2017 – Page 2 – Bob Little

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Financial Times | IE Business School Corporate Learning Alliance launches a series of high-impact online learning programmes for corporates

Financial Times | IE Business School Corporate Learning Alliance (www.ftiecla.com) has launched a series of online short-course programmes. Custom-designed to each client company’s requirements and intended for groups of 50 or more executives, the programmes are known as High-Impact Online Programmes (HiOPs) and they adopt the latest concepts and tools to ensure academic [...]

By Bob| October 18th, 2017|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: corporate learning, learning technologies, MOOCs, online, SPOCs|0 Comments

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Improving corporate presentations

A creative consultant and storyteller, Ian Sanders is the author of four books on work and business. Talking about presentations recently to FT|IE Corporate Learning Alliance - a joint venture of the Financial Times and IE Business School, formed in 2015 in response to growing calls for more flexible, practical, relevant and timely corporate learning [...]

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Explosive Learning Solutions approaches project management training milestone

The learning and development (L&D) consultancy, Explosive Learning Solutions (ELS) is about to train its 1,000th person in effective project management techniques. Since ELS’s inception just over ten years ago, it has been running regular PRojects IN Controlled Environments (PRINCE2®) courses - a globally recognised, process-based, method for effective project management. PRINCE2® is the [...]

By Bob| September 27th, 2017|Categories: Business|Tags: consultancy, development, learning, milestone, PRINCE, project management|0 Comments

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Financial Times | IE Business School Corporate Learning Alliance shortlisted in Learning Technologies Awards 2017

A programme from Financial Times | IE Business School Corporate Learning Alliance has been named on the shortlist for one of this year’s Learning Technologies Awards. It’s the first time that this corporate learning provider, formed almost three years ago, has entered these Awards. Its programme has been shortlisted for the Learning Technologies Awards [...]

By Bob| September 25th, 2017|Categories: Business, Learning Technologies|Tags: awards, corporate learning, financial, learning technologies, online|0 Comments

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Defence specialists explore contract liability via Explosive Learning Solutions

The learning and development consultancy Explosive Learning Solutions (ELS) is conducting a contract liability programme for the Defence Academy of the UK. One of the Academy’s range of business skills courses, and intended for Commercial Officers or their equivalents who are in posts that require the ability to review, analyse, negotiate or accept requests [...]

By Bob| September 19th, 2017|Categories: Business|Tags: consultancy, contract liability, defence, development, learning, risk|0 Comments

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Updated, more efficient website for Explosive Learning Solutions

The learning and development (L&D) consultancy, Explosive Learning Solutions (ELS) has updated its website. Combining increased user-friendliness with accessibility of information, the new website contains refreshed and clarified content - notably about ELS’s growing range of courses. In addition, for the first time, the website also allows users to book and buy courses [...]

By Bob| September 4th, 2017|Categories: Business, Learning Technologies|Tags: consultancy, development, learning, website|0 Comments

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ELS explains the Commercial Case at Project Challenge

Cath Convery, of the learning and development consultancy Explosive Learning Solutions (ELS), will be explaining the ‘Better Business Cases™’ model at Project Challenge. Project Challenge, scheduled for 10th and 11th October at London’s Olympia, is an event that focuses on anything and everything related to ‘projects’. Cath explained, “Better Business Cases™ is a [...]

By Bob| August 30th, 2017|Categories: Business|Tags: business case, commercial, consultancy, development, learning, project|0 Comments

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Explosive Learning Solutions tackles key Commercial Awareness issues

Organisations that want to protect their market position, reduce project risk and/or increase profit margins are being drawn to ‘Commercial Awareness’. Commercial Awareness is a recent addition to the portfolio of courses from the learning and development consultancy, Explosive Learning Solutions (ELS). Explaining that the course applies management theory in a broad, commercial context, [...]

By Bob| August 24th, 2017|Categories: Business|Tags: commercial awareness, consultancy, defence, development, learning, profit, project, risk|0 Comments

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Webinar reveals ELS expertise on change, risk and benefits

Effective change management was the subject of a recent webinar led by Cath Convery and Julie Dungate, of the learning and development consultancy, Explosive Learning Solutions (ELS), and organised by the global accreditation and examination institute, APMG International. Moderated by APMG International’s Mark Constable, the webinar – one of a series from APMG International [...]

By Bob| August 22nd, 2017|Categories: Business|Tags: change, change management, consultancy, development, learning, webinar|0 Comments

Issues of Trust and Trustworthiness

Notably since the global economic “crash” of 2008, business commentators – among others – have been remarking on a general loss of public “trust” in organisations. According to Robert Phillips, a former PR practitioner, the author of “Trust me, PR is dead” and now the Co-Founder of Jericho Chambers (a strategy consultancy that’s been [...]