Sector Skills Councils found to provide a 20-fold return on investment

Sector Skills Councils can achieve up to 20 times the return on investment in them, researchers have found. A report by business advisors Baker Tilly, which sampled four out of the 25 licensed SSCs, says the findings “show the depth, reach, and significant public benefit from the SSCs’ activities”. View More >

Training company scoops apprenticeship award

Scotland based GTG Training has scooped the award for Learning Provider of the Year at the Scottish Modern Apprenticeship Awards. The Modern Apprenticeship programme is managed by Skills Development Scotland, which was set up by the Scottish government to improve the country’s skills performance and helps companies part-fund and train apprentices. View More >

Public services suffering due to people management crisis

A crisis in people management is threatening the delivery of public services, according to a report released this week. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) says the sporadic and inadequate quality of front line management is resulting in high levels of absence and an inability to tackle poor performance in the public sector. View More >

PC based performance reviews

We currently have a paper based performance review process, assessing individuals against objectives, competencies and identifying training needs, potential etc, which is used for annual and interim a...View More >

Tips for making training more accessible

As a charity much of our training for volunteers is delivered by volunteers and many of these are not trainers in their paid employment and so consequently are not as skilled at modifying their delive...View More >

Embedding learning & change processes in organisations

Learning and change in CSOs (CBOs, social movements and NGOs) has proved to be difficult for multiple reasons, ranging from a lack of external and internal support (learning takes time and money), to ...View More >

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