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Soft skills
No management training mix is complete without people skills. Good time management and communication, the ability to encourage creativity and innovation, and the skills to motivate staff are vital.
We have a huge archive of articles and exercises, including how to manage difficult people, using humour in the training room, listening skills, assertiveness, presentations, PowerPoint tips and making a farewell speech.
Tax relief for vocational training
This site provides full information about eligibility criteria and claims procedures for UK tax payers seeking tax relief for relevant vocational qual...
Individual Learning Accounts
Full information about the purpose and ILA's (much heralded in government publicity over the past eighteen months), together with a comprehensive guid...
Construction Industry Training Board - appointments
The government has reappointed the chairman and vice-chairman of the CITB for a further term from 1 April 1999.The chairman, Hugh Try, is a member of ...
Basic Skills Agency
Website for the national UK development agency concerned with basic skills in schools and adult training providers. Also runs a national telephone re...
Work-based training improves job prospects of unemployed
A recently published study confirms that the government's Training for Work programmes achieves a sustained impact for people who have been unemployed...
TEC delivered training for young people and adults
The Government has released audited data regarding the training programmes delivered throughout England and Wales for young people and adults includin...
£50 million for adult learners
The government has announced a £50 million initiative over three years to develop a network of local advice, information and guidance centres (to be ...
Information, Advice and Guidance for Adult Learners
New website for information about services providing information, advice and guidance to adult learners and potential learners in England.
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Training Standards Council
Body responsible for inspecting work-based training.
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Training providers criticised
In the first official inspection of work-based training - involving more than 100 sites - by the Training and Standards Council, standards and methods...
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