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Middle managers (MMs) are once again on the chopping block. They account for 30% of laid off workers and are now viewed as organisational bloat. But is laying them off en masse a smart decision?

It’s frightfully fun to spook someone out with the occasional prank, but leading with fear will turn your workplace into a truly haunted house.

Leadership these days is not for the faint of heart. It requires managers and leaders to up their game when it comes to their leadership skills. Leaders need to be much more flexible and agile in today's environment.

Blanchard has just sent out invitations for its 2025 HR / L&D Trends Survey to identify the top challenges leadership, learning, and talent development professionals expect to face. How will 2025 results compare with this year’s?

“To be successful with learning journeys, you have to leverage what we know about the ways people learn best,” says Blanchard solutions architect April O’Malley. “That means creating a series of spaced, cohort-based, multimodal learning experiences to build the mindsets and skill sets necessary for measurable professional growth.

Neuroscience isn’t rocket science. It’s harder, because it’s about the human brain. While the laws of physics are straightforward (if hard to grasp for most of us), the laws that govern how brain chemistry affects human behaviour are much more subject to variation. With the advent of the fMRI machine in 2000, the study of the brain exploded—and with it, a lot of old myths about the brain were debunked. Here are six such myths that are particularly relevant to learning professionals.

The research is clear: Nothing fuels an organisation’s success like a well-trained workforce. But how do people learn best?

Leadership experts Ken Blanchard and Randy Conley are on a mission to make common sense common practice when it comes to bringing out the best in people at work.

The world of leadership and organisational development has rapidly evolved over the past 45 years since Blanchard’s founding as Blanchard Training and Development. Serving as a showcase of best practices across that entire span of time, the Blanchard Leadership Summit has set the stage for evaluating technological advancements, identifying workforce expectations, and advancing next-generation strategic imperatives.

Dear Madeleine, I am really worried that my company is going to replace my entire team of graphic artists with AI...

Our intent as leaders is important, but what really counts is taking action.

Senior leadership teams rise and fall with trust.

Focusing only on senior leaders or product developers sidelines the majority of people from making valuable contributions to their teams and companies. Everyone has something useful to contribute. Innovation should be a regular occurrence in the workplace—one that leaders embrace and encourage.

Leaders today are incredibly overstretched. They don’t have any additional time to provide the direction and support their people need, even though they would like to and they know it would help. Yet, they are often disappointed by the performance of some of their people. How do leaders bridge this gap? By taking a situational approach and providing the right level of direction when needed and the right level of support when needed.

Innovation continues to be a topic of ongoing interest among HR and L&D professionals, because the ability to inspire it is crucial to a leader’s—and an organisation’s—success.

The term innovation is one of those corporate buzzwords we’ve all heard so much that it can fly right over our heads. But it’s worth focusing on—because, like oxygen to human beings, innovation is required to keep businesses alive.

Our comprehensive investigation into the application of large language models and generative AI has revealed a promising horizon for leadership development and managerial effectiveness. Using this approach, here is how we see the strategic application of AI unfolding in four key areas.

Grace isn’t a word you often hear in a corporate setting. That’s unfortunate, because it’s a requirement for success of any kind—especially when it comes to innovating.

At Blanchard, as we continue to explore new AI possibilities in the Innovation Lab, we are also developing and clarifying best practices to effectively work with this new technology. Here are four strategies that guide our planning. See how these principles could be put to work in your exploration of AI possibilities.

Everyone in today’s work environment agrees—we all need more time, more resources, and clear priorities...