Insights from Blanchard’s 2026 Global Trends Survey

Explore some of the key themes coming out of Blanchard's 2026 HR and L&D Trends Report

The Future of Leadership and Learning

We sit down with two of the minds behind the 2026 HR and L&D Trends Survey research.

Coaching + Leadership Development: A Strategic Imperative for Performance and Growth

Coaching is increasingly recognised as a strategic driver of leadership performance.

Closing the Distance Between Training and Real Change

Why do so many training efforts fail to stick? Solutions are within reach.

Reigniting Passion at Work: 8 Strategies for Addressing Burnout

Move from a culture of burnout to one of passion and productivity. 

4 Coaching Steps toward Work-Life Balance

How to change your focal point and main priority in life.

The Top 10 Best Careers for Work-Life Balance

Explore the best careers for work-life balance and how your preferences and aptitudes can match up.

Telling a Story of Impact: How L&D Can Prove Its Value

We share a pivotal story and make the case for leadership development.

How Leaders Can Inspire Performance Through Better Conversations

Any leader can transform their communication style and foster a more engaged, successful, and fulfilled team.

Succeeding at the Empathy/Accountability Challenge

Empathy has become a cornerstone of effective leadership that is increasingly critical in today's evolving workplace. 

AI Doesn't Care About You (But it Sure Feels Like it Does)

Use AI to reflect, expand, and challenge your thinking, but don’t let it replace your gut, your values, or your ability to truly connect. 

Why Mid-Size Companies Hit a Wall—and How Strong Managers Can Break Through

At the centre of it all is a management bench that simply isn’t ready.

Leading in Uncertain Times: 3 Ways to Be Predictable in an Unpredictable World

Leaders should provide steady communication, clear expectations, and reliable support while adapting to employees' readiness for change. 

The Leadership Cure for Burnout: How to Reignite Engagement and Retention

There are pockets of greatness occurring in every organisation—places where individual managers are creating what we call environmental excellence. 

From Vision to Achievement: How Clear Goals Drive Performance

Most people go into each new year with only a general sense of what they want to accomplish—but no specific goals, targets, or plans. 

Leaders Identify Top HR and L&D Challenges for 2025

Blanchard’s 2025 HR / L&D Trends Survey looks at some of the ways that leadership, learning, and business professionals are focusing to meet the challenges of ever-changing workplace dynamics. 

Making Learning Stick

True learning is a journey from knowing to doing. Those who complete this journey are empowered to make big things happen—not only for their organisations but also for the world around them.

Don't make this Mistake when Designing Learning Journeys

Learning programs won’t make a difference if participants don’t learn—and apply—their new or improved knowledge and skills.

Don’t Worry About Micromanagement—This Is the Bigger Problem

Try this proven three step process if you are serious about wanting to avoid being labelled a micromanager. 

Women in Leadership: Creating Inclusive Environments

An interview with Jennifer Brown a globally recognised DEI thought leader, best selling author of the book, "How to be an Inclusive leader".

3 Skills for Becoming a Best Boss

Learn how to adjust your leadership style to match the needs of your people. Become a trusted leader and be remembered as one of the best bosses.

A Modern Approach to Inclusiveness and Belonging

 High-impact organisations inspire and engage employees around inclusion and belonging holistically from three different dimensions. 

Leading Successfully in a Time-Challenged World

Most people will tell you that the percentage of truly helpful conversations they are having with their leader is low. In a recent webinar, most people said less than 10 percent!

Use a High-Involvement Approach to Innovation and Change

Innovation and change are hot topics these days. Leaders everywhere recognise that increased agility is required to keep pace with today’s work environment.

Developing Great Leadership Habits: Making Common Sense Common Practice

Becoming a trusted servant leader is a journey. It's something we're always working on. No matter how far along we are on that path, there's always room for improvement.

4 Ways Leaders Can Support Innovation

We've identified 4 factors as being most responsible for slowing or dampening innovation in today’s organisations.

Developing our Change Capabilities

Leaders must develop a level of comfort with ambiguity and move forward with change initiatives that are less than perfect. When we figure something out, the world may change and we may need to learn and quickly adjust course.

Self-Awareness, Goals, and Priorities: Improving Personal Effectiveness at Work

 You can't really hit that sweet spot of being your best if you’re busy playing catch-up all the time. To be effective, you have to think ahead, plan, and do things intentionally.

