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Featured perspective · Skills & CapabilityA talent map only matters if it changes a decision; here is how to translate skills evidence into exposure, a bounded proposal and a measurable goal that finance can fund.
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Skills & CapabilityOnce skills data becomes business infrastructure, the harder question is what L&D itself becomes — and why the team's job shifts from producing courses to stewarding capability.
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Skills & CapabilityIn 2026, the most important shift isn't inside L&D at all - it's what happens when the skills data L&D built becomes the operating data for hiring, planning and promotion.
Read article →Skills & CapabilityIn 2026, the hardest question in L&D isn't how to build skills — it's how to prove to the people holding the budget that doing so pays back.
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Skills & CapabilityIn 2026, the breakthrough in skills-based L&D isn’t more content or smarter dashboards — it’s a continuous feedback rhythm that turns everyday work into the place where capability actually grows.
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Skills & CapabilityIn 2026, the organisations getting real results from skills-based L&D aren't the ones with the best content library — they're the ones that have figured out what happens between exposure and capability.
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Skills & CapabilityA 2018 course catalogue is the quiet bottleneck behind most skills-based L&D programmes — here's what an L&D content library has to look like instead.
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Skills & CapabilityIn 2026, skills data has finally crossed over from L&D reporting into the career conversation — and it's rewiring how organisations think about internal mobility.
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Skills & CapabilityIn 2026, traditional L&D dashboards can’t tell leaders whether anyone is actually getting better at their job — here’s what measuring real capability looks like instead.
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Skills & CapabilityIn 2026, the organisations making real progress on capability are quietly fixing one thing first — building a shared skills taxonomy before they invest in platforms, content, or analytics.
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Perspectives on the questions shaping modern L&D — from skills and performance to AI, measurement and the technology that connects them.
A talent map only matters if it changes a decision; here is how to translate skills evidence into exposure, a bounded proposal and a measurable goal that finance can fund.
Read the featured article →Latest thinking
Explore articles and perspectives on the questions shaping learning and people development — from skills and performance to content creation, implementation, measurement and the changing role of AI.
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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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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