Training Topic Picker
Picks a random professional-development training topic suggestion — a starting point for planning a session or course.
What this generator does
Draws a professional development topic. Its use is to widen the field: given a free choice, people pick training in what they are already good at, which is the least useful training available to them.
What you'll get
This generator draws from a hand-checked list of 12 entries. Here is a spread of 6 of them, so you can see the style before you generate:
- Time management and prioritisation
- Effective meeting facilitation
- Conflict resolution basics
- Presentation and public speaking skills
- Decision-making under uncertainty
- Managing up effectively
A fixed sample of the list, not a live draw — your own results are picked at random from all 12, without repeating until the list runs out. Original authoring for Generate Random.. Last reviewed 2026-07-19.
How to use this tool
- Press generate for a training-topic suggestion.
Common use cases
- Planning a team training session
- Choosing a professional-development focus
- Course or workshop planning
Randomness and fairness
Topics are drawn uniformly with the browser's cryptographic random number generator, with no relevance filtering — some draws will not apply to your role, which is part of how it widens the field.
For how randomness is produced across the whole site, see how Generate Random works.
Practical tips
- Draw three and pick the one you least want to do. That is usually the honest answer.
- Book something specific within a week of drawing, or it does not happen.