Providing a good standard of workplace training is crucial for all companies regardless of their size, but is not without its potential pitfalls, according to a small business expert.
Former IBA start-up business adviser of the year Sylvia Constantine claimed training is as important to owners and managers as it is to lower-level staff and added [...]

As part of the build up to October’s Employee Wellbeing Forum 2010, Donald Campbell , Marketing Manager for Team London Bridge, a Business Improvement District, explains the importance of employee retention
It is increasingly prevalent in today’s society that managers find employee retention an ongoing struggle. In the past, employees used to stay in the [...]

The first Investment in Staff survey of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from QBE, the specialist business insurer, shows that only one in six (15%) of those questioned are looking to hire more staff in 2010. A dire outlook for those who have graduated this summer and are looking for work, however there were some [...]

Recruitment specialist Poolia is advising businesses looking to reduce the impact of mass staff departures predicted by the recent GfK NOP survey to go back to basics and focus on three short-term steps: competitive salary and benefits, flexible working schedules, and a sensible tuition reimbursement plan.
“We are already finding more and more candidates looking to [...]

Narinder Uppal has been confirmed as the new Head of Awarding Body at the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) – the only chartered professional body providing support for managers and leaders across the UK.
Narinder, from Fennay Bridge Park in Huddersfield joined CMI in March 2009 as Companions and Ambassador Manager. She was responsible for the [...]

Kwik Fit Insurance has been celebrating winning a major UK employment award.
The insurance intermediary’s Flex programme claimed the honours for ‘Most Effective Benefits Strategy (for organisations with more than 1000 staff)’ at the Employee Benefits Awards, the only UK event dedicated to celebrating employers’ reward and benefits strategies.
Kwik Fit Insurance was praised for [...]

Workplace environment business strategist Tim Oldman along with strategy consultant and researcher Annie Leeson have joined forces to launch the first unified and truly independent workplace effectiveness employee survey. The Leesman Index will create significant value for all involved in the brief development, design, delivery and management of workspace environments by providing a systemized approach [...]

In response to employers’ growing demand for active talent management within their workforces and the current trend towards the personalisation of learning materials, Giunti Labs and Cegos, to further strengthen their on-going partnership, are collaborating to integrate Cegos’ catalogue of learning materials with Giunti Labs’ learn eXact LCMS.
The two companies began their collaboration in 2007, [...]

Suggestions are being made that the workplace is about to witness a new era of traditional working values.
Donna Miller, HR director, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, whose company has 3,000 staff in the UK, claims current employment trends point to a rise in employees putting job security first as they begin their careers in [...]

The Royal Navy has one of the “most complex HR tasks in the UK” when it comes to workforce planning, a CIPD conference heard yesterday.
Satisfying the level of demand for personnel, but avoiding an over-supply of staff which government budgets would not pay for, posed a “manning conundrum”, according to Commander David Cox, a strategic [...]