Becky Norman

Member Since: 26th Jun 2017
Becky is Editor of HRZone and Trainingzone, global online communities of people working in the HR and L&D industries. Becky works closely with leading HR and L&D practitioners and decision makers to ensure the publications offer a rich source of real-world insight and fresh advice to their audience.
HR and L&D professionals today must adapt to a complex mix of challenges caused by ongoing business disruption, technological advancements, a changing political landscape, varied employee needs and more. Becky aspires to make HRZone and TrainingZone the destinations for professionals to seek guidance, analysis and opinion on how to tackle these challenges and continue to deliver value.
Editor TrainingZone
19th Feb 2021
How can apprenticeships help organisations build a better future?
A lot has changed in the learning and development space since the first UK lockdown in March 2020. Almost overnight face-to-face training...
Talent
26th Jan 2021
Why the best way to engage learners is with storytelling
In 1885 Herman Ebbinghaus did something incredibly stupid. He was researching human memory and, seduced by a trendy new approach called...
Training
19th Jan 2021
How HRZone's Culture Pioneers are forging ahead with meaningful change
HRZone started the Culture Pioneers initiative in an attempt to inject some positivity back into the HR and L&D sectors and I am proud...
Culture
9th Dec 2020
TrainingZone’s 10 most popular reads of 2020
In our round-up of the 10 most popular reads in 2020, what was the key theme running through almost every article? You guessed it – Covid-...
CPD
11th Nov 2020
Q&A: how the L&D industry is tackling its gender diversity problem
Research shows women are twice as likely as men to have administrative support roles – and half as likely to have leadership positions – in...
Culture
30th Jul 2020
Four key learning trends in 2020
Few in the L&D industry could have predicted the challenges that this year would bring for organisations but, as we enter the second...
Training
29th Jul 2020
Digital transformation: How first aid training went online during the Covid-19 pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected all areas of the training sector, with face-to-face training sessions severely impacted. For those...
Training
3rd Jun 2020
How Confused.com harnesses the power of employee-driven learning
Workers at Confused.com have equal access to learning opportunities, feel empowered to take ownership of their personal growth, are...
Culture
3rd Jun 2020
Video: Harnessing the power of apprenticeships
For organisations striving to build a more diverse and inclusive workplace, grow internal talent in flexible ways, and move beyond...
Talent
27th Feb 2020
Why on-the-job learning may die at the hands of automation
In Gartner’s 2020 trends report on the future of work, challenges such as the unethical use of employee data, the need for radical...
Talent