Here we look at how consumer tech trends affect corporate training and learner expectations. Everyone is going to have to embrace agility and adaptability to survive.

With the exponential growth in consumer grade platforms (and apps) and with 65% of the world’s population owning a smartphone, it’s easy to see how user expectations have risen so rapidly and why learners expect to be able to learn and consume in the moment they need it, from the device in their pocket and in bitesize engaging formats.

Have you ever worked somewhere that didn’t invest in their staff and their development? Rubbish isn’t it? Where you and your colleagues felt overstretched, undervalued and your skills weren’t being developed. Where your potential remained untapped and you knew that you could do so much more, not simply for yourself, but to the benefit of the organisation you worked in. It didn’t exactly inspire and motivate, did it?