Resources Hub
Our free blog posts, guides, infographics, and webinars are designed to enhance your knowledge & take your L&D skills to the next level.
L&D Glossary: 180+ essential learning terms L&D professionals should know in 2022
This is the ultimate learning resource with 180+ terms L&D professionals should know.
Content Intelligence: AI-Powered Insights on Learning Content
Josh Bersin explains a new approach to identify digital learning that’s most relevant and optimize content strategy.
The Ultimate Content Tagging & Validation Guide
Use these best practices and validation steps when tagging learning content.
THE BUYER'S GUIDE TO LEARNING CONTENT
Ensure you purchase the right content for your organisation, its people and the skills they need.
5 STEPS TO A BULLETPROOF SKILLS STRATEGY FOR 2022
Get the steps you need to take to ensure that your skills strategy makes a difference immediately - and in 3 years from now.
L&D CHEAT SHEET: OVERCOME THE TOP 5 UPSKILLING CHALLENGES
Get to the roots of problems in L&D and make learning - and therefore upskilling - effective.
L&D CHECKLIST: HOW TO MAKE SENSE OF YOUR SKILLS DATA
We've used our knowledge and experience of analysing and making sense of our clients' skills data to build this checklist.
THE SKILLS LANDSCAPE IN 2022
Businesses are not even getting close to the reality of upskilling. The Skills Landscape in 2022 is all about skills, reskilling, data & learning content.
THE ULTIMATE UPSKILLING CHEAT SHEET
Make upskilling happen for your business. Get practical bite-sized advice to succeed in upskilling your workforce.
5 STEPS TO OPTIMISE YOUR LEARNING CONTENT SPEND
Our L&D budgets are tighter than ever, and we're being forced to do more with less. Here are the 5 key steps to ensure you get the best return possible on your L&D spend.
THE BUYER'S JOURNEY TO LEARNING CONTENT
Finding the right learning content is harder and more important than ever. There are now better ways to do it - find them here.
THE STATE OF SKILLS IN 2022
Get closer to the reality of skills and understand how to solve skills issues in your business.
THE 3 STAGES OF A DATA-BACKED SKILLS FRAMEWORK
Learn about the 3 stages of a data-backed skills framework that will help you inspire better work and align individual career growth with organisational strategy in real-time.
HOW TO RUN A LEARNING CONTENT RFP
Everything you need to know about running a learning content RFP from start to finish.
FROM UNTOUCHED CONTENT TO HIGH-IMPACT LEARNING
Carlo José, Donald Taylor and Toby Harris explore how to tackle content chaos with design thinking and discover how Carlo José pioneered user-led design for learning strategies in his long tenure at HSBC.
CLO COFFEE CLUB I: CUTTING THROUGH THE NOISE
NilesNolen spill the beans on the key strategies for any forward-thinking L&D team looking to get clarity on their learning provision. Martin from GSK explains how he saved £300k per year through a data led re-alignment of GSK’s leadership and business skills strategy.
CLO COFFEE CLUB II: MAKING CURATION RELEVANT
We've all had issues with delivering the most relevant content to our people, right? It's one of the biggest negative consequences of content overload due to inaccurate tagging, shaky skills frameworks and bloated libraries. But there is a way to curate the most relevant content.
CLO COFFEE CLUB III: BUILDING A LEARNING CULTURE
A strong learning culture can invigorate a workforce and boost capability and engagement. Listen to Donald H Taylor unpack how Novartis achieved this with Nina Bressler Murphy, their Global Head of Enterprise Capability.
CLO COFFEE CLUB IV: DEPLOYING AN LXP
The tech has finally caught up with our aspirations. But the LXP deployment lifecycle is still prone to certain, repeated, challenges. Listen to Annee Bayeux, Degreed and Viv Cole who share their approaches to some of these thorny problems.
CLO COFFEE CLUB V: DELIVERING NUANCED SKILLS BY INNOVATING YOUR CONTENT STRATEGY
Jono Endean kicked off the session by sharing his formula for skills strategy. Dr Markus Bernhardt got us going with a pop quiz on critical and creative thinking strategies and how you teach them to others.
CLO Coffee Club VI: SHARING SKILLS ACROSS GENERATIONS
Lisa Saunders and Catherine Davey showcased the holistic approach they are taking at NatWest. Linda Patel shared the innovative way the Sutton Trust is working to prepare younger generations.
A MASTERCLASS IN CURATING LEARNING PATHWAYS AND PLAYLISTS
Join Kata Szkopkowska and Toby Harris for a masterclass in curating learning pathways and playlists to learn what process you should follow to achieve your and your team's business goals.
A 2×2 MATRIX TO HELP YOU PRIORITIZE THE SKILLS TO LEARN RIGHT NOW
By examining how useful a skill should be, and how much time it would take you to learn, you can plot various skills on a 2×2 matrix.
CAN THE DREADED COMPLIANCE MEETING SAVE OUR WORKFORCE FROM A MENTAL-HEALTH CRISIS?
Traditionally, business leaders have seen L&D and mental health as two entirely unrelated issues. Find out how to solve both in one fell swoop.
CREATE LEARNING PATHWAYS TO CLOSE YOUR ORGANIZATION'S SKILLS GAP
How can you guide your workforce to the skills and competencies both you and they need? The answer, for most firms, is the learning pathway.
HOW TIMEBOXING WORKS AND WHY IT WILL MAKE YOU MORE PRODUCTIVE
In a recent survey of 100 productivity hacks, timeboxing — migrating to-do lists into calendars — was ranked the most useful.
HOW TO THINK FOR YOURSELF WHEN ALGORITHMS CONTROL WHAT YOU READ
As more and more of our news is carefully curated by algorithms, what can we do to see past these narrow filters?
I COMPETED AGAINST AN AI. HERE'S HOW I LOST - AND WON
How can any business know whether its technologies are getting better results than humans would? I recommend they do what we did: set up a competition.
IDENTIFY - AND HIRE - LIFELONG LEARNERS
Lifelong learning is roundly considered to be an economic imperative, and job candidates or employees who consider, update, and improve their skills will be the high performers, especially over the longer term.
MAKING LEARNING A PART OF EVERYDAY WORK
The urgency of work invariably trumps the luxury of learning. But, what if we could make learning more a part of our day-to-day jobs? How can we use the flow of work to drive learning?
THE DOWNSTREAM DAMAGE OF THE LEADERSHIP SKILLS GAP
Until leaders can get serious about their own development as managers, the skills gaps throughout their organizations will only continue to grow.
THE PRODUCTIVITY BOOSTER YOU HAVE IN YOUR POCKET, BUT PROBABLY DON'T USE
On average, we still only spend a few minutes a month engaging with our IAs. Why aren’t IAs working better and harder for us?
THE SIMPLE JOY OF LEARNING ON THE JOB
The spark of learning joy is real and useful. So how can we bring more of it into our professional lives?
