From Scratch

From Scratch

Business EN ↓ 267 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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From Scratch

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Jun 19, 2026

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Episodes

167: From Scratch #167 The big reset playbook 02.10.2020

Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins discuss the Big Reset Playbook .

166: From Scratch #166 Recasting Learning and Development - The need to recast L&D’s relationship with the business 22.09.2020

Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins finish their series on Recasting L&D. In this episode they discuss the need for L&D to rethink its relationship with the business.

165: From Scratch #165 Recasting Learning and Development – evaluation and impact 15.09.2020

Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins continue their series on Recasting L&D. In this episode they discuss the need to recast the way we think about evaluation and impact.

164: From Scratch #164 Recasting learning and development - content 08.09.2020

Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins continue their series on Recasting L&D. In this episode they discuss the need to recast the way we think about content. 

163: From Scratch #163 Recasting Learning and Development - technology 25.08.2020

Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins continue their mini-series on recasting L&D. In this third installment, they discuss the role of technology in transforming the learning function.

162: From Scratch #162 - Recasting Learning and Development - leadership 17.08.2020

Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins continue their mini-series on recasting L&D. In this second installment, they discuss the need to recast leadership.

161: From Scratch #161 - Recasting Learning and Development in a post-pandemic world 12.08.2020

Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins kick off a mini-series on recasting L&D in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

160: From Scratch #160 Michelle Ockers on the impact of Covid-19 on corporate learning 27.07.2020

In this episode, Nigel Paine interviews Michelle Ockers about the impact of Covid-19 on corporate learning.  Ockers is a leading contemporary practitioner and contributor to the learning community in Australia and New Zealand.  Her extensive experience includes building a learning culture at Coca-Cola Amatil and strategic leadership on learning transformation at Qantas.  Ockers was recently awarde...

159: From Scratch #159 Time to work on organisational learning - a review of the #LTSF20 opening keynote 14.07.2020

Nigel Paine reviews his keynote talk that kicked off the Learning Technologies Summer Forum 2020.

158: From Scratch #158 A review of Deloitte's 2020 Human Capital Trends report 10.07.2020

Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins discuss Deloitte's 2020 Human Capital Trends report.

157: From Scratch #157 Is this the opportunity to reset corporate learning? 29.06.2020

Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins discuss the opportunity to reset corporate learning in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown.

156: From Scratch #156 Stuck in a rut in L&D? Here are some tips for moving on 18.06.2020

Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins look at ways to shift out of a work rut.

155: From Scratch #155 Shifting learning online 01.06.2020

Martin Couzins and Nigel Paine discuss what to consider when moving face to face learning online.

154: From Scratch #154 A look at the CIPD’s report on learning culture 21.05.2020

Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins discuss the CIPD's latest report on learning culture, Creating learning cultures - assessing the evidence .

153: From Scratch #153 What insights is your organisation gathering from this workplace experiment? 12.05.2020

Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins explore what organisations are learning from the Covid-19 lockdown. 

152: From Scratch #152 Covid-19, curation and sense-making 05.05.2020

Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins discuss Covid-19 disinformation and the need for individuals to curate and sense-make the information they see and use to make decisions.

151: Flexible learning 21.04.2020

In this episode, Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins discuss TrainingZone's whitepaper,  Driving business value through flexible learning , written by Laura Overton.

150: From Scratch #150 From F2F to online overnight 09.04.2020

Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins discuss the rapid shift to online teaching in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.

149: From Scratch #149 How nudge theory can help learning and development 01.04.2020

In this episode, Martin Couzins and Nigel Paine talk with learning strategist and author Paul Matthews about how learning professionals could benefit from adopting techniques from nudge theory.

148: From Scratch #148 A look at Donald Taylor’s L&D Global Sentiment Survey 2020 11.03.2020

Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins discuss Donald Taylor’s L&D Global Sentiment Survey 2020 .

147: From Scratch #147 Technology labels - useful or not? 25.02.2020

Martin Couzins and Nigel Paine ask whether it is useful to use technology labels.

146: From Scratch #146 Fosway’s analysis of learning systems 18.02.2020

Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins take a look at the Fosway 9-Grid for Learning Systems. More on this here .

145: From Scratch #145 In praise of apprenticeships 06.02.2020

Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins celebrate National Apprenticeship Week 2020 #naw2020

144: From Scratch #144 Learning in the flow of work. What is it exactly? 27.01.2020

Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins kick around the idea of learning in the flow of work. 

143: From Scratch #143 Learning transfer and academic rigour 17.01.2020

Nigel Paine and Martin Couzins review Will Thalheimer’s work on learning transfer . 

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