We got used to the WFH challenge, and we’re only now waking up to the blended challenge. So, what can leaders do to adapt to the hybrid working model? A major point for consideration is inclusion – or rather, the potential for excluding remote colleagues. Senior Associate for PDT Global, Paul Brady, discusses the need [...]

  Please note our exciting news that Learning Technologies Group plc (LTG), the provider of services and software for digital learning and talent management, has acquired our firm. We have been merged with Affirmity. Affirmity, a US-based organisation headquartered in Irving, Texas that  provides a robust portfolio of software, services, and training solutions that help [...]

  People with disabilities are under-represented in the workplace. Gender is often touted as a more important priority for diversity and inclusion activity – because more than half the population is female. But people with disabilities make up the next largest group yet they are often overlooked. Even when organizations do seek to include people [...]

  One thing we have all been taught from a young age is that words matter. Have you really wanted to speak about a topic affecting minority groups but stopped and thought:  "Wait, can I say that?" If you look through history, you can see a direct correlation between slurs being socially acceptable, and strife [...]

  Disasters such as the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion and the Chernobyl nuclear accident are said to have involved flawed decisions, driven by individual perceptions. Not surprisingly, individuals’ behaviours—and the perceptions that drive those behaviour's—are key to determining the safety performance of an organization. Angela Peacock explains why the insurance industry can’t risk downplaying inclusion [...]

  We need to take what we have learned from last year’s social needs, geographical restrictions, and the human desire to own something we can control and talk about the factors that will truly inform strategies in 2021. Director of Learning, Nic Girvan, talks screen fatigue, budgets and training that is outside of the usual [...]

  Change tends to bring a mixture of brilliant opportunities and worrying realities. In times of crisis, there are those who get creative — and those who resolutely stick with what they know. In Nic Girvan's latest article for Chief Learning Officer, she shares just what the pandemic has taught us about L&D   Read [...]

  Inclusion is a crucial differentiator for companies. At the current rate of progress with inclusion, it won’t be our daughters who stand the same chance as our sons of being the next CEOs. In Angela Peacock's latest article for Training Magazine she shares the inclusion 'levers' that need to be implemented together if organisations [...]

  Angela Peacock, PDT Global founder and CEO, talks to HR Magazine all about her journey setting up her own business, reinvention of the workplace and her inspirations.         Read the article in full here: https://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/article-details/lessons-from-the-c-suite-angela-peacock-pdt-global Don't forget to follow us on LinkedIn for our latest updates and events: PDT Global LinkedIn

  We all need allies—and nowhere is that more true than in the cut and thrust of the workplace. Angela Peacock's latest article for Carrier Management discusses the five types of ally roles and the idea of making the active practice of allyship part of leaders' psychological contracts with their staffs.     Read the [...]