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 ranging discussion explores the practical impact that disruption has had on business around the globe and...
Jun 22, 2020•43 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. 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 professionals can emerge from the disruption of the 2020 pandemic as relevant and effective. Host: Michelle Ocke...
Jun 22, 2020•37 min
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 organisation. We walk through the nuts and bolts of how Westpac has trialed and rolled out micro-credentials – an...
Jun 15, 2020•45 min•Season 1Ep. 55
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 Forty Winks Bed Match technology and the role of the Learning League superheroes. Host: Michelle Ockers ...
Jun 01, 2020•54 min•Season 1Ep. 54
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 governance which results in a cumbersome set of mandatory training modules. The second is delivering eLearni...
May 18, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 53
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 under his leadership. Employee engagement is at an enviable 93%. When you listen to Garry share his vi...
May 04, 2020•45 min•Season 1Ep. 52
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 experience running for 24 hours live and follow the sun across four continents. It’s completely free a...
Apr 27, 2020•13 min
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 2018, Jem Mills spoke about a co-created change management approach at Social Futures. Bianca Zingus w...
Apr 20, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 51
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 Overton, Amanda Ashby and Jelle Buiting explore what we can learn from the past 30 years, the challen...
Apr 13, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 50
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 episodes and key themes across the series. She also outlines the three phases she predicts learning p...
Apr 06, 2020•13 min
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 working practices generously via his website, speaking engagements and LinkedIn. He sees blended learning...
Apr 05, 2020•23 min
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 provide guidance on developing effective performance support (aka ‘job aids’). The conversation starts w...
Apr 03, 2020•29 min
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 technology. His book Debunking Learning Myths challenges a wide range of common myths and misconceptions tha...
Apr 02, 2020•23 min
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 two years of experience podcasting Michelle shares some ideas about how podcasts can be used for learnin...
Apr 01, 2020•27 min
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 which has captured the attention of safety bodies in Australia and been the subject of research by the R...
Mar 30, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 49
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 survey currently underway (as at March 2020) by the eLearning Guild indicates that 1/3 of US respondents ...
Mar 27, 2020•27 min
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 organisations in 2008 and has delved deep into both people truly are learning in the workspace that they're in...
Mar 26, 2020•21 min
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 of how people learn. In this episode he discusses the role of emotions in learning, going so far as to...
Mar 24, 2020•13 min
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. Martin Couzins is the editor of LearnPatch, which is a curation platform predominantly for learning professionals. He defines curation as gathering, sense-making and sharing information for a defined audience and need. H...
Mar 23, 2020•24 min
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. Charles Jennings and Vivian Heijnen discuss how learning can be supported in the workplace. The pressing need is for learning professionals to think, act and work closely with business stakeholders to help them solve bus...
Mar 22, 2020•31 min
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. One of Megan Torrance’s areas of expertise is on the use of Agile work methodology for instructional design projects. The approach she has adapted is called Lot Like Agile Management Approach (LLAMA). In the spirit of th...
Mar 20, 2020•18 min
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. Chris Coladonato is a talent development specialist who has been creating and curating resources on working as part of distributed team in her organisation for several years. She prefers the term ‘distributed’ to ‘remote...
Mar 19, 2020•18 min
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. eLearning design and development is not something to be rushed into, especially if you are just getting started. The eLearning Coach, Connie Malamed, provides tips for both absolute beginners and those who are moving fro...
Mar 19, 2020•18 min
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. Facilitating live online learning sessions is made easier when you work with a producer. In this episode Jo Cook discusses the role of the producer and the tasks that they can undertake and tips for performing this role ...
Mar 18, 2020•14 min
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. Shannon Tipton and Jo Cook provide guidance on designing and facilitating live online sessions in lieu of face to face instruction led training. Discussion covers: How are live online sessions similar to and different fr...
Mar 17, 2020•29 min
This is the first in a special 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. Donald H Taylor and Laura Overton are leading learning practitioners. Each has over thirty years experience in the learning profession. In this series introduction they provide context about the current state of organ...
Mar 17, 2020•19 min
At the time this episode is published learning professionals around the globe are helping their organisations to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. With the widespread shift to remote working there is a rapid scaling up of the use of digital engagement and learning methods. Many learning professionals need to do things they have limited experience in or have not done before. In a break with normal programming Learning Uncut is bringing you a pop-up Disruption series using the podcast as a platfor...
Mar 17, 2020•4 min
Mars is the third largest distributor of food in the world – both for people and pets. They employ over 100,000 associates and have in excess of 140 production sites. In 2018 they started work on a cross-discipline global initiative to streamline systems process and roles for traceability of products and materials across the supply chain at Mars – from farm to fork. Rachel Horwtiz led the work across 11 separate colleges at Mars University to collaborate on the learning solution. Not only did sh...
Mar 11, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Julian Davis of Queensland Rail and Naomi Waldron from Easy A discuss Queensland Rail’s onboarding and compliance refresher program - fittingly called All Aboard. This program was winner of best onboarding and induction program in the Australian Institute of Training and Development 2019 Excellence Awards. This program moved onboarding from a cumbersome paper-based three-month long process to a highly engaging digital learning experience that new staff complete on their first day. With the inclu...
Mar 02, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Bee Hepburn, the Education and Content Manager at cloud-based accounting platform provider, Xero, leads a team of 90 people spread across six regions. If you work in a distributed or decentralised learning team you will understand some of the difficulties that this presents in thinking and working as one team, particularly if you have different reporting lines. Bee discusses the challenges she found when she stepped into her global role two years ago, and how she has led her team to create a new...
Feb 17, 2020•45 min•Season 1Ep. 46
