Why do Wessex Group of Sixth Form Colleges use in-house training?
In-company training works for The Wessex Group of Sixth Form Colleges for a number of reasons, including: value for money; ability to control training times; convenient location. The package The Wessex Group of Sixth Form Colleges have been using the Centre
Managing a team: what makes for a healthy and productive team?
While a team is a group of people, a group of people is not necessarily a team. What distinguishes the team is its common goal, the mutual dependence of its members and its tendency to form norms of behaviour and an identity all of which
Email: the curse of the twenty first century?
While email is a vital communication tool in the modern office it can, like all tools, be misused and become a nuisance. If you receive 30 emails an hour, you are likely to spend 50% of your time reading and responding to them. Is this
Risk management at the Centre - a revolutionary approach
By Howard Exton-Smith. The problem with “risk management” is that it tends to get a universally bad press – it can be stultifyingly boring and we only hear about it when it goes wrong! Many managers will only deal with risk whilst holding their noses.
Project management: developing your project plan
In order to develop your project plan and get a meaningful idea of what has to be done by when, it is important to break the project down into meaningful parts. You can break the project down into the activities required within each stage
Creativity is key to organisational and personal development
Guest blog by Phyllissa Shelton. In this day of continual emergent technology, increasing digitisation and financial austerity, creativity and entrepreneurial skills will become more and more dominant economic values for organisations. And, given the recognition that most organisational growth will come from product innovation and
Managing your manager - handy hints on an important relationship
How well do you know your manager? Do you know what makes them tick, what excites them and what drives them mad? It’s worth taking a minute or two to consider this important relationship and what you can do to improve
Celebrating success at work
By Sally Pearman. The Centre has been working with a range of organisations for the past 20 years. One of the things we've always found fascinating is the range of cultures and traditions that we get a glimpse of in the training room. So over the
Stress - Let’s not make a drama out of a crisis
By Gill Dandy. What is it about stress … just uttering the word is stressful for some, it’s like the sound of fingernails scraping on a board or the irritating squeaky chair your colleague insists is ‘fine’. And there in lies the rub; the