Despite people believing apprenticeships outrank university education there is still a stigma.
National Apprenticeship Week: skill shortages can be plugged by apprentices
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Sarah Danzl: Complete your L&D with user-generated content
“Employees are giving their employers’ L&D opportunities an overall Net Promoter Score of -25.”
Senior leaders risk falling behind in the L&D space
23 per cent of employers plan to focus their L&D activity on senior leaders.
Exclusive video interview with head of HR at Philips UKI
HRreview interviews Aimee Badcock, head of HR at Philips UKI, about talent management.
Josh Squires: Brexit, the bots and the bottoming out of company culture
How prepared is your company for these three key drivers?
HR managers feels ‘let down’ by their apprenticeship training provider
What are the crucial reasons behind businesses feeling disappointed in these providers?
Training not being provided for contingent workers despite 1.5 million UK workers falling in to this category
24 per cent of contingent workers who do receive training say it is ineffective.
Gap years for Generation Z: valuable life experience or a waste of time?
What do HR experts really think about taking a gap year?
Data seen as key for L&D however only minority of businesses implementing it
How key is data to L&D? Have companies recognized this issue and implementing changes or are they behind the need to implement it?
Revealed: UK workers don’t have the tech skills they need to do their job
A majority of British workers say they rely on technology to do their job – but that doesn’t mean they know how to use it. This is according to the 2019 Tech Skills Index report.
Jean-Marc Tassetto: Let’s start using a whole new class of meaningful HR KPIs
Coorpacademy’s Jean-Marc Tassetto examines how a new generation of training analytics tools can deliver much richer datasets.
Poor management costs UK business £84 billion a year
The UK currently has an estimated 2.4 million untrained ‘accidental managers’, and with poor management costing employers around £84 billion a year according to the OECD, it is time for fundamental change.
Oliver Barber: How and why businesses must evolve to enable adaptability
Digital transformation and AI mean that employers’ jobs and skills needs will change at a quicker pace than ever before. Oliver Barber from Docebo suggests ways in which companies can evolve to enable their employees to adapt to change.
Revealed: Employees want regular check-ins with the line managers
Here is a clear message to organisations that employees want this regular contact with line managers and that check-ins are an essential element of a successful performance culture and employee well-being.
Veronica Tucker: How to make mentorship programs stick
Veronica Tucker considers some of the best practices to follow when implementing mentorship programs in order to make them a sustained success.