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THE TWO FACES OF LEADERSHIP

THE TWO FACES OF LEADERSHIP

There are two main views about leadership:The functional , formal view-that it is a function, associated with post, and resides at the head of the organisation(ie headship); and the personality view-that it can exist anywhere, at any level, within the organisation, and is essentially an attribute or set of attributes that anyone can have (ie [...]

Training and Development with ETD

Training and Development with ETD

ETD design and deliver a wide range of training and development programmes for over 100 clients, in the UK and abroad. Our extensive portfolio encompasses skills for individuals, skills for managers, leadership skills, general skills such as high impact presentations and technical areas such as benchmarking and creative thinking …

Consultancy services

Consultancy services

Over the past 19 years Effective Training and Development have worked in partnership with many clients to address key organisational, departmental and team needs, facilitating tricky or senior meetings, strategic development, team building sessions, delivery of Assessment and Development Centre, and more.
Among our clients we have over 30 local authorities, 10 FE colleges, and 15 [...]

One to one coaching

One to one coaching

Some learning is not suited to a group environment. Individuals need to talk confidentially, in private, and at greater length than provided on a typical training programme. ETD provide personal support and development for a wide range of individuals, from Chief Executives to first line supervisors to individual staff …

Are we nearly there yet…? Free children’s travel book

Sun, Jul 25, 2010

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For any of you setting out on a summer hols car or train journey, we have written a very interactive children’s book to help them through the journey.  It’s a mixture of quizzes, observation questions, guesssing games, memory tests, etc.  It’s really for primary school age kids - say 6 to 10 year olds - [...]

Latest newsletter

Tue, Jul 20, 2010

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Difficult Times Ahead.. Recent budget announcements, and those to follow in the Autumn, put real pressure on your training and development budgets. Effective are determined to do all we can to help you work as well as you can through these difficult times, and have several ideas to support you and your staff which are innovative, effective [...]

CASCADING SKILLS..

Tue, Jul 20, 2010

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If you’d like to save training and development costs improve the skills and confidence of staff who need to pass information to others add value internally to any external training of staff improve the impact of team briefings and all internal meetings   If so Cascading Skills is for you! Increasingly companies are sending staff on external programmes, courses , conferences and then asking them [...]

Calling all small businesses…

Mon, Jul 19, 2010

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Did you know you can get a full day’s training for less than £50 per person? Would you like to train and develop your staff, but don’t have a budget? We can help! We regularly run consortium events, by arranging to bring together a group of SMEs in the same location, to provide half and full day training [...]

Just to let you all know that on our SLIDEAS site, we are now offering a new powerpoint presentation every fortnight (alternate Sundays), for you to download for free! Our back catalogue of presentations is also available. So don’t miss out on these freebies - check the site regularly!! We’d also be interested in any similar presentations you have. Just email them to me, and I’ll get them published, with full credits to the author!