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Lonely are the brave: When the organizational culture clashes with individual beliefs
Snéha Khilay– Highlights the notion of a dominant organizational culture and examines what can happen when this conflicts with an individual employee’s set of beliefs.
Everest sales staff learn at home-from-home: Training academy replicates where most selling takes place
Describes how a home-improvement company that seeks to “rewrite the rule book in its sector” has opened a dedicated training center whose design replicates customers’ homes where…
Employees master the Nuances of travel retailing: New learning system helps staff to stay up to date
– Examines how travel retailer Nuance keeps its employees up to date in terms of specialized sales techniques that are appropriate for its sector.
Barclays blazes a trail on apprentices: Pioneering scheme opens route to a banking career
– Considers the new Trailblazer apprenticeships being offered by Barclays and Santander.
Stoke achieves transformation through coaching: Therapy sessions play key role in organizational change
– Shows how Stoke City Council has transformed its working culture by training employees to give coaching and therapy sessions to colleagues.
Diversity in engineering takes off with Airbus award: Prizes go to proven initiatives in the field
– Describes how Airbus has joined the Global Engineering Deans’ Council (GEDC), a worldwide forum for excellence in engineering education, to run the GEDC Airbus award.
Conversations become courageous at Standard Chartered: Bank’s leadership initiative encourages tough talk
– Evaluates the impact of an executive-development program at Standard Chartered Bank. Identifies the contribution of the different program phases to its impact.
Working to your strengths: Pharmaceutical firm’s choice for change
Sets out ways in which a pharmaceutical company embedded a strengths-based approach to the assessment and development of field-based staff during a period of structural and…
Individuals, teams and organizations score with gamification: Tool can help to motivate employees and boost performance
Swatee Sarangi, Shreya Shah– Explains how gamification can help to motivate employees and boost individual and organizational performance.
Implementing an employee career-development strategy: How to build commitment and retain employees
Paul J Davis– Demonstrates how to build commitment and retain employees through a career-development strategy.
Employers hire for attitude and train for skill: Enthusiastic candidates often land the offer of a job
M.S Rao– Lays emphasis on the importance of presenting a positive attitude to grab an offer of employment.
Myths and truths about coaching: How to acquire right perspective to enhance leadership excellence
M.S Rao– Demonstrates how to acquire right perspective to enhance leadership excellence.
Taking obesity into account: Why it pays to nudge employees into losing weight
Emmanuelle Ries– Considers the implications of the latest European Court of Justice ruling that obesity can be considered a disability.
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- Nicholas King