Back Issues - May 2007

• A great opportunity for informal learning
  Elizabeth Eyre gives a personal view of this year's HRD show.
• ROI - is it any use?
  Donald Taylor asks why anyone bothers with ROI.
• Peter Honey
  Peter Honey remembers a tough transition in his young life.
• Bill Lucas
  Bill Lucas explains why L&D professionals must be able to explain what they do.
• Tech Trends
  Bob Little asks whether ‘wearing your learning on your sleeve’ is the latest philosophy or just a fashion statement?
• Facing Forward
  Elizabeth Eyre talks to a charity that offers training to organisations about the benefits of employing people with facial disfigurements.
• Accentuate the positive
  Sarah Cook and Steve Macaulay argue that placing more weight on identifying, and building on, personal strengths is a good way to enhance performance.
• Making the 'mud' stick
  Ali Baker explores how a training needs analysis can help sales teams perform more effectively.
• Thinking on the write path
  Mohammad Ali Salmani-Nodoushan emphasises the importance of cognitive orientation to the success of EFL students in writing courses.
• Away days or away daze?
  Dan Collins explores some of the ways you might get the most from your time away from the office.
• Strategic knowledge management
  Geoff Cook explains how to become managing knowledge strategically can improve organisational success.
• Transforming your learning capabilities
  Sir Christopher Ball offers a personal perspective on the possibilities opened up by transformational learning.
• Test Drives
  In the second of a regular series on how psychometrics contributes to L&D, Ian Florance talks about personality tests.
• Super Models
  In a series of articles examining learning models, Dr Mike Clayton looks at McCarthy’s 4MAT method – asking questions to assist learning.
• Hints & Tips
  Jackie Jarvis provides some tips on successful marketing.
• Great Thinkers
  Edward De Bono (1933-present day)
• L Vaughan Spencer
  The Gangsta Motivator discusses learning and development.
• Trainer's Choice
  Elizabeth Eyre looks at the venue for this year’s HRD Show.
• Andrew Mayo
  A culture that values day-to-day learning automatically generates management buy-in, says Andrew Mayo.
• A day in the life of
  Suzanne Lynam, Alliance Learning Apprentice of the Year.
• Taking learning to the bank
  Elizabeth Eyre looks at a learning initiative that has won the enthusiastic support of the 40,000 employees of a leading high street bank.
• Marking time
  As the TJ conference draws near Debbie Carter unveils the shortlisted finalists for this year’s awards.
• The false economy of fire-fighting
  Dr Angus McLeod looks at how habitual fire-fighting robs senior executives of the time to plan and manage effectively – and how coaching can help them.
• All change
  Change management was on the menu at the second TJ round-table discussion. Elizabeth Eyre reports.