Modern-day L&D done right.

The learning and development blog that sparks innovative ideas and gives you the insights to push the boundaries and take your strategy to the next level.

Innovation and inspiration

20 ways to use AI in L&D

How to harness Artificial Intelligence tools to provide real business impact

Matthew Oliver Head of Product

Learner Engagement

A Winning Strategy

Onboarding, Training, and Developing Employees for Retention in Today's Economy

Gary Evans VP of Customer Success

Compliance

Doing the impossible: how to make compliance training fun

5 ways to truly engage your learners in compliance training

Corrie Smith Copywriter

Compliance

Compliance Training: Safeguarding your company in today's world

Why you might just need compliance training now more than ever

Tom Trafford Acquisition Marketing Manager

Technology

5 AI tools for digital learning

ChatGPT is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to leveraging AI for L&D

Helen Marshall Chief Learning Officer

Stuart Broad Helen Marshall Level up Live 23

Innovation and inspiration

What the speakers at LEVEL UP LIVE ‘23 taught us about L&D

See the highlights from a day of innovation, inspiration and insight

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Employee training and skills

The 10 compliance KPIs you should be tracking in 2023

Make sure you are tracking these 10 KPIs to ensure your compliance training is working at maximum efficiency.

Ian Blackburn Head of Analytics

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Innovation and inspiration

7 steps to prioritising your L&D tasks

Modern L&D professionals have to be agile to deliver results against business objectives. Learn how to prioritise your tasks for maximum impact.

Matt Bristow Digital Marketing Specialist

Innovation and inspiration

4 steps to bring your learning platform back to life!

It's spring cleaning season, and we are sharing our top tips for decluttering your learning platform and bringing it back to life!

Steph Hopwood Customer Success Manager

Lady working at laptop with notebooks around her

Employee training and skills

Why investing in skills is your key to thriving, not just surviving

Cometh the hour, cometh the person who has been upskilled to a satisfactory level and can now complete whole new tasks.

Matt Bristow Digital Marketing Specialist

Innovation and inspiration

Devising your L&D budget during a downturn

In a continuation of our series on prepping L&D for rough economic trends, we’re covering our top tips for creating your budget for the year ahead.

Helen Marshall Chief Learning Officer

Innovation and inspiration

5 ways to use ChatGPT for workplace learning

Heard of ChatGPT? Of course you have! Here's five ways that the L&D community can use this cutting edge technology to enhance learner experience.

Matt Bristow Digital Marketing Specialist

Learning technology trends

Why L&D tech bloat is costing you money and how to stop it

Tech bloat is a multi billion dollar problem for companies around the globe. But how does this affect L&D and how can you combat it?

Ryan O'Connell Chief Operating Officer

Learning technology trends

How to stand up for your L&D budget

You shouldn’t have to, but there may come a time that you need to prove L&D is worth investing in. This article will help you do just that.

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Learning technology trends

5 ways your outdated LMS is costing you money

If you don’t think you have the budget to change your learning platform, you may be hurting you and your bottom line

Matt Bristow Digital Marketing Specialist

THRIVE news

THRIVE 2022 Wrapped

That’s a wrap. Another unforgettable year to reflect upon. But what story does the data tell? Well we’ve crunched the numbers to bring you our thoughts on the last year.

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Learning technology trends

L&D predictions for 2023 and beyond

Finalising your strategy for 2023? In this latest blog we take a step into the future and predict what’s going to be on the agenda for modern L&D teams to focus their efforts on next year.

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Clip of man saying "lessons have been learned"

Innovation and inspiration

L&D lessons from the gambling industry

In case you missed our webinar with Sophie Wood, L&D partner at Lottoland, we are recapping the core takeaways from the stellar session.

Matt Bristow Digital Marketing Specialist

Innovation and inspiration

3 tips to build a great learning strategy from retail beauty giant DECIEM

With high staff turnover and a bulk of time-pressed, frontline colleagues, carving out an effective learning & communications strategy in retail can be tricky, unless you know how.

