Playing to your strengths

Playing to your strengths

Playing to your strengths Focus on developing your weaknesses and your performance may suffer. Ian Pettigrew explains why strengths based leadership can help you make the most of your natural talents. Everybody has talents: true strength comes from being resourceful...
Playing to your strengths

Classroom training: villain of L&D?

Classroom training: villain of L&D? Going into the ‘classroom’ for ‘training’ has had a bad press but according to Robin Hoyle, it hasn’t been drummed out of town just yet! And, as he explains, there are some great ways to maximise on the opportunities that...
Playing to your strengths

23 June 2016 | Members’ Seminar update

It was a great day at the Members’ Seminar on Thursday 23rd June and thank you to everyone who battled through the floods to get to us! We had some inspiring sessions on summoning strengths, evaluation, learning strategy and creative compliance to name just a few. We...
Playing to your strengths

Learning at bpha: top down & bottom up

Keith Whitburn, former learning and development manager* at Bedford based housing association bpha, explains how he meets the challenge of compulsory training, with support from a dynamic chief executive and leadership team that believe in leading by example....
Playing to your strengths

Developing learning professionals

When it comes to talking about developing learning professionals we’re so focused on supporting others that we can overlook our own development. But according to leading commentators like Charles Jennings, a new skill set is required for learning practitioners to meet...