The annual self-reflection report L&D and HR professionals use to compare their organisation to the wider market — and discover what the organisations ahead of them are doing differently.
For each theme, the Benchmark shows where your organisation stands — and what the organisations at the next level are doing differently. Concrete practices you can decide to borrow.
Most organisations have a learning strategy. Far fewer have connected it to business goals in a way that anyone outside L&D would recognise. See where most still get stuck — and what the organisations that get it right do differently.
How L&D actually operates day to day — what high-performing teams do that reactive ones don't, and the specific practices that separate each stage from the next.
How learning is experienced on the work floor — where managers and employees see the same organisation differently, and what that means for whether learning actually lands.
How organisations are building for what's next — the role of skills, the adoption of AI in L&D, and how teams are structuring themselves to stay relevant in a rapidly shifting field.
Each of your scores gets placed on a distribution curve from 1,030 peer organisations. You see exactly where you fall, where the median sits, and what separates the top quartile from the rest.
The L&D Monitor 2026 is in its 5th year. Fielded February 2026 via Bilendi panel, with three separate perspectives for the first time.
Organisations surveyed across the Netherlands
L&D professionals surveyed in the research.
Perspectives: HR, managers, and employees
Perspectives: HR, managers, and employees
Most L&D teams have a sense of how they're doing — but no real reference point. The Benchmark gives you that reference, plus concrete examples of what good looks like at the next level.
