This page is to support you submitting an article on this page.

Name and email

This is the name and email address of the submitter, which may or may not be the author. These are stored along with your article for editorial to be able to contact you only – they will not be displayed on the website nor added to any commercial contact list.

Post title

This is the title of the article. It should be attention-grabbing, good for search engines and hint at what your article is about.

Antispam question

This is to block spam and bots etc. Please read the question and answer correctly so that you can submit.

Post category

This is an important section that covers audience, content type and also the topics.

You will be selecting more than one category.

Audience

People reading Training Journal articles work within Learning and Development. Whilst L&D is often part of HR, we are not a more general HR title, so content needs to be focused on workplace learning and performance.

We offer content in the main menu segmented as:

• For experienced L&D professionals – we assume working knowledge of theories and some experience of training delivery and associated learning work
  
  
• For freelancers, consultants and small businesses – topic relating to running a business or freelance work within the learning industry etc
  
  
• For HR – more broad that learning and will be good for broader professionals
  
  
• For L&D managers – content that will support the learning manager role
  
  
• For new to L&D – for content that’s good when this is the beginning of a career, no matter age or previous career steps
  
  
• For people managers – content that will support the role of those managers in the organisation that L&D often help
  
  
• For senior L&D – topics that are more strategic and high level, for current or aspiring Head Of and CLO roles

Content type and word count

Word counts are guides and don’t need to be exact.

• Blogs – around 800 words for regular bloggers only
  
  
• Book related – Book reviews around 600-800 words
  
  
• Case study – For a more specific look at an example. 800-1,000 words
  
  
• Features – Detailed deep dive around 1,200-1,500 words up to about 2,000
  
  
• Interviews – When TJ has done an interview
  
  
• Opinion – Most TJ articles are in the opinion category. Focused articles around 500-800 words

The article – text details

• Please paste your text from it’s original location. It should keep original formatting and hyperlinks
  
  
• You already have the title of the article on the form. Optionally you can add a standfirst (introductory summary).
  
  It needs to be a minimum of 15 words as this is used for the social media post. It can be more, but word 15 needs to have no punctuation and finish a full sentence. Eg:

• If you with to add a pull quote, please highlight your text and click the quote icon on the menu. It will indent your text but show no formatting at the moment

• Ensure that all headings and subheadings are in sentence case (no capitalised words other than the first word and proper nouns)
  
  
• Please write in clear United Kingdom English
  
  
  • Eg: “organisation” rather than “organization”
    
    
• Explain all of your acronyms the first time you use them
  
  
  • Eg: “The Chief Technical Officer (CTO) will…”
    
    
• These articles are editorial and non-commercial. Therefore do not recommend your own products/services or company. If you wish to do so, please see our commercial options
  
  
  • For example you might want to write:
    
    “ABC Company platform offers technical option one”.
    
    Instead write “Good quality platforms offer technical option one”.
    
    
• Include author credits at the end of articles in this format:
  
  
  • [Name] is [job title] of [organisation]
    
    
  • Please put this in italics
    
    
  • Link the name to the person’s LinkedIn profile
    
    
  • Link the company name to the organisation website
    
    
  • Eg: Jo Cook is the Editor of Training Journal and virtual classroom specialist at her company Lightbulb Moment
    

Submitting article

At TJ we only accept exclusive articles that have not been submitted or published elsewhere. Whilst using AI to support the work you’ve done is welcome, articles should not be completely written using AI.

Two weeks after the publish date you are welcome to republish elsewhere, with a link to the article stating it was originally published on TJ.

Once we have scheduled this on the TJ site we will email you with a date and a link.

If we decline your article we will also email.