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The AI race is on, but is your team reskilling fast enough?

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Mila Smart Semeshkin argues that traditional training cycles can’t keep up with today’s pace of change. With AI reshaping work, fast reskilling through microlearning is essential. Mila explores how personalised, in-context learning, supported by culture and data, helps organisations close…

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Agile learning: A story of relevance, responsibility and real change

soft skills and emotional intelligence

Siobhan Orchard-Webb shares a case study on how a bespoke leadership programme became a transformative journey. Blending agile learning with human-centred facilitation, the experience empowered individuals to lead with confidence, curiosity and care, showing how the most powerful learning happens…

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TJ podcast: Learning’s human heartbeat: L&D then and now – episode 329

TJ60 Panel discussion Andrew Jacobs, Kirsty Lewis, Laura Overton (c) Jo Cook

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…

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My book ‘AI for People Professionals’ was a human-first experiment

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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…

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The Training Officer 1980s magazine snippets

Training Officer magazine front cover from 1984

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…

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The Training Officer 1968 magazine snippets

Training Officer Magazine 1968 snippets

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…

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The Training Officer March 1968

The Training Officer March 1968 front cover

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…

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Learning without limits: 38 years outside the HR bubble

Think About Things Differently

Andy Candler has spent nearly four decades in L&D without setting foot in an HR team, and he thinks that’s exactly why it’s worked. In this refreshing and honest take, he champions a commercial, customer-focused approach to learning that’s more…

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Stop reporting and start persuading: Unlock the potential of your learning data for business impact

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Most L&D teams collect data, but few translate it into the business language that decision-makers value. iSpring’s global survey reveals a “translation problem” holding many teams back. Tanya Galton shares insights into three L&D maturity clusters, along with practical steps…

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Editor’s blog: Beyond inspiration, the why of reflection at conferences

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Jo Cook shares the thinking behind the TJ 60th Anniversary Conference and why reflection and action planning are central to its design. Drawing on expert insights and her own experiences, Jo explains how making space for thought can transform a…

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