Driving Climate Change
Small businesses can significantly reduce their carbon footprint through flexible and remote working arrangements. By enabling most staff to work from home, Trainers’ Library cut commuting to just ten miles daily while maintaining productivity and gaining business benefits like expanded recruitment reach and better customer service across time zones.
Strategy Creates Conflict
Most businesses lack a true strategy because the future is uncertain and conditions change constantly. Strategy creates conflict as organizations must decide how to move forward despite incomplete information, forcing difficult choices about direction and timing.
The Most Dangerous Coaching Question
The self-help industry’s central question “What do you want?” actually prevents you from achieving your goals by creating addiction to desire rather than action. This question presupposes you lack what you want and focuses on the end state (“having”) rather than the specific steps needed to get there, leaving you stuck in imagination without taking real action today.
Raising Awareness – with Granny’s Mixing Bowl!
Raising awareness of existing behaviors often motivates people to change more effectively than imposing solutions. Experiential learning activities that highlight beliefs and behaviors encourage participants to identify their own improvements and embrace change enthusiastically.
Three workplace trends employers need to action
Employers must address three emerging workplace trends: prioritizing employee recognition, shifting from monetary rewards to flexibility perks, and fostering meaningful engagement to attract and retain younger workers in today’s competitive job market.
The psychology of change: how companies should approach transformation
Successful organizational transformation requires psychological insight into how employees experience change. Since 70% of change initiatives fail due to lack of buy-in and unclear vision, leaders must understand their teams’ perspectives and demonstrate how changes benefit them to drive adoption and overcome resistance.
How to create participant buzz around your learning
Building participant enthusiasm is essential for training success. Learn eight proven communication strategies to create buzz around your learning programs, from clarifying the “why” to helping learners understand personal relevance and emotional benefits.
Digital transformation: how to help your people navigate through uncharted territory
Digital transformation extends far beyond technology—it requires supporting your people through change. Learn how to assess skills gaps, develop your team’s capabilities, and create a multidisciplinary workforce that can navigate the evolving digital landscape successfully.
Developing female leaders: where are we going wrong?
Women make up nearly half the workforce yet hold just 24% of senior leadership roles globally. Key obstacles include self-limiting beliefs, lack of confidence, and insufficient organizational support for female leadership development—despite women being equally ambitious as men.
Digital transformation: taking your first steps doesn’t have to be scary
Many organizations hesitate to begin digital transformation, but taking your first steps doesn’t require fear. Start by clarifying your vision, setting achievable short-term goals, and focusing on low-risk changes that deliver immediate results.
Overcoming the training transfer problem by adopting a performance-centric mindset
Training transfer—how effectively learning is applied in the workplace—remains a persistent challenge for L&D teams despite decades of research and numerous methodologies. A performance-centric approach that better integrates learning within actual work environments may be more effective than focusing solely on measuring transfer outcomes.
Power to the people: creating a learning culture to reach every learner
Building an effective learning culture requires organizations to adopt flexible, technology-enabled training programs that accommodate different learning preferences across generations. As automation and AI reshape the workplace, companies must upskill employees strategically or risk talent loss and competitive disadvantage in a rapidly evolving workforce.
Resilience in Uncertain Times
Resilience is shaped by both workplace and personal circumstances. When uncertainty extends beyond professional life, it becomes harder to maintain determination and vision. Organizations should equip teams with resilience skills and provide clear shared goals to help people navigate change more effectively.
Dodging Real Learning
Training often fails to create authentic, lasting change when learners don’t genuinely believe in its value. Like dodgem car drivers who “accidentally” ignore safety rules, people can master appearing compliant while avoiding real behavioral change—a pattern evident in initiatives like Equal Opportunities training that merely gloss over ingrained prejudices.
Should we be talking about a learning culture or a business improvement culture?
L&D professionals should consider reframing “learning culture” as “business improvement culture” to better align with organizational goals and demonstrate tangible value. This shift in language may help L&D move beyond proving ROI and instead focus on delivering measurable results through improved knowledge, skills, and competence.
Learning culture: the wake up call we all need
Most organisations are far from developing a high-performance learning culture, yet building one is essential for navigating today’s complexities. Learning professionals can begin this transformation by securing leadership support and fostering workplace environments where staff feel safe sharing knowledge and admitting mistakes.
Learning culture: why evidence-based L&D is more successful
Evidence-based L&D that focuses on critical business problems is significantly more successful than reactive approaches. Only one in five organizations build high-performing learning cultures, but those that do see substantial improvements in engagement and performance through data-driven decision-making and clear measurement of outcomes.
The Lady in the Boat
A chance encounter with a 92-year-old woman who survived Nazi Germany and built a successful medical career illustrates how mental strength, resilience, and determination—not age or circumstances—determine success and enable people to achieve their potential.
From learning and development to performance and capability: making the shift
L&D professionals must shift focus from traditional training to performance and capability development to deliver real business value. While organizations increasingly invest in L&D capabilities, most lack the resources and expertise to move beyond course-based learning and address actual workplace performance demands.
Having learning impact, not just showing it
Learning functions should focus on creating conditions for actual impact rather than just measuring courses and completion rates. Research shows organizations struggle with outdated measurement strategies that ignore informal learning and fail to account for how development happens across the workplace.