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At Avado, we believe in unlocking potential and changing lives. Learning with us makes real, lasting change happen for individuals, and entire organisations. Through our connected learning experiences in Data, Marketing, People, and Agility, we can help you drive real change.

Going beyond just technical skills, our award-winning programmes help teams find success in an ever-evolving world. With a strong emphasis on the behavioural and mindset shifts needed to embed new capabilities, we’ll work together to develop leaders, teams and individuals through interactive learning experiences.

How a combination of skilled people and AI will shape tech and telecoms

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Machines will undertake more tasks than humans by 2025, compared to 71 per cent being performed by humans in 2018. Although this finding, from the World Economic Forum, might seem scary, the good news is that the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) could create 58 million ‘net’ new jobs. But if you’re in the tech [...]
Workforces key to capitalising on the data deluge

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‘Next slide, please…’: who would have thought, in the pre-pandemic era, that data presentations from health experts would come to take such a significant role in our daily routines? Or that ‘data, not dates’ would become such a well-known slogan? For as long as the pandemic is sadly with us, we can expect data’s unprecedented [...]
Is learning tech capability in L&D holding it back?

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No matter your role on the learning and development team or the makeup of your organisation, it is important to consistently review and evaluate innovative technologies, tools, and trends to see if they make sense for your organisation. Technology changes rapidly, and if you do not keep up, you will be left behind. Learning technologies [...]

Interested in data? Seize your chance to ‘challenge and champion’ the agenda

November 15, 2021 | City Talk

Is your organisation excited or concerned about the possibilities of data? Most likely both sentiments apply. Amid the growing regulatory and corporate attention and activity focused on data, it’s difficult to keep track of what is essential for organisations to be aware of (legally) but also the emerging themes that policymakers, businesses and civil society [...]
Why diversity and inclusion is essential for every marketer

November 11, 2021 | City Talk

According to a 2019 survey from Google and The Female Quotient, after seeing what they thought was genuine diversity and inclusion in an ad campaign, 64% of consumers took action. That’s a clear sign that focusing on diversity and inclusion is not only the right thing to do, but also the smart thing to do. [...]
Why you need to train your staff to be cyber safe

October 26, 2021 | City Talk

One of the challenges facing businesses in the post-pandemic era is how to ensure remote workers can safely access the corporate network without creating a cybersecurity risk. Allowing employees to use personal devices or insecure home wi-fi connections to access sensitive company data creates potential weak spots for unscrupulous cyber criminals to target. In fact, [...]
Skills in the City: financial services sector looks to the future

October 18, 2021 | City Talk

To what extent should organisations that compete fiercely to attract new recruits (and for business overall) be collaborating when it comes to enhancing their workforces’ skillsets? It’s tricky to imagine many of the Square Mile’s biggest names freely sharing their training programmes outside their own four walls. ‘Sure, we’ll just send you what we do [...]
Digital data skills’ significance on the rise for UK Plc

September 13, 2021 | City Talk

Data loss. Hacking threats. Legal compliance. As the volume of digital data gathered by organisations grows, so do the risks and challenges. But the insights enabled by data analysis also create exciting new possibilities for the corporate world and society at large, as reflected in the UK’s ‘National Data Strategy’. The strategy, which was unveiled [...]
Life sciences sector alert to evolving skills challenge

August 16, 2021 | City Talk

‘We stand on the cusp of an era of cures, in which new technologies make previously terminal diseases treatable or curable’: so states the UK ‘Life Sciences Vision’, which outlines a 10-year strategy for the sector.The vision, unveiled last month, states that life sciences will be one of the great drivers of growth in the [...]
How to build the best digital marketing team

August 12, 2021 | City Talk

No matter the size of your organisation, it’s increasingly important to have a strong digital marketing strategy. And finding the right people to create and effectively execute that strategy is key. But where to start, especially if your marketing team is a team of just a few people or even no one at all? Here [...]
How upskilling your HR team can help you overcome challenges

August 9, 2021 | City Talk

Through the challenges of the last year and a half, HR teams have arguably never faced this much pressure. Back in early 2020, more than half of HR professionals were already reporting that their organisations were hiring less. They were also spending less on contract workers and redirecting spending to support their existing teams. That [...]

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