Coaching Senior Leadership Teams

Conflict. A lack of clarity. Unclear process for decision making. Even though senior leaders are highly experienced, they often operate as a group of individuals rather than a team of people working toward a common purpose.

Matching Your Leadership Style to People's Needs

Do managers need to be more proactive when it comes to providing direction and support to their team members? Lately, managers have been leaning toward a more hands-off approach.

A Head and Heart Approach to Next-Generation Leadership

We recently sat down with Ken Blanchard and Scott Blanchard to learn what’s changed and what’s stayed the same when it comes to focusing people’s energy and efforts toward a shared goal.

Making Progress with DEI Initiatives

We recommend that organisations look at integrating DEI initiatives more fully into the fabric of the company.

Improving Employee Experience: The Leader’s Role

Retaining people and reducing turnover, improving employee experience and engagement, and developing a close-knit culture despite shifts to hybrid work arrangements were challengers for management.

HR/L&D Trend Survey Identifies Top Issues for 2023

“Hiring, retention, and employee experience will be the top issues for HR professionals heading into the new year,” say Jay Campbell and David Witt, after looking at the early results from The Ken Blanchard Companies^® recent trend survey. 

Asking for Help When You’re Overextended

More than two-thirds of managers have reported symptoms of burnout. How do we keep this important group well-nourished and functioning at a high level? 

It’s a Challenging Time to be a Manager

Researchers at The Ken Blanchard Companies® surveyed more than 800 leaders, asking them about the biggest stressors/challenges they are facing and what would help them to be more effective.

Confronting Workplace Ostracism

According to social scientists, workplace ostracism is a widespread phenomenon. Let’s take a look at confronting workplace ostracism.

3 Ways to Help People Decide to Stay, Not Stay

People must have a manager they can trust—someone who cares, recognises effort, and supports their growth and success. If that sounds like the type of leader you’d like to be, here are three ways to get started.

Take a Quite Approach to Reengaging Your People

Are you able to recognise the symptoms of physical and emotional withdrawal associated with quiet quitting, and proactively address them?  Here’s a 3-step “quiet” approach to reengaging your people.

How Leaders Create and Sustain Inclusivity within Teams

There are four major components for creating an inclusive team environment. Here is a closer look at each of them.

Quiet Quitting: A Step Down the Path Toward Complete Burnout?

Burnout is a response to chronic job stressors. People are using “quiet quitting" to ward off burnout. Quiet quitting begs the question: What's wrong with the work in the first place? 

What My 3-Year-Old Taught Me about Goal Setting

Helping employees to set and achieve goals is a manager’s key responsibility. Here's how you can help your people set compelling goals.

4 Principles for Gaining and Retaining Power

The way we use power is what determines its value. This blog contains four specific social practices as ways we can develop power and sustain it over time.

Make Career Conversations a Regular Agenda Item in One-on-ones

Career development is about the employee experience. It’s about understanding that people are happiest when they are growing and when they are respected for their skills and strengths.

4 Tips to Make Sure You Really want to Say “Yes”

In this blog we introduce you to the “Will this bring me joy? test”. Comprising four simple steps, use this test when taking on a commitment. Complete your due diligence so you can say yes wholeheartedly.

The Self-Aware Leader: Take an Inside-Outside Approach

Being self-aware brings tremendous freedom. And that makes you a better human and a better leader. If you want to be an inspiring leader, you must have some degree of mastery over both parts of self-awareness. 

Does Being a Naysayer Make You a More Powerful Leader?

Have you wondered why so many negative and critical leaders seem to rise to power? Should you incorporate more negativity into your leadership style? In a very thoughtful and diplomatic way we answer this question.

Measuring the Impact of Coaching: 3 Key Steps

Effective coaching can be the best experience leaders have ever had in terms of supporting their own development and growth, but measuring the impact of leader growth can be tough. Can the true impact of coaching be measured? 

Don’t Let Power Dynamics Derail Work Communication

Managers at every level of the organisation, from frontline supervisors and team leads to CEOs and senior executives, need to be careful about how they wield their authority.

4 Principles for Using Your Leadership Power

“𝑷𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒖𝒑𝒕, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒃𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒖𝒑𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚. 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒃𝒂𝒅 𝒎𝒆𝒏.” You’re probably familiar with this quote from Lord Acton. Unfortunately, there is much truth in it.

