Albion Chemicals Group refocused its training activity in order to integrate with its new parent company, while maintaining and developing its local customer service infrastructure.

Health and Safety Bulletin reports on an important appeal judgment on how employers should assess the adequacy of their training provision.

Learning management systems providers are looking to bring a little more to the training table, in the form of "richer media".

Competency frameworks should be a valuable training aide - if applied and used properly.

Introducing a performance management programme into a ballet company provided some unique challenges.

The current economic turbulence is great news for change management experts, who are in high demand. Personal Today investigates.

The award-winning strategy to improve the representation of women at financial services company Citi includes a series of initiatives to encourage women to return to work after maternity leave.

Bentley Motors has used a tailor-made management development training course to meet its target of appointing 85% of new recruits from within the organisation.

Investing in coaching for the sake of it will never get results. Personnel Today suggests 10 ways to embed a coaching culture in your organisation.

Teambuilding activities have had a bad press over the years - many events have been little more than work jollies. Training & Coaching Today looks at how employers can utilise them more effectively.

Do you use, or are you considering introducing, competencies within your organisation? If so, IRS would like your help in our research into the effectiveness of competencies by completing a short online questionnaire. In return, we will provide you with a free copy of the research report.

Disability charity Scope has a successful track record in helping break down the barriers to work for individuals with disabilities. Its graduate training programme has a 90% success rate, while action within its own organisation is improving the representation of disabled people through cultural change, target-setting and reserved posts.

A successful leadership development strategy can shape the culture, direction and even success of an organisation. This IRS survey looks at how 74 organisations have tackled the leadership development challenge, and highlights key learning points from HR.

Instead of coaching board executives as individuals why not coach the top team as a whole? Training & Coaching Today reports.

Despite e-learning having been with us for more than a decade, it seems that many learning and development professionals are still struggling to embed it effectively in their organisations.

Employment Review's survey of 81 organisations shows that those with direct experience of Investors in People have not always had the results they expected.

You can now study almost any combination of degree subjects with HR, but Personnel Today questions what real value this adds to the skills coming into the profession.

Introducing a 360-degree assessment system is all very well, but it won't deliver unless training needs are addressed.

Since the Skills Pledge was launched 10 months ago, uptake has been relatively low. Could it be the government has set its sights too low?

Employers are obliged to deal with dyslexia. So what does this mean for learning and development and HR?

Durham Business School's Strategic Development Programme is helping NHS occupational health managers develop their leadership skills.

When employers train their line managers in absence management, they often achieve reductions in absence levels and improvements in line managers’ competence in this area.

Service company Serco has introduced a new leadership strategy to help build the skills of its current leaders to meet the organisation's growth plans.