Instead of sending individual staff on external training courses, you could train them as a group. Not only can this be more cost-effective, but also it allows the training to be more relevant to your team’s needs, helps them to learn from each other’s experience and provides opportunities for staff …
Coaching and mentoring aim to help individuals achieve their full potential. While coaching is usually focussed on specific outcomes and mentoring being more open-ended, the terms are often used interchangeably as they use similar techniques. To be an expert coach or mentor requires a good understanding of effective learning – …
Communications are crucial to success but getting the desired response from your audiences is not easy, whether you want to promote your organisation and its services, change public attitudes and behaviours, influence government policy or simply raise awareness. Fortunately, there is a lot of recent evidence about what works from …
To facilitate means to make things easier. As a facilitator, I help groups of people to reach agreement or achieve a joint purpose. This may happen in a conference, a workshop or some other meeting (or series of meetings). The participants may be members of a single team, or from …
Wales has a population of over 3 million people who elect the National Assembly, which appoints the First Minister to form the Government of Wales. Twenty areas of responsibility are devolved to the Welsh Government. These include education, health, social services, housing, agriculture, environment, transport, tourism, economic development and local …
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