Learning Uncut

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Disruption series.  This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Arun Pradhan describes himself as a curious geek who empowers people to learn, innovate and perform.  He shares his wor...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Disruption series.  This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Guy Wallace is a performance analyst and instructional designer.  He draws on several decades of field experience to pr...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Disruption series.  This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Clark Quinn has a Ph. D. in applied cognitive science and deep experience in learning system design and learning techno...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Disruption series.  This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The tables are turned on regular Learning Uncut host, Michelle Ockers.  Today she is the one being interviewed.  With t...

David Broadhurst, the co-founder of Codesafe, is a construction industry veteran.  He opens Ep 49 with a story from nine years ago about an incident where someone on site where he was supervisor was almost killed.  He began searching for a better way to ensure that workers in high risk sectors actually understood safety critical information and worked safely.  He created the Codesafe methodology w...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Disruption series.  This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Jane Bozarth has long advocated making work visible through a practice known as 'show your work.'  Interestingly, a sur...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Disruption series.  This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Mark Britz has run the gamut of formal, informal and social.  He started experimenting with social learning in organisa...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Disruption series.  This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Nick Shackleton-Jones is the author of How People Learn.  He developed the Affective Context Model as a general theory...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Disruption series.  This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.  Martin Couzins is the editor of LearnPatch, which is a curation platform predominantly for learning professionals.  He...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Disruption series.  This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.  Charles Jennings and Vivian Heijnen discuss how learning can be supported in the workplace.  The pressing need is for...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Disruption series.  This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.  One of Megan Torrance's areas of expertise is on the use of Agile work methodology for instructional design projects. ...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Disruption series.  This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.  Chris Coladonato is a talent development specialist who has been creating and curating resources on working as part of...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Disruption series.  This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.  eLearning design and development is not something to be rushed into, especially if you are just getting started.  The...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Disruption series.  This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.  Facilitating live online learning sessions is made easier when you work with a producer.  In this episode Jo Cook disc...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Disruption series.  This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.  Shannon Tipton and Jo Cook provide guidance on designing and facilitating live online sessions in lieu of face to face...

This is the first in a special Learning Uncut Disruption series.  This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.  Donald H Taylor and Laura Overton are leading learning practitioners.  Each has over thirty years experience in the...

At the time this episode is published learning professionals around the globe are helping their organisations to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.  With the widespread shift to remote working there is a rapid scaling up of the use of digital engagement and learning methods.  Many learning professionals need to do things they have limited experience in or have not done before. In a break with norma...

Mars is the third largest distributor of food in the world – both for people and pets.  They employ over 100,000 associates and have in excess of 140 production sites.  In 2018 they started work on a cross-discipline global initiative to streamline systems process and roles for traceability of products and materials across the supply chain at Mars – from farm to fork. Rachel Horwtiz led the work a...

Julian Davis of Queensland Rail and Naomi Waldron from Easy A discuss Queensland Rail's onboarding and compliance refresher program - fittingly called All Aboard.  This program was winner of best onboarding and induction program in the Australian Institute of Training and Development 2019 Excellence Awards.  This program moved onboarding from a cumbersome paper-based three-month long process to a...

Bee Hepburn, the Education and Content Manager at cloud-based accounting platform provider, Xero, leads a team of 90 people spread across six regions.  If you work in a distributed or decentralised learning team you will understand some of the difficulties that this presents in thinking and working as one team, particularly if you have different reporting lines.  Bee discusses the challenges she f...

Craig MacDonald is the Executive Manager of learning product at Suncorp, a financial institution.   Craig talks about the Future Ready programme, which aims to prepare people with the capabilities they need and that Suncorp needs for the future. The programme is part of a strategic workforce planning and talent management initiative, as well as being driven by a sense of social responsibility to e...

In this second edition in the What Happened Next Series Arun Pradhan discusses what's happened with the Learn2Learn app and his work on organisational learning agility since he spoke with us in Episode 18 (published January 2019).  Arun's experience in 2019 is that a campaign approach is critical to building learning ability, regardless of the technology used.  This approach has to be based on con...

In this special edition of Learning Uncut we catch up with some of our earlier podcast guests and ask them 'What Happened Next ...'  We get an update on how the solution discussed in their original episode has continued to develop and what impact it's had over the longer term.  We also explore what our guests learned through this work and how it's influenced their subsequent work. We have three gr...

"I am so much more optimistic than I have been in several years about the state of the profession and where we're headed. I think you find what you're looking for, right? If you want evidence that the learning profession is dying, you can go out and find it and find the conversations and the people who are thinking that. If you want evidence that learning and development is thriving, come and list...

ASHM is the Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, and Sexual Health Medicine, and in this episode we share a story of translation and localization for their learning solution, which at the time of recording has been published in 14 languages across 10 different countries. "Before these new medications came out, hepatitis C was mostly treated in specialist settings, so in a tertiary hospit...