L&D Disrupt

By 2030, we'll need to reskill ONE BILLION people (Adecco).

0:00 Intro

​1:00 Joelle Tomkinson. Blendible's Director on the importance of aligning and L&D efforts to business objectives, marketing your plans, and more.

14:09 Nelson Sivalingam. HowNow's CEO on overcoming the challenges of mapping and measuring skills to close your skills gaps.

27:54 James Griffin. Principal Consultant at Skill Collective on making skills a transformative force and much more.

43:08 Nick Petch: Learn about job tasks, cold/warm data, a skills culture and more from the Senior Specialist Lead and Head of Learning Innovation at Deloitte

59:16 Final advice and short Q&A.

Useful links:

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

Learn more about HowNow: gethownow.com

Connect with Joelle on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelle-tomkinson-digital-learning/

Learn more about Blendible: https://www.blendible.co.uk/

Connect with James on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesthegriff/

Learn more about Skill Collective: https://www.linkedin.com/company/skill-collective/

Connect with Nick on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickpetch/

Listen to Nick explain Skill Sprints: https://learninguncut.global/podcast/elevate-33/

More than 1 billion people need to be reskilled by 2030, so adopting a skills-first L&D approach is crucial (WEF).

With ORC leading the charge and building a skills framework that’s driving development, we asked if they’d be open to sharing the playbook.

Kayshia Kruger, Director of Organization Development, answered the call and shares her process with you in this episode.

Expect to learn why skills means starting small, who needs to be involved, the power of removing friction, and much more.

Timestamps

0:00 Intro to the L&D playbook, Kayshia and ORC

3:18 How and why ORC became skills-based

10:51 Stakeholders and scaling it across the business

20:53 Grow Tracks 

23:19 The 3 E Framework for ORC’s Learning Experiences 

29:40 How it’s been received internally

How to connect

Learn more about ORC: orcolan.com

Learn more about Kayshia: www.kayshiakruger.com

Connect with Kayshia on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayshiakruger/

See HowNow in action: gethownow.com

The organisational impact is in the big, scary L&D challenges you’ve been putting off!

Take skills. We do it manually right now and it means it’s too hard - we can’t map and measure them at the speed or scale required.

So we find an easier challenge to solve, to show we solved it. But to have true impact, we need to take on the hardest challenges.

From using AI to mapping skills, and engaging learners to centralising information, learn how in this conversation with HowNow CEO, Nelson Sivalingam.

Learn more about HowNow at gethownow.com

Timestamps

0:00 Why we need to tackle the big challenges

6:50 The Engagement Gap

13:59 Mapping and measuring skills

17:26 AI for the long term

27:59 Centralising learning

39:06 AI for L&D

42:11 Demonstrating impact

50:49 Tackling Incomplete data

Struggling to shift L&D’s perception in the business? You’re not alone!

Thankfully, Danielle Dziurun is here to help - with a proven framework for understanding current perception, shifting it, and aligning to business goals.

By the end of this episode, you’ll have the confidence and skills to improve L&D perception and impact.

Timestamps

0:00 Intro to Danielle

2:06 Understanding L&D’s perception

7:04 Next steps based on your learnings

10:21 Connecting development to core values

14:58 How we align to commercial goals

20:02 Using data effectively in L&D

23:22 Removing friction for learners

Useful links

How to connect

Find Danielle on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielledziurun/

Learn more about HowNow: gethownow.com

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

“We don't own their time or attention. So how can we genuinely get people engaged?”

This is Greg Arthur’s mindset around learning experiences, and he’s created a process that solves the issue.

In this episode, he joins us to talk through the first part - how we build a foundation by understanding problems, stakeholders, context and more.

Timestamps

0:00 Intro to Greg

2:41 The fundamentals for solving problems

9:04 Mapping stakeholders and problems

17:52 The metrics that matter to people and the business

22:47 Finding your sub problems

26:03 Advice for small L&D teams

31:49 Where you can find Greg

How to connect

Find Greg on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-arthur-flpi-736b288/ 

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

Learn more about HowNow: gethownow.com

Learn more about Two Circles: https://www.twocirclesstudio.com/

“Research tells us that extremely low numbers of employees are truly happy with their experience at work – Gartner suggests it may even be as low as 13%. 

“Unengaged employees are not productive employees, and they are unlikely to stay in your organisation for long.”

Those are the words of the LACE Partners team, who recently launched the employee experience revolution - a campaign and guide that provides five steps to successful EX.

Kat Bernardes and Cathy Acratopulo joined Gary to talk through delivering a meaningful employee experience. 

From clarity of what that is to auditing your current experiences, building an EVP, and loads more.

Get your copy here: https://lacepartners.co.uk/the-employee-experience-revolution/

And sign up for the What The Fluff L&D Bootcamp: gethownow.com/wtf-bootcamp 

Timestamps

0:00 Intro

1:36 Why EX is so important

6:36 Creating a robust EVP

11:32 Targeting different audiences 

16:02 Auditing your current EX

21:56 Quick wins for EX

25:49 Driving business value and commercial impact.

30:00 Communicating value and co-owning the strategy

37:03 Shouting about your wins

40:07 Being the catalyst for EX change

How to connect:

Connect with Cathy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathy-acratopulo-lacepartners/

Connect With Kat: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-bernardes-452b9826/

Connect With Gary: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-stringer-copywriter

Learn more about LACE: https://lacepartners.co.uk/

Learn more about HowNow: gethownow.com

As part of the L&D Drop-In, Bena Saiyed walked us through her process for a Root Cause Analysis - allowing us to solve real problems and drive business impact.

There was a slight issue with Bena's sound, but hopefully you can still hear all the valuable advice!

Sign up for What The Fluff here: gethownow.com/wtf-bootcamp

Read Bena’s guide to a Root Cause Analysis: https://sites.google.com/view/bena-s/services/root-cause-analysis

Connect with Bena on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bena-s/ 

As part of the L&D Drop-In, Meghan Fraser-Elvira talked us through how we can understand the culture, the person, and what engaging means in the context of our business to build great learning experiences.

Sign up for What The Fluff here: gethownow.com/wtf-bootcamp

Connect with Meghan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meghancfraserelvira/

As part of the L&D Drop-In, Rob Plumb shared his experiences with using personalised, active, and value-adding language in learning content.

Sign up for What The Fluff here: gethownow.com/wtf-bootcamp

Connect with Rob on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-plumb-29a77522b/

As part of the L&D Drop-In, Srishti Sehgal walked us through the process of bringing organisational context into learning experiences.

Sign up for What The Fluff here: gethownow.com/wtf-bootcamp

Read the article on context-driven L&D: https://www.srishtisehgal.co/rubble/context-driven-lxd -

Connect with Srishti on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/srishti-sehgal/ -

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