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Content

Why supporting your employees goes beyond the workplace

How creating learning campaigns can help drive connections at work.

Helen Marshall Chief Learning Officer

Innovation and inspiration

10 L&D influencers you need to follow in 2023

As we near the end of a year jam-packed with innovation and transformation in L&D, we’re collecting our thoughts and honing in on the forward-thinking industry figures that we’ll be following in 2023. Scroll the list for some serious inspo!

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Innovation and inspiration

5 steps to reinvent your learning culture

The secret recipe for true learning culture transformation

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Learner Engagement

6 marketing principles L&D should know

Shine a light on your learning, engage your audiences and motivate them to drive their own development with these powerful marketing tips.

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Don Draper reacting to the phrase 'cut to hashtag'

Learner Engagement

7 marketing skills for learning and development

In true THRIVE fashion, you have probably seen us causing a tonne of noise around marketing your learning. But what marketing skills does your L&D team need to start driving increased engagement and awareness?

Matt Bristow Digital Marketing Specialist

Innovation and inspiration

Driving engagement by marketing your learning

You can’t just dump SCORM files into an LMS and expect it to be engaging. Take a leaf out of the marketing playbook to get your learners truly hyped up!

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

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THRIVE news

5 lessons for L&D from THRIVE LIVE ‘22

If you somehow missed it, our blockbuster customer event, THRIVE LIVE '22, was absolutely abuzz with innovation, inspiration and celebration of all things L&D. Check out the 7 lessons we learned from our host of amazing talks.

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Austin Powers stuck in hallway on a trolley

Innovation and inspiration

Want to switch learning platforms but stuck in contract? Here are 7 tips to help!

Being stuck in contract with an outdated provider doesn't mean you can't embrace the cutting edge of learning technology!

Ashley Parker Head of Implementation

Content

Ableism and how to challenge it

Discover what ableism is, where it may be present and how to challenge it.

Laura Gavin Copywriter

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Content

5 things to look for in a new content provider

When selecting a new content provider, here are the top five things you should keep an eye out for.

Georgina Newton Account Executive

I can't choose one. Well, you kind of have to.

Learning technology trends

The best sites to compare learning tech

Choosing a new learning platform? There’s a lot of BS out there when it comes to industry “experts”, so here are the best learning tech comparison sites you can trust.

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Employee training and skills

What is adaptive learning?

A look into what adaptive learning is, how it can benefit L&D teams and how it can help upskill and re-energise your learners.

Al Thompson Head of Content & Partnerships

Content

Thriving amid content chaos

How vendors should be supporting you to make better use of your content.

Helen Marshall Chief Learning Officer

How to use skills data for business success

Innovation and inspiration

How to use skills data for business success

THRIVE is revolutionising skill tracking for organisations, but how do you use this data to achieve your business goals?

Mark Ward Co-Founder

What should L&D be doing to build a fluid, dynamic skills strategy?

Employee training and skills

ICYMI: What should L&D be doing to build a dynamic, agile skills strategy?

Here’s our roundup of the best bits from the recent THRIVE panel discussion all about the future of skills

Richard Bailey Marketing Executive

A picture board displaying the word "change"

Learning and Skills Platform

5 questions to ask when changing Learning Platform

Having replaced almost every major LMS on the market, we know that it can feel daunting, and it’s tempting to stick with what feels familiar. So we’ve put together this list of things to consider if you’re thinking of switching yours.

Mark Ward Co-Founder

A group of people celebrating Pride under a pride flag

Innovation and inspiration

How to keep the Pride spirit all year round

Looking back on Pride Month, we explore how to go beyond rainbow washing your logo and create an inclusive workspace for all employees, all of the time.

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Employee training and skills

Soft Skills? No, they’re Power Skills

It’s time soft skills got a rebrand. Discover why soft skills are actually power skills.

Helen Marshall Chief Learning Officer

Employee training and skills

6 ways to boost internal mobility in your organisation

The Great Resignation. The war for talent. The candidate-driven market. Dynamic shifts in workplace trends are always going to be on the horizon, and employers are having to think harder about how they become a place where the best people want to spend their time and grow.

