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Elevate Management Skills in your Organisation with an ILM Higher Apprenticeship in Management

Thursday, May 11th, 2023

Our ILM management apprenticeship programme provides an incredible opportunity for growth whilst having a significant impact on your organisations. We currently have spaces available on our Level 4 and Level 5 Higher Apprenticeships in Management and encourage you to consider embarking on the transformative journey of an apprenticeship.

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An Old Name For a New Way of Being

Tuesday, April 18th, 2023

Wales is in the headlines this week as our national park celebrates its 66th anniversary and unveils a new brand and an updated official name. The park has lived with a dual English and Welsh name for a number of years but is now taking the step to embrace the original name of the region and be known officially as Bannau Brycheiniog National Park, pronounced ban-aye bruch-ein-iog, with the ch making the same sound as in loch!

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A Big experience with Sir Gareth Edwards CBE

Wednesday, March 1st, 2023

A week ago we had an evening that we won’t be forgetting in quite a while. For the past few years we have supported Wales Week in London and this year we hosted a night at the House of Lords with Welsh rugby legend Sir Gareth Edwards CBE. We were joined by business leaders from across the country to celebrate and connect.

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There’s Something On My Mind…

Thursday, February 2nd, 2023

Rebecca Aslett, Marketing Manager, Call of the Wild

Time to Talk day might be billed as the nation’s biggest mental health conversation but not many of us have the courage to open up because talking about mental health isn’t easy, especially if you’re facing your own struggles.

 

 

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Team building with Telesgop

Tuesday, January 10th, 2023

Swansea-based Television production company, Telesgop joined us for a full-day team development day. The day included psychometric testing, designed to help them better understand themselves individually and as a team, we then took them through activities to help support their learning and understand how to better communicate and work effectively as a team. Their testimonial below describes why they chose to have the day and what they got out of it. Company Chair, Elin Rhys also describes her own experiences of the day.

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Can Leadership Be Learnt?

Wednesday, December 21st, 2022

Can leadership be learnt? In our view yes it can. Although you can’t change the personality of someone you can influence their preferred behaviours. So if they are put in a leadership position then the skills required to be effective can be learnt as this involves adapting behaviours of yourself and influencing the behaviours of others.

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Mindfulness is Transforming Leadership

Tuesday, November 15th, 2022

Reflective WalkingIn 2007 Chade-Meng Tan – Google employee #107 — launched Google’s meditation programme. The programme currently teaches 2,000 Googlers per year to meditate in order to become better leaders. Today, leading companies like Blackrock, Aetna, Ford Motor and Goldman Sachs conduct mindfulness classes for thousands of their leaders.

What is causing this shift to mindful leadership? In the stress-filled 24/7 world in which we live, leaders of all organizations need the opportunity for a “time out” period. It is their opportunity to relax, breathe deeply, de-stress and gain clarity about their work and the decisions they are facing.

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Was James Bond A Team Player?

Tuesday, October 4th, 2022

James BondOctober 5th is James Bond Day – yes there is a James Bond day! 2022 also marks the 60th anniversary of the James Bond films. The first, Dr. No, was released in 1962.

The question we ask is do you consider James Bond to be a loner or a good team player?

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Home-Working Productivity – Is It An Opportunity For Leaders To Grow?

Friday, September 23rd, 2022

How to lead remote teamsThe BBC reports that the results of a recent Microsoft survey are showing a huge disparity between how efficiently workers feel they work from home and managers perception of productivity. The report highlights that ‘While 87% of workers felt they worked as, or more efficiently, from home, 80% of managers disagreed.’
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Why More People Are Working From Home On Fridays

Friday, August 26th, 2022

The BBC Stress managementrecently published a report on the post-pandemic trend of working from home on Fridays, quoting only 13% of staff going into the office on Fridays. It got us thinking, what does this mean for staff, and team, bonding and development?

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