Learning Uncut

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 times of disruption it may feel that L&D are victims of circumstance.  In this episode we explore how L&D can make the...

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. Julian Stodd from Seasalt Learning and Rachel Happe from the Community Roundtable discuss the intersection of culture and comm...

Nick Howe, the Area9 Chief Learning Officer, is joined by Henrik Harder who was the CEO of the Danish roadwork education centre VEJ-EU in late 2018 when the project we discuss was undertaken.  They describe shifting a full day of face to face theory training with a very diverse audience to an adaptive, personalised online platform.  One outcome was that the time to complete the knowledge component...

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. Our circumstances may dictate our environment but our professional attitude significantly influences our credibility and respo...

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.  Join us for a discussion around how innovation and creativity is essential as we move through 2020 and the "new normal". Key to the discussion is how being creative is not necessarily the same as creativity and how a...

Deciem is also known as The Abnormal Beauty Company – and there is definitely something both abnormal and beautiful about the way learning happens at Deciem.  Kristina Tsiriotakis joined Deciem in 2019, six years after it was founded.  She discusses how she has crafted a learning strategy that aligns with the organisational culture and embracing the whole person who turns up to work everyday.  The...

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. This episode examines the value proposition of L&D to the organisation.  Jos Arets from Tulser walks through a four quadrant m...

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 we explore the opportunities that L&D have to anchor itself in the realities of business change, The wide rang...

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.   Meet your series co-hosts Michelle, Shannon and Laura, find out why we've created the Emergent series, our aspiration and what you can expect.  Follow the entire series if you are curious about how learning professio...

Tony Dunford from Westpac describes himself as a zealot when it comes to micro-credentials.  Westpac has partnered with a couple of Australian universities to gain recognition of specific skills for their staff using evidence from their work.  He describes the enthusiasm of the staff who have gain recognition of competency through this process and the range of benefits it brings to the organisatio...

How do you go from a blank canvas in a 35-year old organisation with traditional views about learning, on a low budget as a solo learning practitioner to being recognised in the Learning Elite worldwide top 50 in less than 18 months?  Debbie Key discusses how she has created engaging learning that absolutely fits the needs at Forty Winks.  She brings the story to life through the example of the Fo...

Sharni Nowland discusses building the case for change with onboarding and compliance training at Queensland Rail.  This is a prequel to episode 47 which was about Queensland Rail's award-winning program All Aboard.  Sharni describes the challenges faced with onboarding and compliance training in the organisation.  These will be familiar to others.  The first is the lack of organisational-wide gove...

Many listeners will have a can of WD-40 somewhere in their home, garage or workplace.  A familiar product from an extraordinary organisation, which was described in a Harvard Business Review article as having a 'learning-obsessed culture.' Garry Ridge has worked with WD-40 for 33 years and been the CEO since 1997.  He remains excited about his role and about the organisation, which has flourished...

The Learning Uncut Professional Development (PD) Alert series are special episodes letting learning professionals know about upcoming high-quality events and development activities relevant to them.  The goal is to share PD opportunities that can be accessed readily by as many Learning Uncut listeners as possible from wherever they are. Perspectives 2020 is on 13 May 2020.  It is a global digital...

This is a bonus 'What Happened Next' episode where I speak with previous guests to follow up on the solution or body of work they discussed in their original episode. Jem Mills and Bianca Zingus join us in this episode.  They are from Social Futures who are a community service organisation that run programs to bring about positive change in local communities.  In episode 13, published in November...

To mark the milestone of Learning Uncut's 50th episode three learning professionals at different points in their career join us to discuss the past, present and future of learning.  The concept for this discussion is to look out to 2050 (a play on it being our 50th episode) and consider what the world of work will look like then and how learning professionals can prepare now for the future.  Laura...

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. Learning Uncut host, Michelle Ockers, reviews the Disruption series.  She discusses the purpose of the series, range 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. Arun Pradhan describes himself as a curious geek who empowers people to learn, innovate and perform.  He shares his wor...

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. Guy Wallace is a performance analyst and instructional designer.  He draws on several decades of field experience to pr...

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. Clark Quinn has a Ph. D. in applied cognitive science and deep experience in learning system design and learning techno...

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. The tables are turned on regular Learning Uncut host, Michelle Ockers.  Today she is the one being interviewed.  With t...

David Broadhurst, the co-founder of Codesafe, is a construction industry veteran.  He opens Ep 49 with a story from nine years ago about an incident where someone on site where he was supervisor was almost killed.  He began searching for a better way to ensure that workers in high risk sectors actually understood safety critical information and worked safely.  He created the Codesafe methodology w...

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. Jane Bozarth has long advocated making work visible through a practice known as 'show your work.'  Interestingly, a sur...

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. Mark Britz has run the gamut of formal, informal and social.  He started experimenting with social learning in organisa...

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. Nick Shackleton-Jones is the author of How People Learn.  He developed the Affective Context Model as a general theory...