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TJ Newsflash 9 September – L&D impact, disability training and AI capability gaps

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The latest L&D news, reports, research and updates, personally compiled by TJ’s Editor, Jo Cook. This week: AI hierarchy risks emerge, leadership behaviour shapes change in others, jobseekers report heavier workloads, new grants target youth employment skills, and research challenges…

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Beyond the training calendar: Building continuous learning interventions

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L&D needs to move beyond periodic programmes and participation metrics, building continuous interventions that respond to real workplace challenges. By listening closely, reinforcing behaviour and measuring meaningful outcomes, learning teams can become strategic partners. Nikhil Sharma explores how this shift…

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From cost centre to growth engine: Enter the Chief Revenue Officer of Talent

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Barb Hyman argues that talent acquisition and talent management must stop operating in silos and start acting as a single business engine. By connecting hiring, internal mobility and learning to commercial outcomes, organisations can reduce restructuring costs, deploy skills more…

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From crappy tasks to the C-suite: fixing the female leadership pipeline

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Women often outperform men on key leadership measures, particularly collaboration, relationships and crisis management, yet barriers still block their route to senior roles. David Buchanan and Steve Macaulay examine the evidence and set out what HR and L&D can do…

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What is helping or holding back your L&D impact?

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Impact depends on more than measurement. This reflection asks whether you have the access, data, permission and support needed to act on what you learn. Use it to sense-check your current reality, spot what may be holding progress back, and…

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When your boss is an AI bot

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David Buchanan and Steve Macaulay explore how AI could reshape leadership, from augmenting decision-making to taking over selected management tasks. They examine the benefits, risks and human implications of bot bosses, and argue that L&D must prepare employees to challenge,…

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Executive sponsorship is mostly theatre. Here’s what real looks like

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Ben Satchwell argues most executive sponsorship is theatre: a budget sign-off, a launch email, a kick-off cameo. Prosci research shows active, visible sponsorship is the biggest driver of change success. Ben sets out five behaviours real sponsors demonstrate, from owning…

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