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L&D needs a seat at the table. To add business value. To change its perception in a business. Okay, but what are we doing about it? This is the fair question Ryan Meyer asked at the start of the episode! How can we be more proactive to ensure we’re at the forefront of solving those big challenges?  “I think the proactivity piece is for us to know that our industry is fundamentally changing. An...

"If everyone in the profession hears we're broken often enough, it really starts to affect how they see their own work. It affects how they pitch, how ambitious they're willing to be…” Kim Rodrigues (Natwest Group) described this as giving ourselves a narrative problem on top of a practice problem. But we can shift that narrative! By recognising when great work is being done, sharing...

It’s easy to fall into the L&D trap of thinking: If it’s visible and something people can attend, it’ll solve my problems. And that can lead us to creating structured, formal, course-based learning… but is that really how people build capabilities? Charlie Kokorus-Todd (L&D Manager at Proper Snacks) summed it up perfectly: “Learning is so very different to what capability is, they're not t...

“I sort of had this revelation that pushing aside our own learning isn't helping us. And it's also not helping the people that we're trying to help as well.” In this episode of in L&D, we unpicked this challenge with Kylie Sturday , Senior Training & Exercise Coordinator at Transport for NSW and Co-Manager of Crackin’ LnD (Down Under) - Learning Community . There’s a cliche tha...

We’re often told that L&D needs to rebrand to get a seat at the table, but it’s not as simple as that… L&D builds credibility and trust by connecting what it does to business outcomes. And there are challenges that come with this too, as Sarah Wood explains on this episode of In L&D. You have to be pragmatic about how much influence you have, your access to key data, when you’re brough...

Learning doesn’t happen in isolation — it happens in relationships. That’s the belief Amie Boylan brought to the very first episode of In L&D… Amie is currently Alzheimer's Society’s Income & Engagement Academy Lead and has loads of experience in coaching and development. She’s also the Co-Founder of You're Invited, delivering joyful and creative experiences that help people play,...

In L&D is the podcast with people in Learning & Development, for people in Learning & Development — no talking heads or industry experts, just people working in L&D. Each episode starts with guests completing one sentence: “In L&D…” — and unpacks the real challenges, beliefs, and lessons behind it. In L&D is brought to you by inrehearsal, the human-first content library. Vi...