According to Bersin in their “Predictions for 2013”, companies who revisit employee performance goals on a quarterly basis “drive more than 30% more productivity than those which set goals manually”.

Sales forces have been working on quarterly cycles since time began!

Generally speaking, sales people align their performance with the business’s quarterly goals – so why wouldn’t that culture cascade through every part of an organisation’s employee performance plans? It appears that it… [read more]

Our long suffering chancellor may own a fair slice of a wallpaper business but to be sure, he can’t paper over all of the cracks in his somewhat pressured fiscal policy.

Following yesterday’s 2013 Budget statement there is muted applause for the work he has done in helping the building industry (Government Guaranteed Loans to assist with Deposits on new homes) but what has he done for industries which are the bricks and… [read more]

Tracy Capaldi-Drewett, with over 25 years’ experience of Learning Technologies, has joined TWM, The Working Manager as Commercial Director.

Welcoming Tracy to the company, Managing Director Philip Purver said: “We are delighted that Tracy has joined TWM at this key next stage in our development.”

Tracy has a strong pedigree within learning and development and the technology based industries.

Prior to joining TWM, Tracy was carrying out a senior consulting role with arguably Capita… [read more]

For senior L&D professionals 70:20:10 aren’t just random numbers anymore – they’re becoming a benchmark for considering and then understanding whether effort, and of course spend, is being focused in the right place.

If, and evidentially some believe it should remain an ‘if’ for the time being, you subscribe to the view that organisations should adopt the 70:20:10 model, the next question that might spring to your mind… [read more]

The happy announcement of an impending arrival for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge has put the UK government in the position whereby it has to do some pretty rapid Succession Planning. Not many businesses in the UK have to think in terms of ending the principle of male primogeniture in order to get their succession plan in place but that is what faces the British government.

Poor old Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg who… [read more]

When you listen to the Business and Financial pundits on the early morning radio speaking about corporate results they have become a little predictable in their approach to the poor CEO, who has been good enough to “wake up to money” or something similar.

Successful results seem always to be met with something along the lines of: “We knew you were doing well so why can’t you reduce your prices because you have done… [read more]

Peter Gray explains how learning technology can be used to strengthen individual and organisational performance in order to improve ROI.
Published in October’s Inside Learning Technologies and Skills Magazine, Peter Gray’s article looks to discover the secrets to improving organisational performance through the learning technologies you may already have available. He focuses his discussion on four fundamental beliefs:

Engagement brings improvement
Collaboration brings progression
You must identify primary stakeholders
It is our responsibility… [read more]

Postcards have never really been my thing but every now and again you visit somewhere and feel compelled to write home and let everyone know what you’ve seen.

Chicago’s HR Technology Conference and Exposition gives us Brits a chance to see how things are moving in the US. A chance to seek out on behalf of our own clients what’s new and importantly what’s not. Even perhaps what’s hot!

This… [read more]