From Scratch

From Scratch

Business EN ↓ 272 episodes

Nigel is a former chief learning officer and now teaches, consults and writes books on leadership, learning and people development. Martin is a journalist, editor, curator and publisher.

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Oct 23, 2026

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Episodes

247: From Scratch #247 4 strategies for building organizational learning 27.01.2025

Martin Couzins and Dr Nigel Paine discuss ways to encourage organizational learning based on Nigel's latest book.

246: From Scratch #246 Time to take a fresh look at communities of practice 15.01.2025

Dr Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins look at why we might see a renewed interest in communities of practice in the coming months.

245: From Scratch #245 The state of LearnOps 28.11.2024

Dr Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins discuss Cognota's  2024 LearnOps Trends & Insights Report .

244: From Scratch #244 What does strategy actually mean for your organisation? 05.11.2024

In this episode, Dr Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins take a look at MIT Sloan Management Review research that shows only 51% of the top team can list their organisation's top three priorities, dropping to 13% of frontline supervisors. 

243: From Scratch #243 AI and the bigger picture for learning 17.10.2024

Dr Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins reflect on the need for broader perspectives on AI so that learning teams can be a part of business transformation, not just learning transformation. 

242: From Scratch #242 Workforce hopes and fears 23.09.2024

Dr Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins discuss pwc's Global Workforce Hopes and Fears Survey 2024 .

241: From Scratch #241 Nigel reflects on the process of writing his new book on organizational learning 14.08.2024

Martin Couzins asks Dr Nigel Paine to reflect on the process of writing his latest book, The Great Reset: Unlocking the Power of Organizational Learning. Pre order here .

240: From Scratch #240 AI on the sly 25.07.2024

Martin Couzins and Dr Nigel Paine review Cache's State of AI report .

239: From Scratch #239 The importance of fieldwork 28.06.2024

In this episode Nigel and Martin explain what we mean by fieldwork and why it should be a part of how you work. 

238: From Scratch #238 A look at the book The Social Brain - The Psychology of Successful Groups 31.05.2024

Dr Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins review the book The Social Brain - The Psychology of Successful Groups . 

237: From Scratch #237 Ask yourself: What is leadership? 20.05.2024

In this episode Dr Nigel Paine explains why there is no one definition of leadership and what that means for leadership development. Nigel will be co-facilitating the Building Leadership Capability Series with Matt Richter. Find out more here . 

236: From Scratch #236 In praise of Joined Up Thinking 29.04.2024

Dr Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins discuss Hannah Critchlow's book Joined Up Thinking.

235: From Scratch #235 Our Learning Technologies 2024 preview 16.04.2024

Dr Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins take a look at Nigel's session at the conference, The Great Reset: Why we need to rethink organisational learning. 

234: From Scratch #234 Healthy habits and creating the climate and culture for organizational learning 05.04.2024

Dr Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins discuss how organisations can create a climate and culture of organizational learning.

233: From Scratch #233 breaking the status quo 06.03.2024

Dr Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins discuss why organisations and individuals need to break through the status quo and how to do it.

232: From Scratch #232 Using external insights to develop and extend Organizational Learning 20.02.2024

In this episode, Dr Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins explore the role of external insights in developing Organizational Learning. Nigel will be running a webinar on the topic on 7 March 2024 - register here .

231: From Scratch #231 A look at the LPI's Learning Survey 2024 16.02.2024

Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins take a look at the Learning and Performance Institute's Learning Survey 2024 .

230: From Scratch #230 02.02.2024

Dr Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins look at McKinsey's paper on raising organisational resilience .

229: From Scratch #229 Why do we need Organizational Learning? 10.01.2024

In this episode, Dr Nigel Paine gets a grilling about some of the ideas in his forthcoming book on Organizational Learning. Nigel is running a series of webinars discussing these ideas - register here .

228: From Scratch #228 Our review of 2023 21.12.2023

Dr Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins reflect on 2023.

227: From Scratch #227 Organizational learning - mentoring, OD and community 08.12.2023

In this episode Nigel answers some of the questions that were asked at the first in a series of webinars on organisational learning. Find out more and see the webinar recording here .  Bottom up mentoring to reinvigorate the learning process for those who feel they have nothing new to learn  The relationship between OD and learning Overcoming resistance to community learning - how to make communit...

226: From Scratch #226 Why We Need to Rethink Organizational Learning 29.11.2023

Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins discuss Organizational Learning, the subject of Nigel's new book and also a series of webinars. Find out more here . 

225: From Scratch #225 Better managers, please 03.11.2023

Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins take a look at the latest research from the Chartered Management Institute into the state of UK managers.

224: From Scratch #224 6 action points from Insights Media’s inaugural Research Roundup of AI research 27.10.2023

Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins discuss the six action points taken from Insights Media's Research Roundup report into generative AI .

223: From Scratch #223 Finding the signal amongst the generative AI noise pollution 05.10.2023

Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins propose some tactics for finding credible insights on generative AI.

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