Learning While Working Podcast

About Austin WelchAustin is the co-founder of Sage Media, a company focused on producing training and development content that is captivating and engaging for the learner audience. He combines research from behavioral psychology, cognitive science, and adult learning theory to create educational films that resonate with the audience and drive behavioral change. Through a combination of learning strategy, story design, and video production, Austin is revolutionizing the way that companies train and connect with their employees. Key Takeaways“We must create environments in which learners can find their own intrinsic motivation.” - AustinThe three key nutrients for intrinsic motivation include:Sense of autonomy: allowing free will to guide your decision makingSense of mastery: feeling good about your skills and what you doSense of relatedness: how we relate to the world and the people in oursWhen creating a mandatory course for employees, you can still create a sense of autonomy by giving them options such as wh

About Arun PradhanArun is a leading innovator in the field of learning and development with over two decades in the field. He’s the co-founder of ModelThinkers.com, a platform that aims to provide solutions that empower people to be smarter and faster by cataloging a playbook of the world’s most powerful ideas. These ideas can be used to make better decisions, interrupt bias, and solve complex problems.He’s passionate and ever curious about topics such as cognitive psychology, behavioural economics, marketing, and anything that provides insights into how people think, behave and change.With his understanding of consumer behaviour and experience in learning and development, he brings an interesting perspective to the table regarding the role of design thinking in L&D.What is Design Thinking?Design thinking, or co-design, is the process of understanding the user, challenging assumptions, and redefining problems in order to identify alternative solutions that may not always be evident at first glance. This p

About Sumit GuptaSumit, now a leadership coach, comes from 16 years of working in tech companies. He's now moved away from the technical side of things and slowly transitioned his passion for tech to management and leadership. Today he works with leaders from various tech and social organizations to overcome some of the biggest challenges they face in their individual leadership or with managing their teams."Learning is the foundation which helps your team to adapt to whatever is coming next. Learning is the foundational element of any team and of any kind of leadership" - SumitKey TakeawaysA one-on-one between a manager and employee is a foundational tool to ensure that there is space to learn and perform. Additionally, a one-on-one should be a place for a manager to listen to the people's concerns and work to provide solutions to their needs.A great one-on-one happens at regular intervals, once a week or every two weeks. The manager and employee are both present in a safe, private space to discuss not only

In this episode, Robin chats with Panos Siozos, co-founder and CEO of LearnWorlds, an e-learning platform allowing companies and individuals to create their own online training school. He shares how the platform is used to onboard their own developers/technical staff, ways to encourage continued learning in a remote environment, and ways to streamline the creation of learning content for your courses.  “Success is not being defined by all the things we know, or how excellent we are at what we do today, but I guess it’s more determined by how fast we learn and how fast we adapt to the new ways of doing things” – PanosAbout Panos SiozosPanos Siozos has a Ph.D. in Educational Technology, with a specialization in Computer Assisted Assessment. He’s a co-founder and CEO of LearnWorlds; an e-learning company focused on transforming self-paced online learning. He has extensive work experience as a computer science educator and as a software engineer and IT manager.About LearnWorldsLearnWorld offers professional train

Join us for a new episode of Learning While Working as Robin chats with John Danner from Dunce Capital – a company focused on investing in the future of learning and work. In this episode, John shares his insights as to why tech companies need to be focused on developing their own talent pipeline as opposed to continuing to bid from a dwindling supply of senior engineers.About John Danner:In the 90’s John co-founded Net Gravity, which was one of the first online survey companies. He then sold it and pursued a Master of Education to become a high school teacher. Then, in 2006 John co-founded Rocketship Education, a not-for-profit charter school network focused on providing equal learning opportunities to low-income and minority students. He now runs Dunce Capital, where the focus is on investing in the future of learning at work. Through his varied professional experience, he’s gained a deep expertise that crosses over technology, learning, and business.What should a talent pipeline for a tech company look lik

About Zachary MinottZachary Minott has a background in computer science, game and augmented reality programming and web and salesforce development. Beyond software engineering, Zach is an avid reader and learner. He’s also a talented writer on Medium where he’s amassed quite the following. Zach is passionate about expanding his knowledge, exchanging ideas with others, and finding new ways not only to create but to innovate. What is a learning engine?“What a learning engine is to me, is how many components are you going to put into your mind, that will allow you to move forward and be better than yesterday? How many ideas can you fill your head with, positive and negative, to optimize those things to your advantage” – Zachary MinottA learning engine is essentially the driving force that pushes us to continue learning and absorbing new information so that we can expand our knowledge and skillset. In developer terms, you can be a good developer if you know coding language but, what makes a great developer stand

