Sharp End Training & the budget

Sharp End Training Director Jonathan Senor consulted by established Human resources website www.hrzone.co.uk over the budget. The question was “As training and people management professionals, is the budget good or bad for for you ?” “As HR and training professionals, we are ultimately aiming to make people better, feel better and get the most from themselves, that s why I welcome the extra investment in talented athletes of all sports and sport in general announced in the budget. “We have seen time and time again how doing well in sports gives the whole country a collective boost and for too long we have watched other countries, notably Australia, invest in talented people AND mass participation on an almost industrial basis. I only hope that we can do in six years what it has taken them 25.See the comments in context

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Sheffield Telegraph 10th March 2006

Sharp End Training are delighted to announce that Director Jonathan Senior has been recently awarded the designation of chartered manager

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Book review Training International Managers - Melkman & Trotman

The notion that the world is getting smaller - always using fast web connections, different technologies being flung together and today s novelty being tomorrow s standard - is the background to this useful book by obvious heavyweight consultants, Melkman and Trotman.

The book starts with a quick tour through models of cultural diversity and the familiar Honey and Mumford  learning styles, and continues with chapters concerning a different aspect of training - the client perspective, conducting the training needs analysis and preparing and evaluating training.

All are pretty standard, but importantly flavoured with an international aspect including sections which are specific to the international market such as the use of English as a second language and the economics of international training.

One helpful feature was the consistent use of just suppose  boxes at the start of each chapter, where the authors invite you to put yourself in the shoes of someone facing a particular problem or difficulty.

Although the layout is consistently good with each section having a challenge , the meat , a summary and action points, some sections are a little short and on a couple of occasions I found myself checking to see if I had turned two pages by accident.

Useful weblinks, tables and templates to extract are peppered throughout, and the bite sized nature of the book makes it easy to dip into . This makes it a useful addition to anyone s bookshelf.

Review ratings:

Overall 4

Helpfulness 4

Layout 4

Value for money 3

Suitability for professional level Directors, Managers, Consultants

Would you recommend it? Yes “ I have no aspirations to conduct international training but I would suspect that I will find myself leafing through it in the future.

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