Back Issues - May 2006

• Tech Trends
  Steve Macvicar explains the effect that corporate misdemeanours have had on compliance training
• International
  Meditation helps productivity, creativity and the bottom line in the corporate world, claims Ronald Alexander.
• Making sense of staff training
  Alison Bennett tells Jo Young about her role at the charity Sense, and describes the unique and rewarding challenge of designing training for deafblind people.
• Peter Honey
  Any working relationship depends for its success on compatible expectations, says Peter Honey.
• Dedicated to Fashion - Case Study
  Jo Young looks at the efforts being made by London’s Fashion and Textile Museum to support and educate the British designers of the future.
• Counting the value of learning
  Mike Campbell explains how to demonstrate the value of learning, training and development.
• Setting the Trend
  Anna Hipkiss outlines some of the key trends in coaching today.
• Blended learning: the best recipe
  Tim Gibson says that training should be planned much like a menu: using a variety of complementary ingredients to give the best flavour possible.
• Tools for action
  Following last month’s feature on facilitation skills, Tony Mann offers some more advanced techniques to enhance the facilitator’s approach.
• Big picture thinking
  Lex McKee introduces the ‘how to’ of Mind Mapping and explains how trainers can use this valuable technique.
• Coaching on the Couch
  Erik de Haan finds solutions to the mid-life crisis in the novel, When Nietzsche Wept.
• Ten Tips
  Liz Brant and Tony Harvey offer their advice on dealing with troublesome training participants.
• Great Thinkers
  The Pankhurst women Emmeline (1858-1928); Christabel (1880-1958); Sylvia (1882-1960)
• Trainer's Archive
  Jo Young reviews both the conference and outdoor facilities at this Bournemouth centre.
• Day in the Life
  Sadi Mehmood describes how she helps improve cultural understanding in the workplace.
• Reviews
  The TJ Panel reviews training resources.
• Andrew Mayo
  Andrew Mayo believes organisations must work hard to improve the accessibility of knowledge, their most important asset.