Coaching That Drives Performance Over the last decade, we have seen how coaching has evolved and become more popular as an effective organisational development intervention that supports and enables strategic initiatives, cultural change and essential leadership growth and development. Our executive coaches work with the board, partners and aspiring partners, to help them acquire and […]
Tag: learning and development
Is it time to rethink the role of a “Manager” in professional services?
One thing the last year has highlighted for so many of our clients is the critical contribution of effective management, a role which we often see is taken for granted, with people just expected to naturally ‘step-up’ and manage teams. We wrote about this in an article some years ago, however the last year has […]
Who is looking out for our HR teams?
This was one of the questions in our most recent HR and L&D forum – since lockdown in March the leadership and HR teams in all organisations of any size have been paying particular attention to all of their people and teams, but who has been looking out for them? The latest forum felt a […]
theGrogroup partners with Armadillo Support on the Launch of the Armadillo Academy
We are delighted to announce the launch of the Armadillo Academy – a partnership between Armadillo Support and theGrogroup which will enable member firms and teams to drive improved performance. By providing a framework of knowledge, skills, resources and tools, the Academy will support the development of managers and partners of the future. We have […]
Latest HR and L&D Forum
Our latest virtual forum with People, HR and Learning leaders covered some common themes that most firms are experiencing in their response to the current pandemic and the new ways of working. There is a general mood of cautious optimism in most firms, combined with some cracks starting to appear as the length of time […]
HR and Learning & Development Forum
Our most recent zoom call with people in HR, learning and talent development was another insightful discussion with lively debate and lots of ideas and challenges shared as firms continue to adapt to changing working lives and practices. Key issues / challenges Workload and resource priorities, managing alongside childcare / homeschooling Return to office planning […]
Is the client always right? the wants versus needs dilemma…
Is the client or customer always right? What do you do if a client asks you to provide a service to satisfy a want – yet you know that isn’t what they actually need? This week I have had some great discussions with clients, with whom we have a strong and trusted relationship. They are […]
Training just isn’t working* final article
This is the last of a series of articles that have been put together to explain why we believe L&D is failing to deliver real results and behavioural change. But we did refer right at the start to the * in the title, a caveat. Because there are examples where learning is having a massive […]
Training just isn’t working* article 4
Back at article 1, we made the ‘outlandish’ claim that investment in Learning and Development across organisations is, more often than not, delivering very little by way of return. This is because the knowledge, skills and behaviours wrapped up in workshops, programmes or e-learning modules is not having the impact on individual, or collective, performance […]