Training activity is easy to track. Capability is harder to prove.

Most organizations already have training programs, content libraries, workshops, and learning platforms. But L&D teams are still under pressure to answer harder questions:

  • Are employees actually building the skills they need?
  • Are learners engaged during training?
  • Is learning showing up in day-to-day work?
  • Can we give leaders clearer evidence that development investments are working?

The problem is not a lack of content. It is a lack of visibility into whether learning is building capability. Let’s talk about what you’re trying to solve.

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Build. Engage. Measure.

Whether you’re developing durable skills, facilitating live learning, or building a custom capability program, Macmillan Learning can help your team move beyond content delivery toward learning experiences that build capability and show progress.

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Practice + Proof for Durable Skills

For teams that need to measure whether skills like communication, collaboration, leadership, and critical thinking are actually improving.

Approach: Assess → Practice → Reassess → Show Progress

Best for:

  • Manager and leadership development
  • Early-career or high-potential talent
  • Durable skills development
  • AI-era workforce readiness
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iClicker for Live Learning Engagement

Make the training you already run more interactive, responsive, and insight-rich, without replacing your LMS or forcing content into another platform.

Approach: Engage → Check Understanding → Adapt → Reinforce

Best for:

  • Live workshops
  • Instructor-led training
  • Onboarding sessions
  • Manager training
  • Enablement sessions
  • Internal learning events
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Custom L&D Learning Solutions

Partner with Macmillan Learning to design custom or semi-custom learning experiences grounded in learning science, guided practice, and measurable outcomes.

Approach: Diagnose → Design → Build → Support implementation

Best for:

  • Manager and leadership development
  • Communication and critical thinking
  • AI fluency and human skills
  • Role-specific capability-building programs
  • Custom curriculum or learning design support

Not sure which path fits? Schedule a 1:1 conversation and tell us what your L&D team is trying to solve. We’ll help identify the right next step.

Six Principles from Learning Science — Applied to Workplace Skill Development

Access the free article below to explore what these six principles mean for how you design, run, and measure development programs.

Start with the outcome, not the activity

Define what capability looks like before designing the path to it.

Check for understanding while you can still act on it

Formative signals tell you where growth is stalling — before it's too late to adjust.

Scaffold the stretch

The productive learning zone is between too easy and too hard. Most programs miss it entirely.

Make practice intentional

Exposure doesn't build skill. Structured, repeatable practice does.

Design the conditions, not just the content

Psychological safety and protected time aren't soft features — they're structural requirements.

Build in reflection

People develop faster when they can see their own progress and adjust their approach.

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Why This Perspective is Different

Macmillan Learning brings decades of applied learning science from one of the most instructionally rigorous environments that exists: higher education. Ignis AI brings assessment design and progress measurement that makes skill growth visible and actionable. Together, the work addresses both sides of the challenge: how capability actually develops, and how organizations can see that it's happening.

This is the first and only solution to combine evidence-based development and validated measurement into a single, closed-loop experience.

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Partner with Macmillan Learning

Most teams can track attendance and completion. Fewer can show whether learning is building capability or creating on-the-job impact.

Partner with Macmillan Learning to design stronger learning experiences, increase engagement, and prove skill growth.

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Six Principles from Learning Science Applied to Workplace Skill Development

Learn how decades of educational research and practice can be translated into actionable takeaways for L&D leaders, managers, and talent teams building durable skill development programs.

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Interested in piloting a more evidence-based approach to durable skills development?

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

    • Durable skills are human capabilities that apply across roles and contexts, such as communication, collaboration, critical thinking, adaptability, leadership, judgment, and AI fluency. They are increasingly important as work changes, but they can be difficult to define, practice, and measure.

    • Practice + Proof is a closed-loop approach to durable skills development. It starts with baseline assessment, guides targeted learning and practice, reassesses progress, and gives leaders a clearer readout of what changed.

    • No. Content may be part of the learning experience, but the core value is not access to another library. The focus is helping teams build capability through structured practice, engagement, reassessment, and clearer evidence of progress.

    • Assessment is part of the model, but the goal is development. Assessment helps establish a baseline, guide learning, and show whether progress happened over time.

    • The pilot is best suited for focused cohorts where durable skills matter and leaders need stronger evidence of growth. Strong starting points include new and emerging managers, early-career talent, high-potential employees, and existing leadership development programs.

    • The recommended pilot pathway is approximately 90 days. The flow includes alignment and baseline assessment, targeted development and practice, and a post-assessment with an insights readout.

    • Organizations receive a clearer picture of baseline skill levels, post-program progress, cohort-level insights, participation patterns, and recommendations for what to improve, continue, or scale.

    • Yes. The pilot can be tailored to your organization’s priority skills, role levels, cohort needs, and competency language.

    • Skill data is sensitive. For every pilot, data use, reporting boundaries, and access levels should be aligned upfront. The default posture is developmental: helping people grow and helping organizations understand progress responsibly.

    • After the pilot, we review the results with your team, discuss what was learned, and identify whether there is a strong case to refine, expand, or scale the approach.