This week’s Learning & Development Network ‘Friday Funny’ is titled ‘Inspired at 2pm, forgotten at 2:05pm’. You know this person. At 1:59pm he’s buzzing. He just finished your workshop. New framework, great discussion, a notebook full of ideas. He walks out of the Training Room with his arms in the air. At 2:05pm he’s standing…
Please Note: This is a summary of an article originally posted on Entrepreneur on September 22, 2026. Click here for the original article and links. The Australian L&D Network has no affiliation with Entrepreneur. Cherian argues that kindness builds the trust teams need to speak up, solve problems early and perform under pressure, and that…
This week’s Learning & Development Network ‘Friday Funny’ is titled ‘Online Learning’. This is the perfect visual metaphor for what happens when we take learning jargon literally but not humanly. Arthur is technically doing online learning — he’s on a line, reading “The Art of Focus” — but he’s completely missed the point, and he’s dangerously unsupported.…
Your organisation just approved an AI tool. Now what? Someone has to train the whole workforce to use it — safely, effectively, and without chaos. That someone is usually L&D. AI Enablement for L&D Professionals gets you ready for that exact moment: 4 half-day virtual sessions covering what different teams need to know, how to…
Who was Benjamin Franklin? Franklin was a Founding Father of the United States, scientist, inventor, and diplomat. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin This old adage is our core challenge. Information alone doesn’t change behaviour; it fades. Instruction builds recall, but true learning…
Compliance training tells people what they must not do. A learning culture tells people what’s possible if they keep growing – and the difference shows up directly on the bottom line. Deloitte’s research into talent strategy found that 77 per cent of executives believe their organisation should help workers become more employable through relevant skills,…
This week’s Learning & Development Network ‘Friday Funny’ is titled ‘Checkbox Checking’. A satire on validity. Easy-to-mark MCQs can create a false sense of competence and reduce learning to compliance theatre. For L&D, it forces us to ask: are we assessing recall when the job requires judgement? Move up Bloom’s taxonomy — from recognizing the…
Please Note: This is a summary of an article originally posted on Training News on August 28, 2026. Click here for the original article and links. The Australian L&D Network has no affiliation with Training News. Your Learning Strategy is Only as Strong as Your Capacity L&D’s real bottleneck isn’t strategy or ideas — it’s…
Corporate learners are rarely given a quiet hour to focus — they’re pulled into meetings, messages, and urgent tasks mid-module. Long-form content gets abandoned, and completion data quietly becomes a vanity metric. Microlearning units (5–10 minutes) fit into real workflow gaps: between meetings, during a commute, or right before a task where the skill is…
