How can you create a culture of hungry learners? Adopt a marketing mindset
Creating a learning culture attracts and retains talent while aligning employee development with business goals. By adopting a marketing mindset, L&D departments can build “pull” learning cultures where employees actively seek out learning solutions and engage more deeply with development opportunities.
Elearning: Is that how YOU learn?
elearning struggles with employee engagement despite numerous tactics like gamification and animations. Research shows most workers prefer web-search and informal online learning over traditional elearning courses to gain job-relevant knowledge and skills.
How to make my training program mandatory?
Make training programs mandatory by establishing clear consequences tied to completion, such as withholding grades or access to resources. Effective approaches include offering certificates, linking training to performance reviews, requiring prerequisite completion, and having conversations with non-participants about barriers. Scheduling dedicated training time helps ensure consistent participation and completion.
Promoting employee wellbeing
Employee mental health is now a boardroom priority for two-thirds of UK businesses, yet 57% are unsure how to provide effective support. Organisations can promote wellbeing through flexible working arrangements, targeted training, and individualised solutions that address underlying causes of stress.
How to turn digital learning content into revenue
Discover five proven strategies to monetize your digital learning content, from selling premium materials and certification programs to using content to drive sales of other products, reduce costs, generate advertising revenue, or build a loyal community around your expertise.
Change is Emotional
Change happens when people emotionally connect with stories and feel motivated to take action, not when they simply receive facts. Effective training uses emotionally engaging narratives to inspire the behavioral shifts needed for genuine transformation, whether addressing global issues or workplace challenges.
Risk is a state of mind
Leadership success comes down to building risk awareness rather than imposing control. By helping employees understand potential consequences through training and a holistic organizational view, you transform them from liabilities into advocates who protect reputation and drive growth.
Use learning as a perk and see your people and your business grow
Offering learning opportunities as employee rewards can build a strong learning culture while attracting and retaining talent. By making training, coaching, and professional development part of your recognition strategy rather than keeping it siloed within HR, you empower employees to grow while addressing future skills gaps.
Is L&D forgetting about the learner?
L&D departments risk losing sight of learners’ human needs while pursuing business metrics and stakeholder alignment. The article calls for L&D professionals to reconnect with employees by directly asking what they think and feel about learning solutions, rather than assuming engagement based on program design alone.
How To Turn Your Employees Into Brand Ambassadors
Transform your employees into authentic brand ambassadors by fostering genuine enthusiasm and pride in your company. This requires establishing a clear brand identity, communicating it effectively to your team, and creating a positive workplace culture where employees actually enjoy working.
Taking the pledge on gender diversity
Over 160 financial services companies have signed the Women in Finance Charter, committing to gender balance across all organizational levels. True diversity requires more than signatures—it demands organizational change in training methods, working practices, and leadership commitment to flexible, inclusive policies.
“But it’s different here!”: Helping learners to embrace the new
Help learners overcome resistance to new ideas by presenting concepts with humility and neutrality rather than as absolute solutions. Creating psychologically safe spaces allows employees to examine innovations objectively without feeling their existing knowledge or organizational identity is being attacked.
How to enhance training and development аt work
Enhance workplace training effectiveness by preparing employees beforehand, establishing support systems, and clearly communicating how programs address skill gaps. Proper preparation and context-setting ensure employees understand the training’s value and are more likely to apply what they learn to their roles.
In a leader’s world, let’s champion the manager
The trend of championing “leadership” over “management” overlooks a critical truth: effective managers are essential to organizational success. Research shows managers drive employee engagement and performance, making their role irreplaceable despite being undervalued in modern business culture.
The Best Ways to Avoid Burnout At Work
Burnout affects workers across all industries, but you can reduce your risk through practical strategies like setting realistic goals, improving your workspace, and identifying which type of burnout you’re experiencing. Learn evidence-based approaches to increase productivity and workplace fulfillment while protecting your mental and physical health.
Ulrich Boser: The 10 commandments of ‘learning to learn’
Educational journalist Ulrich Boser outlines 10 principles for effective learning, challenging conventional wisdom that relies on memorization. His approach emphasizes active engagement, retrieval practice, feedback, and strategic spacing of learning to improve retention and mastery.
Pensions: Is your best and most costly employee benefit your least appreciated?
Pension benefits are often an employer’s most costly offering yet remain underappreciated by employees. Recent government research shows 12 million workers undervalue pension savings, highlighting the need for employers to improve engagement strategies through clear, visually appealing communication and face-to-face interaction to boost adoption and employee satisfaction.
How to include the whole team in your company blog
Expand your company blog beyond executive announcements by involving your entire team. Including staff voices improves content quality, boosts employee motivation and retention, and establishes individual team members as industry experts through case studies and guest posts.
Why video is your saving grace in 2018
Video has become essential for L&D in 2018, with research showing that short videos under 90 seconds retain 53% of viewers compared to only 10% for videos over 30 minutes. Organizations should embrace microlearning video formats to improve consistency, drive engagement, and meet learners’ growing demand for on-demand, mobile-friendly content.
Starting Every Session with Fresh Energy
Teachers and trainers often struggle with burnout and carrying stress into sessions. Meditation and creative approaches to basic concepts can help you start each day with fresh energy and bring genuine enthusiasm to your trainees, even when facing difficult personal circumstances.