Engaging learning, enabling learning, economical learning. Whatever you want e-learning to stand for they’re all appropriate. Officially though, e-learning means electronically supported learning solutions. It usually allows you to be educated on any subject, at any time and in many different locations. Many of us now will have completed some form of e-learning whether it has been an online course, a webinar or even a mobile app.
Our specialist e-learning designer Sally McAlinney has designed and built training with e-learning for over a decade now, but she’s the first to say “It’s not the be all and end all of training”. E-learning is an amazing way to get information across, to create a learning mood, to reinforce knowledge and to become more creative with learning, but it should never fully replace classroom training and coaching.
Think of e-learning as a loving older sibling in the blended approach to learning. It holds hands with any classroom based training to help and support the learner. It’s got something to say, can express it well, and it’s always there for you. Click here to read more »
A number of our clients have gone through periods of significant change over the last eighteen months to two years. For some this is something that they are used to, for others it has been new and at times scary.
Here are some hints and tips to help you manage your teams through change. Click here to read more »
Spring is finally appearing and the increased daylight often has a positive impact on the way we feel. Generally, we feel more positive about the future often looking forward to the warm summer and holidays. During these longer days our energy is generally much higher so this is often a good time to start job hunting meaning you are more motivated to take action.
This months tip
“Prepare your questions” – spend time thinking about what you really want and need from an employer before you go for your interview. What is it you want to know about the company, about the way it works, about the people who work there and what’s it like there? Despite the current climate in the job market it’s important you interview the employer to make sure you want to choose them not just the other way around! We all spend a lot of time at work so it’s worth spending this time preparing questions to check this is going to be the right job move for you!
There are more career tips right here on our blog, this month we’ve added ‘Common Mistakes People Make on their CV’s’ and last month we published tips on ‘How to research your prospective employer’ and we featured a guest blog from Cat Creative Marketing on ‘How to Market Yourself through social media’.
I thought I would share with you some of the most common mistakes we have seen in CVs across various job roles and industries so you can learn from these mistakes and make sure you don’t make the same ones.
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Do you have a personal Facebook page? Does it tell your life story through your timeline; time spent with your family, friends and colleagues? Is there anything on there that you wouldn’t want your mum (or dad) to see? Don’t care? Well you should – it’s what could be holding you back from winning that job!
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When it comes to progressing your career, finding the job you want online and clicking on the ‘submit your CV’ link is the easy part. However, once this is done, or even before it’s done, smart candidates spend some time researching their prospective employer so that, should their application get to the next stage, they are ready. This preparation time will pay off, putting you in a stronger position to ask specific questions during the interview and selection process. Click here to read more »
The start of a New Year is always a time for reflection. It’s often a time when we think about what we have achieved in the last 12 months or what we did that added meaning to our lives. It’s also a time to start thinking about the New Year, and begin to plan what we are going to do in 2013. These often start with New Year’s resolutions; a promise we make to do something differently. Recently we’ve been thinking about the small things we can all do to keep us positive, feeling good and that potentially have that ripple effect onto others around us, so with that in mind we’ve collated a list of 13 wonderful things to do in 2013 give you a boost without spending a penny! Click here to read more »
Fear of interviews is a common experience, especially when you’re facing your first ever interview, your first after a knock like redundancy, or if it’s for a job or promotion you really want.
However, you can help reduce that fear, stand out from the crowd and increase your chance of success – by practising these ten tips.
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Line Managers are increasingly expected to coach their teams. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) suggests that coaching is used in nearly 75% of UK organisations.
The benefits of coaching are becoming ever-more widely recognised as a way of:
- Improving performance and productivity
- Increased understanding and engagement of employees
- Great communication between managers and individual employees
- Focusing on individual development needs
- Empowering people to achieve their personal goals and ambitions
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Competition is tough for jobs as more and more hopefuls apply for every vacancy. How do you make your CV stand out from 100 others? It’s a tough challenge, but here are Cube’s guidelines for structuring your CV for success.
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