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1 month ago | 
trainingzone.co.uk | Becky Norman |Karen Liebenguth |Robin Hoyle |Thom Dennis
Leadership development has come a long way in recent years, yet many of the traditional approaches still fail to fully support aspiring and current women leaders, according to Mairi Fairley, Partner and Chair at OC&C Strategy Consultants. She shares that while there is no shortage of mentoring schemes, leadership courses, and resilience training, these alone are not enough.
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1 month ago | 
trainingzone.co.uk | Elliot Gowans |Karen Liebenguth |Robin Hoyle |Thom Dennis
In 2025, learning and development (L&D) is evolving rapidly. AI is driving the need for continuous In 2025, learning and development (L&D) is evolving rapidly. AI is driving the need for continuous upskilling and reskilling, presenting both challenges and opportunities. Pair this with the expectations on L&D functions to be a strategic partner in key organisational decisions and there’s a lot to digest.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
trainingzone.co.uk | Robin Hoyle |Becky Norman |Jackie Clifford |Karen Liebenguth
As the haze of Christmas and the New Year celebrations fades into the dyspepsia of January and the credit card bills of tightened belts, it’s time for another round of predicted learning and development trends for 2025. This year, will we move beyond quick fixes and generate real value for L&D and those with whom we work? In 2024, the first of three L&D trends I forecasted focused on artificial intelligence (not exactly a surprise to anyone).
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
trainingzone.co.uk | Nick Shackleton-Jones |Robin Hoyle |Joanne Lockwood
How can we avoid wasting money on AI? Let's start with a story... Once upon a time there was a restaurant called ‘Chalk & Fork’ whose menu consisted entirely of large slabs of chalk. Despite the friendly faces of restaurant staff, it was not terribly popular. Those plucky patrons who could be persuaded to take a seat, rarely made it through a single course. To boost popularity, someone suggested breaking the chalk slabs into smaller ‘bite-sized’ chunks, but it seemed these remained unappetizing.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
trainingzone.co.uk | Karen Liebenguth |Erica Farmer |Jane Gunn |Robin Hoyle
Often when we talk about wellbeing in the workplace, we talk about mental health and the causes of ill mental health such as anxiety, stress, fear, overwhelm and depression. What if we instead talked about all the factors that contribute to good mental health – that state of being where we feel fundamentally okay in body, mind and heart. Safety, dignity and belonging in the workplace inevitably lead to inclusivity, connection, trust and wellbeing.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
trainingzone.co.uk | Robin Hoyle |Becky Norman
In learning and development, certain themes move around the industry unbidden – especially during Autumn conference season. They have a sense of the viral to them, spreading in unknown ways between L&D teams, practitioners, industries and time zones. There is always a zeitgeist in the world of learning and development. It’s one of the reasons that conferences are so interesting – to observe the spread and progress of ideas. As Chair of the World of Learning conference, I have a privileged view.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
trainingzone.co.uk | Michael Keller |Jane Gunn |Becky Norman |Robin Hoyle
Today, digitising learning processes has become an essential part of digital transformation for many businesses. Working with a Learning Management System (LMS) is one of the directions this digitalisation process can take. It has become fundamental for corporate education, offering scalable and versatile training solutions. However, security comes to the forefront when your learning curriculum includes highly sensitive data, such as trade secrets, classified information or even state secrets.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
trainingzone.co.uk | Erica Farmer |Becky Norman |Jane Gunn |Robin Hoyle
As a 43-year-old pre-menopausal / peri-menopausal woman, I surprise myself daily in how little I know about something that impacts 51% of the population. And you know what? My pre and peri friends are in the same boat. Yet menopause is an important topic that impacts every woman in the workforce, and it often remains under-discussed in workplace settings.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
trainingzone.co.uk | Anna Shields |Becky Norman |Jane Gunn |Robin Hoyle
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has happened at breakneck speed. We have gone from occasionally interacting with a chatbot at the bank, to asking sophisticated generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, to prepare speeches, generate surveys and write complex reports. In the workplace, AI can automate some time-consuming tasks, which frees up the time of busy HR and L&D teams. But could AI resolve employee conflict – one of the organisation’s most complex issues?
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
trainingzone.co.uk | Robin Hoyle |Becky Norman |Hannah Gore |Karen Liebenguth
It’s that time of year again. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, the summer holiday period is over and the demands to deliver more training ramps up to beat the competing deadlines of end of year results and using the available budget before the approaching festive season. And just when you’re in the throes of delivering all that stuff you said you’d do at the start of the year, the budget round starts again.
