Back Issues - August 2004

• Potential, challenge and infinite possibilities
  Mike Levy talks to Tony Buzan about his vision of a new age in education and training.
• Leadership: what a muddle!
  Why should a leader be more like a jazz musician? Peter Honey endeavours to strike the right chord with this important issue.
• The challenge of the virtual team
  A virtual team can comprise members of different nationalities who are based in a variety of countries (and therefore timezones) around the world. Culturally and logistically, it doesn’t sound like an easy mix. So how does it work, how is it managed and who does the training? David Clutterbuck looks at the realities, practicalities and the advantages of such a team.
• International opinion
  Tony Bingham invites us to consider workplace learning and performance competencies from a US perspective.
• Spotlight on Adrian Woods
  Adrian Woods, managing director of Eurekazone, talks to Mike Levy about developing our creative potential.
• Measuring up to the greats: how good a facilitator are you?
  Facilitation can be used to describe many different activities, from chairing a meeting, to leading a training course or promoting teamwork and personal growth. But how do you do it? More importantly, how do you do it well? Larry Reynolds explains all.
• Attitudinal Based Learning: giving learners the choices they need
  Attitudinal Based Learning uses an individual learner’s choice to learn to provide a more solid foundation for sustained change than can be achieved by simply developing knowledge or skills. Paul Dunn and Chris Finnemore introduce the ideas on which ABL is established, explain how it works in practice and provide a simple guide to adding an attitudinal element to training.
• 21st-century sales training: are you making the most of it?
  Tim Royds takes a look at some of the key issues that influence the effectiveness of sales training, and provides ideas on how to utilise fully some of the options available.
• 4C the future
  Foreseeing the future is what your customers expect and, says Beverley Hamilton, that’s what you need to deliver. Here’s how …
• Netcheck
  Bullying in the workplace is shocking enough, but when it’s revealed in the so-called caring professions it seems truly deplorable. Clare Forrest looks at two websites that square up to the bullying issue, providing advice for all concerned.
• The passport to working here
  Andrew Mayo takes a look at company aspirations and examines why they are so important.