Worth Your Time

A few things worth exploring this month

Things we've read, watched or listened to that made us think. No sponsors. No affiliate links. Just things we think are worth sharing.

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  2026 Global Human Capital Trends

  Deloitte · 30 April 2026

  Only 8% of respondents described their traditional change management and learning efforts as highly effective in helping their workforce remain relevant.

  Why we picked it

  This feels particularly relevant to our September conversation. Organisations invest heavily in programmes designed to change skills and behaviour. But the uncomfortable question is whether the programme itself is always the right intervention. The finding doesn't tell us to stop investing in learning. It gives us a good reason to question how quickly we reach for a programme as the solution.

  Related to the 29 September 2026 conversation.

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  Key UK findings from the 2026 Deloitte Human Capital Trends report

  Deloitte UK · 8 June 2026

  Only 18% of UK respondents think organisations manage change effectively.

  Why we picked it

  There is an interesting contradiction here. Organisations need to adapt faster, yet people may already be exhausted by constant change. Perhaps the challenge isn't simply getting people to change more quickly. It may also be getting better at deciding what actually needs to change, what doesn't, and how much change an organisation can absorb.

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  Employer Skills Survey 2024: UK Findings

  Department for Education / Skills England · 27 November 2025 · Updated 18 June 2026

  Rather than predicting what employers might need in the future, this gives practitioners extensive evidence about the skills and workforce issues employers are reporting now.

  Why we picked it

  Skills conversations can quickly become dominated by predictions about what organisations will need in five years. This gives us something more grounded. For anyone making decisions about capability, recruitment or learning investment, it provides a useful evidence base against which assumptions can be tested.

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  Skills for AI: What Works for AI Upskilling in the UK

  Department for Work and Pensions / Skills England · 10 June 2026 · Updated 27 July 2026

  The report moves beyond simply identifying an AI skills gap and considers how organisations can actually develop AI capability effectively.

  Why we picked it

  There's no shortage of people telling organisations that everyone needs AI training. We're more interested in the next question: what actually works? This is useful because it moves the conversation away from AI anxiety and towards evidence about implementation and organisational practice.

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  Future of Jobs Report 2025

  World Economic Forum · 7 January 2025

  39% of workers’ existing skill sets are expected to be transformed or become outdated by 2030.

  Why we picked it

  The interesting story isn't simply that technical skills are changing. At the same time that organisations need more AI capability, employers continue to value distinctly human capabilities. That makes workforce planning rather more complicated than simply identifying the next list of technical skills.

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  Workplace Learning Report 2025: United Kingdom

  LinkedIn Learning · 2025

  The report identifies only around one-third of UK organisations as mature “career development champions”, organisations with more developed career-development practices.

  Why we picked it

  We liked this because it broadens the definition of learning. Development isn't necessarily something that happens on a course. Internal mobility, projects, coaching, career conversations and experience can all contribute to how capability develops. That is close to the thinking behind Four Corners: useful learning often happens through experience, reflection and conversation rather than through formal content alone.

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