Development and Learning in Organizations: Volume 17 Issue 4
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A practical perspective on the self‐efficacy of middle‐managers: Strategies to bolster task accomplishment
Middle managers attending a leadership training session were asked to share some of the most challenging aspects of their jobs. Responses ranged from general issues such as…
Job rotation: Its role in promoting learning in organizations
Work based approaches to learning and development have become increasingly popular. However often individuals and developers are not given clear enough assistance to make such…
Kent adult education puts educational planning on the curriculum: Developing business systems to deliver maximum results
Adult education in the UK is on the increase. Between 1994/1995 and 2001/2002 the number of students enrolled in further education increased by 37 percent, to, almost 4.2 million…
Why corporations keep getting language training so wrong: “To learn perchance to speak …”
To commit or not to commit that is the question, whether it is nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous training or by committing oneself, dare to succeed. Sincere…
Developmental coaching: Rejecting the remedial approach
We need to see coaching differently from the way it has been viewed within some organizations in the past, where the word has often carried a remedial rather than a developmental…
Clerical Medical benefits from blended learning: Working towards an “overall solution”
Blended learning is undoubtedly growing in popularity, and the reason why is not difficult to understand. Recent history has seen a shift from traditional face‐to‐face learning to…
Olympic medalist and Microsoft find common ground in mentoring: But are there really any connections between sport and business?
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s Human Resource Development conference is widely recognized as one of the UK’s major HR events of the year. With delegates…
Executive development at BAA, Royal Bank of Scotland and the BBC: Going beyond management development for competitive advantage
There was once a time (not so long ago) when management development was all about career progression, succession planning and not a lot else. You did your obligatory MBA in order…
Achieving results through workplace learning: Australian hospital makes the most of collaborative techniques
One of the most prominent figures in the organizational learning field, Peter Senge, has said that the need for understanding about how organizations learn and methods with which…
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1477-7282Renamed from:
Training Strategies for TomorrowOnline date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Anne Gimson