How ‘colleague AI’ can help L&D on assessments, skills and metrics
Meet your new digital team mate, AI, who has come on board to help you tackle your knottiest L&D problems. We’re not far off from this reality, says Lior Locher and Liz Naylor, senior learning consultants at NIIT. Here, they outline three emerging AI capabilities to watch and explore.
Your guide to adopting a learning transfer mindset
Successful learning transfer depends on a mindset that permeates the entire learning programme – from design through delivery to the end game. Here, Paul Matthews, CEO of People Alchemy, shares a helpful guide to developing this learning transfer mindset that achieves business outcomes.
10 ways L&D perfectionists can avoid self-sabotage
L&D professionals need to remember that being ‘good enough’ is good enough.
The business impact of L&D: How to prove your value to senior leaders
The business impact of L&D is no longer a topic for debate – it’s a priority for senior leaders across industries. With pressure mounting to show ROI, Aisling MacNamara of LearnUpon shares actionable insights on how to bridge the gap between learning initiatives and measurable business outcomes.
Your six-step L&D guide to delivering impact and value
To make a genuine business impact, L&D teams must look beyond much-loved vanity metrics and assess behaviour changes required to support the organisation-wide strategy. Here, L&D expert Robin Hoyle offers a six-step guide on how to do just this.
How AI helps learning professionals push into untapped spaces
AI finally allows us to push into spaces we kept talking about in learning and development but couldn’t quite do yet. Here, Lior Locher and Liz Naylor, senior learning consultants at NIIT, outline the role of AI in better performance support, simpler operations and personalisation at scale.
How L&D can make an impact during times of financial strain
Even the smallest L&D teams can make a difference by thinking about and approaching their work differently. Significant benefits can be reaped from adopting a more strategic approach to what we spend our time on and how it impacts the business.
Boundaryless performance in an AI world: Real-world examples, challenges and future implications
Artificial intelligence has introduced a new era of boundaryless performance. But what does this look like in practice? And what challenges remain? AI strategist Dr. Markus Bernhardt and L&D expert Teresa Rose share real-world use cases and realities.
From workflow learning to boundaryless performance: How AI is transforming work
AI advancements have made workflow learning a thing of the past. In the first installment of this two-part series, L&D experts Teresa Rose & Dr. Markus Bernhardt introduce boundaryless performance and its potential to transform the way we work.
Is learning transfer a nice-sounding buzzword or a clear expectation?
Is learning transfer a nice-sounding buzzword or a clear expectation from your organisation? Melanie Martinelli, CEO of the Institute for Transfer Effectiveness, shares the signals (both conscious and unconscious) that suggest to trainees you value their attendance more than their application.
Untangling wicked problems: Build connectivity, resilience and trust in organisations
How can you enable employees to solve your organisation’s wicked problems? It requires the power trio of connectivity, resilience and trust, says L&D expert Nigel Paine.
Applying Tuckman’s team development model
Learn actionable strategies for supporting each stage of Tuckman’s team development life cycle – forming, storming, norming, and performing.
Reflections on the 2025 World of Learning Summit
Having rested his weary feet following the World of Learning Summit 2025, Chair Robin Hoyle is now ready to share three important reflections from the event.
Unlocking team wisdom: How coaching elevates performance
Matt Somers offers wise words on unlocking team brilliance. Here, he explores six key factors driving group performance and how coaching supports each one.
Feedback receptiveness: Why your constructive criticism isn’t landing
Even the most skilfully delivered feedback can fall flat if the recipient isn’t open to it. Here, Dani Bacon and Garin Rouch share guidance on how to cultivate feedback receptiveness – at both the individual and organisational level.
The neuroscience behind flow states
What are flow states? And how can we leverage our understanding of the brain to find and foster flow?
Four critical gaps in performance review training for managers
Leadership consultant Nik Kinley outlines four ways to make performance review training more effective for managers and their teams.
Mastering skills personalisation: Navigating the pitfalls of skills frameworks
L&D experts Teresa Rose & Dr. Markus Bernhardt explore the must-know foundations for meaningful skills development that drives performance. Get ready to put skills personalisation into successful practice.
Three learning and development trends for 2025
How will the world of learning evolve in 2025? Continuing the TrainingZone tradition, Robin Hoyle embarks on his yearly effort to predict the learning and development trends for the coming year.
Four principles of great career conversations
The new year’s ‘fresh start effect’ makes it the perfect time to engage in career conversations. Dr Helmut Schuster and Dr David Oxley, co authors of A Career Carol, offer four principles (plus four rules) to help you craft great growth-focused conversations with your people.
