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

Sunday, July 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

Tuesday, July 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..

Tuesday, July 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…

Monday, July 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 [...]

Top 10: motivating others…

Sunday, July 18, 2010

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1: Ask: don’t assume or guess what people want - ask them.  Find out what they want, and what works for them (or doesn’t) 2: Process or outcome?: some people are motivated more by results - the destination: others, by how they feel, and how engaged they are - the journey.  Find out which, if either, [...]

Effective on tour…!!

Monday, July 5, 2010

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Over the next three months or so we are going on tour!  We are going to run some free taster half-days, at various locations around the country.  The first confirmed dates are: Thursday, 29 July, 1.30 - 4.30, Chichester, West Sussex Friday, 30 July, 1.30 - 4.30, Pendennis Castle, Cornwall The event is absolutely free, and consists of [...]

  • Complaints and compliments….

    If you have any complaint about our service or products, or want to offer any compliments, then please contact Arnie by email: arnieskelton@etduk.co.uk


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  • 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(i.e. 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 (i.e. [...]


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  • Hot Stuff

    This is the place we announce breaking news, our new programmes, and ask the occasional question.


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  • Making a Difference

    As the following case studies show, we have lots of evidence of how our contribution has helped make a difference to our clients.


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  • Fab or Drab?

    Click here to read our regular thoughts on the good (fab) and the not so good (drab) that we’ve experienced - we hope you can join in with your experiences, too…!


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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!