According to the Global Sentiment Survey, AI is both the top trend and the biggest challenge facing L&D in 2024. How can you pioneer transformation to use AI as a strategic partner? Most L&D departments are experimenting with AI for content generation and ideation. But this alone is not transformative for the business. L&D must use AI as a strategic partner, able to deliver tangible performance improvement and accelerate upskilling and reskilling.  Saffron’s Noorie and Molly explore this topic and the role AI can play in driving workforce productivity, performance and mea ..read more

Using AI for more than content generation | LSG Webinar Thursday 7th March | 12pm to 1pm GMT According to the Global Sentiment Survey, AI is both the top trend and the biggest challenge facing L&D in 2024. How can you pioneer transformation to use AI as a strategic partner? Most L&D departments are experimenting with AI for content generation and ideation. But this alone is not transformative for the business. L&D must use AI as a strategic partner, able to deliver tangible performance improvement and accelerate upskilling and reskilling.  Saffron’s Noorie and Molly exp ..read more

Revitalising employability: Delivering impact with AI innovation An eBook by Saffron Interactive The world and the labour market are shifting rapidly, driven by ever-accelerating technological advancements. This rapid change only highlights a well known challenge: ensuring we deliver effective, impactful and sustainable employment support. But could the expanding role of AI across the globe present a unique opportunity to revitalise and improve the support we offer our people?  We tackle this sector-shifting question in our exclusive eBook. Download your copy to delve into:  ..read more

Using AI as an enabler in employability | Panel discussion ERSA Conference 2023 | 16:50pm  With AI driving change across the globe, what does it's acceleration and commercialisation mean for employment support? How can we move beyond tradition to use AI's power as an enabler for positive progress within the sector? Join Saffron’s Noorie Sazen as she chairs an interactive discussion which will delve into the world of AI and the opportunities it presents the employment support sector.  The session will include insights from industry experts; Claudine Adeyemi (Earlybird), Paul To ..read more

Helping organisations boost workforce productivity and performance, Saffron Interactive’s AI enabled skills coach, AIDA, has been shortlisted for ‘Most Innovative New Learning Technologies Product (UK)’ at the 2023 LT Awards. Many organisations are starting to use AI, but this has generally been focussed on content generation. Saffron have instead developed a new innovative product offering a personalised coaching experience that democratises and accelerates workforce performance and productivity across entire organisations. The digital, AI enabled development assistant takes users throug ..read more

How to use AI to drive workforce productivity and performance What can your organisation do to navigate the AI revolution and use it's power to improve workforce productivity, lower attrition, increase revenue and instil resilience? With employee productivity in rapid decline globally, an impact on business performance is inevitable. But with the AI revolution accelerating and disrupting businesses in a variety of ways, we must ensure our people are primed to operate at peak performance or risk further destabilising agility. L&D have an opportunity to pioneer transformation and develo ..read more

With over one billion people worldwide who will need reskilling by 2030, how can you set the foundations for a sustainable learning culture in your business? The statistic above is a widely cited estimate from the World Economic Forum and whilst it is easy to read with shock and awe, but then promptly ignore… It helps to conceptualise what we all now know: staying competitive in the fast-paced world of work means constantly adapting and growing. With this in mind, organisations must focus on fostering a sustainable learning culture that promotes continuous development. Without it, they risk fa ..read more

In today’s rapidly evolving work environment, the skills our people need in order to thrive are constantly shifting. This is leaving many professionals turning to learning trends to deliver a strategy that enables agile and adaptable employees, whilst arming them with the skills they need now and tomorrow. Budgets are tight and timelines are short, yet the demands from the C-Suite on learning and development continue to grow. Therefore it is crucial to create smart and efficient learning practices that benefit both learners and organisations. As a result, new learning trends are continuously e ..read more

There are 4.9 billion people using social media in 2023. By 2027, that number is set to rise to almost 5.9 billion. Despite the towering size of these figures, they won’t shock anyone. There’s no argument, social media has become an integral part of people’s everyday life, with the average time spent on it hitting just over 2.5 hours per day. Most learning and development departments can only dream of such a huge level of user uptake and engagement with their courses. Well, by examining what it is that social media does to drive user engagement so effectively, it’s possible to distil insights ..read more

Imagine the labour market as a wide river providing vacancies to the UK, pushed along by the steady flow of job seeker demand for opportunities. This once thriving river is now almost motionless. The labour market has seen a halt in growth for the first time in thirty years, and the gap between the numbers of jobs and jobseekers is growing, despite a rise in vacancies. The steps outlined within the release of the Spring Budget hope to bring 110,000 individuals back into economic activity with comprehensive employment packages that clear some of the obstructions in our metaphorical riverbed. Bu ..read more