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How do you know if your organisational culture is effective? The truth is in the data

People teams have been breaking their backs over the last 18 months to ensure organisational culture hasn’t gone down the drain. But what’s been the point if you don’t know if you’ve succeeded or not? The pandemic has thrust People teams into centre stage and more is being demanded of People professionals than ever before. […]

How to get a job in HR (with or without experience)

If you love working with people and you’re a great problem solver, a career in HR or L&D could be right for you. But if you’re not sure where to start on the road to a fulfilling role in the people profession, we can help. Whether you have experience or not, read on for more […]

CIPD qualifications explained: How to get CIPD qualified

When it comes to getting the best kind of qualification in HR and L&D, the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) is the gold standard. But what is the CIPD, and how can it benefit your career in HR and L&D? Read on to learn about how to get a CIPD qualification and how […]

How to prepare for an HR interview, including potential interview questions

Especially in today’s competitive job market, securing an interview for an HR role is a big deal. It means, after initially viewing your LinkedIn profile or CV, the hiring manager was interested in you enough to dedicate more time to get to know you better. Whether you’ve already landed that coveted interview for an HR […]

How much can you earn in human resources? A guide to HR roles and salaries

A career in human resources can be a fantastic path to take if you love working with people and have a genuine interest in helping run a business well. But although HR jobs focus around the human element of a business, they require much more than just being personable. There’s a lot of planning, negotiation and analysis that goes into ensuring job success. But the rewards can be fantastic. Here’s what you can expect from a career in human resources and the average HR salary.

Agility jargon buster: Decoding the words we use to describe agile working

Agile working is top of mind for most businesses now. Especially since lots of organisations are still using a hybrid model, with teams both in and out of office, requiring extra flexibility and adaptability. At Avado, as we were working on launching our new Agility Academy earlier this year, we quickly realised that a lot […]

Learning tech capability in L&D could be holding it back

No matter your role on a learning and development team or the structure of your organisation, it’s important to consistently review and evaluate innovative technologies, tools, and trends to determine if they make sense for your organisation. Technology changes quickly, and if you don’t keep up, you’ll get left behind. Learning technologies (LT) do not […]

What is HR and why is it important?

Every organisation has three main resources: physical resources, financial resources and people. Sometimes, we forget about that third resource, but that’s a mistake. People are undoubtedly one of the most valuable assets a business has, and they need to have solid support to thrive and maximise their input. That’s where a human resources strategy comes […]

What are the 7 different learning styles and do they work?

You may have heard of the idea that we all respond best to different ways of learning. The seven learning styles is a theory that suggests people learn best in different ways. All the supposed styles tailor towards an individual strength, thought to help a person retain information more effectively. They all focus on one of the five senses or have a social aspect involved. This theory enjoyed significant popularity for a time as it was thought that by finding an individual learner’s style and tailoring teaching to it that their efficiency could be improved. The 7 styles of the theory are as follows: Visual Kinaesthetic Aural Social Solitary Verbal Logical However, more recent studies have debunked this theory as an ineffective way of teaching and highlighted it as a ‘neuromyth’. This Guardian article states, ‘Such neuromyths create a false impression of individuals’ abilities, leading to expectations and excuses that are detrimental to learning in general, which is a cost in the long term.’ In other words, attempting to put learners into boxes and trying to only give them material that matches their “style” isn’t going to make them retain information any better. Most people benefit from a range of teaching techniques, and utilising different learning methods can actually improve learners’ adaptability. Nevertheless, it’s certainly true that there are a variety of learning methods which people respond to. So, just for fun, we’ve produced 7 different explanations of the 7 styles, each using techniques that learners of that style should supposedly find the most useful. Have a look through each one: do you find them all equally engaging? Is there one (or more) that prefer above the others? Maybe you have your own learning techniques that aren’t even covered by any of the “learning styles”! Or perhaps you find one style more useful for this exercise, but when learning German verbs or mathematical formulae you know you prefer another? How effectively we learn isn’t just affected by the medium, but the content too. While the 7 styles theory isn’t going to give you your one definitive style, you might still pick up a few useful techniques for the next time you have to do a spot of revising!   

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