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Fresh insights into Behaviour Change and Learning

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Fresh insights into Behaviour Change and Learning
When Your People Are Busy Working While Attending Training

This is a rewritten excerpt taken from Regina Morris’s sharing at People Potential’s regular Community of Practice, a weekly meet-up of subject matter experts, trainers, facilitators, and instructional design practitioners who come together to improve themselves. It’s part of People Potential’s commitment to our clients. Regina is People Potential’s senior business presentations specialist. — Over...

How to Create Training Programmes That Resonate Throughout Your Organisation

You might want to devise a leadership programme that resonates with your lower-level managers up to your CEO. Or you could be looking to unleash a work management system that you want warehousing, engineering, and finance to adopt. Or you’d like to encourage a collaborative framework to bring disparate teams to work together from far-flung...

Motivate People to Perform at Their Best with Business Presentations Training

Our Presentations Alive!™ programme doesn’t just improve people’s business presentation skills. Within Presentations Alive! there’s a hidden second programme. When we designed Presentations Alive!, we did so knowing that the most important skills are also the most difficult to teach – skills like confidence and self-worth. So, we stealthily included these elements into an innocent-sounding...

Push Your Organisation to Innovate with Hackathons

The world stopped, the streets emptied, and the offices lay vacant. Within the context of a post-apocalyptic setting where people are separated by sheets of plastic and glass, forced to communicate through apps and made to compete with their meowing cats and their screeching children, what is a HR department to do to keep their...

Get Training Results – A Case Study on the Use of Post-training Reinforcement by a Large Asian Bank

Upper management was unconvinced, “Why spend so much on training when we can’t see the results?” they asked Jane and her colleagues from the L&D department. It was a question that they couldn’t answer with certainty.  Their training budgets were in jeopardy.  Despite all the good classroom experiences during training, the results are often suspect....

How to train for soft skills the right way

  Hard to develop and difficult to measure. This is how, many HR and L&D professionals see soft skills. And they are mostly right. To train soft skills is a challenge, but we believe it’s one that’s worth undertaking.  Why? Because soft skills are increasingly important in today’s work environment. Not only can they make...

3 questions answered about refresher training

  An L&D dream come true would be a training programme that, run just once, leads to employees remembering and implementing everything from it. It would have an immediate impact on your business. As we’ve explored here, this is not going to happen anytime soon, unfortunately. 90% of learning is already forgotten within the first...

How to effectively reinforce your technical training

  Although soft skills are becoming increasingly important in today’s workplaces, businesses still have to rely on hard skills. After all, in-depth technical knowledge is vital for many roles.  We see organisations spend a significant amount on technical training in the hope of seeing better job performance and business results in return. Unfortunately, they are...