Train Like You Listen

As professionals in the learning and development community, it is important to push ourselves to find new approaches to problems. Being innovative can be defined many ways, but it isn't necessity as complex as we may think. On the podcast this week, Darren Nerland Learning Strategist at Degreed sits down with us to talk about his experiences with innovation. Both as co-founder of Learnapalooza, an...

What kind of activities adds value to training? Is lecture the best way to teach? How about role-play? Is it worth the sideways looks from participants when you tell them to act out a scenario? On the podcast this week, Becky Pluth author and CEO at the Bob Pike Group sits down with us to talk about how they approach learner engagement. During this episode she talks about some of the research behi...

Creating and updating a portfolio is an investment in yourself as a professional. On this podcast, we talk to Mary Cropp , Director of Learning and Development at Bluetooth Sig, about her thoughts on learning portfolios. During our chat, we talk about the benefits of portfolios, what kinds of things should be in a learning professional’s portfolio and how to navigate proprietary information that m...

Becoming a published writer can be tricky to navigate. In this episode, Brian Washburn chats with Eliza Blanchard who is the Learning & Development content manager at the Association for Talent Development- ATD - to discuss what it takes to get published. She has several recommendations including how to get started, what writers should focus on, and how to get past imposter syndrome as a new w...

A lot of magic can happen during a training, conference, or webinar, but what happens after the session ends? Keeping the learning going after a session enables trainers to build on what happens in a session; however designing this may not be easy. This week we sit down with Nancy Bacon of Nancy Bacon Consulting to learn how she finds way to engage after training. She discusses tools, resources, a...

Many workers are being asked to work remotely, but how does that change the way we work? Recently, Gus Curran wrote a timely blog post about successfully adapting to a remote team. This week, Gus sat down with the Train Like You Listen podcast to dive deeper into how people can start adjust to this work situation to which many workers are rapidly shifting.

In this episode, we sit down with Melissa Milloway to discuss how she pushes herself and others to experiement and try new things. We experiement wins and fails, and discuss the support system that is needed to keep pushing yourself further.

In this episode, Kassie LaBorie to discuss her approach to designing and delivering Virtual Instructor-Led training (VILT). We disuss how to make webinars more engaging, where she finds inspiration, and a few tips you can bring to your next webinar.

In this episode, we talk to Sarah Schillen to look at the ATD 2019 state of the industry report. We take some time to discuss the data, how it was captured, and surprises we encountered while reading it. We also take some time to discuss how smaller organizations can capture and learn from similar data.

This week, Brian sits down with Tim Slade to talk about eLearning. During this conversation, we discuss how to create engaging eLearning, share tips on how to manage expectations, and discuss best practices when approaching eLearning design.

Todd Hudson joins us this week to explain how to apply Lean principles to onboarding new employees.

JD Dillion and Brian Washburn sit down with Heather to discuss learning ecosystems and what they mean to orginizations of various sizes and priorities.

This week with sit down with Betty Dannewitz from If You Ask Betty and discuss the application of AR and VR in training.

In this episode, Lauren Wescott from Endurance Learning joins us to discuss adding games to training, how cooperative games differ from competitive games and gives us a few tips on getting started with building games. Endurance Learning is a full-service training development partner, specializing in elearning, instructor-led training, and train-the-trainer programs. Since 2015, our team of expert...

In episode 1 we discuss the goal of the podcast and the best advice we have revived as trainers.