Summer is approaching. Many entrepreneurs and managers will be contemplating their summer vacation or the holidays of their team. Who takes care of business? Use a virtual assistant over the summer? What do you think? All business owners worry about who will check their emails and keep their business ticking over whilst on holiday. Read More
How to find the perfect workshop venue (without losing your mind)
Do you become perplexed when trying to find a suitable workshop venue for your next event? Occasionally, when trying to find a suitable workshop venue, it is either too expensive or it is difficult to travel to. Perhaps, you are not aware of the key things to consider when looking for a venue. In this post, allow me to share with Read More
Leadership Development Events – 5 Mistakes to avoid to be successful – Part I
When you spend time and money planning a leadership development event, you want everyone who attends to participate, learn and develop. To get the best out of your leadership development event, make sure you avoid these common mistakes. The Wrong Location Some businesses try to run a leadership development event in their offices. Although Read More
9 Quick training event tips you need to know
Are you about to embark on managing a training event? If so, please check out these top training event tips on how to get the best out of your session. I have found them super helpful and make my life so much easier. Please do read our previous posts on training. Take advantage of even more Read More
5 Tools You Should Be Using For Your Training Events
With such a wide variety of tools at our fingertips, there are plenty of resources to help with training events. Here are our top 5 tools, that everyone should be using: CIPD The professional body for HR and People Development. CIPD have an exhaustive array of tools to help you with training events, from Read More
5 ways to retain your top talent
When you’ve spent time, effort and investment in recruiting an employee, not to mention training them and building them into your team, retaining them is a real concern. And when you have top talent, people who are instrumental, retention is even more important. While factors like salary and benefits can be the reason an Read More
Choosing the right venue for an event – site visits
Choosing the right venue for your training event is crucial. Imagine that you have now shortlisted several venues that you really like the look of online, the proposal seems to be ok and costs are within your budget. You need to organise a site visit but you are unsure of what key things to look out for Read More
How to source and manage your training venue
Picture this – you have to source and manage a training venue quickly and you do not have a clue how to go about managing all the pieces in order to have a successful event? Is this you? Don’t worry. You are about to benefit from over a decade of my HR experience in this area. Here Read More
Training Workshop – How to manage the logistics and have a memorable event
When arranging a training workshop, it is great to have your learning facilitator and content all lined up. However, it is also very important that you also check that the logistics element of the workshop is under control. Organising a training workshop requires a number of pieces to be aligned to run smoothly just like a Read More
News: Your business will absolutely skyrocket using a HR Virtual Learning Support Assistant – my story
Thank you for visiting my first blog. I thought I would take the opportunity to tell you a little bit about who I am. Here are 5 nuggets about me as your HR Virtual Learning Support Assistant. I have over 25 years’ experience working in Administration and Office Management in the corporate world primarily in the Financial Read More
