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Insights and ideas

All the years spent helping organisations to address their skills challenges haven’t just made our Skills Symphony members experts in providing high-class learning services. They’ve also built their reputations as a valuable source of insights into the latest trends affecting the learning and skills market; the challenges and opportunities that currently exist; and the factors that are likely to shape how workplace learning will be delivered in the future.

From research reports and white papers through to market commentaries, advice guides and blogs, we’ve curated a selection of their published materials here, showcasing the breadth of subject matter expertise available through Skills Symphony.

Insights and ideas

  • Leadership for our time: Critical capabilities in the GenAI era

    Generative AI is rapidly defining a new model for leadership that demands different and even counterintuitive skills and approaches, state Cambridge Judge’s AI experts.

  • From talk to transformation – the art of effective facilitation

    Facilitation, training and teaching are not the same thing – and the subtle differences between the three can matter more than you might think when delivering learning.

  • Why access to education is the key to business success

    One of the best ways that companies can empower women and under-represented groups across the workforce is by ensuring access to education and continuous learning opportunities.

  • The exponential power of experiential learning

    Just the right amount of discomfort to create ‘sticky learning’: behind the scenes with Hult Ashridge, the pioneers of experiential learning within leadership and organisational development.

  • Trust, attitudes and use of Artificial Intelligence: A global study 2025

    AI adoption may be on the rise but trust remains a critical challenge, claims one of the most wide-ranging global studies into the public’s relationship with AI.

  • Observations on modern day leadership

    Leadership development experts explore the challenges of the modern-day leadership landscape and how organisations can help prepare their leaders to thrive within it.

  • What is effective line management?

    Roffey Park explore whether effective line management has changed since Covid or if its basic principles remain the same as ever.

  • The UK must lead on data to unlock AI’s full potential

    By improving data publication practices and investing in long-term infrastructure, the UK can position itself as a global leader in data provision for AI, claims the ODI.

  • The ethical use of AI agents in defence and national security

    Artificial intelligence has the potential to reshape our national defence posture in unprecedented ways, raising ethical concerns about how to deploy it safely and responsibly.

  • The engagement engine: driving a learning culture

    Today’s learners can be overwhelmed by content in an ‘attention economy’ where focus is an increasingly scarce resource. A new approach to learner engagement is required.

Insights and ideas

  • Leadership for our time: Critical capabilities in the GenAI era

    Generative AI is rapidly defining a new model for leadership that demands different and even counterintuitive skills and approaches, state Cambridge Judge’s AI experts.

  • From talk to transformation – the art of effective facilitation

    Facilitation, training and teaching are not the same thing – and the subtle differences between the three can matter more than you might think when delivering learning.

  • Why access to education is the key to business success

    One of the best ways that companies can empower women and under-represented groups across the workforce is by ensuring access to education and continuous learning opportunities.

  • The exponential power of experiential learning

    Just the right amount of discomfort to create ‘sticky learning’: behind the scenes with Hult Ashridge, the pioneers of experiential learning within leadership and organisational development.

  • Trust, attitudes and use of Artificial Intelligence: A global study 2025

    AI adoption may be on the rise but trust remains a critical challenge, claims one of the most wide-ranging global studies into the public’s relationship with AI.

  • Observations on modern day leadership

    Leadership development experts explore the challenges of the modern-day leadership landscape and how organisations can help prepare their leaders to thrive within it.

  • What is effective line management?

    Roffey Park explore whether effective line management has changed since Covid or if its basic principles remain the same as ever.

  • The UK must lead on data to unlock AI’s full potential

    By improving data publication practices and investing in long-term infrastructure, the UK can position itself as a global leader in data provision for AI, claims the ODI.

  • The ethical use of AI agents in defence and national security

    Artificial intelligence has the potential to reshape our national defence posture in unprecedented ways, raising ethical concerns about how to deploy it safely and responsibly.

  • The engagement engine: driving a learning culture

    Today’s learners can be overwhelmed by content in an ‘attention economy’ where focus is an increasingly scarce resource. A new approach to learner engagement is required.