L&D Disrupt

Here's the problem with how L&D uses AI right now 👉 It's driven by efficiency. Now there's no problem with being efficient, as long as the thing you're trying to do more efficiently is the right thing you should be doing. Learn how to find practical uses for AI in this webinar with HowNow's Nelson Sivalingam and Talaera's Mel MacMahon. 👉 Learn more about HowNow: https...

Live from Learning Technologies, Neil Cunningham shares how storytelling can get people to believe in L&D and help you turn learners into heroes. Expect to learn what data is fluff and what isn’t, how to share just enough context, the importance of telling people what comes next, and much more. If you’d like to know more about how Data Storytelling, L&D disrupt listeners can get 10% off Ne...

Live from Learning Technologies, Holly Flickinger shares Ardoq’s journey to driving engagement in L&D. Expect to learn how they drive awareness of L&D initiatives, how they embed learning in the everyday, why hiring curious people is a crucial step, and much more. Connect with Holly on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hollyflickinger/ Connect with Gary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedi...

Live from Learning Technologies, Jon Fletcher shares his latest data and insights on the current state of L&D. Expect to learn the two big reasons L&D teams want to use AI, where they’re going wrong and how we can go right to have impact with tech. Connect with Jon on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/jnf/  Connect with Gary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-stringer-copyw...

Live from Learning Technologies, Jade McNeil helps you embrace your inner swiftie and take lessons on audience engagement from Taylor Swift. Expect to learn how to Taylor takes her fans on a journey and how we can do that too, the power of storytelling, why engagement is often a struggle, and much more. Connect with Jade on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jade-mcneil-06a777199/   Connect wit...

Live from Learning Technologies, Toby Kheng joined us for an honest conversation about the future of L&D and what an employee lifecycle should look like. Expect to learn how to leverage internal influencers, what human-centered design really looks like, what we can learn from e-sports, and more. Connect with Toby on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobykheng/   Connect with Gary on Linked...

Live from Learning Technologies, Phill Yetzes talks us through how we can give managers and employees the tools and knowledge to own development. Expect to learn how we get managers bought in, remove friction in their process, map talent effectively, and loads more. Connect with Phill on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillyetzes/ Connect with Gary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/g...

Impact means different things to different people in your business… and it’s a good thing! Because if we know the commercial goals, the team’s aim and individual aspirations, we can build learning that ticks those boxes. And that’s how we drive impact! Ajay Pangarkar - author of Learning Metrics - explains how we approach this here. Get your copy of Learning Metrics. Use Discount Code KOGANPAGE20...

Live from Learning Technologies, Huler’s Suzi Archer joins us to discuss how we can drive learner engagement by aligning our customer and employer experiences. Expect to learn how this can also drive performance, how we connect every role to the customer experience, why we should work backwards from the customer experience and more. Connect with Suzi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzi-a...

From economic pressures to the desire to build skills and ongoing battles to work from home, it’s an interesting time in the talent space. So what can the latest data tell us about how employees view growth and what companies should be doing? Randstad Risesmart’s Toby Crane joined us to talk through two interesting reports. Their 2024 Talent Trends Report and their recruitment industry trends from...

By 2030, we'll need to reskill ONE BILLION people (Adecco). ​It's a big challenge, but it can be done 🙌 ​And this episode of the L&D Drop-In gives you the proven tactics and insights to get started. Learn who you'll hear from and jump ahead with these timestamps. 0:00 Intro ​1:00 Joelle Tomkinson. Blendible's Director on the importance of aligning and L&D efforts to busine...

More than 1 billion people need to be reskilled by 2030, so adopting a skills-first L&D approach is crucial (WEF). With ORC leading the charge and building a skills framework that’s driving development, we asked if they’d be open to sharing the playbook. Kayshia Kruger, Director of Organization Development, answered the call and shares her process with you in this episode. Expect to learn why...

The organisational impact is in the big, scary L&D challenges you’ve been putting off! Take skills. We do it manually right now and it means it’s too hard - we can’t map and measure them at the speed or scale required. So we find an easier challenge to solve, to show we solved it. But to have true impact, we need to take on the hardest challenges. From using AI to mapping skills, and engaging...

