Back Issues - January 2005

• Finding a new job: the trainer's role in outplacement
  Imagine the shock or fear of being made redundant. What happens next? How do you get back in the job market? David Skinner gives trainers in outplacement a practical guide to how they can help those looking for new employment.
• Motivation revisited
  Peter Honey considers what it might take for someone to want to learn and the role of the trainer in rescuing under-achievers.
• Development challenges: looking at the future
  Judy Curd, Fiona Dent and Melissa Carr make an analysis of recently collated MBTI® data to assess future thinking for management and leadership development.
• Trainer development: understanding reflective practice
  Barry Johnson and Mandy Geal explore the concept of reflective practice and explain why it is a particularly valuable approach for people involved in the training and development profession.
• Hot pod learning
  Could podcasts entice us to maximise on the learning experience? Gilly Salmon explores the possibilities.
• Management theorists: thinkers for the 21st century?
  In a three-part series, Dilys Robinson looks at ten influential theorists and assesses their influence in business today.
• Focus opinion
  Performance management may not be new, says Angela Baron, but recent research confirms that it will remain a key HR practice.
• Performance management: an art and a science?
  At best, a performance management system has the potential to develop your people and significantly increase business results. At worst it can be perceived as a form of employee control or a tick box process that managers and staff feel obliged to implement. Steve Shellabear outlines how to set up and implement a system that is effective and meaningful.
• Leading edge: managing people through directing, delegating and coaching
  Nick Wright outlines a range of possible leadership interventions, explaining how and why they can be used.
• Riding the waves of change
  As we begin another new year, Andrew Mayo considers what may be in store for training professionals in the coming 12 months.
• Performance management of dispersed teams
  As organisations change through events such as mergers, restructures and relocations, dispersed teams are set to become a commonplace feature. Howard Hills takes a look at some of the pitfalls and advantages of managing such teams and offers practical advice to all those who may need to take on this role.
• Netcheck
  Kirkpatrick’s four-level model comes under the ‘Netcheck’ spotlight this month, and Garry Platt offers a selection of websites to help you develop evaluation strategies for each of the levels.
• Letter from Jamaica
  Bruce Nixon, who has a long and happy relationship with the people of Jamaica, reflects on some of the problems the island is facing and asks what we could do to improve the development opportunities of the people.
• Spotlight on Jo Richler
  Mike Levy talks to Jo Richler about what it means to be an independent learner and how independent learning can successfully be achieved.
• What is Learning Needs Anaylsis?
  Part 1 in the Learning Needs Analysis series by Sarah Cook.