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A key topic for great leadership, right now.

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Recent Hot Topics
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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

Case Law and the Impact on HR Strategy
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Case Law and the Impact on HR Strategy

Understanding case law is vital for HR leaders to make informed, compliant, and strategic decisions. This research explores how legal precedents shape HR policies, influence employee relations, and guide risk management. It demonstrates how strategic HR leaders translate case outcomes into organisational learning and ethical practice.

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Case Law and the Impact on HR Strategy

Employment Law Frameworks
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Employment Law Frameworks

Employment law frameworks underpin fair, ethical, and compliant workplace practices. For senior leaders, understanding these frameworks ensures strategic alignment between legal obligations and organisational goals. This research explores how employment legislation shapes HR strategy, leadership accountability, and organisational culture, providing practical insights for embedding compliance-driven, people-focused decision-making across complex business environments (Hasyim and Bakri, 2023).

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Employment Law Frameworks

Wellbeing at Work
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Wellbeing at Work

Creating a culture of wellbeing at work is more than a moral imperative; it is a strategic advantage. For Leaders, promoting holistic wellbeing drives engagement, innovation and sustainable performance. This article explores how strategic leadership and evidence-based practices can embed wellbeing into the organisational fabric, aligning people strategies with purpose to foster a thriving, high-performing workforce.

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Wellbeing at Work

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Become a Leader Your Employees Want To Follow

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Creating a Happier and Healthier Workforce

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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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Maximise your Apprenticeship Levy

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