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The Hidden Cost of Skills-Based Learning

The future divide may not be between people with degrees and people with skills. It may be between workers developed to interpret reality and workers developed to comply with interpretations produced for them.

ByGeorge HallNov 9, 2026
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Before You Teach Managers How to Give Feedback, Teach Them to See the Moment

The next time a stakeholder says, ‘Our managers need feedback training,’ start by asking what managers are noticing, what causes them to hesitate, and whether they’re addressing issues while they’re still small.

ByBeth RidleyNov 4, 2026
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Training the Second Skill: Teaching People to Check AI, Not Just Use It

AI upskilling can teach people to prompt, draft, summarize, and automate. These are useful capabilities. Training also needs to address a different task: deciding whether a particular output is sound enough to use.

ByAndreas EhstandNov 2, 2026
Your LMS Called. It Wants 2016 Back: Why Organizations Need a Learning Partner Built for the AI Era.

Your LMS Called. It Wants 2016 Back: Why Organizations Need a Learning Partner Built for the AI Era.

Most LMSs were built to prove that people finished training, not that the training made a difference. So L&D teams report completions to a business that wants results. Meanwhile, the most advanced organizations have moved on. Take industrial manufacturer VEIDEC, which replaced static, classroom-style courses with on-demand, AI-localized microlearning, driving a +13.5% revenue lift across […]

ByNo AuthorOct 30, 2026
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No Evidence, No Adoption: Why Capability Frameworks Stall After Launch

Capability frameworks take months to build. They get signed off, rolled out, used for one review cycle, and then they go quiet. Managers stop referencing them. Employees don’t open their plans again. The framework becomes a system nobody visits. Design is not what went wrong. What separates the frameworks that are embedded from the ones […]

ByNo AuthorOct 30, 2026
A Conversation with Egle Vinauskatie: What L&D Needs to Become in the Age of AI

A Conversation with Egle Vinauskatie: What L&D Needs to Become in the Age of AI

As generative AI reshapes how people work, learn, and perform, L&D teams are facing important questions about their role and value. In this interview, Egle Vinauskaite, Strategic Advisor, AI in L&D, at Nodes, discusses the people side of AI transformation, the changing value of content, and the commercial thinking learning professionals need to develop. She […]

ByLindsay BrestovanskyOct 29, 2026
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The Content Boom Is Coming. Is Learning Operations Ready?

The next era of learning will not be defined by how much we can create, but by how we decide what is worth creating.

ByTiffany BaltazarOct 28, 2026
Balancing AI and Human Expertise to Scale Global Learning at Cummins

Balancing AI and Human Expertise to Scale Global Learning at Cummins

Global training only works when it reaches people in their own language. But keeping content current across a hundred-plus languages every time it changes is one of the hardest scale challenges in learning and enablement today. Cummins, a global power and technology leader with more than 70,000 employees, tackled this by building a localization approach […]

ByNo AuthorOct 27, 2026
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The 7 Seats at Your Leadership Table

Your leadership was never just about what you bring to the table. It’s about knowing who else belongs at it.

ByPaige YouseyOct 26, 2026
Inaugural Learning & Performance Tech Week to bring together learning professionals across a wide variety of industries 

Inaugural Learning & Performance Tech Week to bring together learning professionals across a wide variety of industries 

Learning Leadership and DevLearn will run consecutively in Las Vegas from November 2 – 6, connecting professionals across strategy, design, technology, and practical application  New York, NY – October 22, 2026 – The inaugural Learning & Performance Tech Week will bring together professionals from across the learning field, including learning and talent development leaders, instructional […]

ByMeghan DowdenOct 22, 2026
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