by Marnie Threapleton | 7th Dec, 2015
Marnie’s Royal Marine experience in ‘Surviving the Yomp’ for charity sparked ideas on how we can recognise leadership traits in today’s workforce. When I first signed up for the “Commando Spirit” 30-miler event, I knew it was...
by Genny Dixon | 8th Sep, 2015
The NHS is meeting the growing demands of leaders with a wide range of initiatives, including real patients in the feedback process. The National Health Service is a UK national icon and the world’s fourth largest employer – a single brand, but in reality some 450...
by Franz Evert | 2nd Sep, 2015
Brought to you through the support of our Ambassador KPMG, Excellence in Leadership Development aims to provide independent evidence that will help organisations understand the role of technology in leadership development and how to improve the impact of learning...
by Laura Overton | 10th Mar, 2015
Laura Overton will be speaking at the CIPD L&D show in May. Come and be challenged, inspired and equipped to lead your team into the future. The session will cover: L&D’s place in the VUCA world and it’s role in...
by Laura Overton | 30th Jan, 2015
Check out these early insights from our current study on leadership development. Developing the skills of leaders and managers to work in an ever-changing, technology-enabled, virtual world is a constant challenge. The Towards Maturity Leadership study, in partnership...
by Genny Dixon | 26th Nov, 2014
Nurturing great leadership skills is critical to the future success of all organisations. In a bid to save both time and money, innovative online leadership development programmes have become increasingly popular – but how effective are they? Maintaining and...
by Genny Dixon | 4th Nov, 2014
Modernising learning means that we need to focus on learning outcomes, rather than inputs. It involves adapting to new ways of business, incorporating new ideas and methods and building on new opportunities offered by technology. In our 2014-15 Benchmark...
by Franz Evert | 29th Jun, 2012
Towards Maturity released a new In-Focus report on the 4th of July, supported by our Founding Ambassador, Epic, as part of their Forward Thinking Series.
by Laura Overton | 28th Jun, 2012
At the LSG Online conference this morning, we considered how the top L&D performers ( measured by the Towards Maturity Benchmark) engage with line managers to embed new ways of learning and improve learning transfer. If you would like to find out how you...
by Charles Humphreys | 20th Jun, 2012
The National College for School Leadership is where the future heads of our country’s schools are trained to become effective and inspirational leaders. The College already had an accelerated learning programme in place for those from an educational background, but it...
by Laura Overton | 18th Mar, 2012
Profiling LiveTime – gold winner of the elearning awards 2011 for Synchronous learning Business success is reliant on the right leadership, management and communication skills in place. In turbulent times, every organisation needs employees who are not only effective...
by Franz Evert | 24th Jun, 2011
Plan, one of the largest international development charities in the World, reports continuing success with its management development programme, with more than 250 staff now having entered the programme. Crucially, in a recent survey, almost without exception...
by Giovanna Puma | 13th Jun, 2011
Leadership development: Out of the classroom & into the workplace 14-Jun-2011 A ground-breaking study by Towards Maturity, into the effectiveness of technology-led leadership and management development, reveals that learning technology is bringing executive...
by Laura Overton | 13th Apr, 2011
Update 13th May Leadership Development Benchmark closes 20th May and final report will be available to download free here on the 15th of June. The full results will also be presented at the LM Matters annual forum on the 15th of June. Reinventing...
by Genny Dixon | 11th Apr, 2011
Maintaining and building leadership skills is critical for high performing organisations across all sectors and all sizes of organisations. During April and May 2011, individuals responsible for developing innovative, e-enabled approaches to leadership and management...
by Franz Evert | 30th Mar, 2011
At Towards Maturity we are very committed to celebrating excellence and the informal benchmarking that comes from the awards process. We support a wide range of awards including the e-learning age awards, the Training Journal awards and the Institute of IT...
by Paul Jagger | 6th Sep, 2010
Paul Jagger takes a look at The University of Cambridge Postgraduate Diploma in Training, Learning & Development – a new qualification for senior L&D professionals A couple of years ago I realised something important was missing from my...
by Howard Hills | 10th Aug, 2009
Research by EU skills in their sector demonstrates that soft skills training improves productivity and performance and provides an investment return within 12 months. BackgroundIn 2006, Energy and Utility skills (EU Skills) completed research into the skills need in...
by Laura Overton | 19th May, 2009
An ambitious blended learning programme that cut cost and reduced development time by 80% whilst maintaining effectiveness and quality. The BBC has a well established track record in their innovative use of learning technologies within their programmes. The success of...
by Laura Overton | 28th Oct, 2008
Last year, the Chartered Management Institute published their first research looking at how blended learning approaches can support managment development. One year on, the research was repeated with an online survey of over 1000 members of the CMI together with a...
by Howard Hills | 2nd Sep, 2008
The Centre for Excellence in Leadership The Centre for Excellence in Leadership has a task to transform the provision of learning through the Further Education and Skills sector. One of their strategic projects is to help leaders in FE manage and lead the new...
by Nige Howarth | 9th Jun, 2008
Distance learning has consistently increased in importance for corporations over the last few years. After “the fad effect”, the time has come for more mature and better thought-out applications, based on the first successful experiments. Today, very few people...
by Howard Hills | 18th Mar, 2008
Business Simulation and classroom teaching. Through Tyro training, its commercial division, Craven College has been testing the use of business simulation software alongside classroom teaching. They are using SimVenture (winner of the BETT 2008 award for post-16...
by Laura Overton | 7th Jan, 2008
Research from the Chartered Management Institute with 998 managers and a seried of indepth interviews highlighted how value can be released from online learning in the field of managment development. The research highlights drivers behind e-learning and the...
by Laura Overton | 17th Dec, 2007
This case study looks at how Coca-Cola in Latin America developed a virtual programme to develop leadership capability that would help them to implement and manage virtual teams across latin America. Core competencies for working in this strategic environment...
by Levi Phillips | 30th Nov, 2007
Nige Howarth speaks to Phil Morris of ST Microelectronics and Alex Clark of Relay Consultants about the success of e-learning with changing behaviour of technical experts in a global company. This article was originally created by the Work based e-learning...
