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The Mind Tools L&D Podcast is a must-listen for anyone involved in Learning and Development or Human Resources. The weekly show features regular appearances from the Mind Tools team plus special guests to get right to the heart of issues affecting the L&D and HR communities. From learning needs analysis and evidence-based practice through to the impact of technology on work and hot topics at industry conferences, you'll get critical insights into the world of work, performance and learning.

The Mind Tools L&D Podcast Mind Tools Ltd

    • Business
    • 4.7 • 49 Ratings

The Mind Tools L&D Podcast is a must-listen for anyone involved in Learning and Development or Human Resources. The weekly show features regular appearances from the Mind Tools team plus special guests to get right to the heart of issues affecting the L&D and HR communities. From learning needs analysis and evidence-based practice through to the impact of technology on work and hot topics at industry conferences, you'll get critical insights into the world of work, performance and learning.

    Bringing spaced practice into workplace learning

    Bringing spaced practice into workplace learning

    One-off learning interventions are frequently the ‘go to’ solution for workplace learning teams, but we know that spaced repetition and retrieval practice are more effective. How do we get past organizational constraints that make this difficult?
    In this week’s episode of The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, Tony Manwani from People Unboxed joins Ross Dickie and Ross Garner to discuss:
    ·       The problems with one-off interventions
    ·       Science-backed principles to make an impact
    ·       How Tony’s ‘BentoBot’ tool puts those principles into practice.
    For a recent replication of Ebbinghaus’ ‘forgetting curve’ experiment, see: Murre, J. M., & Dros, J. (2015). Replication and analysis of Ebbinghaus’ forgetting curve. PloS one, 10(7), e0120644.
    For more on the ‘Leitner system’ see the overview on Wikipedia.
    For the LTEM model, referenced by Ross D, see Dr Will Thalheimer’s website.
    In ‘What I Learned This Week’, Ross G recommended Perplexity.ai.
    For more from us, including access to our back catalogue of podcasts, visit mindtools.com/business. There, you'll also find details of our award-winning performance support toolkit, our off-the-shelf e-learning, and our custom work.  
    For more from Tony and People Unboxed, see peopleunboxed.co.uk. For BentoBot, see bentobot.com.
    Connect with our speakers   
    If you'd like to share your thoughts on this episode, connect with our speakers:
    ·       Ross Garner
    ·       Ross Dickie
    ·       Tony Manwani

    • 32 min
    How do we leverage AI for education?

    How do we leverage AI for education?

    Throughout the first few months of this year, we’ve been exploring artificial intelligence for L&D. In episode 377, Donald Taylor gave us the context on the extent to which L&D pros are using AI In episode 379, Ross Steven offered advice for getting started.
    This week on The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, Ross and Owen were joined by Kacper Lodzikowski, Vice President of AI Capabilities at Pearson, to discuss the opportunities that AI presents for education. 
    We discuss:
    ·       Why AI presents such a challenge for educators
    ·       Balancing those challenges with opportunities
    ·       What those opportunities are and where to embrace them.
    During the discussion, Kacper referenced his paper: Łodzikowski, K., Foltz, P. W., & Behrens, J. T. (2023). Generative AI and Its Educational Implications. arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.08659.
    To find out more about our own AI-powered ‘difficult conversation’ tool, see AI Conversations.
    In ‘What I Learned This Week’, Owen recommended the TV show Poker Face.
    Ross G referenced ‘The Long Goodbye to Saturn’s Ring’, published in The Atlantic.
    Kacper referenced Ethan Mollick’s newsletter One Useful Thing and Gary Marcus’ newsletter Marcus on AI.
    Ross G shared a letter that was possibly written to Marilyn Monroe from John Steinbeck.
    For more from us, including access to our back catalogue of podcasts, visit mindtools.com/business/. There, you'll also find details of our award-winning performance support toolkit, our off-the-shelf e-learning, and our custom work.  
    Connect with our speakers   
    If you'd like to share your thoughts on this episode, connect with our speakers:
      Ross Garner Owen Ferguson Kacper Lodzikowski

    • 39 min
    Building a modern learning ecosystem

    Building a modern learning ecosystem

    Today’s workplace is one where change is the norm. Learning is critical in this environment, but supporting learning isn’t just about creating content. 

    In this week’s episode of The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, JD Dillon joins Ross Dickie and Ross Garner to discuss his book, The Modern Learning Ecosystem. We cover: 

    Why JD’s book includes ‘learning’ in its title, even though it’s not really about learning; 
    The role of influence, and what L&D can do to earn it; 
    The six key tasks of L&D, and how to build a modern learning ecosystem. 

    To find out more about The Modern Learning Ecosystem, head to jdwroteabook.com. 

    In ‘What I Learned This Week’, Ross G referenced ‘The Long Goodbye to Saturn’s Ring’, published in The Atlantic. 

    JD mentioned the Space 220 restaurant at Disney World, and talked about how he is using Yousician to learn guitar. 

    For more from us, including access to our back catalogue of podcasts, visit  mindtools.com/business/ There, you'll also find details of our award-winning performance support toolkit, our off-the-shelf e-learning, and our custom work.   