Helen Marshall Chief Learning Officer

How to create a measurable data strategy for L&D

Innovation and inspiration

ICYMI : Data Demystified

Despondent with your data or don’t even know where to start? As always, THRIVE’s got your back! Check out our Data Demystified video series to get the lowdown on what really matters when it comes to learning data.

Matt Bristow Digital Marketing Specialist

THRIVE news

Support at THRIVE: Unstoppable yet unsung. Let’s change that

Consistently brilliant. Often unsung. Support teams contribute so much to customer happiness, and at THRIVE, that’s never rung truer.

Matt Bristow Digital Marketing Specialist

Innovation and inspiration

4 steps to adopt an agile skills strategy

Evolving your skills strategy from top down to bottom up ⬆️

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Matt Damon saying "I have a particular set of skills"

Employee training and skills

What is an agile skills strategy?

Traditional skills strategies result in unhappy learners, unhappy managers and terrible datasets. It's time to upgrade to something better.

Mark Ward Co-Founder

THRIVE news

Our new vision for Learning & Skills, fine-tuned for modern businesses

The cat’s out the bag, our new vision for Learning & Skills is set, and it’s launching with an almighty bang at LT2022.

Helen Marshall Chief Learning Officer

THRIVE news

An open letter to customers: The future of THRIVE

Don't worry, we aren't asking for more money 😂

Sean Reddington CEO

A news anchors saying "Be better! No - be best!"

Innovation and inspiration

How to be a better learner

To learn new skills, you first have to learn how to learn. Explore how you can evaluate your learning process and streamline it, so you can learn better and faster.

Matt Bristow Digital Marketing Specialist

Innovation and inspiration

Success Measures 101

Between curating, creating and kickstarting your learning initiatives, it’s easy to forget they are supposed to have real impact on business goals. Superstar COO Ryan O'Connell breaks down how you can get started measuring success.

Ryan O'Connell Chief Operating Officer

Employee training and skills

Remote working: How to work from anywhere in the world

Covid-19 saw an increase in UK employees working from home. Here at THRIVE we have embraced a ‘Work from anywhere’ policy even before the pandemic.

Hayley Farrell Learning Insights Analyst

Content

Why off-the-shelf courses could be key to levelling up your L&D strategy

Discover how off the shelf courses could be the key to levelling up your L&D strategy and how to make sure the content you are buying matches what your learners need.

Helen Marshall Chief Learning Officer

Learning technology trends

Overrated LMS features you don't need anymore

Choosing your LMS involves weighing up a long list of features. So, which ones aren’t worth your money?

Josh Devanny Chief Sales Officer

Learning and Skills Platform

Why your vendor research shouldn’t stop at analysts

Another year. Another Fosway-9 grid. What else is new? It’s certainly not the data they collect.

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Employee training and skills

3 things the Great Resignation teaches us about L&D

Times are changing. The pandemic is forcing organisations to rethink how they approach their relationships with their employees and L&D is poised to take centre stage in shaping a new employee experience.

Matt Bristow Digital Marketing Specialist

Learning technology trends

Why you should care about sustainable learning

How to overcome challenges and reap the benefits of a sustainable learning approach to employee development.

Danny Braithwaite Account Executive

Learner Engagement

How do good managers engage their employees?

What helps your people feel engaged and drive them to do better work

Helen Marshall Chief Learning Officer

Innovation and inspiration

I have a dream: Martin Luther King Jr Day

A brief history of MLK and some of the things you can do support social change.

Chantal Rodriguez Technical Support Consultant

Innovation and inspiration

Beat the blues

Why wellbeing and mental health should be top of your L&D agenda in 2022

Al Thompson Head of Content & Partnerships

Innovation and inspiration

5 L&D New Year Resolutions you should have

Finalising your 2022 L&D strategy? Uncover our tips to make your 2022 learning initiatives the best yet.

Tracy Whitaker Customer Success Lead

Learning and Skills Platform

THRIVE integrates with OpenSesame to seamlessly curate content for learners

OpenSesame's diverse collection of online resources integrates directly from THRIVE LXP.

