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…
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…
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…
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…
In the real world, stakeholders often walk in saying “we need a training on X.” A skilled L&D specialist pushes back gently and asks what’s actually going wrong on the job — missed targets, errors, inconsistent service. Sometimes the fix isn’t training at all; it’s a process, tool, or incentive problem. Building content before diagnosing…
The Australian Learning & Development Network’s next free virtual Lunch and Learn session is on the topic of The L&D Leader’s AI Playbook: 5 Things to Get Right Before You Roll It Out. Details and registration link below. The Australian L&D Network Free Virtual Lunch & Learn: The L&D Leader’s AI Playbook: 5 Things to Get Right Before…
The leadership playbook that worked for the last decade is quietly becoming redundant. Hybrid teams, AI-augmented workflows and near-constant organisational change mean the skills that once defined a “strong leader” — decisiveness, deep functional expertise, command-and-control coordination — are no longer sufficient on their own. Ongoing research from bodies like Deloitte and McKinsey on the…
Please Note: This is a summary of an article originally posted in the Harvard Business Review (HBR) on April 24, 2026. Click here for the original article and links. The Australian L&D Network has no affiliation with HBR. Upskilling Employees Frees Their Managers for More-Strategic Work Organisations routinely ask whether employee training “pays off” by…
Please Note: This article was originally posted in the UK based LearningNews.com. The Australian L&D Network has no affiliation with Learning News or MHR. Click here for the original article. Why Time Is Still the Biggest Barrier to Effective Workplace Learning 24 Apr 2026 Learning News Learning and development (L&D) is firmly on the agenda…
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