L&D Disrupt

56% of employees struggle to find resources and documents while working remotely.

And when they’re scattered in multiple places, knowledge isn’t being captured and the norm is to shoulder tap or Slack, it’s no wonder.

But by building a central brain and search-first culture, we can connect people to knowledge that makes them better at their job WHEN it can make them better at their job.

​Scribe CEO Jennifer Smith joined us live to explain how we can create a culture where people search in moments of need and find resources that drive performance.

Running order

0:00 Intro to Jennifer and Scribe

5:25 Why people don’t search first

9:47 Building a central brain for knowledge

16:49 Scaling knowledge sharing as managers

26:26 Getting buy-in

29:34 On-brand ways to drive knowledge sharing

33:28 Do incentives work?

37:44 Audience question: Using the right language

45:45 Audience question: Correcting bad experiences

48:16 Best practices

How To Connect

Find Jennifer on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferreneesmith/ 

Learn more about Scribe: https://scribehow.com/

Find Gary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-stringer-copywriter/

Find HowNow on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/

Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

Whether it’s measuring outcomes without understanding how we got there or shoehorning people into old-school performance models, there are plenty of pitfalls.

How To Connect

Find Ron on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rstock/

Find HowNow on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/

Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

In a fast-changing world, we need to break work down into smaller chunks and respond with the right learning just as quickly.

​Our goal has to be maximising L&D impact while minimising wasted time and resources.

​A Lean Learning Sprint helps you do this! Bringing the right people together over two to four weeks to define problems and test solutions at speed!

​Borrowed from the agile startup world and adapted for L&D in Learning at Speed, author and HowNow CEO Nelson Sivalingam will give you the tools to build your own sprints in this 30-minute workshop.

Find Nelson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonsivalingam/ Find Gary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-stringer-copywriter/

Find HowNow on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/

Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

​Learning science: great in theory, often difficult for us to apply to daily L&D activities…

​UNTIL NOW! Carl Crisostomo (AKA Carl Learns) joined us live to explain ways we can put research into action.

​From neuroscience’s role in learning design to how we prepare our brains for effective application of information.

​Plus, Carl gave us the tools to independently translate future research into day-to-day action.

0:00 Who is Carl Learns?

4:51 Exercises to improve focus and attention

10:23 What L&D can learn from Duolingo

13:41 Auditing how you learn and lessons for L&D.

24:06 Mastering the art of focus.

31:49 Why we need to learn how to learn.

37:46 The role of sleep in learning.

47:28 The role of diet in learning.

50:30 The role of exercise in learning.

How To Connect

Find Carl on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlcrisostomo/

Find Gary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-stringer-copywriter/

Find HowNow on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/

Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

🤝 Thinking about transitioning into your first L&D role?

​😀 Maybe you’re new to a role and need that early stage advice?

🤔 You might be an old-head who’d benefit from hearing non-traditional L&D perspectives?

Wherever you sit, you’ll learn something from Lauren Scholtz (L&D Manager at intelliHR) and Sarah Cannistra (The Overnight Trainer)

Lauren transitioned from customer success and enablement into IntelliHR’s first L&D role.

​And Sarah Makes people’s learning and development career dreams a reality by coaching them into their first position in the industry.

0:00 Intro to Sarah, Lauren and today’s episode.

5:52 Finding your L&D why.

10:15 Transferable skills to L&D.

15:40 Having the right mindset.

21:37 Work out the context for the role.

25:45 Audience question: Transitioning to a new L&D role

30:10 Audience question: Preparing for an L&D interview

36:32 Building a personal brand

42:29 Audience question: Getting buy-in for L&D

50:17 Leveraging your network as a newbie

How To Connect

Find Lauren on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenscholtz/

Find Sarah on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scannistra/

Find Gary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-stringer-copywriter/

Find HowNow on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/

Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

In this 30-minute workshop, HowNow CEO Nelson Sivalingam explains how to easily gather and use data to build a narrative that shows the impact you’re having on the business.  

Expect to learn...  

👉 The difference between data that indicates individual performance improvements and business performance improvements.  

👉 How to avoid correlation and causation pitfalls by combining qualitative and quantitative data.  

👉 Why proof of performance should be your North Star for impact.

Find Nelson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonsivalingam/ 

Find Gary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-stringer-copywriter/

Find HowNow on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/

Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

​A third of staff are willing to quit over weak climate action! And yet sustainability rarely makes it into L&D’s key focus areas…

But when you consider that L&D is in the business of behaviour change, and most of us are looking for day-to-day ways to be more sustainable, it feels like a place where we can have impact.