James Atlas Managing Director

Innovation and inspiration

Four companies that use social learning perfectly

Uncover how these brilliant businesses have built a social learning culture where learners love collaborating and communicating using THRIVE Learning & Skills Platform

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

THRIVE news

By the numbers: THRIVE's 2021 highlights

2021. Another unbelievable, unforgettable year. Not least for us here at THRIVE. We’ve crunched the numbers to bring you our story from the last 365.

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Innovation and inspiration

Could NFTs impact L&D?

A look at one of the most exciting technological advancements of the 21st century and its potential impact on the future of L&D.

Matt Bristow Digital Marketing Specialist

A person cleaning a building dressed as Captain America

Innovation and inspiration

You have unconscious superpowers

Dive into the mysterious and powerful aspects of the human brain and how it affects our learning experience.

Helen Marshall Chief Learning Officer

Employee training and skills

How to have fantastic virtual training with minimal spending

Get more bang for your buck with these 5 techniques guaranteed to make your virtual training a blockbuster hit!

Matt Bristow Digital Marketing Specialist

Employee training and skills

How can your business be more accessible for everyone?

Making sure that everyone can participate and benefit from your business should be top priority.

Laura Gavin Copywriter

Content

The pick and mix approach to learning content

How to use microlearning successfully in your organisation

Helen Marshall Chief Learning Officer

THRIVE news

THRIVE does Las Vegas at DevLearn

Our debut US event was one to remember

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Employee training and skills

The importance of continuous learning for management

Why managers should focus on continuous learning to improve their adaptability and resilience.

Al Thompson Head of Content & Partnerships

THRIVE news

DECIEM scoop gold at CLO's Learning in Practice Awards for their use of THRIVE

The Abnormal Beauty Company picked up five awards in total, including gold in the 'Technology' and 'Business Impact' categories.

Matt Bristow Digital Marketing Specialist

Learning technology trends

The history of learning management systems

A look at the humble origins and fast-approaching future of the traditional LMS.

Matt Bristow Digital Marketing Specialist

Innovation and inspiration

Women in Learning: Get to know our panelists

We rallied the L&D industry's best to share ideas and practical advice for how to challenge gender inequality in the workplace.

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Content

The Content Club: Your solution to a successful content strategy

Increase impact and make your investment work harder with our new campaign-led content service: the Content Club.

Helen Marshall Chief Learning Officer

THRIVE news

THRIVE partner with leading African learning tech provider, LRMG

We've partnered with LRMG to digitally enable high performance across 21 African countries through THRIVE Learning and Skills Platform.

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Innovation and inspiration

The top 20 US influencers in L&D right now

As THRIVE gets accustomed to the US market, it’s always good to know who the big players and tastemakers are. We compiled a list of the 20 biggest L&D influencers in the US right now.

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Employee training and skills

8 top tips to create a positive onboarding experience

Help your new starters feel valued, engaged and motivated from day one

Corrie Smith Copywriter

THRIVE news

Put L&D's value in the spotlight with the Data Lab

Get your own team of Data Analysts, helping you measure the real impact of learning activity against business goals so you can maximise your investment and gain a seat at the table.

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

THRIVE news

Introducing: The Content Club

An army of storytellers building campaign-led content and learning pathways to drive meaningful conversations.

Richard Bailey Marketing Executive

Innovation and inspiration

The 20 L&D influencers you should know in 2022

Navigating the L&D space can be overwhelming, so take some inspiration and broaden your horizons with these thought leaders.

Ryan O'Connell Chief Operating Officer

Learning and Skills Platform

How to create a measurable data strategy for L&D

The key steps to uncovering the effectiveness of L&D in your organisation

Ian Blackburn Head of Analytics

Learning technology trends

Competition in the e-learning market and what it means for you

A deep dive into the competitive LXP/LMS market and what to look out for when considering a supplier

Matt Bristow Digital Marketing Specialist

Content

8 top tips for creating better learning content

How to keep your learners engaged and your learning culture at the top of it's game

Helen Marshall Chief Learning Officer

Learning and Skills Platform

Customer excellence - Our industry needs fewer promises and more action!