This podcast is a conversation with Toby Newman from HERE Technologies about how to foster a learning culture. HERE Technologies is a Netherlands-based company that provides mapping and location data services. In the interview, Toby provides examples of the strategies and approaches that Nigel Paine and Sonia Malik talk about in the previous interviews on learning cultures. One of the key points from this interview is the importance of supporting employees to be able to share and capture knowledge. Toby also provides many other strategies of fostering a learning culture during the interview.Find out more HERE TechnologiesConnect with Toby Newman

In this podcast, Robin talks with Sonia Malik from IBM about reskilling your workforce. Sonia has more than twenty-five years of experience working in various roles in the education technology industry. The conversation starts with Sonia talking about how the pandemic has put reskilling and learning at the core of organisations and the opportunity this has provided for L&D. We then move into talking about how organisations can plan for reskilling, to enable learning to be at the strategic core of an organisation and so learning becomes a core part of daily activity. Sonia talks about how your approaches to reskilling plans needed to include perishable and durable skills. Examples of perishable short-term skills working might be cloud technologies. These types of technology skills change quickly and often are only valuable for a few years. Examples of durable skills include presentation skills, communication skills, creative thinking, teamwork and collaboration.Sonia also talks about what the organisation

This is a podcast with Dan Mottau from RedBubble on Future ways of working. RedBubble is a global online marketplace for print-on-demand products-based designs submitted by artists. Dan has previously been on the podcast and talked about Agility as being The Secret to Greater People Experiences. The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the world and is transforming how we work and live. Remote working has transformed many workspaces and employee’s lives and we are seeing the rise of hybrid workplaces. One of the key messages from this podcast is that hybrid workplaces are about allowing people to work the way they want to and if organisations don't allow for that flexibility they risk losing employees.Links from the podcast●  Listen to the Agility as being The Secret to Greater People Experiences podcast with Dan●  Find out more about Red Bubble●  Connect with Dan on LinkedIn

What is a learning culture and how is a learning culture fostered, supported and enabled?  In this podcast, Robin is exploring these questions with author and podcaster, Nigel Paine. Nigel's latest book is called Workplace Learning: How to build a culture of continuous employee development.  This podcast builds upon and discusses themes from the book. About Nigel PaineNigel Paine is a change-focused leader with a worldwide reputation and a unique grasp of media, learning and development in the public, private and academic sectors.Nigel focuses on the use of learning technologies, organisational development, leadership and creativity with a spotlight on maximising human potential, innovation and performance in the workplace. Nigel is a strategic thinker, able to motivate, lead and drive organisations forward to deliver business and training objectives.Nigel has been involved in corporate learning for over twenty years.  He has a Professorship from Napier University in Edinburgh and is a Fellow of the CIPD, LPI

This podcast is a return to talking about live online learning.  When people signed up for the 2020 Remote Learning Conference we asked them what they wanted to know more about and inclusion was one of the themes to emerge.  In this podcast Robin is talking with Brigit Ritchie from WE.  WE is a learning studio facilitating workshops, retreats and art experiences to re-imagine relationships in and out of work.  This podcast explores what inclusion is and it’s importance. It’s also partly a case study of how WE delivers live online learning.  Brigit wraps up with a great discussion about the importance of listening.About Brigit Ritchie Brigit is the founder of WE.  Brigit’s vision is to develop Relational Mindfulness® to equip people across the world with relational skills to thrive in life. Over the past decade, WE has facilitated experiences for thousands of people to explore how to connect deeply with themselves, each other, and our communities.  Brigit leads this work within the WE community across the USA

In this conversation Robin is talking with Gareth Killeen from Reece about how they used design thinking to re-imagine their leadership development program. Themes include human centered design, design thinking and micro-learning and spaced learning. This is another podcast that was recorded at LearnX 2019.Links from the podcast Connect with Gareth KilleenFind out more about ReeceFind out more about LearnXSprout Labs eBook on design thinking and L&D.

This is the next in the series of podcasts from LearnX 2019.  This podcast is a return to a series of podcasts that were recorded face-to-face at LearnX 2019. Future podcasts may keep on exploring live online learning and learning in hybrid workplaces.  In this podcast Robin is talking with Zoe Sharan from Amicus about how she is using the 70:20:10 learning model in their leadership development program.Links from the podcastFind out more about the 70:20:10 learning modelFind out more about LearnXConnect with  Zoe Sharan on LinkedIn

The remote learning virtual conference brings together guests from the Learning While Working podcast series on virtual facilitation. It's four half-day sessions over 3 days from November 17th 2020 (Australian time zones). One of the sessions is designed for the European/UK time zone.The event is a mixture of group sessions and small breakout sessions with your peers where you will be exploring the issues and possibilities of live remote learning. If you're listening to this after November 18th, 2020 you can now buy the recordings from the event.Sign up here 

