Investors in People & Training – part 2

Having started to put into place your coaching strategy – strategy being a bit of a strong word for ‘just doing it’,  we can retrospectively call it a strategy to impress everybody – training needs may now start to emerge. Read more

Employee Testing – the business case

You wouldn’t invest £45,000 (or £10,000) in a new piece of kit, new office space or a major piece of marketing on the basis of looking at it for an hour, finding out what birth sign it was made under(!) or relying on the makers’ brochure.

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Are staff a cost or an investment?

Some years ago my boss sat me down and gave me a good talking to.  I had been asked to turn round a company.  The sales weren’t growing and the previous manager had recruited huge numbers of new people resulting in a whacking loss.

My boss basically gave me two bullet points: Read more