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Sustainable Growth: The Key to Business Success

Creating a Culture of Trust and Innovation: Executive Leadership’s Role in Sustainable Growth In today’s rapidly evolving corporate landscape, business sustainability has emerged as more than just an environmental concern—it’s …

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From Training Cost to Strategic Investment: The Sustainable Value of Team Development

For decades, staff training was viewed as a necessary expense—a cost centre organisations had to absorb to keep their teams functional. It was rarely seen as an engine for growth, …

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Could a culture of continuous learning tackle the biggest obstacle to workplace learning and development (L&D)?

Employers are all well aware of the UK’s gaping skills gap. Research shows that 90% of the UK workforce will need to be reskilled by 2030. The reality is that, while many …

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The Evolution of L&D: qpeople’s top HR trends for 2025 (Part 2)

At qpeople we believe that companies that embrace change and prioritise investing in their workforces are the ones that have the best chance of facing the future with confidence. In …

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Beyond Billable Hours: Fostering Psychological Safety to Drive Employee Engagement and Retention

Law firms are often seen as notoriously pressured and competitive workplaces where billable hours are the main performance metric. However, studies consistently show that fostering trust and promoting employee engagement …

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The journey to trusted advisor: reframing the role of L&D consultant from reluctant overhead to strategic imperative

All successful businesses need experts to help drive progress – in learning and development (L&D), every bit as much as in product design or sales and marketing. But they also …

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The Unfinished Symphony: Unveiling the Mysteries of Human Behaviour at Work

Understanding Behaviour at Work: A Psychologist’s Perspective Imagine yourself as an orchestra conductor, tasked with creating a masterpiece of human performance within your organisation. Each team member brings a unique …

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Getting creative: boosting business growth in MENA through innovation

In a recent qpeople article on boosting business growth, we explored the challenges facing businesses in the MENA region as they embrace the need to upskill the local workforce in …

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The 5 Core Areas of Occupational Psychology That Can Benefit Your Business. Why Invest in Your People?

In today’s competitive business landscape, a company’s greatest asset is its people. But simply having talented individuals on your team isn’t enough. To thrive, you need a happy, motivated, and …

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Workplace challenges: qpeople’s top 5 HR trends for 2024

Although we’re drawing further away from the tumultuous events of 2020, their impact is still resonating across our social, cultural and economic landscape. Businesses that successfully navigated the existential challenges …

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Team dynamics: the secret to productive and profitable collaboration

Anyone who’s ever managed a team will know that teamwork isn’t something that automatically happens when a bunch of people start working together. Rather, its success rests on a team …

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Taking a fresh angle: promoting cognitive diversity in the workplace

As business leaders increasingly acknowledge the wide-ranging benefits of creating more diverse and inclusive workplaces, DE&I has become a core staple on the corporate agenda. But the trend for greater …

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Bite-sized learning and development programmes that deliver giant gains

As the digital transformation of businesses continues to accelerate, the need to respond nimbly to the evolving demand for new workplace skills is becoming increasingly urgent.

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Switching to automatic: how generative Artificial Intelligence is impacting corporate L&D

It’s fair to say that ChatGPT has been hitting the headlines recently. Just a few months after its launch, this shape-shifting chatbot from San Francisco-based tech firm OpenAI has already …

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Approaches to learning and development assessment: getting the right fit

Self-discovery is a tempting prospect. There’s something irresistible about digging into our subconscious selves in order to illuminate the idiosyncrasies that shape and drive us personally and professionally.  It’s also …