Beyond traditional training: AI feedback tools in modern L&D
Learning Experience Director Hannah Gore explores how AI-powered platforms are addressing key challenges in the world of L&D feedback.
How your childhood affects your leadership skills
Did you know that early childhood experiences can shape the leaders we become? Leadership expert and consultant Nik Kinley and IMD Business School Professor Shlomo Ben-Hur explain how our understanding of this can help optimise performance under pressure.
Is it weak to focus on strengths? Is it strong to examine weakness?
While coaching practices vary, there is a trend towards developing strengths. But it’s important to balance strengths and weaknesses. Here are some practical considerations to empower individuals to reach their full potential.
Why mission-critical thinking trumps passion
Should L&D teams help employees pursue their passions or focus on meeting business needs? Robin Hoyle suggests you curb your enthusiasm and get on with mission-critical plans.
Four accountability traps and how managers can avoid them
Lack of accountability among team members can be frustrating for leaders and damaging for organisations. Dani Bacon and Garin Rouch explore common traps that undermine accountability and provide practical tips to avoid them.
Nine tips for securing the learning investment you need
Learning and development is an important investment for organisations. Here are nine tips for creating a robust learning investment strategy to drive forward organisational success.
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.
10 ways L&D perfectionists can avoid self-sabotage and succeed
L&d professionals need to remember that being ‘good enough’ is good enough.
Why it’s time to ditch the annual appraisal
There are some issues when it comes to traditional performance review systems but that doesn’t mean we can stop reviewing performance. Matt Somers suggests a more continuous process revolving around five central questions.
Growth outside climbing the vertical career ladder
Modern careers are no longer ladders. People grow in all directions and workplaces must now reflect this by nurturing employee growth with a positive learning culture.
Navigating the future: A step-by-step for strategic thinking in your team
Better strategic thinking might be on your wishlist but how can we, as leaders, develop it? Dani Bacon and Garin Rouch provide a series of small, medium and large steps to unlock strategic thinking in your team.
Responsive strategic workforce planning for future-fit organisations
How can organisations use responsive strategic workforce planning and development to overcome ‘permavucalution’? Here are some practical ideas.
There is no innovation without intrapreneurship
Established organisations are increasingly recognising the significance of intrapreneurship as an attractive skill but when it’s hard to quantify it can be difficult to foster without purpose behind it.
Had enough of managers who are too busy to care? It’s time to build a coaching culture
A good workplace culture is arguably more important than ever before. Workplaces where managers are just too busy to focus on their people is a huge problem for organisations. Could a coaching culture be the answer?
What gets measured in L&D gets done … or does it?
Robin Hoyle examines why, in L&D, data-informed decision-making comes down to measuring genuine impact and performance.
A key to next-gen learning: Letting go of what’s not working
When it comes to next-gen learning, successful organisations are the ones that know how and when to cut the wheat from the chaff.
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.
Continuous learning: How to avoid the hidden costs of ‘not learning by doing’
Continuous learning and development is the only answer to improving our employees’ skill sets and ensuring that we avoid the ‘not learning by doing’ trap.
Behaviourism has influenced workplace learning more than you think
In the first article from the Great Minds on Learning content series, Donald Clark takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the behaviourists.