What makes customer excellence and why we let our clients do the talking

Ryan O'Connell Chief Operating Officer

Learning and Skills Platform

A data informed future for picking the right partner

How to find a partner, not a provider

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Innovation and inspiration

50 tips to help your employees learn faster, better and longer

The listicle of a lifetime to help you encourage great learning habits.

Ryan O'Connell Chief Operating Officer

Innovation and inspiration

How to celebrate Pride Month in the workplace

Five fun ways to celebrating Pride Month in your organisation

Richard Bailey Marketing Executive

Learning technology trends

Demystifying elearning standards

SCORM vs xAPI vs CMI5 (and AICC)

Ryan O'Connell Chief Operating Officer

Innovation and inspiration

How connecting with nature can boost your mental health

A reflection of mindfulness, nature and wellbeing.

Helen Marshall Chief Learning Officer

Employee training and skills

Three high value hacks to upskill your workforce

How to identify your skills gap and get started closing it.

Richard Bailey Marketing Executive

Innovation and inspiration

What should L&D teams look like today?

Why L&D’s evolved and what skills are needed to set your squad up for success.

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Learning technology trends

Why now is the time for social learning

Reasons to encourage UGC and how to overcome the barriers.

Richard Bailey Marketing Executive

Learning and Skills Platform

Differences between an LMS and LXP

Everything you need to know about the learning platform evolution.

Tracy Whitaker Customer Success Lead

Innovation and inspiration

How to create and measure compliance courses that work

Steps to building an outcome-driven learning experience.

Ryan O'Connell Chief Operating Officer

Learner Engagement

What do Gen Z’ers really want from learning?

Lessons L&D can learn from the smartphone generation.

Helen Marshall Chief Learning Officer

Content

Agile microlearning: An interview with content partners Go1

Highlights from Go1’s podcast with Emma Layton and Ollie Browning.

Richard Bailey Marketing Executive

Employee training and skills

Four ways to create a more gender equal workplace

Do your part to improve gender equality starting today.

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Employee training and skills

Five steps to effective communication wherever you're working

Overcome all your communication challenges whether face-to-face or remote with these simple steps.

Richard Bailey Marketing Executive

Learning technology trends

Mobile learning: the next generation of learning

Training and learning & development delivered anywhere, anytime.

Mark Ward Co-Founder

Learning technology trends

Who’s the real analyst?

What is social proof and why user reviews matter.

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Innovation and inspiration

The benefits of a blended learning approach

Learning in ways that suits every kind of learner.

Mark Ward Co-Founder

THRIVE extend migration tool to support Fuse Universal customers following successful migration of 12,000 learners at IWG

THRIVE news

THRIVE migration tool extends to support Fuse Universal

New addition to LMS converter tool following successful migration of 12,000 learners at IWG.

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Employee training and skills

Six skills on the agenda for 2021

The world as we know it has changed forever. Here are six skills to take forward into 2021.

Helen Marshall Chief Learning Officer

Innovation and inspiration

Creating continuous learning moments

L&D teams are moving away from traditional courses and creating continuous learning moments. But what exactly does this mean?

Richard Bailey Marketing Executive

Learning and Skills Platform

Data questions your LMS should answer

How to use data to better understand your learners and deliver learning that lands.

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Employee training and skills

L&D skills in 2021

Have you got these job roles covered?

Ryan O'Connell Chief Operating Officer

THRIVE news

Do more than deliver training - New THRIVE features!

We launched our biggest release of the year. Say hello to broadcasts, learning analytics, browser extension and more.

Cassie Gasson Chief Marketing Officer

Employee training and skills

Effective ways to keep on top of your mental health

Skills to maintain positive wellbeing.

Helen Marshall Chief Learning Officer

Learning and Skills Platform

LXP features: The 10 must-haves

Everything you need to know about learning experience platforms.