Category For experienced L&D professionals

The Uncertainty Toolkit – book review

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Cathy Hoy investigates why competency-based L&D falls short when uncertainty, not skill, blocks performance. Drawing on Sam Conniff and Katherine Templar Lewis’s new book The Uncertainty Toolkit, she highlights evidence from UCL research, practical exercises and new metrics for tolerance.…

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AI jobs apocalypse… or bonanza?

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Will AI steal our jobs? Wrong question. AI performs tasks and most jobs involve a combination of tasks. The AI impact depends on organisational choices, not just the technology. David Buchanan and Steve Macaulay explore how the outcome for jobs…

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How coaches can use AI in practice without becoming “prompt jockeys”

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AI can be genuinely useful in coaching, but only when it serves the craft, not the other way round. The goal is not to turn coaches into people who spend their days iterating prompts. It is to help them do…

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The value of business simulations for development and change 

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Business simulations turn learning into lived experience. Instead of talking about strategy, people feel its consequences, make decisions and learn fast. From leadership to onboarding, simulations help close the gap between theory and practice. Steve Macaulay explains why they’re no…

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From training to transfer: Why capability breaks when workers move

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As workforces grow more mobile across the Gulf states, learning systems struggle to keep up. People carry skills from site to site, but proof of capability often gets lost along the way. For L&D professionals supporting Gulf-facing or cross-border teams, Vardhan…

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TJ interviews: Euan Crosby on making AI work for learning, careers and talent  

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Jo Cook chats with Euan Crosby, Director of Global Talent Acquisition at Litmos, about how AI is reshaping skills, learning and careers. He shares why training often feels overwhelming, how personalised development makes a difference, and what organisations can do…

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How AI can help save jobs, not eliminate them

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Artificial intelligence is already reshaping work, but job losses aren’t inevitable. For L&D and HR leaders, the real challenge is turning disruption into capability at speed. With the right learning strategy, AI can protect roles, close skills gaps and future-proof organisations. Skills expert Robin Adda has…

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When Uber comes for L&D: Five smart moves before learning and development shifts

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Ricci Masero argues L&D has more warning than taxi drivers before Uber changed the travel landscape. With AI-funded edtech accelerating, professionals can choose to adapt, humanise, specialise, diversify or even compete. The message is blunt: stop defending yesterday’s methods, learn…

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The rise of reflective intelligence: The skill that will outlast AI

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Artificial intelligence is accelerating learning, yet capability still depends on reflection. Dmitry Zaytsev tells us about reflective intelligence and why it matters in today’s largely AI-driven workplace. He shares how L&D teams can help build practical reflection habits that improve…

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The evolutionary blind spot undermining leadership programmes

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Martin Johnson explores why leadership development fails when it ignores the biology driving behaviour. He examines survival, pleasure and purpose, revealing how stress, disengagement and underperformance persist. The article offers L&D professionals practical diagnostic frameworks to identify psychological states and…

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