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 information and more episodes: https://learninguncut.global/podcast/ Emergent: Podcast information and mo...
Jan 04, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 69
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 occasional business leader). We reflect on themes, insights, and favourite episodes. Host: Michelle Ockers...
Dec 14, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 68
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 be used to reduce the risk of dependency on a small number of experts or ‘go to’ people in an organisa...
Nov 30, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 67
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 here check out the Emerging Stronger Summit. Informed by the Learning Uncut Emergent series, the summi...
Nov 16, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 66
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 can take to be effective now and prepare for the future. They also discuss the Emerging Stronger Sum...
Nov 09, 2020•1 hr 9 min
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: https://learninguncut.global/podcast/ Emergent: Podcast information and more episodes: https://learn...
Nov 01, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 65
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_series=emergent-series...
Oct 19, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 64
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 resources: https://learninguncut.global/podcast/63/ Podcast information and more episodes: https://learni...
Oct 05, 2020•59 min•Season 1Ep. 63
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. ANZ has reorganised their L&D function to an Agile function and ways of working. Harold Jarche, a freel...
Sep 30, 2020•57 min
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 upskilling. Will the workplace be prepared? Simon Tindall and Simon Gibson discuss the importance of adaptin...
Sep 28, 2020•1 hr 19 min
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 initiative. Host: Michelle Ockers Transcript and related resources: https://learninguncut.global/podcast/62/...
Sep 21, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 62
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 Thompson and Shai Desai join Laura Overton to explore how we can work smarter and more transparently wi...
Sep 16, 2020•52 min
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 technology has both tangible and intangible benefits that can help the L&D industry move forward during th...
Sep 14, 2020•59 min
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 to help the organisation quickly pivot and upskill people to move into areas of high demand at the sta...
Sep 07, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 61
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, Michelle Ockers and Sebastian Tindall engage in a far-reaching discussion on the skills, capacity, and ye...
Sep 02, 2020•50 min
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. Where do the opportunities lie for L&D to use the stream of data to improve decisions and increase impa...
Aug 31, 2020•1 hr 1 min
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 team members, Dr Cathryn Lloyd and Chemene Sinson. They reflect on the experience of converting so many ...
Aug 24, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 60
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 promotes connection and belonging. Working Out Loud (WOL) has the potential to address that while buil...
Aug 19, 2020•1 hr 3 min
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 overnight ( after all it is complicated) but the possibilities and necessities have. This provides L&D with gr...
Aug 17, 2020•51 min
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 virtual reality) was used to equip them to have some difficult conversations with clients about eligibilit...
Aug 10, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 59
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 article , discussed then practice in startup companies of writing a failure postmortem upon closing do...
Aug 05, 2020•1 hr 3 min
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 and what will they look like? What about classrooms and other spaces used for face-to-face learning? Is...
Aug 03, 2020•53 min
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 with a human-centred design approach has led to great learning experiences that are continuously being ...
Jul 27, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 58
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 business case for change - before someone does it for us! Our guests consider what we need to do to po...
Jul 22, 2020•40 min
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 community and how L&D can start the tide of change. Starting with letting go of control and ego, and let ...
Jul 20, 2020•1 hr 8 min
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 of the course reduced from 8 hours to a median of less than 3 without removing any content and allowi...
Jul 13, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 57
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 response to those changes. For some in L&D , this may be a time to speak up, to say no or to experiment or...
Jul 08, 2020•46 min
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 true innovative mindset requires us all to be vulnerable, and empathic while focusing on a bias to ac...
Jul 06, 2020•47 min
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. They’ve reimagined content, campaigns and community, leveraging a learning experience platform as the ‘wat...
Jun 29, 2020•49 min•Season 1Ep. 56
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 model that L&D teams can use to move to applying a business paradigm to their work in order to create s...
Jun 24, 2020•54 min
