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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 62•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 61•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 60•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 59•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 58•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 57•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 56•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 55•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 54•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 53•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 52•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 51•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 50•Transcript available on Metacast 
