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 […]

Finance is often seen as a ‘black art’.  Many people don’t understand it, and feel uneasy with money.  It doesn’t help that accountants aren’t always the best communicators, and use lots of jargon.  I can say that, as I am an accountant! The simple truth is that finance training can help you make more money. […]

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 […]

The Tresham Traineeship Programme This is the second blog by Ethan Vowles at the mid-point of his work placement with The Development Company. His first blog is entitled Tresham Trainee. For more information about the programme visit Tresham College using the link below. Ethan’s Halfway Blog I am currently just over halfway through my work placement […]

The Tresham Traineeship Programme This is a blog by Ethan Vowles at the end of his first week of work placement with The Development Company. For more information about the programme, visit Tresham College using the link below. Ethan’s Blog My name is Ethan Vowles, and for the past week, I have been working as […]