Whether you are working in an NGO or not, this discussion with Gretchen Regehr from Conservation International will have you thinking more deeply about the role of both talent management and talent development in your organization. I've added some links below to relevant resources including the newest, our Free Learning Objectives Generator! 🎯 Create training session descriptions and learning objectives with a free learning objectives generator . 📖 Brian shows how the build-borrow-buy approach...
Sep 26, 2024•14 min•Ep. 158
We love cooking up new resources for the L&D field. We get excited when people download them. But we don't often know how they're being used. I had the opportunity to talk to two early childhood leaders, Glenna Gamble and Sharon Norris, and learn about how the integrated Endurance Learning's Activity Cookbook into their early childhood training session. 📖 Brian shows how the build-borrow-buy approach can help small L&D teams deliver amazing training in Instructional Design on a Shoestri...
Aug 22, 2024•13 min•Ep. 157
Brian spoke with John Edinger, a trainer he met while delivering a train-the-trainer session. John shares just what it was about the design of the program that he went through that inspired him to be doing things new or differently or better, even though he'd already been training for a while. 📖 Brian shows how the build-borrow-buy approach can help small L&D teams deliver amazing training in Instructional Design on a Shoestring . 📖 Brian’s first book, What’s Your Formula? helps profession...
Aug 08, 2024•15 min•Ep. 156
This is the followup conversation with Tim Barnosky, Manager of Training and Development for Innovative Solutions about his work building an L&D function from scratch. Check out episode 147 to hear the first part of this conversation. 📖 Brian shows how the build-borrow-buy approach can help small L&D teams deliver amazing training in Instructional Design on a Shoestring . 📖 Brian’s first book, What’s Your Formula? helps professionals find the right approach for their business problems....
Jul 25, 2024•20 min•Ep. 155
How strategic is your training program? How outcome-oriented, governed or sustainable is it? In today's podcast, Danielle Duran speaks with Brian Washburn about how to objectively measure your training program in those four key areas. 📖 Brian shows how the build-borrow-buy approach can help small L&D teams deliver amazing training in Instructional Design on a Shoestring . 📖 Brian’s first book, What’s Your Formula? helps professionals find the right approach for their business problems. You...
Dec 14, 2023•18 min•Ep. 154
When participating in a DEI-focused session led by Jolene Jang at a recent conference, Brian Washburn found himself continuously shaking his head. Every time she pointed out another way learning design can be more inclusive, and quite frankly inviting, to all learners, he thought: there's something else I'm not currently doing. Join Endurance Learning's Brian Washburn as he sits down with Jolene Jang to find out more about ways to design more inclusive training programs. 📖 Brian shows how the b...
Nov 30, 2023•19 min•Ep. 153
Natalie Mazzie, an experienced sales enablement professional, discussed the crossover between training and sales enablement. Hear the Top 3 Sales Enablement Lessons for Learning & Development Professionals and more in this conversation with Endurance Learning's Brian Washburn. www.endurancelearning.com
Nov 09, 2023•14 min
Is your ILT designed with accessibility and inclusion in mind? Gwen Navarrete Klapperich wants to make sure you consider accessibility and inclusion in your ILT design, and offers some suggestions on how to do just that. Useful Links: Endurance Learning Soapbox L&D Pro Academy...
Jul 27, 2023•13 min
If you've ever been to an escape room, you can observe what a group of highly engaged people look like for 60 straight minutes. Is there a way to harness escape room design elements and bring them into the world of corporate training? Useful Links: Endurance Learning Soapbox L&D Pro Academy...
Jul 13, 2023•20 min
When you're applying for an L&D job, how do you best position yourself to get a call from a recruiter or hiring manager? Experienced HR professional, Maria Leggett, offers her insights in today's podcast. Useful Links: Endurance Learning Soapbox L&D Pro Academy...
Jul 06, 2023•14 min
If you're looking to pivot into a role in the corporate training or learning and development space, today's podcast will give you some insights and questions to think about. Useful Links: Endurance Learning Soapbox L&D Pro Academy...
Jun 22, 2023•29 min
How do you build an L&D team from scratch? Tim Barnosky of Innovative Solutions is currently in the process of answering that question. Today's podcast revolves around his vision and the challenges he anticipates. Useful Links: Endurance Learning Soapbox L&D Pro Academy...
