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Learning Modules

Expand your leadership skills with these practical and easy-to-apply learning modules. Each module explores a key business theme or practice, and provides you with a clear pathway to effective action and improvement. New learning modules will be regularly added... so remember to visit this web page again.

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Latest Learning Modules

Learning Module: 10 Skills For The Future Workforce

In the 20th century, leaders identified goals for their organisation, described the jobs required to meet those goals, and hired people with the... READ MORE

Learning Module: An Essential Guide To SWOT Analysis

SWOT analysis was the product of a decade of research at the Stanford Research Institute between 1960-1970. By the late-1950s, many American... READ MORE

Learning Module: Authority - How To Write A Book That Boosts Your Business

The Internet has changed the entire buying process, and it affects you. In the past, when a customer wanted to buy something important - whether it... READ MORE

Learning Module: 9 Keys To Improving Competitiveness Through Lean

If you've been thinking about introducing Lean but aren't sure where to start or you've attempted to introduce Lean previously, this Learning Module... READ MORE

 
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Learning Module: 10 Skills For The Future Workforce

By Gihan Perera

In the 20th century, leaders identified goals for their organisation, described the jobs required to meet those goals, and hired people with the right skills to fill those job descriptions. Over time, people build on their skills and move into different roles, climbing a well-designed career ladder until retirement. That's no longer the case. Our world is changing so fast that neither goals nor roles are clear and well-defined. The skills you need for the future aren't the same as the skills you have now, and the best people have multiple careers (not even just multiple jobs) over their working life.

Learning Module: An Essential Guide To SWOT Analysis

By Jackson Hille & Justin Gomer

SWOT analysis was the product of a decade of research at the Stanford Research Institute between 1960-1970. By the late-1950s, many American Corporations had grown frustrated that their significant financial investments in strategic business planning had failed to produce acceptable results. So, in 1960 a number of these corporations initiated a project at Stanford to develop a better method for strategic planning. The result was SWOT, an acronym that stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.

Learning Module: Authority - How To Write A Book That Boosts Your Business

By Gihan Perera

The Internet has changed the entire buying process, and it affects you. In the past, when a customer wanted to buy something important - whether it was insurance, a house or their next car - they would start by talking to a professional, like you. That's changed now. Power has shifted to the consumer, with substantial information accessible at their fingertips. Wouldn’t it be great if your customers and prospects came to you by choice? Authority can get you in front of people.

Learning Module: Gen Y In The Workplace

By James Adonis, Team Leaders

Why is it that some companies have Gen Y employees that they effortlessly engage and retain, while other business Managers are pulling their hair out in frustration over the Gen Y antics in their workplace?

Learning Module: 9 Keys To Improving Competitiveness Through Lean

By Damien Lacey

If you've been thinking about introducing Lean but aren't sure where to start or you've attempted to introduce Lean previously, this Learning Module will help you assess what may be done better in your organisation to ensure a smooth and profitable implementation.

Learning Module: Framework For Making Strategic Decisions

By Jenny Stilwell

Business expansion needs a strategic focus. Regardless of what stage of growth your business is in, at every stage you need a strategic approach to growth. As a large established company, you have far more at risk if you make decisions based on gut feel alone, than you did when your business was a start-up.

Learning Module: The 7 Step Retention Strategy Guide

By Lisa Halloran, Retention Partners

To prosper, organisations must keep their talent for longer, make them productive faster and keep them engaged until the very last day.

Learning Module: The Fundamentals Of Change Management

By Daniel Lock

This Learning Module examines the fundamentals of change management, the common approaches to getting people to change, why people ultimately do change, and the steps and processes you can take to rapidly implement change and avoid the common pitfalls and obstacles.

Learning Module: Dealing With Underperformance

By Karen Gately

For most employees, monitoring performance and providing adequate support is sufficient to ensure that their performance meets the agreed standard. In some cases, despite your best efforts performance won’t be at the required level.

Learning Module: Performance Management Accelerator

By Karen Gately

Great results are received when people with the right capabilities are highly engaged, invest energy and behave in ways that enable success.

Learning Module: Advanced Strategic Planning That Actually Works

By Steven Bowman, ConsciousGovernance

This Learning Module has been formulated to provide leading edge perspectives and techniques on strategic planning, tested in the real world of board rooms and senior leadership teams. It has been designed to provide a different point of view on key areas of strategic planning responsibilities.

Learning Module: How To Build Sales Resilience

By Michael Licenblat

Success in any business weighs heavily on a team’s ability, and willingness to engage new (and existing) clients into buying their services / products.

Learning Module: Crafting Magnetic Messages

By Gihan Perera

Every day, we prepare and deliver important messages - in presentations, meetings, blog posts, articles, videos, teleseminars and other ways. Although your messages might be the most important things in your world, it’s easy for them to be lost among the hundreds of other messages somebody else will receive that day.

Learning Module: Best Practice Recruitment Guide

By Saxon Marsden-Huggins

Growth doesn’t come easy. Growth requires smart decision making, especially with regards to recruiting and retention. This brings up an important question: when is the right time to recruit?

Learning Module: Helping Employees Embrace Change

By Ken Warren, Positive People Solutions

There is a certain amount of conscious effort and discomfort involved in change processes. Some people are open to change in the workplace, whilst others hold reservations as a result of various underlying factors.

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