At TJ’s 60th Anniversary Conference, Andrew Jacobs discusses with Laura Overton and Kirsty Lewis what L&D has gained and lost over six decades. The exploration goes from laserdiscs to AI, classrooms to communities, and why social, human learning still matters…
Cory Steinle explores how automation, AI, and shifting market needs are transforming workforce planning. By combining task and skills intelligence with ethical AI, organisations can shift from reactive hiring to proactive strategy, redeploying talent, boosting agility, and making good people…
The latest L&D news, reports, research and updates, personally compiled by TJ’s Editor, Jo Cook. This week: From quiet AI adoption and side-lined HR leaders to cardiac emergencies and culture crises, the latest research shows workplace learning is under pressure,…
Training Journal’s 60th Anniversary Conference ended with mini awards celebrating outstanding contribution to learning and development. Honours went to Rob Clarke for championing the profession, Emma Taylor for excellence in policy development, Kirsty Lewis for SOFest25, and former editor Debbie…
Behind the pages of a book shaped by humans and machines, Erica Farmer shares the creative highs, challenges and lessons from writing ‘AI for People Professionals’. From neurodivergent-friendly workflows to AI-supported thinking, it’s a candid look at what it means…
Andy Evans shares the deeply personal story of being made redundant and the emotional and professional aftermath. Drawing on lived experience and learning theory, he explores how leaders can handle redundancy with humanity, and reflects on how moments of loss…
AI is changing the workplace, but without psychological safety, adoption efforts risk falling flat. Erica Farmer explores why trust, openness and permission to fail are essential for innovation, and shares practical steps for leaders, HR and L&D to create a…
From youth training schemes and battles for women in engineering to microcomputers in the classroom, 1980s Training Officer pages show L&D wrestling with technology, equity and unemployment, while trying to keep learning human, practical and hopeful in the face of…
From critical path diagrams and formal standards to televised training and overseas schemes, The Training Officer in 1968 shows an L&D profession preoccupied with order, technology and status. Through today’s lens, its worries about credibility, media hype and meaningful impact…
In March 1968, The Training Officer captured a profession coming of age. Between log books, training boards and debates about education’s purpose, the issue reveals how industrial-era concerns about standards, governance and real performance improvement still echo through today’s learning…
