Apprenticehsips in Wales 2016 Video

Here's a video promoting the features and benefits of using apprenticeships to develop staff and employees. This video has been prepared by the Welsh Government who fund apprenticeships in Wales.

We are lucky enough to be able offer full funding for higher apprenticeships in:-

• Leadership and Management at Level 4; and
• Leadership and Management at Level 5.

A higher apprenticeship at Level 4 is the equivalent of a HNC and the Level 5 the equivalent of  a Foundation Degree.

Apprenticeships in Wales - Employer Benefits

There are a multitude of reasons why employers should seek to utilise the apprenticeship programme in Wales to develop their staff. These include:-

• Training that's tailored to your business so you have the skills your business need;
• Improved productivity and  competitiveness;
• A more committed, motivated and competent workforce that understands your business;
• Keep pace with the latest technology and working practices in your sector;
• Reduced training costs. Apprenticeships are fully funded so you pay nothing;
• Reduced staff turnover thanks to meaningful training and career progression.

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Team Building Video - The Wisdom of Geese

This is fascinating and certainly highlights very well why working together has so many benefits.If you are having to give advice on team building ideas then I'd recommend this video . Also for more information on our current team building ideas and offers click here to visit our website. You could get yourself a free iPad

Team Building Video - Good and Bad Examples of Team Building

This is an excellent video with animated clips illustrating the difference between good examples of teamworking and bad examples of teamworking.

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How To Make Stress Your Friend - Lessons for Advice & Guidance Practitioners

Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others.


TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more.

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Your Body Language Shapes Who We Are - Lessons for Advice & Guidnace Practitioners

Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how "power posing" -- standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don't feel confident -- can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain, and might even have an impact on our chances for success.


TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more.

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Advice & Guidance- Individuals Have Different Learning Styles

The Importance of Recognising Individuals Have Different Learning Styles

As an advice and guidnace practitioner it is importnat to undertsand that people have different learning styles. Not everyone you meet will learn, or prefer to learn, in the same way,. therefore you'll have to adapt your approach accordingly. What are these different learning styles. The easiest way of categorising them is as follows:-

Visual -           seeing and reading
Auditory -      listening and speaking
Kinesthetic  - touching and doing


The VAK (or VARK or VACT) learning styles model and related VAK/VARK/VACT tests (and for that matter the Multiple Intelligences concepts) offer reasonably simple and accessible methods to understand and explain people's preferred ways to learn.

The explanation and understanding of Gardner's Seven Intelligences can be illuminated and illustrated by looking at the classic intelligence and learning styles model, known as the Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic (or Kinaesthetic - either is correct) learning styles model or 'inventory', usually abbreviated to VAK. Alternatively the model is referred to as Visual-Auditory-Physical, or Visual-Auditory-Tactile/Kinesthetic. The VAK concept, theories and methods (initially also referred to as VAKT, for Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic-Tactile) were first developed by psychologists and teaching specialists such as Fernald, Keller, Orton, Gillingham, Stillman and Montessori, beginning in the 1920's.

The VAK multi-sensory approach to learning and teaching was originally concerned with the teaching of dyslexic children and other learners for whom conventional teaching methods were not effective. The early VAK specialists recognised that people learn in different ways: as a very simple example, a child who could not easily learn words and letters by reading (visually) might for instance learn more easily by tracing letter shapes with their finger (kinesthetic).

Extract taken from Business balls

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