Articles and podcast episodes on planning and budgeting for learning, roadmaps, root cause analysis, and measuring the impact of learning.
A strong L&D budget request links learning to measurable business needs. Five practical ways to build a proposal that is realistic, stands up to scrutiny, and secures the resources your project needs.
Volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and disruption (VUCD) shape today's business environment. How L&D teams can help their organizations navigate it by acting as a strategic partner to the business.
Technologies, markets, and business needs keep changing. Why upskilling and a skills-based approach to talent give organizations an advantage that lasts, and what it takes to build one.
Off-the-shelf content rarely fits every need. Five ways a learning content strategy tailored to your business and your learners makes your training department more effective.
Training is not always the answer. Why identifying the root cause of a performance problem is critical to designing a learning solution that works, and how to approach the analysis.
Like a GPS for learning projects, a roadmap shows where you are and how to reach your goals. How to use one as a discovery and project management framework for L&D work.
Simple assessments before and after training can show what learners gained. How pre- and post-tests measure training effectiveness, demonstrate outcomes, and increase learner engagement.
Measuring the real impact of leader development and learning programs is hard. How AXIOM’s Program Results Map links learning to strategic, operational, and tactical goals so you can show what learning achieves.
Findings from the Pulse of the L&D Practice research: how learning professionals see the business and economic outlook for learning and development in 2026.
Jenessa Dowe Jacobs shares her framework for building an L&D function from the ground up, People, Process, Products, and Politics, plus how to secure early wins and alignment.
Krysta Van Ranst of BuildingPPL explains how businesses can find and apply for state and local grant funding to help pay for workforce training.
Learning leaders from AdventHealth, Penn State Health, and Siemens Healthineers on workforce development amid shortages in skilled healthcare roles.
Dr. Keith Keating on moving L&D from order taker to strategic partner, with practical tools to align learning programs with behavior change and business goals.
Kevin M. Yates and AXIOM's Susan Franzen on gaining alignment around learning outcomes and choosing the metrics that demonstrate the results of L&D.
Adele Cook, Chief Learning Officer of the Arizona Department of Economic Security, on building business relationships, buy-in, and measurement in a public agency.
Tracy Salters of American Airlines on leading global L&D for up to 150,000 learners, with a focus on culture, quality, and measurement.
Cleon McClure and Enid Crystal on creating a Learning Center of Excellence at Becton Dickinson to support global teams at their moments of need.
Doug Harward of Training Industry and AXIOM's Herb Blanchard on what the training profession can learn from a period of rapid change, and what comes next.
