Fill out our 5 minute Hybrid Working survey to claim your voucher. What impact has hybrid working had on your company? Over the last two years, companies have reinvented themselves and adapted quickly to workplace changes. Has your business been impacted by Hybrid Working? Leaders had to understand how best to manage their teams, balancing…

Before 2020, hybrid working was a phrase rarely used and a term many people wouldn’t have heard before. However, this has now become a commonly used phrase for a lot of companies, so what is hybrid working? A hybrid way of working is a flexible working model. This way of working combines employees working part of…

By Matt McIntyre Organisations are finding that since working from home along with a more modern outspoken world their culture is quickly changing. With many people being more outspoken about their feelings around the working environment, it is good for organisations to take a step back and look at how they can train their leaders…

Things to consider when transitioning to remote learning Anyone in learning and development will realise that there has been a very slow move towards learners learning remotely, whether online or offline, in earnest since the early 1990’s. One of the earliest topic or category areas to embrace remote learning methodology, generally eLearning, was compliance training…

What impact does it have on people and social interactions? There is no doubt that the pandemic accelerated change in working practices and although many companies, particularly those with an international workforce, were already functioning successfully in the hybrid dimension, there were many, many more where the topic of flexible or hybrid working had not…

Due to the rapid rise of COVID-19 infections in the UK, at 8pm on Monday the 23rd of March 2020 the British Prime Minister ordered a national lockdown. Similar instructions came from many leaders around the world and soon a high percentage of the global workforce was finding for the first time that they were…

Principal Learning Consultant This position will be home-based with regular travel as businesses open back up. OnTrack International currently seeks a Principal Consultant. The successful individual will have the pleasure of working with our impressive client list to solve complex challenges through people development strategies. It’s important to note that our Principal Consultants are not…

As Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour at INSEAD, Mark Mortensen observed… “We have a tendency to overcompensate and approach remote workers and virtual teams as these mythical beasts. You shouldn’t think about them in a fundamentally different way. They are still people working in an organisation trying to get stuff done. Treat them as such.”…

Anyone involved in leading people over the last 15 months will have experienced a steep learning curve. Managers and HR alike have had to learn and deal with many new terms such as furlough, hybrid teams and virtual learning. They have also needed to understand how to manage not only their own mental health but…

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) – a week that is aimed at creating awareness around mental health and providing opportunities for individuals to talk openly about all aspects of mental health. With this, Becky Vint has opened up about her mental health and what she has learnt about herself during the Covid-19…

This week marks the beginning of Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) – a week that is aimed at creating awareness around metal health and providing opportunities for individuals to talk openly about all aspects of mental health. With this, Andy McKay – OnTrack’s International own Instructional Designer has opened up about his metal health and what he has learnt about…

Although people have been talking about hybrid teams for many years the references to it were few and far between. The last year has changed that remarkably quickly with managing hybrid teams being on the tip of many people’s tongues. Many businesses have been really surprised by how successful remote working has been. They are also…

With the sudden rise in remote working due to Covid-19 you may have found it is more difficult to carry out your usual corporate training sessions. However, it need not be difficult! With flexible live online learning, you can access a great, interactive approach to train your staff both old and new. Here are 5…

At one time or another you will have had to undertake the dreaded compliance training, faced with the eLearning module that when you click on to the landing page the enormity of the task is revealed. It describes your 60-minute learning journey with a 30 question knowledge check in which you must gain 90%.  You…

Imagine, if you will, that you want to share a message with your team. You’re successful. You’re confident. You’re comfortable speaking in front of hundreds. You’ve done all the courses on generating presence and successful verbal delivery mechanisms. Hell, you might even be so bold as to say that you’re popular. People just naturally listen…

From everyone in the global OnTrack family, we would like to wish all of our clients and partners a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.  We have all experienced a tumultuous year in 2020, typically OnTrack would send gifts and cards to our clients and partners at this time of the year. Due to…

Learning and Development has changed exponentially over the last few years largely due to the advancement of the internet. 2020 has been no different….if anything the change has accelerated. 2021 will bring its own challenges to the world of Learning and Development, new ways of learning and new subjects being required. Below are some of…

As remote working has become the norm for the foreseeable future, more and more companies are diving deep into virtual meetings over platforms such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Video conferencing platforms have seen a staggering increase in users since the start of lockdown. According to a recent report, Zoom has seen 200 million daily…

Following on from our successful “Big Conversation” webinars through the summer months on the impact of COVID on learning, we have decided to continue the series. This time we are focussing on the future of talent recruitment and onboarding, how it is changing, and if the changes are addressing the challenges businesses are really facing?…

OnTrack has been leading strategic team meetings on our clients’ behalf for decades, and over that time we have developed many engaging ways to help senior leadership teams make decisions and plan to: Create and deliver strategies Increase engagement Respond to business challenges Work better as a leadership team Align around strategic cross-team or function…

For many, the thought of completing Performance Management activities was daunting enough when they were in the same location as their team members. It seems to have been made more daunting by the effects of COVID-19. At OnTrack, we have identified the seven core factors of performance and share them with you, together with a…

As the second wave sweeps across Europe, we look at how you equip for being in lockdown for extended periods. Our clients are looking for ways in which to support colleagues through the existing restrictions we face, and how to prepare for what may lay ahead. OnTrack turned to people with experience in this area,…

Are you a Digital Learning Consultant with experience in creating innovative blended solutions? If so, we have a fantastic opportunity to work with us, an award-winning global learning consultancy. You will be conducting scoping sessions with clients and challenging their briefs, as well as designing and project managing the blended learning solutions. To learn more or…

The last in our trilogy of “Big Conversations” will take place Wednesday 29 July midday (Eastern Time US and Canada). Your host for the session will be Kendra Young, Talent Development, Onboarding & Colleague Experience at Barclaycard International. The discussion is free to join and is a fantastic opportunity for some of the greatest minds…

We are delighted to announce globally recognised L&D expert and author, Nigel Jeremy as our guest speaker for the OnTrack Big Conversation sessions happening across the globe over June and July. Nigel has enjoyed a stellar career across some of the world’s biggest brands including British Airways, Marks and Spencer, HBOS, Vodafone and EasyJet. Each…

For years OnTrack has been a leader on addressing critical topics to the learning industry, such as gender balance, technology advancement, and learning as a strategic business function, pulling regional and global learning leaders from some of the largest and most successful organisations in the world together to discuss and learn from each other. We…

A major global financial organisation, which provides commercial banking services for every size of enterprise from sole traders up to large corporates, was keen to increase levels of employee engagement. They approached a number of Learning and Development Consultancies and asked them to share ideas on how they would create an engaging environment that would…

The human handshake is believed to date back to the 5th Century B.C in Greece. It’s the globally recognised signal when greeting another person or saying goodbye. Historically the handclasp demonstrated that no weapons were held in the hand, the shaking of the hand showed that the other party had nothing literally ‘up their sleeve’.…

As many people will have this change forced upon them with the Coronavirus and subsequent restrictions, I thought it may be useful to share my experience from making the same transition years ago so others can adapt quicker than I did. You will find the following Tips and a further explanation in the PDF; “Where…

All of a sudden, remote working has become a reality for so many thanks to COVID-19. These are stressful times for leaders and everyone in the global population with national borders being locked down, travel being impacted, empty stadiums and sports seasons cancelled and daily life changing rapidly. Though technology can be fantastic – it…