In this podcast Rachel Burnham is talking about sketchnoting as a way for accelerating the process of learning and cognitive science behind the practice of sketchnoting. If the idea of sketchnoting is new to you, Rachel explains what sketchnoting is at the start. Also, towards the end of the session Rachel talks about how she is now teaching sketchnoting online.   About Rachel Burnham Rachel helps trainers and L&D professionals become even more effective. She has over 25 years of experience in training and L&D, this includes a wide range of organisations from the private, public and voluntary sectors.   Links from the podcastRead L&D Matters by RachelConnect with Rachel BurnhamConnect with Rachel Burnham on TwitterRachel’s upcoming events on  EventBrite

How do you make sure a virtual event runs smoothly and is engaging? Your event producer is key to a successful virtual event but what does a producer do?  In this podcast, Robin is talking with Karyn Gleeson about this question. The podcast focuses on large events but producers are also key to small events. In smaller groups, producers can help new online facilitators, support the learners with technology and help read the digital body language of participants.   About Karyn Gleeson Karyn Gleeson is an online events production manager for The Learning Guild, where she manages both the tactical needs of producing online events as well as the strategic needs of managing the staff and event deliverables. Previously, Karyn was an LMS administrator and manager of technical support staff for an online curriculum provider. Karyn also has years of experience as a business analyst, project manager and trainer for a custom software development firm.Links from the podcastConnect with Karyn Gleeson The Complete Virtual C

Conference style events have a different set of problems to events that are designed for small group learning, they are even harder to make engaging.  For Barbara Covarrubias Venegas the key to making an event memorable is the connections between the speakers and audience and connections within the audience. In this interview Robin is talking with Barbara Covarrubias Venegas about approaches to building connections and designing large virtual events.   About  Barbara Covarrubias VenegasBarbara Covarrubias Venegas is a virtual events expert and new ways of working researcher.  She is founder of #virtualspacehero where she works with a diverse team of people from across the globe and she designs and produce EXTRAordinary and memorable virtual events.   Links from the podcastFind out more about Barbara Covarrubias VenegasFind out more about virtualspaceheroConnect with Barbara Covarrubias Venegas

 Scenarios are a powerful way to ensure your learning is performance focused.  Using scenarios moves your online sessions away from being information dumps to being active and engaging experiences, where participants are sharing and problem solving together.  One approach Ray talks about, is working with the group to bring out their experiences and basing the learning on those scenarios instead of fictional scenarios.    About  Ray JimenezRay Jimenez  Ph.D. is the Chief Learning Architect at Vignettes Learning, trainingmagnetwork.com and situationexpert.com. He has worked with the American Bankers Association, Neiman Marcus, the US Air Force, NASA, Blue Cross, Goodwill Industries, Pixar Studios, Edison Missing Group, Dendreon, Netafim, Progressive Insurance, Bridgepoint Education, and the California Institute of Technology among others.  Ray's expertise is in microlearning, story-based learning design, scenario-based learning design and creative problem solving.   Links from the podcastFind out more about Vig

Conversations are at the core of how we learn with each other, too often live sessions both face-to-face and online are presentations not conversations.  Moving online does make designing learning around conversations more challenging but not impossible.  In this interview Robin is talking with Joshua Davies from Knowmium about what a conversation architect does.  Powerful conversations helping people transform the way they think and behaviour don't just happen, they need to be planned and designed.  This podcast will give you ideas and strategies on how to design conversations.      Joshua and the team at Knowmium have put together the Radically Remote Facilitation Toolkit which is a book, a toolkit of templates for activities, a short course and tutorials on using Zoom. About Joshua Davies Joshua is the founder of Knowmium.  He has 14 years of business and communications training experience in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, as well as both South and North America. He has worked with Fortune 100 comp

Everyone who is working remotely knows the experience of Zoom fatigue and the negatives of video conferencing; pixel vision, seeing yourself all the time, and what sometimes feels like an ocean of blank faces; but video conferencing also has many powerful possibilities for learning. These are the possibilities that Robin explores with Chad Owen in this latest interview.One of the themes that often recurs in interviews around online facilitation is showing up as human online and really connecting with others. Chad explores ways to use video to help with being human online. The interview also includes some great tactics and finishes with a discussion about whiteboarding. There is a sub-theme in this podcast about working visually online.About Chad OwenChad is the founder of Stimulus. Stimulus specialises in team acceleration for disruptors and innovators. Chad has a background in video making and storytelling and has worked for companies such as NIKE, CISCO and Wells Fargo. Chad has recently moved to learning a