Struggling to shift L&D’s perception in the business? You’re not alone! Thankfully, Danielle Dziurun is here to help - with a proven framework for understanding current perception, shifting it, and aligning to business goals. By the end of this episode, you’ll have the confidence and skills to improve L&D perception and impact. Timestamps 0:00 Intro to Danielle 2:06 Understanding L&D’s...

“We don't own their time or attention. So how can we genuinely get people engaged?” This is Greg Arthur’s mindset around learning experiences, and he’s created a process that solves the issue. In this episode, he joins us to talk through the first part - how we build a foundation by understanding problems, stakeholders, context and more. Timestamps 0:00 Intro to Greg 2:41 The fundamentals for...

“Research tells us that extremely low numbers of employees are truly happy with their experience at work – Gartner suggests it may even be as low as 13%.  “Unengaged employees are not productive employees, and they are unlikely to stay in your organisation for long.” Those are the words of the LACE Partners team, who recently launched the employee experience revolution - a campaign and guide that...

As part of the L&D Drop-In, Bena Saiyed walked us through her process for a Root Cause Analysis - allowing us to solve real problems and drive business impact. There was a slight issue with Bena's sound, but hopefully you can still hear all the valuable advice! Sign up for What The Fluff here: gethownow.com/wtf-bootcamp Read Bena’s guide to a Root Cause Analysis:  https://sites.google.com/...

As part of the L&D Drop-In, Meghan Fraser-Elvira talked us through how we can understand the culture, the person, and what engaging means in the context of our business to build great learning experiences. Sign up for What The Fluff here: gethownow.com/wtf-bootcamp Connect with Meghan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meghancfraserelvira/

As part of the L&D Drop-In, Rob Plumb shared his experiences with using personalised, active, and value-adding language in learning content. Sign up for What The Fluff here: gethownow.com/wtf-bootcamp Connect with Rob on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-plumb-29a77522b/

As part of the L&D Drop-In, Srishti Sehgal walked us through the process of bringing organisational context into learning experiences. Sign up for What The Fluff here: gethownow.com/wtf-bootcamp Read the article on context-driven L&D: https://www.srishtisehgal.co/rubble/context-driven-lxd - Connect with Srishti on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/srishti-sehgal/ - Sign up for Srishti&...

Which human skills are we going to need in the next five years? Assemble You have put together a new audio series on 10 of the human skills AI can’t replicate, and Adam Lacey joined Gary to talk through five of them. Including creativity, resilience, empathy and much more - with recommendations on how we build them for the future.    Access the Future Human series: https://www.assembleyou.com/prod...

Rush into buying tech, and before you know it, you’re tied into a contract for something that doesn’t solve your problems. It’s a tale as old as time and one that Ross Stevenson's free template can save you from! The Founder and Chief Learning Strategist at Steal These Thoughts joins us to explain how we can make smart choices - instead of following tech trends - to solve our problems. Sign up...

“A trusted advisor is a strategic business partner embedded in the business. Who understands the business and is driving value for the organisation.” The question is, how do we become one? And unpick ourselves from the position of being an order taker? DR. Keith Keating, author of The Trusted Learning Advisor, explains all in this episode. We discuss why we end up in the order-taker lifecycle, why...

Sign up for What The Fluff today: gethownow.com/wtf-bootcamp Context is absolutely crucial to delivering L&D impact! From the self-awareness of our current capabilities to stakeholder expectations and the business’s commercial goals - it’s huge. But how often do we reflect on our current context and feed that into our strategy?  Probably not enough and in this episode, the brilliant Patrick Mu...

Sign up at: gethownow.com/wtf-bootcamp Say hello to your six-step, self-paced course for a winning L&D strategy 👋 If you’re struggling to show impact, battling to get buy-in or exhausted by a lack of L&D engagement, you’ll love What The Fluff! Over four years, we've worked with innovative L&D teams, interviewed hundreds of industry experts, researched what learners really think, a...