Learning Culture
The alignment of an organization’s systems, structures, and people that represents its views and commitments to continuous learning, performance improvement, and growth.
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Undervalued & Overlooked? AI-Powered Communities Help Reclaim Visibility
By Iuliia Algasova Imagine having a wealth of knowledge and innovation inside your organization, but it’s hidden, siloed, or simply goes unnoticed. In talent development, you most probably work with incredible people from diverse backgrounds: former teachers, entrepreneurs, researchers, and technologists. Many of them push boundaries daily, experiment, and invent things. They have true and tested practices, inspiring stories, and powerful insights we all wish more people knew about. Instead, what we often get is duplication. Silos. Teams reinventing the wheel. Everyone celebrating small wins in isolation while collective progress stalls. It’s not that people don’t want to share; they…
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Leading with EQ: Why Relationship-Centric Workplaces Win in 2025
By Dr. Sheri Duchock & Dr. Maggie Sass Everyone needs a win, and the win for 2025 is relationship-centric workplaces. How do we know? A recent report surveyed leadership, HR, and L&D professionals to better understand their priorities, challenges, and opportunities for the upcoming year. Findings in The 2025 State of EQ Report reveal a disconcerting paradox. While collaboration, employee engagement, and customer satisfaction are top priorities for these survey participants, 69% of their organizations struggle with team collaboration. Sixty-nine percent is an enormous number! This paradox highlights that as organizations navigate increasing complexity, relationship-centric workplaces drive success: The report…
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Skills, Software, & Strategy in a World of AI: Best Practices for Learner Adoption
Explore how to drive learner adoption in the ageof AI. “Skills, Software, and Strategy: Best Practices for LearnerAdoption in a World of AI” offers best practices for aligning learningtools with business goals through personalization, skills enablement, changemanagement, and strategic leadership. Ideal for L&D and HR professionalslooking to turn their investments into a high-impact, results-driven strategy.
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Skilling Up for AI Transformation
By Megan Torrance and Lauren Milstid Back in the summer of 2023, the AI buzz was loud and growing louder by the day. In nearly every conversation, learning leaders were asking versions of the same question: How do we get our people ready for this? Not just ready to click through a webinar or try out a chatbot, but really ready—to use it, adapt with it, and lead with it. Spoiler: It’s not just about training. It’s about transformation. And not the kind that happens overnight. In fact, it’s ongoing. Lately, I’ve been in a lot of conversations—some casual, some…
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Your AI Strategy Is Your Talent Strategy: Building the Skills Infrastructure to Power Enterprise Transformation
AI isn’t just disrupting workflows—it’s redefining the roles, skills, and systems that power the modern enterprise. In this session, we’ll explore why your AI strategy is your talent strategy, and how forward-thinking organizations are using skills intelligence to turn disruption into momentum. You’ll learn what it takes to build a future-proof talent tech stack—one that moves beyond content libraries to real, validated capability-building at scale.
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Why Your Change Management Strategy Needs a Behavioral Health Checkup
Change is rarely linear. This ebook introduces a proven, psychology-backed framework to help teams adopt new systems and behaviors by meeting them where they are—one stage at a time.
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Promoting Employee Development: Beyond the ‘Banking Model’
Creating effective design strategies in line with effective adult learning theories is not an easy task for L&D specialists who face corporate constraints, such as appeasing company policies, scheduling development opportunities around busy schedules, meeting ROIs, and working with limited budgets. These constraints also cascade to employees who resist learning opportunities based on prior experiences of lackluster development programs. While published over 55 years ago for an academic audience, Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed provides useful insight for L&D specialists who face corporate constraints and employee resistance when designing and implementing learning opportunities. In this text, Freire theorizes that…
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You Can Lead a Horse to Water: Make Learning Stick with Soft Skills
We’ve all heard the saying, “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.” This adage is particularly relevant in the world of learning and development. As educators, trainers, or mentors, we can provide learners with all the resources and opportunities they need, but how do we ensure that the learning behavior sticks? This is a question my coworker recently posed, and it got me thinking about the role of soft skills in fostering lasting behavior change. The challenge of behavior change Behavior change is a complex and multifaceted process that extends far beyond the simple…
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Bridging the Digital Divide: Why Accessibility in Virtual Environments Matters More Than Ever
The shift to virtual learning highlights accessibility gaps. Simply having features isn’t enough; we need to master their use. The Learning Guild’s checklist helps L&D pros audit platforms & skills, ensuring inclusive design.
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Investigating Informal Learning with Technology
Informal learning is having a moment right now, and it’s about time. As learning professionals, we can often get caught up in designing, developing, and implementing formal learning experiences, which can cause informal learning to fall to the wayside and easily be overlooked. However, informal learning experiences can have major, long-term effects on learning and business outcomes, so finding creative ways to track them can be valuable for L&D departments. What is informal learning? Informal learning is learning that is unstructured and self-directed. This is a broad definition, and there are different types of informal learning, but for our contexts,…