PeopleUnplugged

Send us Fan Mail This month Westy is joined by Organisational Development and HR expert Dr. Paul Taylor-Pitt, the founder of Metamorphosish .  Paul shares his journey, experiences, and wisdom from years in organisational development, HR leadership, and psychology. A podcast some 15 years in the making... See how BentoBot from PeopleUnboxed can help learners stop forgetting. Follow Westy on LinkedI...

Send us Fan Mail Have you grappled with the paralysing terror of public speaking, feeling like an imposter in front of an audience? Fear no more, as Westy is joined by Matt Matheson, the acclaimed founder of the Speaking Coach, who reveals his secrets to mastering the art of public speaking with ease and authenticity. See how BentoBot from PeopleUnboxed can help learners stop forgetting. Follow We...

Send us Fan Mail Westy is joined by Jamie Shields from Disabled by Society to explore the significance of accessibility in designing effective learning experiences. The discussion offers valuable tips on designing for screen readers, using closed captions, and incorporating hashtags and emojis to make content more inclusive and engaging. See how BentoBot from PeopleUnboxed can help learners stop f...

Send us Fan Mail Westy is joined by Warwick University's Professor of Behavioural and Data Science, Dr Thomas Hills , and Best at Digital's Behavioural Design Consultant, Dr Charlotte Hills , for a deep dive into how behavioural science can provide crucial help in designing a great learning experience for everyone. See how BentoBot from PeopleUnboxed can help learners stop forgetting. Fo...

Send us Fan Mail This month Westy chats with Louise Karwowski, Director of Education at Cognassist. Louise explains how they are creating and using partnerships to drive ground-breaking research that is changing lives and our society for the better.  The chat also looks at the business benefits of a neuro-diverse workforce, how to tailor learning design to suit everyone's needs, and some top...

Send us Fan Mail This month Westy chats with an accredited coach, positive psychologist, and TED speaker, Gemma Sandwell. Gemma talks through her approach to helping people with ambitious dreams overcome their fears and make a massive impact in the world, as well as outlining a 5-step strategy we can all use to get started on the journey. See how BentoBot from PeopleUnboxed can help learners stop...

Send us Fan Mail This month Westy helps PeopleUnboxed Training Consultant Arlene Marsella reflect on her first year in the team. Arlene talks through the shift from presenting to facilitating, overcoming imposter syndrome, and how she is finding time to continue her own development. See how BentoBot from PeopleUnboxed can help learners stop forgetting. Follow Westy on LinkedIn .

Send us Fan Mail This month Westy is joined by PeopleUnboxed co-founder, Tony Manwani, to discuss how their new learning app, BentoBot , is solving three of L&D's biggest problems. In terms of catering to different learner preferences, stopping people from forgetting and making learning fun, BentoBot is good to go. See how BentoBot from PeopleUnboxed can help learners stop forgetting. Fol...

Send us Fan Mail This month, a different type of show as MindBoost's Caleb Foster joins Westy to take a deep dive into creating learning with the OpenSource ADAPT tool. See how BentoBot from PeopleUnboxed can help learners stop forgetting. Follow Westy on LinkedIn .

Send us Fan Mail Westy has a long overdue catch-up with Totara Learning's managing director, Lars Hyland. They discuss the importance of a training approach that includes performance management and employee engagement, in addition to traditional learning, and how Totara can be at the centre of that. And Lars reflects on his McMuffin-making skills... See how BentoBot from PeopleUnboxed can hel...

Send us Fan Mail Westy chats with Michelle Hazelton, Managing Director of Anders Pink . They discuss curation vs creation, how quality needs to trump quantity when it comes to learning content, and how Anders Pink can be part of an invisible learning system. See how BentoBot from PeopleUnboxed can help learners stop forgetting. Follow Westy on LinkedIn .

Send us Fan Mail Westy catches up with Mind Tools L&D Podcast hosts Ross Garner and Owen Ferguson to discuss performance support tools, how to get started in podcasting and mixing ABBA with paddle boarding. See how BentoBot from PeopleUnboxed can help learners stop forgetting. Follow Westy on LinkedIn .

Send us Fan Mail This month Westy has a long overdue catch-up with Kineo's Global Head of Delivery, Darren Holmes. They discuss where corporate training and education cross over, the effect of the pandemic on the digital learning market, and how Darren manages a remote team. See how BentoBot from PeopleUnboxed can help learners stop forgetting. Follow Westy on LinkedIn .

