The Oakwood Blog
HR & Management advice, business tips, information on professional development, and Oakwood updates
Listen. Think. Challenge. Strategise. Transform. Innovate.
Business Leaders and to have energy to be creative, develop insights and be future. And yet, in so many conversations with many HR students across…
People Who Work For Non-Profits Are Happier
Recent psychological research conducted in the UK on more than 13,000 people suggests that workers at public sector and third sector organisations (including non-governmental organisations…
Givers, Takers and Matchers
Adam Grant, an organisational psychologist in the area of human resources and employment, has a theory for identifying personality types amongst employees. Through years of…
Maximising Employee Engagement
There are many organisational examples that clearly show the positive correlationship between engagement and market place innovation, as well as job satisfaction and absenteeism. According…
Coaching & Mentoring
As I’m sure you’ve noticed, there has been a huge amount of interest in coaching and mentoring in recent years: even a very quick internet…
Instagram For Business – 6 Do’s & Don’ts
Instagram is one of the fastest growing social media platforms with around 500 million active users worldwide, up from 400 million in 2015. Downloadable to…
How To Develop Yourself As An L&D Professional
Let’s take it as a given that your employer has an excellent Performance Management process in place; that you have regular reviews and appraisals; that…
Credibility In HR
Credibility is the foundation of an HRs professional relationship with the organisation and its leadership – it is the quality of being believable and trustworthy….
4 Must-Have Personal Development Apps
Mobile technology opens up a lot of options that were never available before. One of the areas that this has been a huge boost for…
How Organisations Can Cope With Change
Whether change is minimal or monumental, sporadic or strategic, it is always subject to some element of resistance by organisational stakeholders. The onus lies with…
What will a professional CIPD qualification do for my career?
In a fiercely competitive global marketplace, where the demand and supply of jobs is significantly disproportionate, it is becoming increasingly important for individuals to constantly…
What Are The Benefits of CIPD Membership?
As soon as you begin studying with Oakwood International Ltd for your CIPD Foundation Level 3 or Intermediate Level 5 qualification, you can become a…
How To The Most Of Your Training Budget
We all know that training and L&D budgets are tighter than ever, and that we need to be able to justify every dollar, dirham, riyal…
10 Great Tips For Writing CIPD Assignments
1. Find a quiet place and give yourself time You can’t expect to be able to concentrate with the TV on, music blaring or the…
Making Links Between Theory & Practice
Once you embark on a programme of study with Oakwood International, you will be introduced to all manner of new ideas, concepts, theories and ‘models’….
How To Create Happiness In The Workplace
Both Harvard Business Review and CIPD are now showing how dramatically work related stress effects our employees. Stress related illness accounts for billions of GBP…
What Is A Flat Organisation Structure?
Has the era of Command and Control leadership finally died? The new trend for Flatter Organisation Charts is creating autonomous, strategically -aligned teams who routinely…
How To Create Effective Teams In Your Organisation
So, the 2018 World cup is behind us and for those who watched it, I think you would agree it produced some surprising results? Some…