Jun 08, 2023•15 min
The constructal law of design and evolution in nature can actually be applied in very concrete ways to the world of learning and professional development to help individuals, teams and organizations flow more efficiently. Useful Links: Endurance Learning Soapbox L&D Pro Academy...
May 22, 2023•15 min
As people who have designed and delivered effective training, Kassy Laborie and Zovig Garboushian know a thing or two about good learning experiences. So what nuggets have they gleaned from a 9-month course that they're both attending, and that all of us should consider when designing our own programs? Today's podcast answers that question.
May 15, 2023•24 min
Karl Kapp has written 8 books, created 11 LinkedIn Learning courses and has an entire YouTube channel devoted to game and game design. Today on the podcast, he spends some time talking about how to bring game elements into learning. Useful Links: Endurance Learning Soapbox L&D Pro Academy...
May 08, 2023•31 min
When it comes to your training participants, two of the dirtiest, or perhaps scariest, words you can say during a session may be: role play. In today's podcast, John Crook, Head of Learning at Intersol Global, offers some thoughts on how to make role plays more authentic and robust.
May 01, 2023•18 min
What can anyone who designs training learn from the way a keynote speaker designs and refines their presentation? Reknowned keynote speaker, Jessica Kriegel, answers that question and more in today's podcast.
Apr 24, 2023•14 min
If you're involved in developing strategies to help people learn and grow in their roles, today's podcast is for you. Danielle Lopez, a fraud investigator for a major financial services company, shares her insights on what mix of stretch assignments, supportive relationships and formal training helped her to excel.
Apr 17, 2023•15 min
Building a culture of learning inside your organization doesn't always mean you need to build training sessions or elearning courses. Sherry Metz Johnson offers some thoughts on what a true culture of learning can look like.
Apr 03, 2023•16 min
"If you don't have time to do it the right way, now, then where are you going to find the time to fix is later?" Danielle Duran has been finding ways to make compliance training at her pharma company more effective.
Mar 27, 2023•12 min
AI is all the rage these days. 7Taps has figured out a way to embed AI into their microlearning platform to make your experience even quicker. It looks like this is the future of AI in learning tools. 7Taps co-founder Kate Udalova shares her insights.
Mar 20, 2023•14 min
Marci Morford has helped large organizations, such as The Gates Foundation and Salesforce, navigate some large-scale changes. What's her secret?
Mar 13, 2023•15 min
If you've been in L&D for any amount of time, you probably have heard of the 70:20:10 framework. But what does it actually look like in action? And what can instructional designers learn from one woman's self-guided learning journey? Today's podcast offers some answers.
Mar 06, 2023•17 min
HR and L&D have a lot of overlapping goals, but they're often run by people with very different backgrounds, and there are even two very different professional associations that support these distinct groups. This podcast briefly explores how HR and L&D can come together to make great things happen.
Feb 27, 2023•12 min
With two distinct professional associations (SHRM and ATD), the worlds of HR and Learning and Development seem to be separate entities. Deadra Welcome feels there are ways that those two worlds can come together to achieve great things.
Feb 13, 2023•13 min
What is "accessibility" in learning? Why is it important to design learning for everyone? What are one or two things you might want to be doing differently with your design, today? David Berman has worked in the field a long time, and has some answers.
Feb 06, 2023•21 min
xAPI can be used to collect data in any digital learning experience - from elearning to videos. Today's podcast offers the perspective of both a learning design team AND an end-user of xAPI, all of whom share their thoughts on when to (and perhaps when not to) use xAPI to collect better data in learning experiences.
Nov 28, 2022•29 min
It really doesn't matter if you're working for a small nonprofit or the world's largest, most profitable corporation. Our role in learning and development is a social mission because we can truly change lives if we're doing our jobs correctly.
Nov 14, 2022•6 min
Sometimes we're asked to review and improve a training program that seems perfectly fine as it is. Taking a look at the fundamentals on which the program is built may offer some clues about possible ways to improve something that, on the surface, didn't look like it needed to be touched.
Nov 07, 2022•8 min
If someone just needs to be aware of something, should you make them attend a training? If someone needs to build skills, is there any other way than a training to do that? In today's podcast, I talk about how to match the learning need with the learning design.
Oct 31, 2022•12 min
