The Empathy Problem: Balancing Emotion in Decision-Making
This report explores how emotions, empathy, and trust influence the way managers make decisions — and why developing emotional intelligence is key to stronger leadership.
Thought Leadership Reports
Reports from our Thought Leadership series
Building Better Managers
This detailed report is packed with data and insights into the challenges modern managers face and the key skills managers need to succeed. We believe these insights are crucial for anyone looking to enhance their management and leadership skills and organizational development programs.
Megatrends Reshaping the Future: The Crucial Role of L&D in Business Transformation
The third and final 2023 Annual L&D Benchmark Report explores the modern L&D role and how it can support business transformation in the context of three megatrends: digitalization, climate change and demographic shifts.
Unlocking excellence: The Strategic Business Alignment Blueprint for L&D
The second instalment of our 2023 Annual L&D Benchmark Report explores the critical role of L&D in driving business transformation and its pivotal shift from “training provider” to “strategic business partner”.
Learning and Development in organizations: Reflecting on 20 years of research
For the past 20 years, Mind Tools for Business have been collecting data from learning and development leaders, business leaders and employees, to help us to understand more about organizational learning.
Turning pressures into opportunities
Aligning learning to business-critical priorities, in the real world not the ideal world.
Is your learning culture keeping pace with rapid digitalization?
Discover the findings in our 2022 Annual L&D Benchmark report, based on the data gathered from our Learning Performance Benchmark.
Learner Intelligence Report: Engaging with learning in the reimagined workplace
Pre-pandemic learning and working have something big in common. Rarely, if ever, did we stop and ask: Is there a better way of doing this?
Innovate, Dominate or Decline
Explore how top performing L&D leaders navigate through uncertainty, balance efficiency and innovation, and have real impact on their organizations.
Workplace learning from home
Reflecting on a year in a pandemic.
Same team, different sides?
This interactive report provides insights into the perspectives of executive managers on contemporary issues in L&D.
Learner Intelligence Report: Addressing the disconnect between strategy and practice
This report aims to narrow the gap between L&OD strategy and actual practice by bringing the voice of the employee to the forefront of the discussion.