Picture this: the workshop wraps. The room is electric. Post-its everywhere. Heads nodding. Your team leaves buzzing. A week later, the glow fades. The slide deck is filed away, and the real work returns.

Learner engagement, or lack of it, is a common concern among Learning & Development managers. If employees don’t engage, they don’t learn, and the desirable new behaviors that everyone expected would translate to better performance on the job fail to materialize.  It’s not just disappointing.  A lack of engagement poses a serious risk to L&D departments – budgetary at best, and existential at worst. That question keeps more than one L&D manager awake at night, and for good reason, given the...

Your people should be your most valuable resource, especially if they use the processes and tools your business has invested in to ensure it achieves its goals. They help you deal with the "Russian Doll of Change" we are all confronted with. The more they can handle adversity, the greater their agility to pivot as the organisation needs them to. If people are central to success, then L&D is key to unlocking their strategic value. But do your peers see L&D as a strategic partner, or just the...