Industrial and Commercial Training: Volume 35 Issue 1

Transforming the company: the differing learning practices of successful and unsuccessful companies

Successful and unsuccessful companies adopt very different ways of managing change, competing and winning. Examining outcomes achieved enables the differing attitudes, approaches…

Influencing and negotiating skills: some research and reflections – Part I: influencing strategies and styles

Examines the connection between influencing and negotiation. Using data collected from self‐assessment instruments developed by them, the authors argue that it is useful to see…

No Yin without its Yang

The pressures on managers today are increasing and what was current yesterday may be quite different from the uncertainties of tomorrow. Top level leadership may be transient and…

Clerical Medical feeds back on blended learning

Blended solutions for training are growing in popularity, but are they more than just a combination of a range of “real” learning techniques? Is it a learning approach in its own…

Learning and development in action learning: the energy investment model

In action learning sets participants bring their personal energy and attitudes. These produce identifiable behaviour styles (not types of people). In the energy investment model…

How training can add real value to the business: part 1

This is the first of two ground‐breaking articles set to challenge the training community with a call to action written by Dr Richard Hale, a leading proponent of action learning…

Building a new performance vision for results

Increasingly line managers are expressing frustration at receiving incomplete performance solutions, weak return on investment, and less than expected results from performance…

Making Stories – A Practical Guide for Organizational Leaders and Human Resource Specialists

Skills of Management (Fifth Edition)

Training expenditure "linked to business success"

E-learning platform goes "live" at Royal & SunAlliance

Hospital staff train for computer "driving licence"

Museum staff get leadership and management training

Service enables employers to benchmark training

Training builds brand and profits at Kreglinger

Shanghai bank managers trained in western practice

Coca-Cola Europe goes electric

E-learning for McDonald's

Demos looks east