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A key topic for great leadership, right now.

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The latest ideas and fresh thinking from around the world.

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Recent Hot Topics
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From Policy to Practice: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion as Core Strategy

How structural insight, clear purpose, and practical system design drive Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

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From Policy to Practice:  Equality, Diversity and Inclusion as Core Strategy

Coaching and AI: Presence, Progress and Possibility
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Coaching and AI: Presence, Progress and Possibility

Artificial intelligence is beginning to shape how we learn, lead, and coach. From supporting personal reflection to helping organisations offer coaching at scale, AI can add real value to the coaching process when used with care. This Hot Topic explores how AI can be used to support goal setting, increase access, and personalise development, while ensuring that trust and connection remain central to the coaching experience.

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Coaching and AI: Presence, Progress and Possibility

Time for a Fresh Look at Sustainability
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Time for a Fresh Look at Sustainability

In 2025, sustainability isn’t a buzzword - it’s a baseline. Yet for all the noise, much of the global still relies on earlier models: reduce emissions, manage waste, and publish an ESG report. But while the world around us becomes more complex, and unpredictable, sustainability needs to do more than just stay relevant; it needs to evolve.

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Time for a Fresh Look at Sustainability

AI in Team Leadership: 5 Key Challenges and the Opportunities They Unlock
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AI in Team Leadership: 5 Key Challenges and the Opportunities They Unlock

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been the subject of extensive debate and research, but how can it support effective leadership and teamwork? Can it enhance collaboration, drive innovation, and make leadership more human? This hot topic explores five key challenges leaders face in the AI era. We’ll explore how leaders can balance AI insights with human judgement, foster innovation, and redefine roles in AI-augmented workplaces to unlock AI’s full potential to drive team success.

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AI in Team Leadership: 5 Key Challenges and the Opportunities They Unlock

Core Concepts in Organisational Design
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Core Concepts in Organisational Design

This research examines core concepts in organisational design and their relationship to strategy. Drawing on established models and recent evidence, it highlights how structure, governance, and culture enable or constrain strategic execution. It positions organisational design as a strategic lever, demonstrating why senior leaders must actively shape design choices to build resilience, agility, and sustained performance.

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Core Concepts in Organisational Design

Complex Facilitation Introduction
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Complex Facilitation Introduction

Complex facilitation helps groups work productively in uncertain, adaptive systems. It blends process design, relationship work and real-time sense making so people can learn, coordinate and adapt without pretending complexity is controllable. Facilitators connect evidence, context and people, balance fidelity with tailored change, and grow capability in others through mentoring and reflective practice. The aim is not consensus at any cost but safe, informed progress and better decisions.

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Complex Facilitation Introduction

Learner-centred Design
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Learner-centred Design

Learner-centred design focuses on the needs, goals and contexts of learners, then builds learning tasks, feedback and tools around those realities. It is not a single method, but a set of principles used to align outcomes, activities and assessment with how people actually work and learn. Definitions vary across settings, so clarity of terms and a flexible approach are essential in practice (Gupta, 2022; Bremner, 2021; Laurillard and Derntl, 2014).

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Learner-centred Design

70/20/10 Model
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70/20/10 Model

The 70/20/10 model frames how adults develop capability at work: around 70 percent through role-based stretch, 20 percent via social learning such as coaching, and 10 percent through structured education. It is best understood as a design heuristic that guides organisations in shaping experiences, culture and programmes into an integrated learning ecosystem; not as a rigid budget or time split (Johnson et al., 2018; Harding, 2022; Petterd, 2016).

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70/20/10 Model

Strategic Performance Management
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Strategic Performance Management

This article explores strategic performance management as the process of aligning long-term strategy with daily operations. It examines six key aspects: alignment, goal setting, measurement, monitoring, culture and adaptability. The discussion is supported by established theories and models, including the Balanced Scorecard, Management by Objectives, Goal Setting Theory, and the Resource-Based View.

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Strategic Performance Management

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Better Management Training, Better Results

Better Management Training, Better Results

Our professional development courses are available to individuals or teams. Funded via the apprenticeship levy, the UK’s government apprenticeship scheme.

Essential Training to Grow Your Small Business

Essential Training to Grow Your Small Business

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The Apprenticeship Levy, now in its third year, can on the face of it appear complex and inflexible and is often overlooked as a solution to recurring HR and L&D challenges. The good news is, the Levy doesn’t have to be disruptive at all.

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