News stories from News features in 2025

Building learning communities

News features | 11 Nov 2025

Building communities has become one of the most important, and most difficult, areas for learning and development. Nahdia Khan joins Learning News with her insights into how to get it right.

The Empathy Problem

News features | 05 Nov 2025

Empathy is often celebrated as a leadership strength, the skill that builds trust, engagement and better teams. But what happens when there’s too much of it?

Industrial relations training

News features | 21 Oct 2025

Businesses urged to rebuild lost capabilities in employee relations; Interview with Steve Webster, Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution.

Training Journal 60th Anniversary

News features | 14 Oct 2025

To celebrate six decades supporting workplace learning, TJ is hosting a one-day conference in London this November.

AI in Learning Report 2025

News features | 30 Sep 2025

Eglė Vinauskaitė and Donald H Taylor join Learning News to present their 2025 research into how learning and development is using artificial intelligence.

Learning evaluation: obsessed with ROI?

News features | 25 Sep 2025

Chris Wigglesworth, Founder of learning evaluation provider, Coursecheck, says L&D is too focused on measuring ROI calculations and greater focus is needed on what drives outcomes.

Whitepaper explores why employees feel disengaged and how organisations can rethink people enablement to restore energy, trust and connection at work; Interview with authors, Olivia Haywood, Chief Marketing Officer and Josh Cardoz, Chief Creative & Learning Officer, Sponge.

Agentic AI to reshape sales enablement

News features | 23 Sep 2025

Imparta CEO Richard Barkey speaks to Learning News about the role of agentic AI in sales enablement and how the company’s latest i-Coach® AI release is designed to transform sales performance.

ESG Reporting Skills Gap

News features | 22 Sep 2025

Why is ESG reporting proving so difficult for organisations? Training strategy outlined in white paper from Kineo; Interview with Marketing Manager, Celine Dang.

L&D Employment: ‘Open to Work’

News features | 15 Sep 2025

The number of learning and development professionals looking for work in the UK has risen sharply in 2025. L&D recruiter, Nick Jones, Blue Eskimo, has the statistics and joins Rob Clarke on Learning News.