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2005 is the 20 th Anniversary year of Rhema Group, one of the UK’s leading, well-established and respected providers of customised blended learning solutions via e-learning, consultancy, training, coaching, diagnostics and online resources.

To celebrate, and to offer our contacts a source of information and ideas relevant to HR development we are launching The Eye newsletter. We will produce it regularly, keeping you up to date with the (sometimes surprising) variety of interesting work being done across the whole area of people development. Every quarter The Eye will describe and explore good ideas - from the viewpoint of an intelligent, totally professional HR development provider.

……and a quick look back at 20 years in the people development business

Rhema launched in 1985 when the UK economy was booming, growth was to be seen everywhere and there was a feeling of unbridled optimism.

Training, almost all of it instructor led, was used to underpin the growth of organisations and their quest for competitive advantage in an increasingly deregulated and de-unionised environment. Those were the days!

Twenty years on, life could not be more different. Change is a constant, uncertainty the norm, and flexibility the key. Little wonder that the HR development world contains a bigger mix than ever of potential solutions including conventional training programmes, coaching, E-learning, on-line diagnostics and assessments and a host of personal development resources.

Rhema has grown stronger over the years by re-inventing itself – many times. We are now a true one-stop-shop of human resource development resources capable of being delivered globally 24/7. We can deliver blended solutions, highly customised to our clients' needs anywhere in the world at any time and we believe we are in touch with the realities of today.

We look forward to another 20 years of helping people to develop and realise their full potential.



Managing Director

The Eye is not your usual marketing-led newsletter

This very compact publication is an ideas and information source for busy HR managers. It will look at what is being done in UK organisations of all sizes, and in international and multinational companies which want learning and development programmes of uniform content and standard rolled out for managers and employees across continents or the globe.

Current best practice in human resource development is changing constantly. Companies have very good ideas about that: they want an intelligent, totally professional, cost effective response from HR development providers, to turn these ideas into programmes which put their people in a position to maintain commercial competitive edge.

The Eye is backed up by the Rhema Group website which offers more detail on a range of topics. And the website itself is developing to give direct access to Rhema expertise and products - including course materials and thought-provoking topical bulletins. These will be in the Trainers’ Library which will be launched early next year.

Readers can participate in our Big Question Poll on-line. Not a long questionnaire demanding time, but a single relevant question which tests the view of in-house HR and training professionals on a current topic. This month the topic is the Learning and Development Activities Blend. Results will be published in the next issue.

And there will be regular Eye offers, such as free information sheets and low-cost half-day seminars.