Industrial and Commercial Training: Volume 37 Issue 5

Business coaching: challenges for an emerging industry

To identify the distinguishing characteristics and future challenges for the business coaching industry in Australia.

Learning distributed leadership: part 2

The second paper in a two‐paper series, this article seeks to consider how the ideas of cultural historical activity theory were used in a learning programme for managers to…

The 6Ds™: a new paradigm for executive education

Today's executive education programmes must lend themselves to comprehensive evaluation and measurement, in order that return on investment can be clearly demonstrated in the…

Diversity in the spotlight

This paper aims to address the problems that diversity, by its nature, throws up for training professionals, and to highlight the various ways in which drama, as a learning tool…

Identify the reality: re‐build, manage and lead

To show that the skills of managing and leading are both essential for those holding in‐charge positions wishing to generate the optimum contribution of employee effort…

Results of a survey into how people become managers and the management development implications

To establish how people become managers.

Are graduates equipped with the right skills in the employability stakes?

To discuss employability and skills requirements for graduates from a graduate recruiter's point of view.

Whatever happened to leadership?

Proposes to provide a summary of ideas with regard to leadership and management with the author's interpretation of these and some of the issues these raise.

Lever Fabergé engineers major changes at Merseyside factories

New luxury-car launch aided by in-house training

Old law firm leads with new practices

No Gap in agency staff’s skills

Bookshelf

Hallmark greets a new training provider

BG management training linked closely to the workplace

Nikkon teams up to launch training partnership

Auto Indemnity trains star performers