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Posted by: Rob Ashton
13 / 12 / 21
A while ago (OK, quite a while ago), I announced that I was starting a research project on the science of written communication, with a view to writing a book on the subject. I also said I would be posting regular updates on that research both here and on my personal blog. But since then, […]
Posted by: Catie Holdridge
21 / 07 / 20
Training is only worthwhile if it works. It needs to do far more than simply let you tick a box. That’s why we’re proud that the Learning and Performance Institute (LPI) has named us in their list of the highest-performing learning providers for the third time since 2018. Since 1995, the LPI has been evaluating, […]
14 / 09 / 17
We’ll go wherever the training need is – whether that’s Norwich, New York or the Netherlands. But even we were surprised to get a call from a tiny Buddhist country in the Eastern Himalayas. That call was from nobody less than Chewang Rinzin, the Deputy Chamberlain to His Majesty the King of Bhutan. It quickly became […]
06 / 04 / 17
If you’re not yet using a chat system to collaborate with your colleagues at work, you probably will be soon. Apps like Slack (the most popular) are rapidly redefining how we communicate. And the market for such tools was estimated at a staggering $4.5 billion last year. But do they actually make life better for […]
Posted by: Tom Wilde
18 / 01 / 17
Writing is one of those work activities that we just assume we can do. So much so that it’s not even something we tend to give much thought to. Yet in the last decade or two, it’s silently taken over our working lives. Email alone accounts for a staggering four hours of an average worker’s […]
Posted by: em-admin
10 / 07 / 10
The increasing use of the word ‘recovery’ in the press during the recent financial crisis may have contributed to the UK’s eventual climb out of recession, new research from Emphasis has found. This unique project – the second from the Emphasis Research Centre – began as a positive alternative to The Economist’s ‘R-word index’, which […]
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