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When people are job hunting, it’s remarkable how many businesses say they have “a great culture,” “fantastic employee assisted offerings” and “the support needed to realise their extraordinary potential.” But the reality is most people will assume that’s just flannel. Nobody really knows until they are on the inside.
2be Development Consultancy introduces the Pick ‘n’ Mix Bundle. This gives you access to workshops on key topics that are regularly repeated throughout the year. Plenty of opportunity to attend if one date proves inconvenient. You can book places for you or any of your colleagues.
If your clients and prospective clients want to meet you, how should you tailor your approach? While banking online and through mobile apps has become ‘the norm’ in the 2020s, some segments still need a personal approach.
There is nothing worse than knowing that you have the potential to do something, only for someone else, or something, to take that potential away. A scenario in which you feel empowered succumbs instead to feelings of being overpowered.
How well does your business measure employee competence and why should you really care about it? I speak with literally hundreds of L&D professionals and Senior Managers every year and the subject of employee competency measurement always comes up.
I have yet to meet a Compliance Officer or Manager who is not a natural ‘doer’ – a generator and completer of tasks. On one level, being a ‘doer’ is amazing – it’s an honourable approach to establishing and securing your value to your firm, and the firms that you work with.
Roll back to the middle of 2020 and most plans – both personal and business – were aimed at ‘getting back to normal’. In the middle of our Covid 19 response we were ‘locked down’ to varying degrees around the world and wondering what life would be like in the future.
As recent legislation highlights the failings of the industry default employee T&C model, many compliance and risk professionals are increasingly feeling uncomfortable and questioning if there is a more authentic solution. One that promotes a genuine culture of compliance rather than a cynical box-ticking approach that alienates employees and management and is unnecessarily expensive.
A step by step guide to using visuals online to enhance your virtual presentation rather than a dull, listless voice-over PowerPoint by Paul Archer from Archer Training The Real-World Comparison Let me take you back to the last in-person presentation that you enjoyed.
How the trade body for the debt collection industry helps organisations to attract new talent and upskill their staff with work-based learning by Jamie Skiggs is Training & Compliance Administrator from Credit Services Association (CSA) When I joined the Credit Services Association (CSA) last year, I had heard the term ‘trade association’ previously but was…
This is one of the keys to 2020s negotiation… We are all born negotiators. We negotiate every day, consciously or (maybe mainly) sub consciously, and especially in financial services.
The invitation was to ‘pop in for a chat,’ but it was actually a potential job offer arriving out of the blue. The offer is not immediately tempting: a sideways move, new project, uncertain outcomes, and something you have not done before. You agree to have a think about it.
