The paper is a valuable analysis of current L&D industry challenges, innovations, and tips on how to ensure effective skills enablement. It explores why optimising learning is a high priority for progressive learning teams and the innovations in learning that L&D professionals should be adding to their toolbox to provide greater organisational learning efficiency and effectiveness.

The paper follows a seminar session that David Perring, Director of Research at Fosway Group, delivered with Omniplex Learning in October 2022, at their event 'The Great Expectation', an event that focused on how the L&D industry has faced the challenges of our recent times. The discussion ranged from COVID to hybrid working and scrutinised topics such as how you can adjust to a changing landscape that demands higher expectations on L&D departments.

Research from Fosway Group states that 95% of HR professionals reported availability of talent is becoming a significant challenge. As a result, L&D teams are under pressure to scale up not only the learning that delivers performance today, but also the culture and workforce development that can enable organisations to deliver the new products, services, and solutions that will make them effective tomorrow.

The Viewpoint paper details these challenges in more depth and also provides a forecast for the coming trends and innovations of 2023 and beyond.

Key topics covered in the paper are

• disruptive forces to L&D industry
• availability of skills
• pressures on L&D to drive skills development with greater efficiency
• embracing agile thinking in learning
• leveraging the efficiency and effectiveness of adaptive learning
• immersive learning
• lots of other innovations you can add to your toolbox!

Patrick Jocelyn, CEO of Omniplex Learning, explained, "At Omniplex Learning, we want to support our customers and the learning industry by making sure that L&D is made easier. To do this, we wanted to light the way into 2023-24 with analysed trends that will impact the entire industry and inevitably filter down into organisational strategies. We wanted to bring to the forefront the innovations that will help learning teams think more strategically and guide them to success."

Besides the paper, Omniplex Learning are hosting a webinar entitled "In Conversation with David Perring, L&D innovation 2023 and beyond", on 28 February 2023 to discuss the themes of the paper with David himself and Patrick Jocelyn.