Insights

September 8, 2022 Events

Saffron Interactive spotlights work of local communities with ERSA Employability Awards partnership

Saffron continues mission to support advisors and the disadvantaged individuals they support in achieving sustainable and rewarding careers, with sponsorship of the ‘Community Partnership of the Year’ category at the 2022 ERSA Employability Awards. During another turbulent year, the employment support sector has been grappling with a variable and unstable labour market, alongside changeable and […]

August 17, 2022 Bespoke learning content

Saffron Interactive secures record breaking 15th consecutive year of LPI accreditation as Learning Technologies provider

Saffron celebrates a continued reputation of excellence with their crystal anniversary of accreditation, as approved Learning Technologies Provider from the LPI (Learning and Performance Institute). As the first and only learning technologies provider to have received 15 consecutive accreditations from the LPI, Saffron celebrates this prestigious accolade. The accreditation programme independently assesses and endorses a […]

August 11, 2022 Blogs

Power skills for power businesses

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation are replacing many time demanding and repetitive yet simple tasks previously done by paid employees. The good news – for the business, at least – is that this can remove the need to recruit people with all the necessary hard skills. The even better news is that these systematisations […]

July 19, 2022 Blogs

The Restart scheme, one year in: retrospective insight into experience ‘at the coalface’

  One year ago… Organisations opened their doors to the Government’s much-anticipated Restart employability support scheme and the first referrals entered. However even before the scheme began, the changing state of the economy and unpredictable labour market rendered it, if not redundant, then its impact significantly diminished. With much written and debated about the scheme […]

July 14, 2022 Blogs

The (learning) culture catch: why achieving L&Ds top priority is such a challenge

Embedding learning culture at an organisational level The list of the “Top 5 challenges for L&D leaders” for 2022, was just published by the LPI. Compiling feedback from learning leaders and examining over 10,000 individual challenges the sector faces, this year the report identified the second major difficulty as ‘creating an organisational learning culture’. Additionally, […]

June 29, 2022 News

Samaritans and Saffron Interactive recognised for exceptional use of mobile learning at 2022 International E-Learning Awards

Samaritans and Saffron Interactive’s partnership on the pioneering Samaritans Veterans App has been awarded the Bronze ribbon for ‘Mobile learning experience’ in the International E-Learning Association’s annual awards. Launched as part of a wider Samaritans and Ministry of Defence programme, the free Samaritans Veterans App uses mobile learning to help Service Leavers and Veterans develop […]

June 28, 2022 Blogs

Solving the data puzzle: delivering performance impact with your learning

A recent study by The Learning and Performance Institute found that measuring ROI and learning impact is one of the top five challenges faced by learning and development leaders. But why does it matter and why is it such a challenge? In early 2020 Covid-19 tore up the rulebook and thrust HR and L&D into […]

March 3, 2022 Blogs

The missing link in your skills strategy: upskilling vs. recruiting

Understanding the current landscape and where the missing links are within your organisation is just step one in traversing the ever-widening skills gap. But hopefully, you’re one of the lucky ones who’s read part one of this blog series. And if you are, you’ll be up to scratch on where your organisation could be falling […]

March 2, 2022 News

Saffron Interactive strike gold with AI coaching innovation at Learning Awards

Saffron Interactive continue to cement leadership within learning and development after being awarded Gold in the ‘Learning Technologies’ category at the 2022 Learning Awards. This prestigious industry award recognises Saffron’s AI-enabled coaching and employability support platform, Create Your Own Future. The success at this event forms the most recent in a hat-trick of awards recognition […]

February 10, 2022 Blogs

The Skills Sahara: Why your talent pool is drying up

It’s almost become a cliché through its repetition to the point of fatigue, but it is an unavoidable fact that over 50% of companies state that they cannot find the skills they are looking for – almost double what it was a decade ago. Further still, with reskilling and upskilling remaining the firm favourite in […]

November 30, 2021 News

Saffron Interactive recognised for ground-breaking innovation with Learning Technologies award

Saffron Interactive have been awarded Bronze in the ‘Most innovative new learning technologies product’ category at this year’s Learning Technologies Awards, for their ground-breaking employment support platform, Create Your Own Future. Create Your Own Future was initially developed to support those whose jobs were most at risk of digital disruption, as part of a Nesta […]

November 25, 2021 Blogs

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