The Future of Training and Development

Now that the UK economy is edging towards recovery it is vital that organisations move their attention away from survival and invest in and equip their staff and leaders with training and development.

Throughout 2009 training and development was a very low priority for UK organisations, with the main focus being organisational maintenance and profit maximisation. Investing in training and development during 2010 will play a key role in ensuring a proactive and positive response to the difficult challenges which lie ahead during the upturn.

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Managing Relationships

Unless you live in complete isolation (why are you reading this if you are?!), you will meet and interact with people on a daily basis. Sometimes you may not always empathise with or like these people, but you are continually creating relationships which need to be managed.

The relationships you have created in your personal life - such as those with your friends, partner, children, siblings or parents - have usually happened without conscious thought. They have been created through a mutual exchange of knowledge and experience which affect the interactions within them.

Professional relationships are a different matter, workplace relationships take on a new and different importance.

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Creating a Personal Development Plan

The concept behind any development plan is to outline areas which require development, both professionally and personally, and what actions need to be taken to overcome these development areas. Creating a development plan uniquely for your own personal development journey produces a useful and effective tool which provides milestones and tasks to help you keep focus.

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