Viewpoints & Articles

We enjoy analyzing and challenging the latest thinking in learning and development in a thought provoking, yet accessible manner. We explore talent development trends and discuss our thoughts and points of view on issues such as team work, collaboration, communication and other core skills required to work effectively in an international working environment.

The world of work is a dynamic and ever changing environment, which is constantly influenced by external circumstances, such as the global economy and political conditions. We seek to understand and provide clarity on how these factors impact day to day business practices, organizational cultures and needs, allowing us to advise on how these often challenging considerations can be harnessed to provide our clients with a competitive advantage.

Research is at the heart of what we do, we anticipate and forecast upcoming tendencies and topics in learning and development and best practices in talent development and global collaboration to allow us to provide the best service possible to our clients, whilst maintaining our reputation as trusted thought leaders in the marketplace.

We also use our Viewpoints to explain the reasoning and thought processes behind the models and theories that form the basis of our successful, popular training solutions and e-tools.

TMA World's Viewpoints

• Corporate Learning, Talent and HR Leadership Trends...What's Emerging in 2013?
• The Critical4 Capabilities for People Development in the Borderless Workplace
• Agile Approaches to Finding Talent
• Podcast: Making the best use of virtual team talent
• The Borderless Workplace: Three Trends shaping the Emerging Role of Corporate Learning and Development
• Digitally Resonant Leadership in the Borderless Workplace
• Reappraising the Collaborative Benefits of Social Media in the 'Borderless Workplace'
• Technology and Relationships: Four Principles
• Supporting Collaborative Advantage Relies on Excellent Virtual Leadership Capability
• What's Empathy Got To Do With It?
• SCARF: The brain and collaboration 
• There's doom and gloom and then there's the emerging markets
• The Zappos Experience
• Crowdsourcing
• Thoughts on Collaboration Strategy
• Building Global Alignment through Enterprise-wide Learning
• Managing Remote Workers: Ten Tips
• The Principles of Collaborative Global Teams in 10 Words or Less
• Virtual Problem Solving: Tips
• New Thinking on Developing Global Leaders
• Developing Talent in Emerging Markets
• Crisis = Opportunity: Leading Successfully in Turbulent Times
• Global Virtual Teams: Closing the Importance-Performance Gap
• How Can Leadership Development Initiatives Support Global Integration?
• Working Across Cultures: What Does It Take?
• 2020 Vision: Future Certainties and Uncertainties for Leaders
• Outsourcing Challenges in India
• Training for Smart Offshore Outsourcing
• Really Smart Offshore Outsourcing
• Groupstink! Sacred Cows, the CIA, and Your Organisation
• Taking Off the Mask: Cultural RISK and Virtual Teams
• Leading Virtual Teams: Ten Principles
• The Big 'Big Picture': Too Big and Too Slow
• It's All Talk! The Critical Art of Conversation
• Trends and HR: Getting in STEP
• Firing up the Global Brain: HR, People, and Technology
• The Challenge for E-Learning: Developing Managers to Execute Business Strategy
• Developing Global Brand Ambassadors
• Managerial Insights from a NASA Tragedy
• HR and the Execution Imperative