Tesco builds on its coaching foundations with the launch of a new programme for personnel managers

Tesco has launched a coaching programme to 900 personnel managers and 50 group personnel managers and plans to extend the scheme into 2011.

Chartered Management Institute calls for tax breaks for employers and more control over skills funding

The Government must now spring into action to address the key issues facing business leaders, if the UK is to continue on the path to post-recession recovery, according to the Chartered Management...

Eversheds updates its L&D structure to progress careers based on skills rather than length of service

Eversheds has modernised its internal learning and development framework in order to foster a performance-based rather than term-based route to career progression.

Coaching is still not a top priority for many employers

Employers continue merely to pay lip service to coaching, new research reveals.

IBM launches the Corporate Service Corps - a model for its next generation of global leaders

IBM has launched a launched a new initiative to expose high-performance employees to the 21st century context for doing business - emerging markets, global teaming, diverse cultures, working outside...

Are you an honourable leader?

In every situation you have a choice to be a leader or a follower by the way you act or react. Throughout history men and women of great character have chosen to stand up for ideals greater than...

HR professionals optimistic that training will be recognised as important for the recovery

Nine out of 10 HR staff are still confident training will be vital in planning for recovery in 2010.

'Work pairings' are Tory Party's answer to young people who have no jobs or experience

The Conservative Party will create 'work-pairings' to allow young people to gain business experience while keeping their benefits, and will create 400,000 apprenticeships and training places to tackle...

Employers and teachers must learn to share their approaches to people development

Having built a successful career in marketing, a friend of mine decided a year or so ago to retrain as a teacher.

HR can lead the way in encouraging entrepreneurial leaders

As an organisation how can you gain competitive edge? In particular, now when many organisations are fighting over smaller markets, markets with less revenue or less growth potential due to the...

CIPD survey shows learning and development is important in driving organisational change

Developments in learning and development will bring organisational development, coaching and organisational change closer together, claims the CIPD.

Senior public sector staff join police on new leadership programme

Public sector managers and police are set to join forces on a new leadership programme pioneered by the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA).