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L&D Trends 2026: Your Questions Answered!
Get answers from the experts behind SweetRush’s "Unpromptable" webinar series and discover the latest L&D trends for 2026.
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AI in 2026: From AI 1.0 to Role-Based AI Fluency
Your organization is past AI 1.0. Next up: Enterprise--wide AI literacy, fluency and role-based AI skills. Borrow these insights from SweetRush’s Trends 2026 Report to power your own AI integration at scale.
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Live Experiential Learning: Immersion > Information Overload
You heard it first in the SweetRush Trends 2026 Report: Instructor-led training is back and more energized than ever. Discover how Live Experiential Learning (LEL) fosters growth and resilience with immersion, psychological safety, and AI-powered personalization.
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Working Across the Aisle, or Correlating Training to Real-World Performance
As featured in the SweetRush 2026 Trends Report, it’s vital to correlate training with real-world business performance, ROI, and KPIs. This companion article offers a deeper dive.
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What’s Ahead for LMS Tech, the L&D Leader, and the Learner
This SweetRush Trends 2026 Report analysis explores what’s ahead for the LMS, as well as the shift toward Context Engineering, enabling your team to curate moment-of-need, adaptive learning experiences.
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Hyper-Personalization (and Personality) in Flow-of-Work Conversational Learning 
Bridge the gap between formal training and on-the-job performance with Conversational AI. This deep dive from the SweetRush 2026 Trends Report details how to create an adaptive learning ecosystem that scales human expertise and meets learners at their moments of need.
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Context Engineering: The Foundation of Adaptive Learning
Continue the conversation from our 2026 Trends Report and discoverhow L&D leaders are leveraging RAG and Context Engineering to build scalable, AI-driven learning environments that improve knowledge retention.
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Strategic Staff Augmentation: Real-Life Use Cases for Agile L&D Talent
Scale your L&D impact based on 2026 Trends Report insights. Learn why L&D leaders are adopting staff augmentation to bridge specialized skill gaps and drive high-stakes initiatives without the overhead of permanent hiring.
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The Selectric Trap: Why AI’s Polish Keeps Your Team Stuck
Don't let AI's polished output fool your team. Discover why transactional AI use leads to shallow thinking and how to implement a "Thinking Partner" framework for L&D.
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Humane Hiring: How Relational Recruiting Helps You Attract and Staff High-Performing L&D Talent
Move beyond transactional hiring. Guest author Christopher Pappas, eLearning Industry Founder, explores how relational recruiting and L&D staff augmentation help you find high-performing talent that fits your culture.
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L&D Strategy in 2026: How to Drive Business Results and Prove ROI
L&D strategy for 2026 to map training to business goals, measure ROI, and prove value.
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A Look Back, a Leap Forward: Our Top L&D Consultants’ Reflections for 2026
Top L&D consultants reflect on 2025 and share predictions for 2026. Get expert insights on the future of AI in learning, human-centered design, and key skills to master
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The Unpromptable: Building L&D Vendor-Partner Trust in the Age of AI
Discover the “unpromptable” human skills—trust, transparency, and accountability—that define our client-first approach to L&D partnership.
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5 Project Management Lessons from Learning Video Production
From pre-production to continuity, a film set is a model of efficiency. Read on for 5 lessons of learning video production you can apply to every L&D project.
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From Strategic Foundation to Peak AI: Surveying Your AI Landscape
Building an AI strategy? Don’t work alone. Here’s how a partnership helps you create an integrated, ethical AI roadmap that adds value and reduces risk.
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Gamification 2.0: The AI-Powered Era of Adaptive, Engaging, and Impactful Learning
Gamification in corporate training is back, smarter, and driven by AI. Move past simple badges & points to discover Gamification 2.0: personalized, adaptive, and data-driven learning solutions to close skill gaps and boost employee engagement.
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Virtual Reality Case Study Webinar: Answers to Your Questions
SweetRush recently held a virtual reality webinar sponsored by eLearning Industry and received some great questions. Find answers here!
