2025 Culture Pioneer Awards: Entry period opens!
Calling all L&D professionals and advocates of learning cultures! The 2025 Culture Pioneer Awards are here, presenting you with an opportunity to showcase your success and inspire positive change within the workplace.
A practical guide to learning cultures: The Capex formula
Looking for a practical guide to building a learning culture? You’ve come to the right place. Head of People and Culture, Dani Saadu, introduces the Capex formula and its application in fostering a culture of continuous development.
Onboarding: How Hertfordshire County Council sets new hires up for success
Did you know that up to 20% of new hires leave their job within the first 45 days? This costly turnover is often preventable – and one of the most powerful solutions is effective onboarding. Here, Aglaia Economou shares best practices from Hertfordshire County Council’s structured onboarding approach.
Behaviour change lessons from the world of health and fitness
TrainingZone columnist Jackie Clifford examines four behaviour change lessons from the fitness world that can be translated for use in our organisations.
Breaking down barriers: Accessibility in learning and development
For National Inclusion Week 2024, Founder of Accessible Me, Mike Osborne, explores the importance of accessibility in learning design and training delivery.
It is leaders now, not departments that must provide L&D
Leaders should not rely so much on the learning and development department to build skills, says coaching expert Matt Somers.
2024 Culture Pioneer Awards finalists announced
Announcement alert! This year’s Culture Pioneer Awards shortlist is out now…
Enhancing the brand of L&D
Paul Matthews explores what people say about L&D when the professionals have left the room. And what to do about it…
Is your L&D team playing on ‘defence’ or ‘offence’?
By reflecting on and challenging the priorities that currently inform your L&D goals and strategies, you can enable and accelerate significant change.
How to embrace innovation as a Chief Learning Officer
Chief Learning Officers today will fail if they do not wholeheartedly embrace innovation and step away from the comfort of traditional training approaches. Cathy Hoy, CEO of CLO100, outlines four foundations to successful innovation in L&D.
Four workplace culture trends observed in 240 progressive organisations
From analysing the activities of 240 people-first organisations, HRZone’s Culture Pioneers campaign reveals four workplace culture trends to pay attention to. As a media partner for the campaign, TrainingZone examines these trends and offers key takeaways for L&D professionals.
Is our learning world really changing?
In the learning industry, there’s a gap between L&D programmes and their impacts that needs to be closed. But how? We need to do more to be led by the needs of each person and be clear on purpose and expectations. We need to act as true agents of change.
A learning industry that doesn’t know how to learn? How did we get here?
Who taught you how to learn? Did anyone? Let’s face it: we can’t know what we haven’t been taught. Maybe we need to wave the white flag of not knowing and, finally, begin to learn.
How to help your managers create psychologically safe workplaces
Ang Brennan, Head of Learning and Talent at Insights, explains how, by upskilling managers, we can create psychologically safe workplace environments that catalyse learning and innovation.
Five deep listening skills to help navigate workplace conflict
The importance of strong listening skills when dealing with conflict is often overlooked and misunderstood. Help your learners become better listeners with these five deep listening skills.
Rethinking learning culture: Is it enough for business-savvy L&D teams?
There’s a lot of confusion over what a learning culture actually is and whether it is a helpful term for business-savvy L&D teams. Is it the key to a high-performing organisation or another buzzword to ignore?
The future-focused CLO: Building capabilities for tomorrow
As technology and global markets are evolving, so too is the role of CLO. This article explores the pivotal role CLOs play in steering their organisations towards future success, focusing on the skills and strategies that will define the next generation of L&D leadership.
Five ways managers can improve development conversations
Creating developmental opportunities helps meet the desire for growth and keeps people motivated.
Communicating the value of L&D
What is the true value of L&D on performance and how do we measure this impact? Focusing L&D activities on measurable performance improvement is the key.
Why we need to deal with conflict and how to do it through training
Training staff to accept, acknowledge and actively manage conflict rather than ignore it, can turn potential loss into added value and create harmony.
