Executive Pay: 2005
'Calming the feeding frenzy'
Pressure from the media and shareholder groups to bring boardroom salaries under control is changing approaches to executive pay, Wendy Frankiss reports.
Scunthorpe Telegraph: 5 November 2005
'Consultants boost 'customer skills''
City consultants have been brought in to teach council repair staff to mind their manners when called out to do a job.
Summer 2005
'Talent Management: latest buzzword or refocusing existing processes?'
Amanda Stainton provides a guide to talent management, showing that its most powerful application involves the use of competencies and a clear focus on future performance requirements.
Training Journal: August 2005
'NLP: Business as a foreign language'
From the employment of baroque music to the use of codebreaking techniques, practitioners of accelerated learning can become so focused on the process that their ability to fully develop practical applications is limited. Similarly, for a community that prides itself on flexibility of communication, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioners are failing to find a language that will persuade business leaders of its effectiveness.
Training Journal: April 2005
'Delivering real, sustainable change: two success stories'
Caroline Dunk, principal at cda, an organisational consulting, development and training provider, explains how two major companies - Alpha Airport Group and Toyota (GB) Plc - were able to make important changes with impressive results.