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The Power of Training and Communication in Times of Organizational Change
Learn how to leverage training and communication to support employees through organizational change. This guide explores strategies for L&D professionals to create efficiency, enhance productivity, and build trust.
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Leading with Empathy: Supporting Managers Through Organizational Change
Learn how to support managers as leaders of organizational change. This guide explores strategies for L&D professionals to create training programs and toolkits to help managers communicate and coach their team members through change.
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The Value of Conducting a Needs Analysis—Part 1: The Why
Find out why skipping the needs analysis process is a risky business and two different ways to approach it in the first of our three-part blog series
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Three-Peat: SweetRush Named TI Top L&D Staffing Provider
SweetRush celebrates its 3rd consecutive year as a Training Industry Top L&D Staffing provider, recognized for its excellence in relationship-based recruiting and agile talent solutions.
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SweetRush Wins Gold at Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service 2017
SweetRush and its partner Bridgestone Americas wow the judges at the 12th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service.
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SweetRush Named a Top 20 Gamification Company 2017
Training Industry released its 2017 Top 20 Gamification Companies list and named SweetRush a top company offering gamification services for learning and development for the fourth consecutive year.
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SweetRush Tops List of eLearning Content Development Companies for Fourth Year
eLearning Industry recently published its annual Top 10 eLearning Content Development Companies list — and SweetRush earned the coveted top spot on the list for the fourth consecutive year.
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SweetRush Named a Top 20 Content Development Company by Training Industry
SweetRush joins the annual list of industry-leading training partners for the third year in a row.
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SweetRush Honored with Three Stevie® Awards in the 2017 American Business Awards
SweetRush brings home a Gold award in the Training Mobile Sites & Apps category and two Silver awards in the Training Video category.
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SweetRush Wins Three 2017 Muse Creative Awards
The Muse Creative Awards announced winners for 2017 and honored SweetRush Inc. with three prestigious awards. SweetRush won two awards in the Video Training category and one in the Website eLearning category.
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New eBook: How to Interview Temporary Talent for Learning and Development
In this free resource, the SweetRush Talent Solutions team offers insights, tips, and best practices to help learning and development professionals interview and choose the right temporary talent.
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SweetRush Wins Davey Awards for Interactive Multimedia and Video
SweetRush takes home two awards in a highly competitive field of nearly 4,000 submissions.
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SweetRush to Demo Award-Winning Serious Game at DevLearn 2016
SweetRush’s second appearance at DemoFest will focus on an exceptional example of game-based learning for sales associates.
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SweetRush To Address Unconscious Bias In Instructional Design At DevLearn 2016
DevLearn session attendees will learn how the hot topic of unconscious bias applies to instructional design and facilitation—and how to be more inclusive in learning materials and delivery.
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SweetRush Wins Platinum Award for Education Marketing in Top International Advertising Competition
One of only 6% of 1,100 submissions to be awarded a top prize, SweetRush’s winning campaign demonstrates results-oriented, education-based marketing communication.
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SweetRush Makes Top 20 Gamification List for Third Consecutive Year
Training Industry creates the list of the best providers of gamification services and technologies every year in support of corporate learning and development. SweetRush has been on the list since its 2014 creation.
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SweetRush Honored with Nine Brandon Hall Excellence Awards
Brandon Hall awards recognize the breadth and depth of SweetRush’s content development services, including mobile learning, games, video, performance support, social learning, blended programs, and sales training.
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SweetRush Is a Finalist for Skills Development Solution Provider of the Year
The prestigious Leadership or Skills Development Solution Provider of the Year award is part of the 2016 Stevie® Awards for Great Employers.
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SweetRush Wins Gold Stevie® International Business Award
SweetRush and Cisco win the only Gold award in the Training Video category for inspiring and impactful video communication.
