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Skills & Capability · 1 Oct 2026From Trend Lines to Talent Maps: What a Second Skills Cycle Reveals About Succession Risk
One trajectory tells you about a person; a hundred of them, read together, tell you where the organisation's succession bench is thin and where a critical capability is quietly sliding.
Read article →Skills & Capability · 21 Sep 2026From Snapshot to Trajectory: What Skills Data Shows the Second Time Around
One assessment tells you where you stand; the second tells you whether anything you did worked — here is how skills data becomes a trajectory, and why direction is the number that matters.
Read article →Skills & Capability · 8 Sep 2026After the Rating: Turning Honest Skills Data into Development That Actually Happens
An honest skills rating is only the start — here is how gaps become goals, goals fit inside a working week, and the loop closes before the data goes stale.
Read article →Skills & Capability · 29 Aug 2026Who Says So? Making Skills Ratings Honest Enough to Act On
A skills rating looks like a measurement but is really a claim — here is why assessment data drifts, and what makes a number honest enough to plan on.
Read article →Skills & Capability · 17 Aug 2026The Framework Underneath: Why Skills Taxonomies Rot, and What Keeps Them Honest
Every skills-based L&D programme rests on a taxonomy almost nobody maintains — here is why frameworks decay, and what keeps one small, local and believed.
Read article →Skills & Capability · 11 Aug 2026The Manager in the Middle: Why Line Leaders Decide Whether Skills-Based L&D Survives
In 2026, skills-based L&D doesn't live or die in the platform or the boardroom — it lives or dies with the line manager, the person asked to carry the new habits every week, and here's what that actually requires.
Read article →Skills & Capability · 3 Aug 2026Standing It Up: What the First Year of Skills-Based L&D Actually Demands
In 2026, most skills-based L&D programmes don't fail on ambition — they stall in the first year, and here's the sequence that keeps a good idea from dying at the starting line.
Read article →Skills & Capability · 16 Jul 2026The AI Question: What Artificial Intelligence Actually Does for Skills-Based L&D in 2026
In 2026, AI is the quiet assumption underneath every skills-based L&D promise — here’s what it genuinely does well, what it cannot carry, and the division of labour that protects trust.
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