Strategy

Promoting L&D investment during a downturn

Collin Poage

Collin Poage explores the importance of L&D and how learning leaders can communicate this imperative to the C-suite. Inspired by the famous Ben Franklin quote “Nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes,” author Tom Collins noted that “For purposeful long-term success, an enterprise must be solidly anchored by a belief in the Two Certainties – we will always be judged by others, and change is constant.”  If there’s one constant in business, it’s you must constantly…

Learning from life: what I learnt from running my own business

Michelle Parry-Slater

Expertise, outsourcing and feedback – Michelle Parry-Slater explores what she has learnt from running her own business I have been running my own business for over eight years. Usually after about three years in a role I’m ready for a change of job; I get a bit bored. The joy of running my own show is the variety – I can never be bored. I am constantly working with new clients and on new projects. Over these years no three…