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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...

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. Digital transformation has been underway for quite some time.  Data is part of the business ecosystem in which L&D operates. ...

In the five and a half months since COVID-19 hit learning teams around the world have grappled with converting courses designed for classroom facilitation to live online facilitation.  Early in the pandemic the Australian Institute of Training Development (AITD) decided to six courses.  Jennifer Waltmon, the AITD's Programs and Content Manager, joins this episode alongside two of the conversion te...

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. The pandemic has highlighted our interconnection as humans everywhere.  Yet work does not always feel like an experience that...

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. In this episode,  Nigel Paine, Author and co-presenter of Learning Now TV, considers how culture may not have changed overnigh...

Some skills are difficult to practice in a realistic environment.  Having effective difficult conversations is one of them.  Denise Meyerson of MCI Solutions worked with a provider in disability services sector in Australia to support the onboarding of 165 new local area coordinators spread across a wide geographic area.  She describes how a simulated environment (which she refers to as 'light vir...

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. We know learning from failure is anything but straightforward. In October 2019 a Fast Company article, Learning from Failure a...

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. The global pandemic response has pushed many people out of physical workspaces.  How will we use office spaces in the future a...

In this What Happened Next episode Gareth Killeen from Reece updates us on what has happened with human-centred design to transform learning at Reece over the past eight months (see Episode 39).  The self-paced leadership program completed in self-driven cohorts illustrates their digital learning strategy, where content is only 25% of the solution.  Gareth reflects on how working in an agile way w...