Learning Uncut

How Learning and Development professionals can elevate their practice and impact with Storytelling. Host:   Michelle Ockers Guest:  Mark Schenk R esources: Join the Learning Uncut Relaunch to find out about the 'My L&D Why' story campaign https://bit.ly/3gW4JBP Anecdote Story Framework https://bit.ly/336q8Ag Anecdotally Speaking, podcast https://bit.ly/3ecfrT1 Putting Stories to Work by Shawn Call...

Michelle Ockers introduces the Learning Uncut Elevate series – elevating the practice and impact of learning professionals one topic at a time. Host:   Michelle Ockers Resources:   Join the Learning Uncut Relaunch to find out about the 'My L&D Why' story campaign https://bit.ly/3gW4JBP More Episodes & Info: More episodes: https://learninguncut.libsyn.com About the Learning Uncut podcast: https://m...

Simon Brown, the Chief Learning Officer at Novartis, discusses how Novartis is creating a culture of curiosity, with a particular focus on the work of the learning and development team.  While the L&D team at Novartis is very big - 1,000 people globally serving a workforce of 110,000 - there is much that you can take away and adapt to an organisation of any size. Host: Michelle Ockers Transcript a...

When the pandemic hit, NSW Health needed to prepare for workforce mobilisation of health workers at the frontline of the pandemic.  The workforce planners were able to collaborate across the state to do this quickly and effectively – thanks in part to the community of practice that had been built in the preceding 18 months.  This is the story of why and how that community was created. Host: Michel...

L&D Cares is an all-volunteer support network for L&D professionals.  Created in March 2021, L&D Cares offers a voice of support, unity and caring to those who have experienced job disruption or loss due to the pandemic – as well as those interested in reframing or remaking their careers.  They also have a much bigger ambition to change the industry dynamic around career development and talent acq...

Since 2014 Donald H Taylor has run an annual one question survey to tap into the sentiment of L&D professionals around the globe.  In late 2020 over 3,100 people from 95 countries answered Don's question "What will be hot in L&D in 2021."  Don joins me to explore what the results might say about the demands of the pandemic on L&D, and where we are placing our attention.  We weave in stories from p...

In our first story from Africa, Roti Balogun speaks about an initiative he kicked off in 2016 when he was the Chief Learning Officer for GE in Africa.  Inspired by a conversation he had at a World Economic Forum conference about what a partnership between industry and academia could look like, he forged a partnership with African Leadership University to help both GE and Africa to build the digita...

Before creating a learning solution for risk management in a legal firm, Rachel Gillott formed a working group to conduct a holistic analysis to identify what would make it easier for people to adopt desired behaviours – looking beyond knowledge and skills.  She also partnered effectively with their IP insurance provider to bring the outside in.  Going beyond the 'one-shot' training approach too o...

Don't let limited resources and budget stop you from using technology smartly.  The small James Hardie APAC L&D team built their own mobile-enabled, automated solution to support skill assessment on the shop-floor.  They created a better user experience and business results while getting control of their data and records.  The way they experimented, worked with their LMS provider (Go1) and engaged...

This is the second of a two-part Learning Uncut special on Professional Development to kick off 2021. Michelle speaks with series of guests about approaches that have been very powerful for her own development and career direction in recent years. Today we explore Mike Taylor's Personal Knowledge Mastery practice and look at mental models with Arun Pradhan and Shai Desai.  See the resources sectio...

In this first episode of Learning Uncut for 2021 Michelle speaks a series of guests about approaches that have been very powerful for her own development and career direction in recent years. Listen to learn about modern workplace learning, Working Out Loud and Personal Knowledge Mastery. Host: Michelle Ockers Transcript and related resources:  https://learninguncut.global/podcast/69/ Podcast info...

In the final episode for 2020 long-time friend of Learning Uncut, Amanda Ashby, is back.  It's been a big year with podcast downloads increasing from 20,000 to over 50,000.  This included the two special series, Disruption and Emergent.  In this episode we look at the heartbeat of Learning Uncut – the regular fortnightly episodes featuring real stories from real learning professionals (and the occ...

