The high cost of not training staff

There is an old training conundrum, where the CEO asks from the cost perspective "What if we [...] train our staff and they leave?...

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Two ways to digitally upskill

It is expected today by employers that all workers are digitally competent. There has been an "accelerated technological development in...

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Costs of recruitment

How do we work out how much recruitment costs? Well, it gets a bit complicated, because costs can be organised in different ways; in New Zea...

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Front-loading keyboarding practice

I stumbled across a piece of research recently where the aim was to see if different timings of practice might affect participant keyboardin...

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Phased learning and practice

So what happens if we attend a training course, but never have the need - or have the ability - to practice the skills that we learned? I su...

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How to plan PD needs?

We often think that we need "professional refreshment", so to speak, but how do we know what we need ? I think we are best to be...

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Career practice in secondary schools

In Aotearoa New Zealand we tend to start to provide structures for the transition from secondary school student to the post-secondary stage ...

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Measuring training results

When we train, we must also measure the results of our training. If we have not measured, we have no idea whether what we have delivered is...

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The difference between education, training and development

So, what is the difference between education, training and development? Let's start by defining each of the terms, education, training a...

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Training career development professionals

The results of a 2021 survey of CDANZ and CATE career practitioners show that only  29% of  respondents  hold career-specific graduate or po...

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Taking management seriously

As an management educator, one thing that constantly appalls me about New Zealand is how poor most employers are about management training f...

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A simple Career PD tool

Each week on a Wednesday as part of my professional development for my career practice I take a trawl through the online classifieds for w...

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Career Self-Management

(Avila College, 2012) I have noted an organisational trend which appears to be leaving staff to more actively manage their own careers. ...

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Google Glass and Security

Wow - I thought Google Glass was cool, and then loads of people started getting tetchy about security. Yep, I completely get their conce...

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Newsletter Issue 93, March 2005

Sam Young Newsletter Issue 93, March 2005 Hi guys, Check out AntiSpyware Free With Internet Explorer below...

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