What is Coaching? When people hear the word “Coach” or “Coaching” they usually think of sport. That can often cause confusion as many so-called sports coaches are actually sports trainers. So people can see coaching as training people with skills to make them better at doing something – which would be an incorrect definition. Coaching […]

Is There A Conflict Between Coaching and HR? By Annette Miller (Annette is an HR professional who recently completed her Certificate in Coaching with The Development Company) Introduction It would be a natural assumption to think that most of the qualities that an HR business partner learns and uses every day would easily lend themselves […]

Guest blogger, Karen Chamberlain, explains how you can become even more awesome than you already are! As a self-employed business owner for over 7 years, I recognise it’s important to stay focused, positive, resilient and to be self-motivated. My ability to do this, and to do this well most of the time, strengthens over time; […]

Guest blogger, JenVB, explores here the role of elearning as part of your organisational learning strategy. Now that so much information is available online, creating interactive knowledge based online courses is much more cost and time effective than paying people to travel to a fixed location and then listen to a presenter read out Powerpoint […]

Our 25th Birthday Blogs It is our 25th birthday and we are looking back to 1994 when The Development Company Limited first set up, to see what has changed in the world of training over the last 25 years. In this blog I shall compare training delivery in 1994 and 2019. Course Length In 1994, […]

The Development Company Limited is 25 years old now. A quarter of a century old! It is a long time since we first started so I decided to take a little look at how we had to do things “back in the day”. Life in Black and White? We are not going back quite that […]

The 5 Best Tools For Making 2019 Your Most Productive Year Yet Most people fail to realise just how hard it can be to manage a growing small business. As your business grows, hiring more employees will become essential. Failing to increase the size of your team will usually lead to problems with current employees […]

This is a guest blog by Wendy Dessler As technology advances, Human Resources professionals are inundated with a new responsibility that’s becoming more challenging than ever: maintaining a human workplace. To create a more human workplace, an organisation must bring their people together in a way that fosters creation and collaboration. What sounds like a […]

People Management Skills An External Perspective This is Ethan Vowle’s final blog at the end of his 7 week placement with us as part of his Tresham College Traineeship Programme. Ethan observed the delivery of a two day People Management Skills course to 5 people from four different organisations. These are his observations and thoughts. […]

The Tresham Traineeship Programme This is Ethan’s third and final blog as he nears completion of his seven week work placement with us. On this page you will find links to two downloadable Ebooks which Ethan has created: Top Ten Tips for Getting the Most out of a Work Placement (This is for the placement […]