395 — Once upon a time: Data-based storytelling in L&D
Release Date: 05/21/2024
400 — 400th Episode Special!
The Mind Tools L&D Podcast
For eight years, the team here on The Mind Tools L&D Podcast (formerly The GoodPractice Podcast) have been chatting work, performance and learning with some of the brightest minds in learning and development. This week, to celebrate the release of our 400th episode, our friends Phil Willcox from and Ady Howes from have pulled together a tribute episode for us. We discuss: · the Mind Tools team’s favourite episodes · what we learned from 400 episodes of podcasting · what others...
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399 — How to build engagement with your content libraries
The Mind Tools L&D Podcast
Digital learning content offers a scalable, always-on option to help your people build their skills and overcome workplace challenges. But often these libraries get dusty, bogged down by out-of-date content with little relevance, or hidden away in a dark corner of the intranet where no one can find them. So in this episode of The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, Virgin Money’s Martin Ritchie, Digital Learning Manager, joins Ross Garner and Lara to share: How Virgin Money raise awareness of their Mind Tools content library Techniques for promoting a proactive learning...
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398 — Star Trek Special: The future of AI
The Mind Tools L&D Podcast
In ‘Measure of a Man', episode nine of the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Enterprise crew debate whether their robot companion, Data, is truly alive. More interesting for us, though, is the way they interact with artificial intelligence (AI) in general. Not just for what it tells us about how AI tools might evolve, but also for how we humans work with them. So in this special episode of The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, Ross Ganer, Claire, Ross Dick and Nahdia discuss: · How closely the Enterprise computer reflects current tools like...
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397 — Do organizational learning communities ever work?
The Mind Tools L&D Podcast
We humans are social creatures. We form organic communities wherever we go, based on shared interests, passions and needs. But when we try to impose top-down learning communities on an employee population, things get more difficult. Is it possible for L&D to create a flourishing community? In this week’s episode of The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, Ross Garner and Nahdia Khan are joined by Andy Lancaster, author of Organizational Learning Communities, who offers a framework that can help. We discuss: · Types of workplace learning community ·...
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396 — Applying the COM-B model for behavior change
The Mind Tools L&D Podcast
In learning and development, we typically want people to do something that they are currently not doing, or to stop doing something that they shouldn't be. One obvious approach is training, but there are in fact a broad spectrum of interventions that we can deploy. In this week’s episode of The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, Ross and Owen are joined by Wil Procter, Strategy and Innovation Director at Nazaré, and by Jessica Holt, Senior Behavioural Science Consultant at Inizio Engage XD. We explore: · What behavioral science is, · ...
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395 — Once upon a time: Data-based storytelling in L&D
The Mind Tools L&D Podcast
As professionals, we want to know if our work has had the impact we originally intended and to tell others about it. This means getting comfortable with data and crafting compelling data stories. On this episode of The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, Ross G is joined by Neil Cunningham, founder of and author of Narratives and Numbers, to discuss practical and mindset shifts L&D can take. We explore: why people think it’s too difficult to measure the ROI of learning how to get stakeholder buy-in to measuring and evaluating learning how to craft credible L&D data stories. You can...
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394 — Burn your bullsh*t in a bonfire moment
The Mind Tools L&D Podcast
You’ve got a brilliant idea for the next big thing in tech and have gathered the smartest engineers and designers to build it (plus the cash to pay them). Will it end up being a success? You’ve got the best team to deliver it, so why wouldn’t it be? Well… Gemma, Ross and Martin Gonzalez, Google’s Effective Founders Project founder and author, discuss this situation on The Mind Tools L&D Podcast. We explore: · how and why it’s people issues that often lead to (startup) business failure · the balances that...
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393 — Is positive psychology practical?
The Mind Tools L&D Podcast
If you’re thinking, isn’t positive psychology a bit ‘woo woo’, and a bit like forcing yourself to take a sunny outlook, then this episode is for you. As an approach to a happier, more balanced inner and outer life, positive psychology is not woo – it has a solid scientific foundation with practical methodologies. Gemma, Ross Garner and their guest, Leadership coach Sandra Berko, discuss these very points this week on The Mind Tools L&D Podcast. We explore: · what positive psychology is and isn’t · what...
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392 — Adaptive vs linear courses: Which performs better?
The Mind Tools L&D Podcast
Adaptive courses come in many forms, but generally respond to the learner’s existing knowledge and skills: thereby optimizing the time to completion. But do they improve learning outcomes? In this week’s episode of The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, Ross G and Owen are joined by Roy de Vries, Learning Innovator at aNewSpring, to explore the results of an experiment they ran to compare adaptive vs linear courses. We discuss: Forms of adaptive learning content; The potential advantages of adaptive learning; The results of an experiment carried out by...
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391 — Knock out your tasks with timeboxing
The Mind Tools L&D Podcast
Timeboxing means dividing your day into 15-60 minute slots, based on your priorities, and then sticking to those slots as you dive into the business of work. If that sounds great, it is. If it sounds easy, it isn’t. In this week’s episode of The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, author Marc Zao-Sanders joins Ross G to give him advice on timeboxing his life. We discuss: · The benefits of timeboxing; · How email is the ‘killer’, and what to do about it; · The difficulties that...
info_outlineAs professionals, we want to know if our work has had the impact we originally intended and to tell others about it. This means getting comfortable with data and crafting compelling data stories.
On this episode of The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, Ross G is joined by Neil Cunningham, founder of Align | Learn | Do and author of Narratives and Numbers, to discuss practical and mindset shifts L&D can take.
We explore:
- why people think it’s too difficult to measure the ROI of learning
- how to get stakeholder buy-in to measuring and evaluating learning
- how to craft credible L&D data stories.
You can get a copy of Neil’s book, Narratives and Numbers, from the Align | Learn | Do website. Use the offer code mt10 at checkout for a 10% discount.
In ‘What I Learned This Week’, Ross discovers the many reasons why lorry drivers might accidentally crash into a bridge via this curiously fascinating X thread.
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