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Training: the key to retaining staff

Learning on the job can lead to a more motivated and productive workforce and enable your staff to keep up with the latest trends in areas such as technology and people management.

Quite often creating a team to solve an organisational or business problem is seen as the best way forward. However, they can become a source of frustration and antagonism rather then promoting ideas and action.

Guide to induction and training

The usual definition of induction is a formal introduction of a new employee to a job. However, Peter Done, managing director of Peninsula and SmallBusiness.co.uk Q&A panel expert, feels that induction and training should not only happen at the start of employment, but ‘should be ongoing in order to provide solutions to problems as the job duties change’.
Read on for tips on getting the most out of new starters...

Outsourced staff training

Keeping your employees up to speed with the latest training programmes can be time consuming. Outsourcing may be the answer.

How to become more efficient

Keeping a united workforce is certainly a challenge but many simple changes can be made that won’t cost. SmallBusiness.co.uk and the CIPD have these tips to help you make improvements.

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‘National Sickie Day’ will cost UK businesses more than £34 million, a business support specialist predicts.

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‘National Sickie Day’ will cost UK businesses more than £34 million, a business support specialist predicts.

Nameless CVs for fairer hiring

Businesses should encourage all job applicants to send in CVs that do not identify their name or ethnic background, says an employment law specialist.

TUC rallies against tribunal fees

Introducing fees to take claims to employment tribunals could be a huge barrier to equality at work, says the Trades Union Congress.

Jobs market to remain unstable in 2012

Unemployment has hit a 17-year high of 8.4 per cent, finds data.

Higher education not developing work skills

A fifth of UK employers believe school leavers make better employees than university graduates.

Forum supports education-level skills boost

The Forum of Private Business has welcomed government plans to improve how IT is taught in UK schools to better prepare young people for work.

Workers 'underused and demotivated' by lack of support

The underuse of skills in the UK is resulting in lost productivity both for businesses and the economy as a whole, argues a think tank.

Youth employment scheme backed by lobbying group

The Confederation of British Industry has formally backed the government's £1 billion Youth Contract programme aimed at ensuring ‘every young person in the UK is in education or employment’.

Employee pay rewards stagnant in 2011

The majority of company staff saw their pay packets remain static or shrink in 2011.

Employment opportunities on the rise

Job opportunities were 17 per cent higher in December compared to the same period in 2010 and more than a fifth higher than two years ago, according to the latest Reed Job Index.

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FT Guide to Personal Tax

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Growth Company Investor

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FT Guide to Business Start Up

The FT Guide to Business Start Up 2012, published by Pearson Education, is written by Sara Williams, CEO of Vitesse Media Plc. This unique guide has sold over two million copies. It offers practical advice about starting and running your own business.

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What Investment is the leading and longest-established investment magazine in the UK.

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Staff training Resource Centre

Flexible Skills Bank

Tap in to this pool of professionals looking for flexible, or ad hoc work to fit in with their family commitments.

Find learning providers

The UK Register of Learning Providers is a 'one-stop' portal to be used by agencies, learners, and employers to share key information about learning providers.

Improve your skills

Enrol on a training programme to improve your skills. Choose from over 35 courses in 5 key categories to get the skills you need to progress in your career.

Train to start a business

The New Entrepreneur Scholarships Programme (NES) helps people living in disadvantaged areas to start in business.

Find the right training for your employees

Train to Gain helps you finding the best and most appropriate training for your employees.

Staff training in the hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism

People1st provides staff training in the hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism to improve the skills of employees.

Train your staff to ensure online safety

This sites features articles and leaflets containing advice on staff training to ensure online security.

E-learning courses

Learndirect is a nationally recognised brand for learning and is the largest supplier of e-learning courses of its kind in the world.

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