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Questions from the training room: Project Management

Posted by Pradeep Jeyaratnam-Joyner

 

There are many project management systems out there. From Gantt Charts to Asana, there are lots of ways to organise a project. The danger is that people feel like project management is an exam in data entry form-filling rather than focusing on how to get things done.

On our Project Management training courses at Aspire, we have delegates with a range of different working methods and levels of experience. We draw on many theoretical and practical approaches, encompassing elements of task and people management, to support managers as they embark on their next projects. Here are some of the questions that often crop up in the training room:

 

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Bridging the Gap EDI Programme FAQs

Posted by Pradeep Jeyaratnam-Joyner

How do I stop diversity and inclusion training from being a tick-box exercise?

 

For a long time, we (okay, Pradeep) resisted launching a public EDI programme separate from our leadership and management offers. As a certified B-Corp™, we believe inclusion should be central to everything a leader does, rather than carved off into a separate training silo. But we kept meeting leaders who were stuck or jumping straight into tactical metrics and quick-fix initiatives without asking what problem they were actually trying to solve. Read more

Tailorbird on a branch - the tailorbird sews its own nest like we tailor our training at Aspire Leadership

Why Your Off-The-Shelf Training is Failing in the AI Era (And What We Can Learn From the Tailorbird)

Posted by Pradeep Jeyaratnam-Joyner

Sometimes I dread telling people what I do for a living.

 

I’ll mention training, leadership, management, and presentation skills. I’ll watch their eyes glaze over, their teeth clench, and then they’ll groan, “Oh yeah, I’ve been on training…”

 

A truth acknowledged but rarely discussed in the learning and development community is that most corporate training is actually quite dull and ineffective. Usually, someone like me stands up in front of a group and delivers training; interesting content, perhaps, but one-way and often transactional. The trainer regurgitates the work of great thinkers such as Drucker, Cialdini, Maslow, and Blanchard, speaking at people. Training is done to you. It’s not a place to think – the thinking has been done for you.

 

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