4 Steps to Escape From Your Leadership Prison Cell

All of us, in various areas of our lives, have constructed cells that imprison us and constrain our ability to experience true freedom and joy. Here are four steps to break out of your leadership prison cell.

Getting the Most from Your One-on-One Conversations: 6 Tips for Managers and Team Members

A survey conducted found that the majority of respondents are looking for either 30 or 60 minutes of one-on-one time with their manager on a regular basis. The survey also identified six specific topics that direct reports want more discussion around in their one-on-ones.

New Blanchard Survey Explores Top Manager Challenges

What are the top challenges facing today’s managers? What are the realities they’re facing? What’s getting in their way? What can organisations do to improve the environment?

Are You Taking the Time to Connect? A Coach’s Story

Would you act differently if you knew that the most successful leaders are the ones who are all about building connections? In this blog we provide three ways for you to get started to get a little more connection in your life.

Giving Constructive Feedback—Focus on the Goals, Not the Person

Do you dread giving feedback? Do you fear that it will be seen as negative or critical? In this blog we help you change focus and keep an individual’s personality out of the equation and help you move toward closing any potential gap between expectation  and delivery.

You Must Address These 3 Things if You Want to Restore Broken Trust

Trust is often one of those things we take for granted, but once it’s gone…YIKES! We suddenly realise how critically important it is and we’ll do just about anything to get it back. 

Leading with Empathy

Do you consider leadership to be about people or tasks? Is empathy an important quality of leadership? How would you define “empathetic leader”? Did you know that, according to Forbes, only 40% of people rate their leaders a being empathetic. Is there an empathy deficit in your workplace?

6 Ways to Shake It Up to Achieve Mastery

What does it take to achieve mastery? 
🔍 It begins with clarity.
🔑 Repetition is one of the keys. 
🕚 It will take time and dedication, and it will be uncomfortable. 
✅ Believe in yourself and you will achieve.

Stop Procrastinating—Start Doing! 6 Steps to Help You Begin

Overcoming procrastination, especially as a leader, is important. Much of what makes people happy or unhappy is affected by procrastination. The time to start improving is now and the key is something you’re probably already good at.

Does Your Team Know Who You are as a Leader?

What’s your leadership legacy? How do you want to be seen as a leader? How do you want to be remembered? Your leadership point of view is something only you can give. It’s your signature—your unique perspective on leadership. Let your people know who you are. 

Managing Negativity at Work

How do you manage negativity in the workplace? How do you respond? The first step is to acknowledge that we all feel big feelings, then feel compassion for yourself when you have them and, eventually, for others when they do. It’s important to remember you have a choice.

Building a Better Organisation

Great companies have always been dedicated to creating great leaders and investing in their people. But there are a lot of other companies where that hasn't necessarily been a top priority—until now. 

The Most Successful Apologies Have These 8 Elements

How good are you at apologising? What have you learnt from your experiences? In this blog we identify eight essential elements of an effective apology and shares these with you.

Five Strategies to Strengthen and Leverage the Voice of Women Leaders

It's time to celebrate women’s accomplishments in the workplace! It’s essential to remember that women still made just 84% of what men earned for the same job and were underrepresented in leadership roles.

Empathy in Action: A Thoughtful Look at the Empathetic Leader

A good leader is an empathetic leader, but empathetic leadership must not be used in isolation It’s a virtue that thrives when it’s coupled with other virtues. Being only empathetic does lead to its own set of problems. 

Becoming Comfortable with Constant Growing Pains

We recognise that organisations and teams succeed as people get what they need to grow, learn, and succeed and the greatest gift you can give to people is a place to share their emotions and the encouragement to keep going.

Six Keys for Setting Team Priorities and Delegating

Where’s the sweet spot when managing your team’s priorities, delegating, and adjusting the direction and support each person in your team needs in each case? Can you balance performance with learning while helping your people develop and be successful? 

Providing Legendary Service in Challenging Times

Oganisations must remind their employees about the power and value of Legendary Service. Now is the moment for organisations to show their true colours and prove to their customers how much they matter. 

Help Wanted: VUCA Leaders! Dealing with Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity

Our collective future is unfolding right before us as we experience dramatic global shifts, supply chain disruptions and new technologies. We’ve now accepted that many things will never go back to the way they were. 

Stop Trying to Be Everything to Everyone—Making Distinctions between Managing, Coaching, and Mentoring

Do you understand the difference between management, coaching and mentoring? Do you know how to conduct useful management, coaching, and mentoring conversation to address the needs of your employees.