​Ajay Jacob (L&D Manager, TomTom) and Fiona Morgan (Director of Purpose at SailGP) joined us to discuss L&D’s role in tackling climate change and tactics we can use.

0:00 Introduction to Fiona, Ajay and this episode.

5:18 L&D’s role in the climate conversation.

10:48 Can L&D drive behaviour change?

15:56 Connect people to purpose.

23:59 Examples from SailGP and Sky.

27:47 How to use the right language internally.

36:12 How can it help hiring and retention?

44:32 Using existing data to build narrative.

50:33 Should we incentivise sustainability?

How To Connect

Find Ajay on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajaytj/

Find Fiona on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fiona-morgan-5a512634/

Learn more about SailGP: https://sailgp.com/

Find Gary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-stringer-copywriter/

Find HowNow on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/

Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

Other resources that might be useful

The Carbon Almanac

SailGP’s first Annual Purpose & Impact Report

Global hiring doesn’t mean rolling out one job advert to every single country! It means building a strategic approach:

🌎 Which markets offer the skills we need?

🤝 How does the hiring process look there?

❤️ What’s important to talent in that location?

And with 85 million open roles expected by 2030, it’s time to get ahead in the global battle for talent.

Bastian Eichler (VP of Product, WorkMotion) joined us to build a strategic approach for finding, attracting and developing talent in this episode of L&D Disrupt Live.

0:00 Introduction to Bastian and today’s episode

4:39 How to identify which markets have the skills you need

11:19 Being more data-led in the battle for global talent

20:16 Budget, benefit and salary considerations.

25:56 What’s important to global talent?

32:25 How Bastian’s team combine flexibility and cultural differences

36:12 Collaborating as a global team.

41:31 Tactics for L&D in dispersed teams.

How To Connect

Find Bastian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bastian-eichler/

Learn more about WorkMotion: https://workmotion.com/

Find Gary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-stringer-copywriter/

Find HowNow on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/

Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

Does it matter if L&D teams learn less than others? Just how much is legacy tech holding us back? Have we seen the end of compliance culture?

These are just some of the trends and challenges Nelson and Gary tackled in this episode of L&D Disrupt.

Based on relevant research published in 2022, these are real challenges that L&D can expect in 2023, rather than pie in the sky, exotic trends that won’t apply to your daily life and challenges.

0:00 Introduction to the episode

2:43 L&D spends less time learning on average

12:17 The problem with legacy tech

16:37 People can’t find resources they need

25:15 Why people don’t embrace new tech

36:12 L&D can build your employer brand and better culture

46:25 Being more data informed in 2023.

52:58 More cost effective content creation.

Read the full analysis and find links to every report: https://gethownow.com/blog/2023-learning-and-development-trends-you-have-to-hear/

Find Nelson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonsivalingam/

Find HowNow on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/

Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

AND Digital won Onboarding Programme of the Year at the 2022 Learning Awards. After this episode, we're pretty sure you'll understand why!

​Daragh Gillen (Europe Academy and Onboarding Lead) and Harriet Perks (London Academy and Onboarding Lead) joined us live to explain how they built an authentic, effective and innovative onboarding approach that took home gold.

​Expect to learn...

​Why you should be encouraging people to make mistakes in onboarding. How to create off-the-shelf onboarding that can be personalised. The ways you can keep enjoying the onboarding process, not matter how often it happens, and much more.

0:00 How AND Digital won Onboarding Programme of the Year.

3:57 How to leverage your brand in onboarding.

13:16 Keep enjoying the onboarding process.

18:44 The 6 C’s of onboarding.

20:26 How AND structure their onboarding process.

28:00 Pushing people to fail and feel okay doing it.

34:53 Audience question: Who owns the process.

36:50 Audience question: Getting people up to speed with tech.

46:13 When you should collect onboarding feedback.

Find Daragh on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daragh-gillen-077887183/

Find Harriet on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrietperks/

Learn more about AND Digital: https://www.and.digital/

Find Gary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-stringer-copywriter/

Find HowNow on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/

Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

Find The Culture Map by Erin Meyer (recommended by Harriet): https://erinmeyer.com/books/the-culture-map/

Learn more about The 6 C’s Of Onboarding: https://www.appical.net/en/resources/blog/how-to-incorporate-the-6cs-in-your-hybrid-onboarding-program