The Chore Cast - Development for Everyday Workers

Podcast Readiness Statement: Best for: Talent Development professionals, Learning and Development teams, HR professionals, trainers, managers, and contributors who want to prepare people for an AI-enabled workplace. Current challenge: Many organizations focus on AI tools but overlook the human competencies and intrinsic motivations that enable people to learn, collaborate, and adapt. Expected payo...

Has talent development really changed in the past 50 years? I don’t think it has—until now. In this episode of the AI Chore Cast 🤖, we challenge traditional leadership development and explore how AI is forcing a shift into Talent Development 2.0. This podcast is built for HR Managers and Professionals, Chief Learning Officers, executives, and talent development professionals in corporate who are...

If 80–90% of the work in your organization is done by contributors, why is almost all development reserved for managers? In my latest AI Chore Cast , we dive into the $10 trillion disengagement crisis and how a shift to Talent Development 2.0 can solve it. On the farm, we didn’t wait for a workshop to fix a tractor; we learned while doing the chores . The future of learning is: ✅ Intelligent: Acc...

Are leader and manager really the same thing? In this AI Chore Cast, David Elser challenges one of the biggest assumptions in talent development. Since the early 1980s, most workplace training has been built on leader-centric thinking. But in the post-industrial era, that approach may be keeping organizations stuck in the mud. Drawing on the work of Joseph C. Rost, Dr. Robert Kelley, and Matthew C...

In this episode, David Elser introduces listeners to Talent Development 2.0, a fresh philosophy designed for the 21st-century workplace. Instead of focusing only on leadership programs, this approach takes a holistic view of development, exploring the roles of leadership, management, and smart followership to build stronger collaboration across the entire organization. In this AI-powered deep dive...

Leadership isn’t measured by followers. It is a relationship built through non-coercive influence, mutual purpose, and meaningful change. In this AI Chore Cast episode, we break down Joseph C. Rost’s leadership model and take an AI deep dive into 1954, when Sam Phillips discovered Elvis at Sun Studios, a spark point that helped ignite a cultural shift. You will see what that “before he was Elvis”...

Welcome to Episode 1 of AI Chore Cast! I kick off the show by sharing what this podcast is all about—using AI as a think tank to challenge the status quo and explore Talent Development 2.0 for front-line managers and contributors. Then AI takes over with a fully AI-generated deep dive on today’s topic: my book, Doing the Chores. To wrap it up, I’m back on video with a practical debrief—clarifying...