Episode description
About Ant Pugh
Ant is a self-employed learning design consultant and instructional designer, with a career in learning and development spanning twenty years, with experience working in several continents, and global clients including ANZ, Westpac, Link Group, Microsoft and Carnival. He is renowned for using a performance-based approach to design training, passionate about implementing human-centred solutions to change behaviour, improve performance and deliver measurable business results.
Key takeaways:
- The vast majority of learning is ineffective. Ant unpacks how a great learning designer questions everything and trusts their instincts. It’s very easy to just copy what others are doing, but if you ‘break out’ of the L&D world and review how else you learn in your day-to-day life, it’s easier to think outside of the box.
- Writing is a great way of teaching (and learning). From writing a daily email to his mailing list, Ant has become a better writer and has learnt a lot more about learning design. Find your medium where you can capture – or report – daily on what you have learnt or thought about to a community, no matter how small.
- Some of the biggest blockers for writing are not knowing who you are writing to and your mindset around writing. Ant has reframed what writing is to him – it’s about documenting, not creating content. This has been a powerful way to beat overwhelm for Ant, which enables him to write so frequently in a flow state. Focus on being a reporter rather than a leader or teacher, and simply share with others what has worked for you so far.
Segmented time stamps:
- (02:26) How to become a better learning designer
- (04:34) Ant’s strategy to seeing things differently
- (07:10) How to move forward in new ways of thinking
- (13:57) Why learning designers should write more
- (17:41) Making the time to write daily and Ant’s writing process
- (21:20) Some of the biggest blockers for writing – and how to overcome them
Links from the podcast:
- Subscribe to Ant’s daily newsletter
- Connect with Ant on LinkedIn
- Find more about Ant Pugh
- Check out GaryVee’s YouTube channel,
- Watch GaryVee’s ‘Document, Don’t Create’ video on youtube
- Watch recording of Sprout Labs webinar ‘Creative thinking for learning designers’