Send us Fan Mail Westy spends an hour chatting with Donald Clark about all things AI. How it can help to create learning content, help to mark that content, and even improve image creation and editing. They also consider how AI can help to solve L&D's biggest challenge - How to make learning stick. See how BentoBot from PeopleUnboxed can help learners stop forgetting. Follow Westy on Link...

Send us Fan Mail This month Westy is joined by "Mr. StoryTagger" Carl Hodler. They discuss where storytelling fits into L&D, why people don't do it, and how StoryTagger can help to solve the issue. They also reminisce about their Dragon vs Spectrum past and Carl's BAFTA nominations. See how BentoBot from PeopleUnboxed can help learners stop forgetting. Follow Westy on Linke...

Send us Fan Mail Westy chats with BestAtDigital's Head of Learning Design, Louisa O'Connell. Louisa explains how BAD matches behavioural science with digital solutions to challenge bad habits, leading to tangible business results. It's all about asking the right questions upfront... See how BentoBot from PeopleUnboxed can help learners stop forgetting. Follow Westy on LinkedIn .

Send us Fan Mail Nice Media Creative Director Tom Hickmore joins Westy for a chat. Tom introduces us to his new book, Watch & Learn, explaining how it can be used to help create award-winning drama for use in L&D projects. Westy is keen to dig into Tom’s pop/punk past too! See how BentoBot from PeopleUnboxed can help learners stop forgetting. Follow Westy on LinkedIn .

Send us Fan Mail This month Westy chats with Lima Delta's Learning Experience Designer Georgie Cooke. She tells us what questions we should be asking, how to add humour to our courses, and why the mix of business advice and House Gospel Choirs works so well. See how BentoBot from PeopleUnboxed can help learners stop forgetting. Follow Westy on LinkedIn .

Send us Fan Mail Westy has a long overdue catch-up with Lightbulb Moment's virtual classroom guru Jo Cook. Jo explains her approach to designing for virtual delivery, reading digital body language, and tells us how to get the most out of our online sessions. See how BentoBot from PeopleUnboxed can help learners stop forgetting. Follow Westy on LinkedIn .

Send us Fan Mail Westy is joined by Paul Coates, Head of Consultancy at Franklin-Covey. Paul explains how uncertainty could be seen as an opportunity, why efficiency with people is ineffective and the difficulty of ordering a chair in a global pandemic.  See how BentoBot from PeopleUnboxed can help learners stop forgetting. Follow Westy on LinkedIn .

Send us Fan Mail Westy is joined by John Kusi-Mensah, AVP of MetLife's Global Distribution Academy. John takes us through how MetLife designed and implemented a training system that helped to drive change literally around the globe whilst picking up a host of awards along the way. See how BentoBot from PeopleUnboxed can help learners stop forgetting. Follow Westy on LinkedIn .

Send us Fan Mail With 1 in 4 of us experiencing a mental health problem of some kind each year and more than 595,000 cases of work-related stress, depression or anxiety leading to around 15.4 million working days a year being lost, something has to change. Westy is joined by Damian de Scarfo, who is leading that change across his busy group of restaurants by making Mental Health discussions busine...

Send us Fan Mail Westy is joined by Sam Watts, Immersive Partnerships Director at Make Real. Sam explains how VR and AR are being used to transform training delivery, embed learning, and open up the possibilities to create a range of unique games. See how BentoBot from PeopleUnboxed can help learners stop forgetting. Follow Westy on LinkedIn .

Send us Fan Mail Westy is joined by Kirstie Greany, Head of Customer Learning at Elucidat. Kirstie introduces us to an excellent free resource for Learning Managers, the Learning at Large Knowledge Hub, and shares her thoughts on the importance of people-centered learning design. See how BentoBot from PeopleUnboxed can help learners stop forgetting. Follow Westy on LinkedIn .

Send us Fan Mail Westy is joined by Jez Anderson, the founder at Praxis. Jez explains the difference between coaching and training, how he helps people be who they want to be and balancing renovating a cottage in rural France with managing a performance consultancy. See how BentoBot from PeopleUnboxed can help learners stop forgetting. Follow Westy on LinkedIn .