Corporate training used to mean a classroom, a PowerPoint deck, and a fixed number of hours. The ritual was more important than the result. But the eight-hour course is dying, and it should.
Learning in organisations today must be liquid. Flexible, adaptive, embedded into work rather than isolated from it. AI accelerates this shift by making learning moments shorter, more personalised, and more contextual. The idea is not to “train once and forget,” but to flow continuously between work and reflection, between practice and augmentation.
The real challenge is cultural. Many companies still measure training by hours invested instead of skills gained. They treat learning as an event, not a system. Liquid learning, on the other hand, dissolves into daily routines — micro-scenarios, quick experiments, AI-augmented feedback.
The companies that thrive will not be the ones with the biggest training catalogues, but the ones that design learning as an ongoing ecosystem.