📝 Final Deliverables: Three Article Concepts to Choose From

1. Why Corporate Learning Still Doesn’t Work—And What to Do About It

🔹 Summary: Based on Schäfer’s thesis, this article provides the organizational realities behind the persistent failure of L&D to deliver impact, despite frameworks and budget.

🔹 Why it works: This directly responds to HBR’s recurring frustrations and offers grounded, fresh evidence from the field.

🔹 Positioning: Extends articles like “Where Companies Go Wrong with L&D” and challenges pieces like “Evaluating ROI on Training”.

2. Frameworks Fail in the Face of Real Organizations: How to Align Your L&D Strategy with Reality

🔹 Summary: This piece critiques the assumption-laden nature of popular L&D frameworks and proposes realistic strategies that work within real-world constraints.

🔹 Why it works: It’s sharp, provocative, and offers both critique and concrete solutions.

🔹 Positioning: Challenges a decade of best-practice optimism by showing what real implementation looks like on the ground.

3. The Feedback Fallacy in L&D: Why Measuring Success Still Stops at Smile Sheets

🔹 Summary: This article focuses narrowly on the evaluation problem, tracing why feedback loops break down in practice and how leaders can build better ones.

🔹 Why it works: Focused, data-rich, and confronts a universal L&D blind spot—everyone collects feedback, few use it.

🔹 Positioning: Builds on and critiques “Evaluating ROI,” “Learning Culture,” and “Unconscious Bias Training” articles with grounded evidence.

Option 1