Training & Development e-Books
The Business Learning Foundation acquired its own publishing branch in 2012 called Pansophix. The Pansophix Useful Guides are a fantastic range of soft skills and personal development e-Books, packed full of tips, advice, exercises and toolkits.
They can be downloaded individually or you could choose to build your own library and make these resources available to your entire organisation with unlimited downloads. Whether you are wishing to develop new skills, find a new way of learning at your own pace or provide some additional learning material for your staff the Useful Guides will not disappoint. Many of our clients use the Useful Guides as an additional resource to support any face to face training, and the download figures to help them with their training needs analysis.
With an ever growing library of publications to choose from to offer your workforce, we continue to commission passionate authors with significant business experience to write about their specialist topics, with Guides available on issues such as health & safety, management training, business coaching, personal development, and many more.
Useful Guides
Please click on a title below to find out more about each Useful Guide:
"With over 2,000 downloads to date we have found our Useful Guide Library an excellent training resource for our staff. The Useful Guides are practical, well written and reinforce the learning through exercises, relevant web links and online questionnaires. We recommend them highly!"David Kirby
Learning and Development Manager, Alstom Grid
"The Pansophix Useful Guides have been a terrific find for us at the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education and have helped fill a void for our users in many areas of personal development and management and leadership."
The Useful Guides are written in a relaxed yet informative style which makes them easy and enjoyable to read and are full of useful tools and interactivity to help you apply new skills and techniques to day to day life."Lesley Grimes
Senior Pharmacist - Learning Development, Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education
"Excellent value for money. We have recommended this product to other Higher Education institutions in the area via the North East Staff Development Network."Mark Crabtree
Assistant HR Director (Training & Development), Durham University
"Lancaster University has been using the Pansophix Guides and support for over two years as part of our staff development provision. We use them in a number of ways: as recommended back-up further reading for in-house workshops and programmes, as an alternative to course attendance, and as individually-accessible development where there is no in-house or departmental provision immediately available.
Lancaster has in place an annual performance and development review process for all staff, and the Guides provide both the means to explore development options and access to support for particular development needs.
Users have commented favourably on the ease of access to the materials and the broad range of coverage. With over 1,750 downloads so far, Lancaster staff have made good use of this provision. From the institutional point of view, this provides a relatively low-cost and useful adjunct to our staff development programme."Joe Thornberry
Organisation and Educational Development, Lancaster University
"Our Pansophix Useful Guide Library enables us to provide high quality learning materials to a very dispersed workforce in a timely and cost effective way. It has been an important element in the development of a Learning Culture and in the promotion of self-directed learning.
Each year we have reviewed which workbooks we include in our library so that we have available those which best meet staff and business needs. This flexibility, coupled with the Pansophix commitment to continually increase the range of titles, means that the Useful Guide Library subscription continues to be excellent value for us."Graham Clark
East Midlands Workforce Development Manager, Rethink Mental Illness
Useful Guide Library Subscription
All Useful Guides are also available via an annual unlimited user licence in the form of a Useful Guide Library subscription. This allows you to make the Useful Guides available to all of your employees as part of their training and development resources.
There are currently over 80 Useful Guides available to choose from, covering a variety of different topics and issues including personal development, management and leadership skills, communication, health & well-being and productivity to name just a few.
Your unique Useful Guide Library will be a dedicated portal accessed by secure username and password login, and a download tracker for monitoring the number of Guides downloaded since the start of your subscription. Library and download tracker setup is included in the cost of the subscription.
Platinum Package
Unlimited downloads for: