based on some rather loose research that suggests ‘this
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How to Align your Learning and Development Plan to Business Goals Set by Management
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Technology now allows us to learn in a much more comfortable and effective way. The benefits of classroom learning are obvious, but to further those benefits, we can now combine digital and online media to classroom training. Companies that continue to stick to traditional methods of training employees are not taking advantage of their increasingly
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