    Connect with our speakers    

    If you'd like to share your thoughts on this episode, connect with our speakers: 


    Ross Garner 
    Ross Dickie 
    JD Dillon 

    • 43 min
    What will be hot in workplace L&D in 2024?

    What will be hot in workplace L&D in 2024?

    Donald Taylor describes this year’s Global Sentiment Survey as the ‘unsurprising survey’. Predictably, artificial intelligence topped the table by some margin. But the results of this year’s survey still tell us a lot about how L&D perceives itself and the challenges we face as a profession.
    In this week’s episode of The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, Donald joins Ross and Owen to parse the results of the Global Sentiment Survey 2024. We discuss:
    ·       How L&D views the benefits and challenges associated with AI
    ·       The non-AI topics which gained popularity this year
    ·       Declining interest in collaborative/social working and coaching/mentoring 
    ·       The potential risks of L&D’s current obsession with AI
    To read the Global Sentiment Survey report for yourself, head to Don’s website.
    During our discussion, Owen mentioned responses to the GSS from our own Gent Ahmetaj and Ross Garner.
    In ‘What I Learned this Week’, Owen referenced Ben Thompson’s newsletter, Stratechery.
    Ross mentioned how he’d followed Wirecutter’s recommendations (which he learned about through Owen) to buy a new pair of earphones.
    For more from us, including access to our back catalogue of podcasts, visit mindtools.com/business/ There, you'll also find details of our award-winning performance support toolkit, our off-the-shelf e-learning, and our custom work.  
    Connect with our speakers   
    If you'd like to share your thoughts on this episode, connect with our speakers:
    ·       Ross Dickie
    ·       Owen Ferguson
    ·       Donald Taylor

    • 40 min
    Designing learning for the charity sector

    Designing learning for the charity sector

    While there are often constraints in charity’s learning budgets, it’s actually this limitation that can point the way to more efficient and effective learning design and development. There’s much that the corporate learning world can learn from this. 
    In this episode of The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, Gemma is joined by Gill Chester, Director of Little Man Project and Ross Dickie to discuss creating learning for organisations on a mission to change the world for the better.
    We talked about:
    Resourcefulness and creativity throughout the design process The importance of developing relationships with stakeholders  Incorporating evaluation into the design process. Gill mentioned that she's running eLearning Unlocked, a 12-month programme on designing great elearning. To find out more about the programme, visit www.elearningunlocked.org.uk
    Do also check out Little Man Project here: https://www.littlemanproject.com/
    Gemma learned a new word – suspire - thanks to Susie Dent. Her Tweet is here: https://twitter.com/susie_dent/status/1325118435546816512
    For more from us, including access to our back catalogue of podcasts, visit mindtools.com/business/. There, you'll also find details of our award-winning performance support toolkit, our off-the-shelf e-learning, and our custom work.  
    Connect with our speakers   
    If you'd like to share your thoughts on this episode, connect with our speakers:
    Gemma Towersey Ross Dickie Gill Chester  

    • 42 min
    You don’t have to talk to add value

    You don’t have to talk to add value

    As experts, managers or leaders, we often seek to help others by talking, talking, talking. But what if we didn’t talk and just listened?
    This week in The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, Ross and Gemma are joined by Georgie Rudd, an executive coach, to discuss the trials and delights of listening.
    We explore:
    ·       reasons that we don’t listen well
    ·       the consequences of not listening (and of listening!)
    ·       how we can improve listening skills.
    Georgie recommended Nancy Klein as an expert on listening and techniques to improve. Time to think is a good place to start: amazon.co.uk/Time-Think-Listening-Ignite-Human/dp/0706377451
    You can find out more about Liz Wiseman’s concepts of multipliers and diminishers in her book Multipliers: amazon.co.uk/Multipliers-Best-Leaders-Everyone-Smarter/dp/006239066X
    In ‘What I Learned This Week’, Gemma spoke about the widest fairy ring in the world. John Wright reports that it’s around 800m across in A spotter’s guide to countryside mysteries, but a quick internet search revealed this to be a questionable fact. 
    For more from us, including access to our back catalogue of podcasts, visit mindtoolsbusiness.com. There, you'll also find details of our award-winning performance support toolkit, our off-the-shelf e-learning, and our custom work. 
    And, this week, we’re giving a special shout out to our Learning Performance Benchmark. Not sure how your L&D function is performing? Find out now, for free: mindtools.com/business/products/lpb/
    Connect with our speakers   
    If you'd like to share your thoughts on this episode, connect with our speakers on LinkedIn:
    ·       Gemma Towersey
    ·       Ross Dickie 
    ·       Georgie Rudd
    Georgie can also be contacted via her website: https://www.ruddcoaching.co.uk/

    • 37 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
49 Ratings

49 Ratings

Ing1973 ,

Interesting, informative and thought-provoking

An interesting, informative and thought-provoking podcast- future focused, progressive and always one step ahead! Really helpful for me as an HR Generalist to keep up with the latest trends and developments in L&D.

Purpleluce ,

Brilliantly hosted

I really enjoy this podcast, I think it’s really well hosted by natural presenters and love to hear the rapport and humour between them and the guests.It’s intelligent thought-provoking and entertaining keep up the great work.

LuciusCavell ,

Fantastic!

A very interesting and thought-provoking podcast. Highly recommended.

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