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The hard science behind soft skills

Discover the science behind soft skills and learn why individual behavioural components are making soft skills more measurable than ever before.

Why does training fail?

From trying to fix the wrong problem to not re-enforcing the training project. Discover the common pitfalls and stop your training programmes from failing.

The future of work, the future of training

Here we look at the future of training in relation to three factors which are transforming how we do business.

How to assess a training design

What makes a training programme effective? Learn the fundamental design principles which separate outstanding skills training from the mediocre.

How much of your training budget is being wasted?

Why do so many organisations struggle to get the most out of the training budgets they spend on external providers or internally-developed programmes? Are persistence, energy and focus on outcomes are the things that are really in short supply.

How to define learning culture

Training interventions work better when businesses have a learning culture. This means that learning and development professionals are often immersed in the learning culture conversation, but do we really know what it means and what we're aspiring to achieve?

Collaborative Learning fad or business imperative?

Are traditional classroom courses too far removed from the work to be relevant to individuals? Is the issue is the platform? Any collaborative space can be made to work. The issue is the mindset and the intentional design of collaborative learning activities.

Will artificial intelligence change corporate learning?

There is much talk of artificial intelligence and its role in corporate learning to automate certain job functions, in turn driving organisational efficiencies and return on investment. It’s not just about replacing those in low wage, low skill jobs.

Narrowing the skills gap

In this article we turn to professional sports help us to better understand organisational issues and skills development. Discover the four lessons with wider resonance for learning and development professionals looking to understand how to create an effective training programme.

The power of un-learning

Sometimes the easiest thing to be done is to perscribe more training. However, making the suggestion is one thing. Designing what that training might be, how to deliver it and how we might know if it actually delivered results is something else entirely.