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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.
Creating successful teams
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.