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For HR, people and change leaders making AI real across the workforce. Case studies, aibl research and playbooks on building skills, shifting behaviour, managing change and closing the AI skills gap, from organisations that have done it.

AI training for business: practical upskilling for mid-market leaders

AI training for business: practical upskilling for mid-market leaders

AI training for business is the work of getting your people confident and competent with AI tools on the tasks...

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Thawing the frozen middle: overcoming resistance to AI adoption

Thawing the frozen middle: overcoming resistance to AI adoption

The frozen middle is the layer of middle managers who quietly stall AI adoption. Not by refusing it out loud, but...

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Closing the AI skills gap: a practical guide for mid-market leaders

Closing the AI skills gap: a practical guide for mid-market leaders

The AI skills gap is the distance between the tools a business has bought and what its people can actually do with...

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Your employees are already using AI. The question is whether you know about it.

Your employees are already using AI. The question is whether you know about it.

Your employees are already using AI, whether or not you have approved it. Microsoft research finds 71% of UK...

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aibl Research: The loud and clear signals of Shadow AI

aibl Research: The loud and clear signals of Shadow AI

In keeping with our lead article, we went into the data from aibl’s Mid-market AI survey and dug into...

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Why most AI training changes nothing and what to do instead

Why most AI training changes nothing and what to do instead

"For the last two years, organisations have been chucking mud at the wall," says Max Haining. "Now lots of...

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HR AI Benchmark & Playbook 2026
Middle managers, shadow AI and the HR privacy trap

Middle managers, shadow AI and the HR privacy trap

Last week’s workforceLIVE roundtables surfaced some of the most candid thinking we’ve heard from...

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workforceLIVE: what the data says about AI ROI and organisational readiness

workforceLIVE: what the data says about AI ROI and organisational readiness

Last week we hosted aibl’s first workforceLIVE event in London, focusing on Capabilities, Culture and...

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AI Amplifies What’s Already There: Lessons from workforceLIVE

AI Amplifies What’s Already There: Lessons from workforceLIVE

Most organisations have invested in AI tools over the last three years. About half of them are still waiting for...

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AI in Practice: The 5 Managers Test

AI in Practice: The 5 Managers Test

Management alignment is the strongest single predictor of AI ROI in the UK mid-market -- stronger than governance...

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Why 96% AI adoption at Make didn’t start with tools or training

Why 96% AI adoption at Make didn’t start with tools or training

96% of employees at Make had built AI automations within 18 months -- without a mandatory rollout, without leading...

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