Episode description

It’s a strange and worrying time for us all at the moment and the role of L&D will need to adapt in response. 

But will it be enough to send people to the online content we had before? Well, if it wasn’t before, how can it be the case now?

Many of the changes we were beginning to see in our profession are likely to be required more quickly (data-driven decisions, performance-focused and user-centric digital solutions) as we seek to make a meaningful difference, remotely. 

In this episode of the podcast, we’ve invited an experienced panel, Bob Mosher, Adam Harwood and Barbara Thompson, who will share their insights, alongside their challenges, hopes and fears. But, overall, we’ll be exploring the big opportunity for L&D to step up and achieve more. More than we might have hoped we could with the limitations thrust upon us.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Businesses, having poured their energies in to developing new, remote ways of working, are now focussing on the processes and systems needed in order to be able to open their doors when the lockdown is over.
• Adaptive, responsive and iterative services within companies are helping remote workers the most. Many are rising to the challenge and are becoming highly productive.
• Content aggregation is something we will need to be open to, rather than curation. This will involve a whole new understanding of methodologies.
• Be there at the moment of need to influence the moment of apply, because that moment in order to ensure that people are fulfilling their requirements according to organisational expectations.
• Now is the time for e-learning, as well as other approaches, to find their proper place in L&D. It is up to us to regard the landscape and decide where they fit in this brave new world. Disruption allows us to innovate.
• The future of L&D must be people-based. We must start by listening, and subsequently addressing the needs of our teams, instead of pre-supposition and technology-based solutions.

BEST MOMENTS

• ‘I’ve never seen so much dialogue about L&D, what we can do, what we can achieve’
• ‘From now on, we make sure we pull up a chair and join the conversation’
• ’The new normal is being created right now’
• ’Too often we have pivoted on content - and it was always context’
• ‘Disruption makes things new again. What might not have been possible, suddenly is’   

VALUABLE RESOURC ES

The Learning And Development Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-learning-development-podcast/id1466927523

Adam Harwood Twitter - https://twitter.com/adamharwood26

Bob Mosher Twitter - https://twitter.com/bmosh

Barbara Thompson Twitter - https://twitter.com/CaribThompson

ABOUT THE HOST

David James

David has been a People Development professional for more than 20 years, most notably as Director of Talent, Learning & OD for The Walt Disney Company across Europe, the Middle East & Africa.

As well as being the Chief Learning Strategist at Looop, David is a prominent writer and speaker on topics around modern and digital L&D as well as an active member of the CIPD L&D Advisory Board.

CONTACT METHOD

• Twitter:  https://twitter.com/davidinlearning/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidjameslinkedin/
• Website: https://www.looop.co/