HR leaders realise that without tapping into the skills of employees, they cannot achieve maximum growth. But to use human talent to its full potential, specific fundamental skills are required. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, human resource managers must have skills in planning and coordination, supervision, handling staff issues, and recruitment.[i] Moreover, the […]
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Top 10 Skills for HR Leaders & Human Resource Professionals
Only 56% of strategic initiatives are successful, a report by The Economist Intelligence Unit states.[i] The reason for it is poor implementation. In the survey, 61% of the respondents admitted that their firms struggle to bridge the gap between strategy formulation and its day-to-day implementation. “Strategy is intensely personality-and-relationship driven,” Roland Pan, Director of Strategy […]
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Top 10 Project Management Skills for Leading Managers
Einstein stressed that lifelong learning should be a focus because personal growth stops where there’s no learning. Continuous personal development is a necessity for top professionals, but failure rates are alarmingly high, Harvard Business Review states.[i] When a survey was conducted of over 1,000 people who worked on personal development, as many as 96% of […]
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Top 10 Personal Development Skills for Leaders & Professionals
In a survey conducted by OfficeTeam and the IAAP (International Association of Administrative Professionals) of more than 2,200 administrative professionals, 50% of the support staff said that they have skills that are not being tapped, while 7% felt completely underutilized.[i] Only 43% said that the full range of their skills and talents are being utilised. […]
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Top 10 Administrative Skills for Today’s Office Administrators
For a professional trainer, the greatest measure of success is the success of the participants. Therefore, it’s essential for a professional trainer to have a special set of skills designed to impact the course participants in the desired way. The Australian Skills Quality Authority states that the most vital skills a trainer needs are knowledge […]
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Top 10 Skills for Professional Trainers
Top 8 Leadership Skills Required by Today’s Managers According to a report by Harvard Business Publishing[i], the eight key capabilities leaders need to handle today’s complex business landscape include acting strategically, managing complexity, and promoting employee engagement. The report also puts emphasis on personality development, especially on adaptability and resilience. Lack of important skills in […]
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What Are the Top Eight Skills Required for Organisational Leaders in Australia?
Top 10 Australian Supervisory Skills Supervisors in Australia have the difficult job of bringing the best out of their staff. Though it sounds simple, this requires a unique set of skills. According to Indiana University Bloomington, the role of a supervisor includes goal setting, decision-making, time management, delegation, and communication.[i] But that is not all. […]
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What Are the Top Ten Supervisory Skills Required in Australia?
Top 10 Required Business Skills: Having the capability to work cohesively in teams, using effective communication skills, and analytical and problem-solving abilities are highly desirable skills in employees; a report by the Directorate-General for Education and Culture says.[i] Apart from sector-specific skills, and basic computer knowledge, graduate recruiters believe the following skills to be “very […]
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What Are the Top Ten Business Skills Employers Want in Australia?
PD Training recently analysed the levels of investment in professional development training (non IT) during the past 18 months by clients belonging to the “government” sector, which included local, state and federal agencies across Australia, and identified this sector concentrated the bulk of their spending on Lean Six Sigma (LSS) training courses and certifications delivered […]
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Training Investment Trends by Australian Government Sector (Federal, State and Local)
Your company’s motto is ‘learning that people remember’. Do you see this as a problem with a lot of corporate training? …ie perhaps there is a lack of ‘learning transfer’ once the student is back in the office – what is learnt simply does not get applied and therefore it gets forgotten? How can this […]
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Using Personality Profiling Tools to Improve Training Results
70:20:10; it’s guaranteed mediocrity at best. For those L&D professionals among us who want to help their businesses, and be invited to the next senior management strategy meeting, please stop preaching this stuff (if you haven’t already). If my research serves me correctly, this model is based on some rather loose research that suggests ‘this […]
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Why 70:20:10 is Guaranteed Mediocrity – at Best!
How to Align your Learning and Development Plan to Business Goals Set by Management
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How to Align your Learning and Development Plan to Business Goals Set by Management
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