Work, Connect and Learn is a collaborative work and learning initiative that was created and delivered at Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) over five years ago and was very progressive at the time.  It is an approach that is still highly relevant in 2020 as learning professionals seek to support people to connect, work and learn in a digital environment.  It serves as an example of how knowledge sharing can...

If you are interested in performance support and learning in the flow of work this is a must-listen conversation with Sebastian Tindall, the Head of Learning and Development at UK-based health insurance provider Vitality.  Faced with significant levels of product change they've created a custom framework for workflow learning called the 4Ps - Prepare, Practice, Perform and Perfect. While you are h...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Emergent series where we talk about rapidly changing business models, and how Learning and Development can support organisations to adapt.  Exploring how learning professionals can emerge from disruption as relevant and effective. Join the Emergent hosts as they discuss their insights from the series and how the podcast discussions inform actions that L&D...

Jason Davey from the Design Farm Collective and Dr Kuva Jacobs, a Learning Design Strategist and freelance learning designer, discuss the meshing of design thinking and experiential learning on a project to design a contact strategy for a bank in the Philippines.  Host: Michelle Ockers Transcript and related resources: https://learninguncut.global/podcast/65/ Podcast information and more episodes:...

Katrina Moss, the Learning Acceleration Lead at Shopify, discusses her work to embed growth mindset across the organisation. Host: Michelle Ockers   Transcript and related resources: https://learninguncut.global/podcast/64/  Podcast information and more episodes: https://learninguncut.global/podcast/ Emergent: Podcast information and more episodes:   https://learninguncut.global/podcast/?podcast_s...

Sunder Ramachandran is the Head of Selling Excellence for India at GSK, a global healthcare company.  His team supports the development of sales and marketing capability in India.  We discuss how his team sustained employee engagement during lockdown, in parallel with building sales capability and enabling leaders to adapt to the online environment. Host: Michelle Ockers Transcript and related res...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Emergent series where we talk about rapidly changing business models, and how Learning and Development can support organisations to adapt.  Exploring how learning professionals can emerge from disruption as relevant and effective. Krystal Irving is the Always Learning Experience Squad Manager at ANZ Bank in Australia.  Sounds different?  It is different. ...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Emergent series where we talk about rapidly changing business models, and how Learning and Development can support organizations to adapt.  Exploring how learning professionals can emerge from disruption as relevant and effective. The World Economic Forum states that by 2022 no less than 54% of all employees will require significant reskilling and upskill...

PwC has taken a global approach to digital skills uplift in a well-designed change initiative.  Luke Warwick, a digital change consultant leading the implementation of PwC's Australian digital transformation, discusses the imperative to lift digital skills and describes how this is being done.  This is also a great example of building a learning culture through an organisational-wide change initia...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Emergent series where we talk about rapidly changing business models, and how Learning and Development can support organisations to adapt.  Exploring how learning professionals can emerge from disruption as relevant and effective. During disruption, L&D teams have been stretched: time has been tighter, resources leaner and demands more extreme. Barbara Th...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Emergent series where we talk about rapidly changing business models, and how Learning and Development can support organizations to adapt.  Exploring how learning professionals can emerge from disruption as relevant and effective. Stella Collins and Dani Johnson discuss the important effects technology has within the L&D industry, understanding that techn...

Damien Woods discusses the transformation of learning underway at National Australia Bank (NAB) over the past two and a half years.  We discuss the key pillars of the NAB learning strategy, the importance of having a vision for learning, gaining buy-in and building the capability of the Learning and Development team.  Damien describes how the shifts that had been made since 2018 equipped the team...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Emergent series where we talk about rapidly changing business models, and how Learning and Development can support organisations to adapt.  Exploring how learning professionals can emerge from disruption as relevant and effective. One definition of capability is 'the power to generate an outcome with the capacity/ ability available'. In this episode, Mich...