Creating a Culture of Accountability

Workplaces are evolving so quickly. The hybrid/virtual work environment presents many challenges for leaders. and creating a culture of accountability in this dynamic space requires leaders to develop a new skill set. 

Inspiring Yourself When You’re Depleted

Choice, connection, and competence are the building blocks of psychological vitality. However, the world situation makes us feel that these building blocks are under siege. Consider your choices, your connection to others and how much you’re learning.

Building Trust by Sitting on The Same Side of The Table

Let’s talk about why we don’t trust each other. If you are vulnerable to the actions of another, then trust is required. You have two choices when presented with relationship risk: you can withhold trust to protect yourself, or you can extend trust.

The Power of Micro-Innovations

It requires the willingness to be wrong; to fail; to be resilient, and micro-innovation also requires ambition and fearlessness. Groundbreaking innovation takes lots of people and often small and incremental changes. How do we best micro-innovate?

Game Time for VR Leadership Development

What makes VR so powerful? It’s powerful because it results in unmatched retention and behavioural change. In scientific terms it creates episodic learning. 

Five Ways to Carry On Through Challenging Times 

What’s your purpose? Know this and keep yourself on life’s track. In this blog we visit the five core principles of power that can be easily applied by anyone struggling to keep on track.

Keeping Your Best People from Resigning

Are you reassessing your priorities because of COVID? Are you looking for something new? The pandemic has unleashed a wave of work resignations. Can business owners afford this cost? We share six strategies to stem the tide of departures.

Becoming a Trusted Servant Leader 

A lot of people say that, keeping your commitment to your commitment is the toughest thing. How do you turn good intentions into new leadership habits? Ken Blanchard and Randy Conley set this as one of their goals to address in their new book.

2022 Learning and Development Trends: 3 Key Insights 

People are exhausted and professional development has suffered. This is one of the key findings of our 2021 L&D professionals survey. Has the pandemic affected your ability to learn? We discuss the results of the data analysis and summarise the survey's key insights.

We Don’t Have a Crisis of Trust – We Have a Crisis of Untrustworthy Leaders 

We have a crisis of untrustworthy leaders. Are your institutions acting is such a way that causes you to trust or distrust the them? Leadership sets the tone for an organisation’s culture and performance and it’s there we need greater accountability for leading in trustworthy ways. 

2022 Trends: Deep Emotional Change and More Compassionate Leadership

Have you reevaluated your work life? Have you adapted to the shifting needs and realities of your people? Many of us are struggling with this, but we still have to get the balance between people and results. The learning environment is changing too and the best leadership development programs are also evolving. 

4 Types of Team Conflict—And How to Deal With Each Effectively

Differences are inevitable when passionate people work together. As a leader it’s important to differentiate between the different types of conflict teams experience and to have a plan for helping the team move forward. 

Creating More Community in 2022

It can bring joy and fulfilment that simply isn’t possible in the virtual world. When planned safely and well a major good thing about coming to the office is that it can spark creativity–and sharpen our collaborative and social skills and creates a collective energy even greater than the sum of its individual energies.

How Sales Managers Can Help New Hires

Some 41% of the global workforce is “considering leaving their employer in the current year”. This turnover comes at a staggering cost. The cost of the investment, the long lead time before success, the risk of a salesperson quitting, and the opportunities lost along the way are significant. 

The Highest Performing Teams Have These 4 Mindsets

It doesn’t happen by accident. We are talking about leading productive, effective teams, leveraging the strengths of team members, addressing cross-functional challenges, and getting work done. Our research and experience has shown that high performance teams exhibit a mindset that sets them apart. 

Real Talk About Leading Hybrid Teams

Are you after some straight-up, real talk about leading hybrid teams? Here it is. In this blog we name the single most important foundation for leading a successful hybrid team. We identify mistakes to avoid, help you deal with team meetings, manage expectations, performance management, proximity bias and more.

Crafting Your Own Personal SWOT Matrix

Simple and user friendly, a SWOT analysis is an effective personal strategic planning tool. Crafting your personal SWOT matrix is a powerful technique that can be used when you are seeking a career change or facing a major shift in your life. Here are three steps to get started.

Want to Lead a Successful Change? Involve Your People

People don't actually resist change. They resist being controlled. High involvement in the change process by those who will be impacted by the change lessens their feelings of being controlled and builds momentum for the needed change. Do you have the skills to encourage people to buy into change?

