David Chapman is a founding Partner of ThinkFeelKnow (www.thinkfeelknow.com), an innovative Learning & Development organisation who is our featured bloger for this month. Does a highly unusual commercial environment call for radical L&D solutions? What do your people really need right now? Each employee, manager, and director of every organisation in the UK is facing… Read article/comments
This week’s news of British Airways recent proposals for many of its employees to take voluntary redundancies, unpaid leave or pay cuts, seemed to be a bridge too far. With more than 20,000 British Airways workers rejecting further proposals from the employer to cut another 3,500 jobs and impose pay freezes, were BA employees right… Read article/comments
With the natural reaction to cut costs and spending during recession, are we all doing enough to retain our best people, so our business have leaders for the future? Many companies at the current time are downsizing, reducing working hours and salaries, resulting in many employees being disillusioned and demotivated. A recent report on the… Read article/comments
According to a report by the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC), there is progress in both the manufacturing and service sectors and business confidence is improving. BCC Director-General David Frost said: “These results are sending Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling a strong message from the business community. It is absolutely vital that the improvement in… Read article/comments
