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title: "2025 State of L&D Report: Corporate Performance and Learning Survey"
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##### 2025

# State of L&D Report: Corporate Performance and Learning Survey

**Leaders are living in a different reality from the emotionally taxing one employees experience.**

66% of executives believe their competency metrics are fair, but only one-fifth (19%) of individual contributors agree.

Our research found leadership continues to funnel money — sometimes millions — into programs they *think* are working, but employees experience them as biased, arbitrary, and disconnected from their actual impact.

**Download the 2025 State of L&D Report** to understand where capability and competency programs are failing, and what role AI-driven technology has to play in helping them succeed.

## What Employees Really Want

 What people told us they want from performance conversations.

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Constructive, specific feedback. Recognition of achievements. Clear goals and development opportunities. A collaborative, two-way conversation.

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Assessment based on actual performance, not matrices \[comparing me to\] others with different levels of responsibility.

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I'd like to see how my contributions have led to positive growth \[in\] my department and if those contributions will lead to a promotion or more money.

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Getting a performance review that sounded like my manager took the time to honestly evaluate my work and skills.

 

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