This playbook is your strategic guide to transforming AI adoption from a training checkbox into a sustainable competitive advantage. Too many organizations rush into AI implementation without understanding why their teams struggle, resist, or abandon these powerful tools within weeks. We've distilled years of cognitive research and realworld implementation experience into three actionable parts that address the root causes of AI adoption failure. This isn't about teaching people to write prompts—it's about fundamentally reshaping how your organization thinks about and integrates artificial intelligence into daily workflows.

Modern sales isn't broken—it's outdated. This guide reveals how leading organizations are transforming sales enablement into a revenue-driving system.   What You’ll Learn Inside: Decoding the GTM Crisis - Uncover the root causes behind quota misses, rep churn, and buyer disengagement—and why traditional enablement can’t fix them. What High Performers Do Differently - See how high-performers align around buyer behavior, use diagnostics to guide coaching, and tie every rep motion to outcomes. Inside the ST&E Framework - Explore a modular system that connects onboarding, coaching, and enablement with real data and scalable execution. Real-World Results - From manufacturing to SaaS, learn how organizations are reducing churn by 31% and boosting attainment by 23%—by doing things differently. The ST&E Playbook is your first step toward commercial transformation. Download now and schedule your complimentary benchmark assessment to see where your team stands and where it can go.

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As AI rapidly reshapes how work gets done, most organizations are investing in tools without preparing their people, creating a growing gap between technology adoption and workforce readiness. This guide reframes AI transformation as a workforce challenge, not just a technical one, and introduces the concept of Workforce Reinvention, the strategic realignment of skills, roles, and culture required to thrive in an AI-powered business. Designed for HR, L&D, and people leaders, this guidebook outlines five essential requirements for closing the AI skills gap, navigating new role boundaries and compliance demands, and building an adaptive, future-ready workforce, grounded in research, real customer insights, and best practices from organizations leading the way.

You got into L&D to help people grow—not to chase down clicks and craft email campaigns. But in today’s workplace, even the best training programs need a marketing boost to succeed. That’s why we created the free step-by-step guide to marketing your training programs—built just for HR and L&D pros like you. Learn how to generate excitement, drive participation, and connect your employees with valuable skills they need. Inside, you’ll learn how to: Lay a strong foundation by getting crystal clear on your audience, training goals, and how you’ll measure success—so every effort ties back to purpose and impact. Build a smart strategy with practical guidance on messaging, gaining stakeholder buy-in, planning your campaign timeline, and choosing the right communication channels. Put your plan into action with a repeatable marketing cycle that makes it easy to launch, promote, and refine your training programs—without the overwhelm. Okay, maybe you didn’t sign up to be a full-time marketer—but learning just a few key strategies can help you connect people with the training that supports their success. And that’s how you build the kind of workplace you dreamed about when you first got into this field.  Download our 101 Guide to Marketing Training Programs today!

For decades, L&D added value by designing programs, building content, and delivering solutions on demand. That model worked when access to expertise was scarce, and learning creation required specialized teams. Today, that reality has changed. AI is rapidly automating much of what once defined traditional L&D solutioning, including content creation, personalization, curation, and even elements of instructional design. What used to take months can now happen in days. What once differentiated teams is quickly becoming a baseline expectation. In this new era, execution alone is no longer enough. The organizations that will continue to invest in L&D aren’t looking for teams that can simply build learning. They’re looking for partners who can help them think, decide, and act differently in a world of constant change. The examples that follow are drawn from composite scenarios based on common challenges we see across organizations. You know the pattern. A department head emails with a request: "We need training on time management. Can you build something by next quarter?" Your L&D team springs into action. They conduct a needs analysis, design engaging modules, and launch the program on schedule. Completion rates are decent. Satisfaction scores are fine. But six months later, nothing has changed. Meetings still run over. Deadlines are still missed. The department head is disappointed, your team is frustrated, and the cycle repeats, this time with a request for a communication skills course. This is the order-taker trap, and it’s the single biggest reason L&D functions struggle to drive business impact. You’re executing requests, not solving problems. You’re a service provider, not a strategic partner. The way out isn’t better instructional design. It’s a fundamental shift in operating mode: from order-taker to trusted advisor.

Keeping people’s attention has quietly become one of the hardest parts of presenting at work. Not because audiences don’t care — but because they’re operating inside environments designed to interrupt them. Notifications, messages, tabs, and meetings all compete for attention at the same time, making focus harder to sustain than ever before. The AhaSlide white paper The science of distraction explores what’s really happening to attention in today’s workplaces. Drawing on neuroscience, behavioural science, and original research with over 1,000 presenters, it separates popular myths from evidence — including the much-quoted "eight-second attention span" — and explains why attention hasn’t disappeared, but is constantly being pulled and switched. Learn how distraction affects learning, retention, productivity, and even presenter confidence and job satisfaction. It also explores why emotion, uncertainty, and participation play such a powerful role in helping ideas stick — and why presentations that invite involvement consistently outperform those that rely on information alone. Rather than simply blaming audiences, this paper provides a clearer, research- backed way to think about attention — and how presenters can design moments that gently pull people back into the room. Whether you’re a trainer, educator, team lead, or anyone who presents regularly, this whitepaper is a guide to understanding attention better — and creating presentations people actually remember.

For organizations driven by mission rather than profit, investing in training is not just about skill-building — it’s about maximizing impact and ensuring long-term sustainability. This guide delves into the strategies and tools needed to create a robust learning culture in nonprofit organizations.

Discover L&D insights that will inform your business strategy, improve your talent readiness and build the health of your leadership pipeline. Guided by 30,000+ learner-led AI conversations, global client trends and the expertise of Abilitie's VP of Engineering, our report reveals five predictions that will cut through the hype and help you focus on what will truly drive performance in 2026.

Learning and development (L&D) is evolving fast — powered by AI, data, and a new focus on personalization. You’re the one shaping how your people learn and grow, so use these shifts to upskill faster, engage employees longer, and prove ROI sooner. Use this checklist to get practical, proven ways to put the latest L&D trends into action at your organization.