With training budgets under more pressure than ever, how can learning and development professionals put themselves in charge? Nigel Paine, a former corporate head of learning who now runs his own company world-wide, explored how to ride out the current tough economic times and even turn them to our advantage taking tips from the US, South America, Europe and Australia. Skills and knowledge are even more important to organisational success now - making the case for them is just a little harder.

• How to talk so that the business listens
• showing value beyond ‘days trained per person’
• Learning tools that help and those that distract
• Why high visibility is sometimes the best form of protection
• Radical change - embrace it or face it