Don’t Stigmatise Your Learners

It doesn’t happen by accident. We are talking about leading productive, effective teams, leveraging the strengths of team members, addressing cross-functional challenges, and getting work done. Our research and experience has shown that high performance teams exhibit a mindset that sets them apart. 

4 Keys to Realising Your Authentic Leadership Presence

Are you able to command a room? Do you possess that “Leadership Presence”? When we are with someone who possesses leadership presence, we feel it, know it, admire it, and want it for ourselves. In this blog we discuss how you can realise your authentic leadership presence.

Trust – You’ve Got To Give It Before You Get It

Do you withhold trust in order to protect yourself, or you can extend trust in the hope it will be reciprocated? Reciprocation is a key factor in the development of trust. Are you courageous enough to extend trust to your stakeholders with the positive expectation they will reward your trust by responding in kind?

Communicating Constructively in Challenging Times

When conversations get challenging do you, avoid conflict, or pull out all stops to win? We all get triggered; the trick is to catch your emotional reaction to what someone is saying and consciously choose a balanced response. In this blog we talk about the “Sweet Spot”. 

3 Strategies for Leading Yourself Through Challenging Times

Are you feeling stuck? Is a feeling of helplessness curtailing your positive energy? COVID has changed so many aspects of our home and work lives. In this blog we share three principles that can help you get unstuck and moving forward again.

Succeeding in a COVID-Disrupted Work Environment

Has your business been disrupted because of COVD? Some have described their business world as severely changed. In this blog we visit our just completed webinar series and highlight some of the key points and action steps that were shared.

The 3 Mind Shifts (and 4 Skills) to Effectively Lead Hybrid Teams

Hybrid teams can be really exciting. Since COVID, the big difference is the sheer volume of people looking to work either full time or part time from home. A big lesson learned is that both individuals and organisations can be far more productive when people work from home at least part time. 

Amid Constant Change, 3 Fundamentals of Leadership Remain the Same

Monumental change is happening in workplaces all over the world, but leaders must be as consistent as ever in the basics of supporting and caring for their people.  Here we visit 3 leadership fundamentals for helping your people and your organisation to thrive.

Legendary Customer Service: As Important as Ever

In this day and age, sales is a tough business—but customer service doesn’t have to be. Research shows that customers return because of the way the people or organisation providing the product or service make customers feel—before, during, and after the transaction. Sounds simple enough, right?

Don’t Forget Self Care: Four Ways to Take Better Care of Yourself

Is your energy tank running low?  Will you tough it out? Or, do you follow the old adage all travellers know: always put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others. We make choices every day that can either promote or hinder our well being.

Returning to the Office Provides an Opportunity to Demonstrate Trust

Sending people home at the start of the pandemic was a great trust experiment. The good news is the ‘experiment’ was a great success! As time moves on do we continue to build in this direction or do we go back to what was? 

6 Strategies to Build Trust in Your Post-Pandemic, Return to The Office Plan

With COVID restrictions beginning to ease organisations have already announced plans to return employees back to the office full-time. Some are looking at a hybrid arrangement while most are still trying to gain clarity on their post-pandemic plans. 

Rediscovering Servant Leadership: 3 Key Practices

Maria Pressentin, Head of Learning and Organisational Development at The Ken Blanchard Companies hopes the three principles discussed in this blog will help you not only in your own leadership studies but also as you consider servant leadership for your organisation.

Don’t Call It Return-to-Work—Call It a Needed Conversation

Is it time for your organisation to return-to-office—and to what degree should you accommodate employee preference. How do you develop a strategy that both addresses safety and shapes policy? How do you flex and have conversations with your employees when preference and policy aren’t aligned? 

Succeeding with Your Post-COVID Re-entry Plan

The success of your return-to-work plan will be decided by your employee and manager cultures. If they want it to happen, it will happen. If they don’t, nothing will happen. You need your culture to roll with you, protect both return-to-work and future-of-work strategies. 

Overcoming Assumed Constraints: Activating Your Points of Power

Do you have stuff that gets in your way to achieve your professional dreams? Do they get you down and limit your ability to achieve your gaols? There are ways forward. In this blog we identify skills you can master to help you get out of your head and get out of your own way.