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ATD 2026: Microlearning & AI: Practical Approaches for High-Impact Learning
Join Carla Torgerson and John Cleave at ATD Conference 2026 for an Industry Insights session on Microlearning and AI. Discover practical, human-centered ways to use generative AI for personalized, high-impact learning results.
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At the Four-Front of L&D: Meet the SweetRush ATD 2026 Crew!
SweetRush’s ATD 2026 team members can’t wait to talk AI, microlearning, and L&D challenges. Get a sneak preview of their top conversation-starters.
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Gamification in Action: A Practice Framework to Turn Passive Learning into Behavior Change
Join SweetRush experts Esteban Cascante and Danielle Silver for an insider's look at how to fuse instructional logic and human psychology with gaming principles. You’ll explore a practice framework for turning passive learning into interactive quests that drive mastery, behavioral change, and measurable ROI.
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Leader Talk: A Practical Framework for Enabling Better Performance
Join SweetRush Solution Architects Jeannie Hitchcock and Therese Longo as they share a human-centered framework for designing environments where people truly thrive. You’ll explore how clear expectations, practice-based learning, and AI-powered support work together to drive meaningful results in the flow of work.
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L&D Trends 2026: Strategic Growth & Transformation
Join us to explore the 2026 Trends: Evolve as an unpromptable partner, build "change hygiene" for resilience, balance AI with high-touch humanity, and orchestrate a living learning ecosystem. Let’s lead with heart in an era of transformation.
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Tech Showcase: Train Your People to Work With AI: Lessons From a Global Rollout
Join Danielle Silver and Adrian Soto for a practical framework to scale role-specific AI training and help teams move from theory to application in an AI-powered workplace.
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Leader Talk: Four critical skills to elevate your voice with leadership
In this session, Ann Stott, former CLO at Biogen, and Carla Torgerson, Solution Architect at SweetRush, will share practical advice for L&D leaders to keep their seat at the table—by mastering four critical skills that turn L&D pros into sought-after advisors that business executives rely on.
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Leader Talk: AI into your L&D Practice
AI is a powerful catalyst for L&D transformation—when paired with human intelligence and oversight. This session with Training Industry is your invitation to a forward-thinking, yet grounded approach to organization-wide AI integration and implementation.
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The SweetRush Team Looks Ahead to DevLearn 2025
The five members of SweetRush’s DevLearn team share their most-anticipated events and conversations, from AI to the “unpromptable” human heart of L&D.
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Takeaways from the 2025 Training Industry Strategy Summit
In this recap, we look back at the insightful session with SweetRush's John Cleave and Jennifer Yaros where they shared their expertise on crafting an effective AI training roadmap
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L&D Trends 2025: Strategy & Innovation Series Webinar
Join Kelly Lake, senior industry strategist; Tiffany Vojnovski, Senior Learning Strategist at SweetRush; and special guest Ashley Cooper, Head of Marketing for Learning at Capgemini, for an exploration of five key trends shaping the ever-evolving L&D and talent landscape.
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A Strategic Approach to Modernizing Workforce Measurement Transformation
Empower your people to drive organizational success with a holistic, strategic, and wholly modernized approach to workforce measurement. Join senior industry strategist Kelly Lake for this insightful session on how to utilize data-driven decision-making and predictive analytics to integrate learning and talent initiatives, drive enterprise-wide transformation, and achieve key business goals.
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4 Immersive Learning Strategies That Drive Impact: A Deep Dive Into VR/AR And Simulations
Immersive learning reshapes our approach to skill-building, empathy, and decision-making. Join SweetRush immersive learning experts Danielle Silver and Emily Dale for a look into four key strategies SweetRush uses to drive learner engagement and achieve results via AR and VR simulations.
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Organizational Change Through Learner Transformation: Case Studies and a Practical Model
Organizational change happens when people feel empowered and motivated—and L&D plays a key role by connecting learning to real needs and goals. John Cleave, Director of Systemic Solutions at SweetRush, shares examples of real-life learning programs that embody eight vital principles for success: the SweetRush Transformational Design Standards™.