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The Landscape is Changing You may have read our Apprenticeships blog last month [‘The New Age of Management Apprenticeships‘]. Earlier this month we attended the launch of the new Leadership and Management Apprenticeship Standards at the House of Commons. Well it’s official – the landscape HAS changed and we’re excited about the future of Management Apprenticeships. The UK’s productivity […]

Today’s global workforce makes it more important than ever for organisations to have flexible means of accessing meaningful management training programmes. As today’s workforce becomes more global and mobile, a question for HR and training professionals is, how do you deliver value driven training to a remote management teams who may be working from different […]

Put yourself in the Premier League   Whilst ‘chartered’ status is de rigueur in accountancy and surveying, chartered manager is the highest status that can be achieved in the management profession. Awarded only by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), there is a real opportunity to enhance your CV and for companies to step up the […]

At a time when management performance has been identified as the biggest factor in boosting productivity, there is an urgent need for UK employers to raise their game when it comes to management and leadership. The Government are tackling this head on by creating leadership and management apprenticeship standards and are incentivising employers by offering […]

Our economy is growing at the fastest pace since the recession, yet organisations still face uncertainty and this has a more profound effect on employees than many business leaders realise. When we ask organisations for their wish list in terms of what they would most like to be different, employee engagement in all its forms […]

‘We all need people who will give us feedback, that’s how we improve’ (Bill Gates) ‘Feedback is a free education to excellence. Seek it with sincerity, receive it with grace.’ (Anne Marie Houghtailing) The work place and the way we work together are changing greatly. More than ever the capacity to create clear, open communications […]

Managers are increasingly expected to achieve more with less. This requires the ability to make on the spot decisions in a way that values their time and supports the achievement of their objectives. When faced with conflicting demands daily, effective managers cannot say yes to everyone, they must think strategically about their priorities. Saying no […]

Why do some managers not trust people to do what they are paid to do? Managers should be working on the business, not in the business. Leading and empowering. Getting the job done my people who want to do it. Showing Authentic Leadership. The irony lies in the simple fact that the ‘control freak’ manager […]

      Congratulations to the latest group of graduates from Revolution Bars Group who have successfully completed their middle management development programme delivered by Adalta.  In completing the programme they have demonstrated not only how the development has impacted them personally, but also how they have been able to make a tangible impact on business results in […]

Too often teams are unclear as to what the top priorities/goals really are, and all too often companies throw money at team building training courses that just don’t tackle the real issues that cause this ‘execution gap’. Here the coaches/players are not on the same page and what you get is running around in all […]