Leading from a Distance: One Year Post COVID

Remote working will not go away after COVID, and organisations will need to transform how they manage their workforce in several important areas. With the number of employees permanently working from home to double from pre-COVID times are you ready to lead from a distance?

Becoming a Best Boss

People typically describe their best boss as someone who always had their best interests at heart, set them up to win, and was caring, motivating, and empowering. Are you a boss who is prepared to help your people at the level they need. 

Servant Leadership: 11 Questions to See If People Would Consider You a Servant Leader

If you’re here to be served, you think leadership is all about you. You expect people to follow and obey, you don’t see any need for feedback or discussion, and you believe it’s your job to keep people accountable then this blog is not for you.

Engaging in Your Employees’ Development

Are you a stakeholder who could increase your involvement in your employees’ development? Or perhaps you are an employee who could benefit from more attention from your manager regarding your development?

Use the CARE Model to Serve Customers at a Higher Level

When an organisation delivers with such excellence and consistency that its service reputation becomes a competitive edge, that’s Legendary Service. It starts with leaders serving their people at the highest level, so that people on the front line can in turn serve their customers at the highest level. 

Use 5 Coaching Skills for Navigating Organisational Change

Taking a coaching approach to navigate organisational change could increase success with your next change effort. In this blog we focus on some tools a leader can use when managing a team through change.

Are You a Servant Leader and Don’t Know It?

Robert Greenleaf first coined the term servant leadership in 1970 and published widely on the concept for the next twenty years. Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela are examples of great leaders who practiced this philosophy. 

Leading Change? Keep These 3 Personality Traits in Balance

Leaders who succeed at leading change cultivate courage, patience, and determination in the right amounts, at the right time. In this blog we ask you to consider these three traits in your own change efforts.

3 Prerequisites for Earning the Right to Coach Others

In today’s workplace, business leaders are encouraged to coach their direct reports. To do this, leaders must develop a coaching mindset—a mindset that looks for the potential in others. 

Don’t Forget to Address These Five Concerns When Leading Change

People who are going to be impacted by a change should be involved in planning and implementing the change. High involvement strategies will increase the odds that you will be successful.

The Leader as Coach — 4 Ways to Develop a Coaching Mindset

In today’s workplace, business leaders are encouraged to coach their direct reports. To do this, leaders must develop a coaching mindset—a mindset that looks for the potential in others. 

5 Ways Coaching Can Support Leadership & Development

Like most leaders, you may be struggling to find the best way to lead your people right now. Making tough decisions and taking on new challenges singlehandedly can be especially difficult. Having the encouraging support of others now is needed more than ever before. 

Rules, Yes—but use Compassion and Common Sense

Is your business customer focused? Is your business innovative, adaptive and creative when it comes to customer service? Or is it like what Patricia Overland experienced at her supermarket.

Don’t Make Assumptions About Team Behaviour

Have you had team leadership experience? Was it a positive experience? Leading a successful team requires clarity, communication, and a process. Unfortunately, most people have never been trained in any of these. In this blog we identify the skills you need for your team to succeed.

Creating A Compelling Vision for Your Team

Good leadership starts with a vision. If you don’t know where you’re going, your leadership doesn’t matter. If your team is working without a vision, take the time to create one. This blog explains why investing in the creation of one is a good idea.

Presenting Your Training Initiative to the CFO

As gatekeeper of the financials, it’s the CFO’s job to ask the questions. It’s your job as the learning and development professional to come prepared when presenting to the CFO for budget allocation for training initiatives. How do we increase the odds of CFO approval? 

7 Ways to Promote Healthy Team Debate

Do you confuse collaboration with simply getting along or being polite? Do you shy away from conflict or debate? Are you afraid to speak your truth? 

Stepping Boldly into 2021

 What are the strategies that leadership, learning, and talent development professionals can use to guide their organisations to greater success in 2021?

5 Reasons You Need an Accountability Partner

An accountability partner can make the difference between someone who succeeds in their professional growth and development and someone who loses focus. 

An Open Letter to L&D Leaders: Reflections on the 2021 Trends Report

Your responses and comments painted such a vivid picture of the past year. It’s clear that so many of you took the hero’s journey, overcoming challenge after challenge in 2020.

Learning and Development Trends for 2021

One thousand leadership, learning, and talent development professionals took part in The Ken Blanchard Companies’ 2021 HR/L&D Trends Survey. The analysis of the data is complete.

