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Apprenticeship Levy flexibility and productivity

Chartered Management Institute

Here, we go beyond the public debate on how to re-distribute limited resources and ask how the levy system could support a meaningful expansion of employer-led training across the UK. Open University's 2023 Business Barometer Declining employer investment: Despite the importance of training, employer investment in skills has been decreasing.

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StrategyDriven Welcomes Ruth Todd, PhD

Strategy Driven

A highly experienced nuclear power consultant, Ruth leads StrategyDriven's information technology and cyber security services. "We Her extensive knowledge and experience in information technology and cyber security adds a critical dimension to our advisory services practice and brings tremendous value to our clients.".

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Building a Coaching Culture in Your Small Business

Thin Difference

An organization with expertise in coaching leadership can come alongside your leaders to build them into strong coaching leaders for the organization. For small business owners, investing in people through coaching leadership pays high dividends. You can also bring in an outside firm to lead the move to a coaching culture. Guest Post.

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Multicultural Leadership Starts from Within

Harvard Business Review

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

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Executives and Salespeople Are Misaligned — and the Effects Are Costly

Harvard Business Review

To add to that, the groups are far apart on basic elements such as recruiting, hiring, training, and role alignment. Companies fail to get the most out of the $12 billion a year they spend on sales enablement tools and the billions more on CRM technology. But good planning and proper leadership support can help.

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Priorities for Jumpstarting the U.S. Industrial Economy

Harvard Business Review

This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support. They employ 12.3

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Study: Firms with More Women in the C-Suite Are More Profitable

Harvard Business Review

There was similar, though less dramatic, variation across sectors as well: financial services, health care, utilities, and telecommunications were relatively welcoming to female leadership, while fewer women were found at the top in basic materials, technology, energy, and industrial sectors. The quota policy has its critics.