Training Journal

31/10/2025

TJ interviews: Joshua Wohle on AI in the workplace, revealing what leaders are missing

In this interview by Mark Matthews, Mindstone CEO Joshua Wohle explains why AI mastery starts with mindset. He challenges the automation-first thinking, makes the case for live demos, and, importantly, shares how leaders can rewire their workflows to unlock AI’s full potential: strategically, safely, and at the speed of experimentation.

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30/10/2025

Why your first 90 days in L&D should focus on rhythm, not results

New to L&D? Kanishka shares a three-phase rhythm (listen, learn, lead) to help L&D professionals start strong and avoid burning out. Adapted from the book A Simple Methodology for Life, this 90-day approach builds confidence, credibility and calm through small, purposeful actions and reflection at each stage of the journey.

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29/10/2025

TJ Newsflash 29 October – AI skills gap, mentoring impact, bias, and inclusion

The latest L&D news, reports, research and updates, personally compiled by TJ’s Editor, Jo Cook. This week: AI powers science while replacing workers, L&D remains unheard, HR faces burnout, engagement falls, care workers overworked. The pressure is real — and the solutions? Still emerging. Explore what’s driving change across international

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29/10/2025

Rewriting the leadership playbook: Why burnout is a system failure

Burnout isn’t a flaw in individuals; it’s a warning light for broken systems. Mia Serra and Claudie Plen-McCormack argue that leadership and culture must evolve to prioritise inclusion, psychological safety and sustainable performance. Without structural change, well-being initiatives remain surface-level fixes in complex environments that continue to overstretch and exclude.

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28/10/2025

The Training Officer August 1968

To mark its 60th year, TJ revisits the earliest edition in the archives, a magazine that shaped the early training profession. With striking parallels to today’s challenges, the issue tackled assessment reform, human skills, community and more. The values of evidence, critique and collaboration still resonate across learning and development.

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28/10/2025

The AI acceleration of careers: Why the next generation of managers will arrive sooner than we think

AI is transforming early careers, not by eliminating them, but by accelerating them. John Schneider explores how companies like PwC are rethinking onboarding and leadership development, equipping new hires to supervise AI from day one. The challenge? Ensuring tomorrow’s leaders don’t miss the vital learning today’s grunt work once offered.

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27/10/2025

Learning as infrastructure: The rise of the capability operating system

By 2035, skills graphs, adaptive learning, and trustworthy analytics will turn corporate learning into a true capability operating system. From course catalogs to capability supply chains, learning leaders must build now to thrive in the next decade. Dr. Ravinder Tulsiani looks at how AI and ecosystems will redefine corporate learning.

By 2035, skills graphs, adaptive learning, and trustworthy analytics will turn corporate learning into a true capability operating system. From course catalogs to capability supply chains, learning leaders must build […]

27/10/2025

The next five years in L&D will change everything

L&D is undergoing its biggest shift in decades. At World of Learning 2025, 17 experts shared bold, insightful answers on what’s coming next. From AI to skills strategies and culture shifts, Kirstie Greany explores what the profession must prioritise to stay human, strategic and impactful over the next five years.

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23/10/2025

We don’t need more learning, we need more practice

Why capability demands rehearsal, not just retention: Practice builds capability, but it’s still missing from much of workplace learning. Helen Routledge argues that L&D has become too focused on content delivery, overlooking the psychological realities of how people truly learn. Without meaningful rehearsal, learning won’t stick, and performance won’t follow.

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22/10/2025

TJ Newsflash 22 October – Workforce in flux: cooling growth, hot demand, and a quiet skills showdown

The latest L&D news, reports, research and updates, personally compiled by TJ’s Editor, Jo Cook. This week: From AI burnout to a brewing skills standoff, the paradoxical 2026 workforce: hiring is slowing, yet the need for specialised and adaptable talent is surging. We unpack the data shaping tomorrow’s talent strategies.

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22/10/2025

Trust, talent and the tightrope of skip-level leadership

Srideep Sarkar explores the complex, often overlooked role of skip-level managers. Far from being passive observers, they must balance influence with restraint, strategy with empathy. From avoiding the saviour complex to nurturing talent indirectly, this is a guide to leading large teams without weakening leadership layers that hold them together.

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21/10/2025

How AI is transforming whistleblower culture at work

Shannon Walker explores how AI-powered whistleblowing platforms can close the trust gap in traditional reporting systems. With L&D professionals playing a key role in enabling psychological safety, these digital tools offer smarter, more confidential ways to speak up—transforming how organisations address misconduct and build cultures of transparency and accountability. Artificial

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