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Can you tell me a way to grow the L&D department in my organisation? iTOL Questions is a series of mini-blog posts that aim to answer common L&D related questions and provide help and support for L&D professionals. When you assume a managerial role within an organisation, you generally find

How do I make my training initiatives attractive? iTOL Questions is a series of mini-blog posts that aim to answer common L&D related questions and provide help and support for L&D professionals. The Issue Imagine that you have been in your company for a while now, you are well established and

How do I get the managerial staff on board with Learning and Development? iTOL Questions is a series of mini-blog posts that aim to answer common L&D related questions and provide help and support for L&D professionals. The Issue As we highlighted in one of our previous posts, managerial staff

How do I establish if training is the right course of action? iTOL Questions is a series of mini-blog posts that aim to answer common L&D related questions and provide help and support for L&D professionals. The Problem This is an all too familiar scenario in the L&D profession, organisations

This is the final installment of Why Training is Undervalued, and follows on from our previous blog post which explained how many trainers have inadequate training and ways to recognise professionals who are properly qualified. As perceptions of the training industry have changed over time for both managers and employees, it

Why is it so difficult to get people to recognise the value of training? It is after all, a vital element in any organisation. Training and development has the potential to increase the output and capabilities of any organisation. Invest in your staff, and you will see the return. It

Why leading trainers are using this iTOL personal assessment tool. At iTOL we look after our members. We provide our members with exclusive access to the latest in professional materials, links and networks. One of the most popular resources we offer is our CPD Toolkit, a cutting edge collection of

The 6 Workplace Personalities and How to Manage Them. At some point you will have come across every single one of these… There are six workplace personalities which you will have encountered. The chances are they will already be familiar to you but you didn’t know how to categorise them.

The 10 Ways to Make Training Stick.   What are these 10 simple tricks?   So, there are ten criteria to creating stickiness in training…   They are:   Train using visual, auditory, kinaesthetic and tactile tools It is vital to use the right tools for the right participants. You should

The Three C’s of Consulting. As a consultant you may think to yourself that there should be some form of magic formula, recipe or equation that can be used to create the most effective consultancy experience. The truth is that   being a successful consultant doesn’t happen by accident, in

Developing Professionals in the Heart of a Developing City. Our New Strategic Partnership iTOL is proud to announce our new strategic partnership, in which we will be working closely with London based company, Qualifications House. We will be working to deliver our qualifications and courses around the world. Together we

  Whenever I try to conjure up what innovation looks like, the same slideshow of images clicks across my mind: that photo of Einstein with his tongue sticking out, Edison with his light bulb, Steve Jobs onstage in his black turtleneck, introducing the latest iThing. Unoriginal and overdone, to be