Future-Focused with Christopher Lind

I've seen it too many times. On paper, this 'disruptive' software will save millions, increase productivity, and offer countless benefits from the previous way of  doing things. And then it doesn't. GASP!

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”  - Arthur C. Clarke

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”  - Arthur C. Clarke

In this last-minute pivot, I’m bringing back my good friend Ben Eubanks from Lighthouse Research & Advisory to talk about what you can expect in 2022 and how it will affect the work you do.

We cover everything from personalized flexibility to hybrid work and what it means to learning professionals around the world.

I’d be a lion if I said that I didn’t take pride in my silly episode puns.

Fancy new L & D products often give a false feeling of, “GREAT! I won’t have to do xyz anymore!”. As learning leaders, we still need to take pride in our work. Many organizations claim to offer a wealth of opportunities to transform your workflow and design. While many do, it still takes continual effort to deliver and transform behavior beyond static information transfer. The fuel of a learning culture NEEDS to be organic for a dynamic learning ignition.

In this episode Learning Tech Talks, I’m curiously joining the pride of the lions, Andrew Barry, Founder & CEO of Curious Lion to paw through his strategy for guiding growing organizations that want to influence learner behavior to prepare them for the future changes and challenges that their role will face. I’m excited to hear more about Curious Lion’s ‘Learning Flywheel’ and chat about the challenges that come with breaking the learning inertia.

“Meta-design is much more difficult than design; it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.” - Donald Knuth  

The metaverse has become a word that everyone seems to be talking about. Facebook name change aside, the metaverse is simply a digital world that looks to bind the power of a compilation of technologies, consisting of AR, VR, and video, and will allow users to work together in a digital world. I’ve had a number of guests on this show that have demonstrated its virtual application to L&D, but I believe we’ve only scratched the surface on the exciting things to come in the hashtag#futureofwork.    

In this Learning Tech Talks, I’m connecting with Edward Prentice III, Founder and President of YEP Nation Inc. to learn more about what Yep Nation is doing to pioneer the metaverse within organizations through a private virtual metaverse (PVM) and to discuss the role PVM’s will have in changing the landscape of the digital workplace for learners and workers alike.

I was really hoping  Tigerhall would send me a shirt to wear for this episode, but I’m afraid that my peers might get the impression that I’m a big cat person.

I never thought I’d see the day where technology could create training simulations that were almost indistinguishable from real-world experiences, but here VR!...................But here V R! *crickets chirp*

Is anyone else as excited for enterprise VR as I am? What a time to be alive as we watch the beginnings of a technology that is going to not only transform L&D, but every aspect of our lives. As with all beginnings, there are failures and It’s more important than ever to be vigilant and skeptical of what enterprise VR can offer to your organization and whether it has the resources and capabilities to provide what they claim to offer.

In this episode, I’m cutting through the virtual fluff with Huw Newton-Hill and Greg Hull from Attensi to dissect their approach to industry solutions and learn more about what they are doing to create impact in their VR training solutions with far-reaching results that are spread throughout all levels of an organization. I’m interested to hear their honest thoughts on the future of VR and what they are doing to continually innovate and subsequently create a long-lasting relationship with their partners.

My oldest son told me the other day that he wants to become a railroad engineer when he grows up. I told him he's going to need a LOT of training.

I’m pretty vocal about alternatives to traditional higher education. This wasn’t always a very popular opinion. However, I think we live in a time where the idea that college isn’t for everyone has become more accepted as organizations are finding they may have missed talent by having specific education as a prerequisite. Apprenticeships hold their place in history dating as far back as the Middle Ages and we are seeing a strong return to this model in the #futureofwork.

In this episode, I'm apprenticing with Tej Mehta, Strategy & Operations Lead at Multiverse, to learn about how Multiverse is helping organizations fulfill their potential by focusing less on requisites and more on applied learning through professional apprenticeships that can teach and reskill at any age with a focus on skills that will be the forefront of change and define the jobs of tomorrow.

With little ones around our house, we are constantly on the lookout to make sure they aren’t chewing on any electrical cords. If they do, we are forced to ground them for conducting themselves improperly.

I often remind my kids to take small bites when eating and focus on their chewing to help with digestion. I can’t help but draw a parallel between learning and retention. Consuming too much too quickly takes away from the enjoyment and leaves us feeling lethargic. The benefit of consuming information fast and slow in small and frequent bites largely outweighs the inefficiency of consuming everything at once.

In this episode, bite-sized I'm talking to Eran Heffetz and Tal Almog from Bites about the platform they have created to help organizations create and manage bite sized content that can be scaled across an organization for effective learning that doesn't just focus on onboarding, but an unlimited amount of use cases in a wide range of industry application.