I was reading the State of Business Podcasting 2025 report last week. It analyses the Top 100 Business Podcasts on Apple Podcasts, reviewing over 70 data points per show to understand how leading business podcasts operate. It is descriptive, not prescriptive, offering trends which might help inform strategic decision making. I looked at this from… Read More Audio Advantages
The 2026 Global Sentiment Survey is open, and if you work in L&D it’s worth the two minutes it takes to complete. The 2025 results told a clear story. AI didn’t fade after the initial hype. It grew again and reached the highest score the survey has ever recorded. Every country and every workspace put… Read More What’ll be hot
The 16–18-year-olds in a fascinating Demos report published last week are about to enter the workplace. They are not the “Gen Z” that’s been written about for the last decade. They’re something else. They’re Gen Z 2.0: hyper-stimulated, algorithm-shaped, politically sceptical and raised on feeds that never stop. They’re younger than the iPhone. This matters… Read More When Gen Z 2.0 Enters Work
As part of the thinking in my new book, I’d re-floating the idea of L&D as a broker. Brokerage is a new skill in modern L&D and we rarely name it. It’s the work between the request and the decision. You listen, interpret, challenge, redirect, and guide people to the option that actually solves the… Read More Strategic Brokerage
Running my own business reminds me there is ALWAYS something to do. It’s so easy to keep switched on and busy that when it does get busy, you find yourself working even harder. Last week I got ahead of a project and was waiting for responses. Not urgent, nothing major, but I’d blocked time out… Read More On Pausing
Lost and Desperate 