Learning Uncut

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Disruption series.  This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.  Martin Couzins is the editor of LearnPatch, which is a curation platform predominantly for learning professionals.  He...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Disruption series.  This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.  Charles Jennings and Vivian Heijnen discuss how learning can be supported in the workplace.  The pressing need is for...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Disruption series.  This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.  One of Megan Torrance's areas of expertise is on the use of Agile work methodology for instructional design projects. ...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Disruption series.  This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.  Chris Coladonato is a talent development specialist who has been creating and curating resources on working as part of...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Disruption series.  This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.  eLearning design and development is not something to be rushed into, especially if you are just getting started.  The...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Disruption series.  This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.  Facilitating live online learning sessions is made easier when you work with a producer.  In this episode Jo Cook disc...

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Disruption series.  This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.  Shannon Tipton and Jo Cook provide guidance on designing and facilitating live online sessions in lieu of face to face...

This is the first in a special Learning Uncut Disruption series.  This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.  Donald H Taylor and Laura Overton are leading learning practitioners.  Each has over thirty years experience in the...

At the time this episode is published learning professionals around the globe are helping their organisations to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.  With the widespread shift to remote working there is a rapid scaling up of the use of digital engagement and learning methods.  Many learning professionals need to do things they have limited experience in or have not done before. In a break with norma...

Mars is the third largest distributor of food in the world – both for people and pets.  They employ over 100,000 associates and have in excess of 140 production sites.  In 2018 they started work on a cross-discipline global initiative to streamline systems process and roles for traceability of products and materials across the supply chain at Mars – from farm to fork. Rachel Horwtiz led the work a...

Julian Davis of Queensland Rail and Naomi Waldron from Easy A discuss Queensland Rail's onboarding and compliance refresher program - fittingly called All Aboard.  This program was winner of best onboarding and induction program in the Australian Institute of Training and Development 2019 Excellence Awards.  This program moved onboarding from a cumbersome paper-based three-month long process to a...

Bee Hepburn, the Education and Content Manager at cloud-based accounting platform provider, Xero, leads a team of 90 people spread across six regions.  If you work in a distributed or decentralised learning team you will understand some of the difficulties that this presents in thinking and working as one team, particularly if you have different reporting lines.  Bee discusses the challenges she f...

Craig MacDonald is the Executive Manager of learning product at Suncorp, a financial institution.   Craig talks about the Future Ready programme, which aims to prepare people with the capabilities they need and that Suncorp needs for the future. The programme is part of a strategic workforce planning and talent management initiative, as well as being driven by a sense of social responsibility to e...

In this second edition in the What Happened Next Series Arun Pradhan discusses what's happened with the Learn2Learn app and his work on organisational learning agility since he spoke with us in Episode 18 (published January 2019).  Arun's experience in 2019 is that a campaign approach is critical to building learning ability, regardless of the technology used.  This approach has to be based on con...

In this special edition of Learning Uncut we catch up with some of our earlier podcast guests and ask them 'What Happened Next ...'  We get an update on how the solution discussed in their original episode has continued to develop and what impact it's had over the longer term.  We also explore what our guests learned through this work and how it's influenced their subsequent work. We have three gr...

"I am so much more optimistic than I have been in several years about the state of the profession and where we're headed. I think you find what you're looking for, right? If you want evidence that the learning profession is dying, you can go out and find it and find the conversations and the people who are thinking that. If you want evidence that learning and development is thriving, come and list...

ASHM is the Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, and Sexual Health Medicine, and in this episode we share a story of translation and localization for their learning solution, which at the time of recording has been published in 14 languages across 10 different countries. "Before these new medications came out, hepatitis C was mostly treated in specialist settings, so in a tertiary hospit...

Aged care workers are empathic by nature. ACH wanted to provide their workers with an even deeper insight into customer needs through simulating the lived experience of an older person. Wearing suits designed by Sydney University, participants carry out daily activities that allow them to experience a range of conditions including vision impairment, hearing loss, a hunched posture, reduced tactile...

Gareth Killeen was a consultant when he started working on future leadership capabilities for Reece.  Using a human centred design approach, he discovered that this was not only about leadership - it was also about learning. The purpose and people at Reece inspired him so much that he joined the organisation as Head of Learning.  He describes the process he has used to involve people in design of...

Since starting in his role as GM of Learning at National Australia Bank (NAB) Damien Woods has set out to transform organisational learning.  In this episode he shares a story that illustrates the kind of shifts underway in learning at NAB. Shortly after starting in this role he visited the NAB Direct Bank Call Centre where he discovered that new starters were in a classroom for 17 days before sta...

Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), 360 Video - what are all these technologies, how are they different from each other and in what situations are they best used to support learning? Do you need to hire expensive developers for these solutions or can you do it yourself? As a learning designer, how is designing for these modes of delivery different to that of current instructional design...

"As learning designers we so often want to push our content, and maybe all we need is some data to help facilitate the conversations."  "Using data isn't about FOMO, it is about solving a problem and you can get overwhelmed with data. So know what you want to collect otherwise you'll have too much, and you won't be able to make sense of it." In this episode, Clay Shearan from Woolworths Group and...

"Curation means very different things to a lot of people. Curation is really the art of bringing together different learning assets or resources, to create meaning for people, and for people to find the meaning in that for themselves. If you think about how we traditionally have done things in the past, it's really around creation, getting people from point A to point B, very instructional. Curati...

Conferences are a substantial investment of time and money.  However, as our guests Emma Weber and JD Dillon assert, they can be extremely valuable for professional development. We chat with Emma and JD about how they think about conferences and what they do before, during and after a conference to get the most out of the event that they can. Listen out for the similarities and differences in thei...

What does it look like to turn the traditional approach to Learning and Developmen t on its head? Cotton Group University   has taken a deliberately different approach.  They  focus on enabling  performance , using their learning programs as a toolkit.  Beth Hall talks us through the nuts and bolts of how this happens and gives us an overview of their learning culture.   Hosts : Karen Moloney & Mi...