Diversity Beyond Lip Service by La’Wana Harris

True change will take place only when people make a fundamental shift in how they approach diversity. Want to be part of the solution?

5 Strategies for Surfacing and Resolving Concerns about Change

How do managers and leaders cope with the barrage of changes that confront them daily as they attempt to keep their organisations adaptive and viable? 

Manager as Coach: Honouring Personal Intuition

The skill of coaching is not one that comes naturally to most of us, but it’s a competence most leaders can learn and master. There are tools to help. 

4 Ways To Gain Power and Use It For Good

The way we use power is what determines its value. But what is power? How do we get it? And once we have it, how do we keep it? Are you interested to develop and sustain power in a way that allows you to influence others to make a positive difference? 

COVID Has Set the Stage for L&D Reinvention

COVID-19 has caused a lot of less-than-optimal virtual training to be developed. However, to create truly memorable learning experiences, we need to be thinking about more complex architectures that look at ways to maximise existing resources and technologies. 

4 Ways to Provide Individual Attention Like a Coach

For most, if not all organisations, their employees are their number one asset. This makes the wellbeing, the engagement of employees very important. 

4 Keys to Great Customer Service

Do you consider taking care of customers is the responsibility of every person, not just people who work on the front line of your business? Most businesses recognise the need for great customer service–but few really get it right. 

It’s Time for a Trust Tune-Up with Your Remote Team

Whether your team has performed with flying colours during this pandemic, or if they are clearly in need of help, there is no better time than now to do a trust tune-up. The only way to know if your team has high trust is if you measure it. 

Leadership Development: Finding Your Place in the Digital Future

COVID-19 saw a rapid change from face to face to virtual production in the learning community, and not all learners responded favourably to what was created for them. It’s important to step back and consider all of your design options.

Creating Authentic Executive Presence

Our true authentic self already exists within each of us. Are you on your career path following your true internal compass? Not sure? This article may provide some clarity.

Your Managers May Not Be As Trusted As You Think They Are

How can an organisation have a problem with low trust yet none of its leaders consider themselves untrustworthy? Are you as trustworthy as you think you are? Are you ready to learn?

The Power of Clear Expectations–Identify What and Who

When leaders set clear expectations, outcomes are much more likely to hit the mark. And it’s just as important for leaders to set milestones en route to the outcome. 

Developer of Others: The Leadership Competency That Makes the Difference

It is an accepted truth that training is more effective when the manager is involved. How can managers support direct reports who are going through a learning and development or coaching journey?

6–Week Online Class Provides Better Experience than 1–day Classroom Design, says Industry Expert

 By creating a richer experience technology enables the mindset and provides the skillset to put the new learning into action.

5 Keys to Leading in the Great Acceleration

“Compared with the Industrial Revolution, we estimate that this change is happening ten times faster and at 300 times the scale, or roughly 3,000 times the impact.” What change are they talking about and how does this effect leadership? 

Learn How to Master Your Motivation with Susan Fowler

Do you ever wonder why you reach some goals easily and struggle with others? In her latest book Susan Fowler fashioned a condensed description of three basic needs we must create in our lives in order to master our motivation. 

4 Key Elements of Emotional Intelligence–A Coach’s Perspective

How good are you at adapting your behaviours and leadership styles to create productive interactions? 

15 Attributes of Great Managers

What are some of the attributes a great manager should either have of be working on? Here is a list of 15 attributes that serves as a good starting point.

The Coronavirus: An Unexpected Opportunity to Change the Way We Change

The coronavirus pandemic upended our world in a matter of weeks but it has acted like a microscope by magnifying how courageous, curious, agile, and resilient we (individuals and organisations!) can be.

Building Your Conversational Capacity

“In our rapidly changing world, everyone's scrambling to figure out how to work together in this new context. How do we work together in a virtual environment? How do we provide valuable service to our customers?  

3 Ways to Meet People Where They Are on New Tasks and Processes

Conversation is the secret to productivity–clear goals, people aligned on performance, and being able to diagnose and then give what is needed to ensure they get the job done

The Best Way to Show You Care during Difficult Times

The best bosses care about each direct report as a person. They see something the person doesn’t see in themselves. That’s especially important today with everything we are facing in our lives. 

The Top 5 Characteristics of Servant Leaders

In their academic paper identifying primary characteristics of Servant Leadership, researchers  share the results of a Delphi study they conducted with scholars in the field of servant leadership.