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Purpose Most grass-roots rugby clubs in England are small businesses, which are mostly led by volunteers. The Leadership Academy developed by the Rugby Football Union (RFU) has sought to improve the effectiveness of these leaders for the past ten years. The aim was to make clubs more effective...
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Purpose – As training professionals, it is likely that there are many occasions where they have to step into unfamiliar environments and deliver highly effective results. So the importance of understanding the factors that influence how individuals respond to uncertainty should not be...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline a practical approach to best practice in corporate learning and development (L&D) – within the context of measuring the return on investment (ROI) of any piece of learning. Design/methodology/approach – Report of a webinar, augmented with...
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Purpose – Proposes to provide a summary of ideas with regard to leadership and management with the author's interpretation of these and some of the issues these raise. Design/methodology/approach – Discussion of the manager versus leader debate followed by a discussion of organisational...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a comprehensive training program for volunteers for the elderly in Israel, which has been operated under the National Insurance Institute of the State of Israel. Design/methodology/approach – The paper considers the need and values of...
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difficult because operating unit managers are looking for increased performance and not necessarily the increased learning on … which trainers usually judge the success of their training. Additionally, in almost all cases, the lack of performance is … small part – 15 percent‐20 percent perhaps – of the overall lack of performance. Training's effectiveness in helping to …
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This paper examines the concept of incremental improved performance and applies it to the field of executive coaching … marginal improvements in performance become.  …
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Increasingly line managers are expressing frustration at receiving incomplete performance solutions, weak return on … investment, and less than expected results from performance support departments that claim to have the answer for improving … to performance problems. Proposes that we eliminate silos and deliver complete performance solutions by adopting a new …
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Proposes that emotional intelligence (Ei) enables teams to boost their performance. Looks at five Ei team competencies …
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contribution to the organisation, thereby creating improved business performance.  …
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