E-learning and LMS blog articles

Are you looking for ways to enhance your corporate training initiatives this year? You’ve come to the right place. In this blog, we’ll discuss the top corporate training trends you need to know to help unlock the full potential of your people and meet your training goals and objectives.

What’s more, if you’re looking to put these top tips into practice, we have the e-learning solutions and expertise to help you maximise your corporate training this year and beyond. Let’s get started.

What is corporate training?

Corporate training is a practice that focuses on enhancing employee skills and knowledge through structured training and professional development programmes. It aims to support organisational growth and success by building a highly skilled and productive workforce.

Corporate training mistakes to avoid

To optimise your corporate training initiatives, you’ll not only want to follow the trends outlined below but also avoid some of the common pitfalls that can undermine training efforts. Over the past two decades of providing training solutions to businesses of all sizes, some of the most common mistakes we see people make are:

• Taking a one-size-fits-all approach
• Failing to align training with wider company objectives
• Overlooking employee input and feedback when building training programmes
• Not diversifying content and training delivery formats
• Not having the right e-learning systems in place

What’s the best way to avoid making these mistakes? Pick corporate e-learning software that grows with you. Implement a powerful e-learning platform such as our Totara Learn LMS and leverage functionality such as feedback mechanisms, content development tools, and personalised learning automation tech.

Choosing an adaptive e-learning tool is not simply a nice-to-have in 2025! Read our Totara guide to find out more or get in touch with us today to find out how we can help you optimise your corporate training with our award-winning platforms and team of friendly experts.

Let’s dive into the corporate training trends you should know

Lifelong learning

Are you providing your employees with lifelong learning opportunities? If you read our 2025 e-learning trends to watch blog, then you’ll know that we expect employers to shift their focus away from front-loaded L&D to lifelong learning this year.

Lifelong learning is a form of professional development that allows people to continuously grow by upskilling and reskilling throughout their careers. To support employees in their lifelong learning endeavours, employers can discuss long-term goals and career objectives, determine existing skills and knowledge, outline future training, and incorporate this into wider corporate training initiatives.

For organisations looking to attract and retain top talent in 2025, embedding lifelong learning practices within corporate training initiatives is an absolute must – read our 2025 trends blog to find out more about how to implement this strategy.

Tailored learning

As mentioned above, taking a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to corporate training is a mistake we see people making all too often. Every employee will have unique skillsets, job experience, learning preferences and training needs. To deliver a first-class corporate training programme, generic corporate training simply doesn’t cut it; in order to cater to the diverse training needs of your employees, personalisation is the answer.

Unsure where to begin? We’ve got you covered, read our guide to delivering a personalised learning experience with an e-learning platform.

AI-powered corporate training

A corporate training trend that business leaders should begin to prioritise in 2025 is leveraging AI and gen AI tools for training purposes.

An example of this in practice is AI-powered personalised training, using AI to analyse the training requirements of individuals and generating plans, content and strategies based on that data.

What could AI-powered corporate training look like for you? With new AI tools emerging virtually every day, the potential of AI-powered corporate training is also growing every day. Currently, one of the most popular use cases is leveraging gen AI tools for content development purposes. With AI tools, L&D leaders can stay up to date with the latest corporate training requirements by quickly and easily generating dynamic and engaging content that can be easily tailored to suit business needs.

Ready to embrace the future of L&D? Find out everything you need to know about how AI is revolutionising corporate training by reading our blog.

Bite-sized learning

Corporate training is an essential factor in driving business growth and professional development. However, for busy staff with packed schedules, this essential training practice can often feel like a burden. To combat this, business leaders have recognised the value of bite-sized learning.

Once upon a time, corporate training was synonymous with lengthy in-person training days, led by an outsourced (and costly) training professional. However, business leaders soon recognised that a full day of in-person training often resulted in poor engagement levels and knowledge retention, not to mention a weak ROI as a result. Instead, business leaders use e-learning platforms such as an LMS to deliver bite-sized training content and microlessons that can be completed in small windows throughout the working day, resulting in minimal disruption and higher completion rates.

The results of using bite-sized learning content to deliver corporate training include higher retention rates, motivation, engagement levels, and a stronger ROI. What’s more, snappy training content can easily be revisited at a later stage, making it easy for employees to refresh their knowledge (an essential practice for mandatory compliance training).

Find out more about the benefits of microlearning here.

Skill-based corporate training

As outlined in our 2025 e-learning trends to watch blog, business leaders need to focus on providing skill-based development opportunities that are designed to target specific skills gaps. This could include those that have grown as a direct result of today’s new technologies and rapid market changes.

So what does this mean for corporate training? To stay on top of industry demands, you need to target specific practical and technical skills and competencies in your corporate training initiatives. One example of this would be upskilling courses that focus on teaching employees how to use AI effectively and safely.

Ensuring that corporate training is skill-based, enables employers and employees to remain agile during a time of rapid technological change.

Should you invest in AI training for your employees? Read our blog as we discuss this key training topic.

Stay on top of the latest corporate training trends with a Hubken solution

Ready to up your corporate training game this year? Whether you’re jumping on the hottest trends or simply updating your training content, the only way to drive real results is to use a powerful e-learning solution.

Visit our platform pages to learn more about our award-winning solutions or get in touch with us today to find out how we can help you optimise your corporate training today.