The Expertise Economy Authors: Kelly Palmer & David Blake Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing ISBN: 978-1-473-67700-5 Subtitled, ‘How the smartest companies use learning to engage, compete, and succeed’, Kelly Palmer’s and David Blake’s book begins with an exploration of how humans really learn. That’s because the authors make the point that the world of [...]
Market growth, along with cybersecurity, adapting to the digital environment and leadership development have become the key business concerns for the immediate future, according to more than 1000 senior executives in a survey by Financial Times | IE Business School Corporate Learning Alliance (www.ftiecla.com). These findings come from this year’s Pulse Report, a major leadership [...]
Everyone exhibits unconscious bias from time to time – and, unchecked in a work context, this leads to a less diverse workforce, with possible adverse effects on organisational performance. In a bid to help reduce the adverse effects of this phenomenon, the e-learning supplier, Engage in Learning, is organising a webinar to ‘Identify and [...]
In today’s rapidly changing world, one of the key organizational challenges is developing workers’ skills to ensure success now – and for the future. To help meet this challenge, Kelly Palmer, a Silicon Valley-based thought-leader from LinkedIn, Degreed, and Yahoo, along with David Blake, the co-founder of the Ed-tech pioneer, Degreed, have shared their [...]
While the thousands of visitors to this year’s London Oktoberfest got stuck in to authentic German beer and food, as well as finding time to listen to live music and enjoy the ambience of the festival, the event posed different challenges for the environmentally friendly waste collection and recycling services specialist, Waste King. Waste [...]
An article on e-learning supplier Engage in Learning’s website argues that successful leaders are ‘business chameleons’. In other words, says the article, they should be able to take on the role of directors, facilitators or motivators depending on the particular challenges that they are facing at the time. Acknowledging that every leader has a [...]
The e-learning supplier, Engage in Learning has turned its attention to leadership and problem solving. In its most recently published article – commissioned from the internationally known writer on business-related learning and development issues, Bob Little - Engage in Learning examines problem-solving techniques that can prove effective, notably with regard to three key issues [...]
The Above & Beyond Group has formed an international learning partnership with Financial Times | IE Business School Corporate Learning Alliance (www.ftiecla.com) focused on the advancement of women in business. FT | IE Corporate Learning Alliance will facilitate and run the leadership programmes of The Diversity Council, a platform and diversity accelerator developed by [...]
Financial Times | IE Business School Corporate Learning Alliance, one of the world's leading providers of customised executive education programmes for large enterprises, has unveiled the 2018 findings of its Pulse Report. An international study of more than 1000 executives, it assesses current business priorities and the role of leadership development and executive education in [...]
Offering advice – both bidden and unbidden - is a trait that’s practised in every country and culture. Advice comes from any source but tends to be conferred more by those who feel themselves to be senior – in terms of age and/or status. Some of this advice is useless – because it deals [...]
