Learning to Thrive Podcast

Youi Insurance is a global insurance company that seems to have tripped over the secret source of great employee experience and surprise surprise when we have healthy, happy employees our bottom line improves. 

In this ep we talk to Ryan McGrory Head of Employee & Internal communications at Youi Insurance. 

We lean into:  

- Youi's employee wellbeing response in a retro on Covid

- how he defines great employee experience & employee wellbeing

- how he uses communications/share of voice in their strategy 

- Youi's high level employee experience strategy 

- the 8 psychosocial hazards contributing to poor employee wellbeing

- employee burnout factors 

- how they measure employee experience 

Join us as we explore corporate learning, leadership & development in the digital age and use learning to thrive in this every changing world 

This conversation offers insights into the power of consulting with your target audience and using creativity in solution design when resources or time is short. 

Learning designer and consultant Steve Corney is working with some of Australia's largest teams on some very cool L&D projects; he is passionate about learning that works in the real world. Steve shares his experiences and perspectives on learning experience design, creating outcomes, consulting and more. This conversation offers a great insight for business leaders or up and comers to learning, learning consultants, inhouse learning designers and more to help us learn to reject the familiar and get out of our comfort zone when it comes to learning design. We learn about 

- the power and vulnerable moments that come from consulting with your target audience in learning design 

- not falling in love with your own work and ideas

- human centred design 

- peer to peer learning and training and a case study fo empowering business leaders when resources are short 

- learning and training solutions for GenZ and Millenials

Join host Emily Walker, co-founder of Change Republic, and host of learning to thrive - a fresh series on corporate learning, professional development and leadership in the digital age. 

In 2020 a learning consultant Kuva Jacobs, suggested we contact Kerryn Fewster, Australia's leading organisational change expert to chat about a about a piece of work they had done that might be able to help us understand ambiguity and build better capability for it in our organisations and ourselves. 

"Adaptability is the characteristic that will matter above all else. Learn to adapt to ambiguity and uncertainty or risk being lift behind" 

This quote from Kerryn Fewster, Founder and Director of Adaptiq Minds and Change 2020 is an organisational change consultancy is striking and relevant.

It sums up with an EY study in 2019 reported that 50% of CEO's named uncertainty as the single greatest external threat to the business. 

In this episode we explore 

- the definition of ambiguity

- the research Kerryn worked on alongside QUT researchers on ambiguity and uncertainty and building capability

- the learnings including the 8 key behaviours we can build capability in to improve our tolerance to ambiguity 

- the assessment tool created to help assess individual and organisational capability in ambiguity and uncover capability opportunities 

- the learning design process explored with Kuva Jacobs, from Redpoint Consulting 

To access the tool we speak about in the podcast google go to Adaptiqminds.com.au  and click on the button to build your snapshot profile of your abilities, and this will give you access to the assessment and a snapshot report once you have finished it. 

We hope we've added value in some way. 

Enjoy   

Optus is truly an agile business and one of our favourite brands. Having learnt quickly from the SARS virus, Optus’s business and crisis response to COVID-19 was swift, smart and measured. Kirk who heads up Optus’s learning experience team is no different. This conversation with Kirk is rich in leadership and learning experience insights including:  

• How learning and learning experience is structured at Optus
• Hints about the future of learning at Optus 
• The key skills Optus is focusing on to future proof their employees and arm them through uncertainty 
• Business partnering at Optus 
• Empowering leaders to own learning and development 
• Coaching as the missing link  

Join Kirk and Emily Walker, co-founder of Change Republic, and host of Learning to Thrive - a brand new podcast about learning to thrive in this rapidly changing, digital world. Come on a learning journey with us as we explore insights and learnings from experts in future skills, behaviour change, learning and development, mindset and leadership.

Behaviour change and leadership expert Deb works with learning and development teams and leaders responding to the current “vuca” environment. Prior to her current work and academic study in organisational coaching, behaviour change and leadership, Deb amassed 15 years of strategic senior operational experience for some of Australia’s largest, well known brands. We sought out advice from Deb to learn more about implementing leadership capability and behaviour change, particularly in vuca environments like COVID-19.  We learn about:  

• The key ingredients of behaviour change 
• Leaders under stress, self awareness and relationship building 
• How emotional intelligence does or doesn’t show up in leaders or conversations 
• Gossip as a symptom of a dysfunctional team or toxic leadership culture  
• What is live facilitated learning and the benefits 
• Servant leadership - what it is, its origins 

Join host Emily Walker, founder of Change Republic, and host of Learning to Thrive - a fresh new series about learning, development and leadership in our rapidly changing, digital age. Come on a learning journey with us as we explore insights and learnings from experts in behaviour change, future skills, learning and development, mindset and leadership and more.

Cast away the tracksuit and get inspired with Beth Hall head of global performance, learning and development at Cotton On Group’s University. Beth is passionate about behaviour change that enables the 22,000 employees of the Cotton On Group to perform and enjoy life. We sought out advice from Beth to understand how she and the team are enabling Cotton On through performance, learning, leadership and development. 

We touch on 

• The values that dictate the daily behaviours that the group expects and sees in it’s people daily that lead it to success and through failure 
• How everyone is taught personal leadership from Day 1 at Cotton On 
• Relationships as a currency for ultimate business cohesion and collaboration 
• Business partnering and leading and teaching a problem spotting and curious mindset 
• Development in the flow of work through things like shadow coaching 
• Resilience, learning data, the structure of COG uni’s academy and programs and.. 
• Her top tip for leaders who care about performance and development in their teams 

Join host Emily Walker, founder of Change Republic, and host of Learning to Thrive - a fresh new series about learning, development and leadership in our rapidly changing, digital age. Come on a learning journey with us as we explore insights and learnings from experts in behaviour change, future skills, learning and development, mindset and leadership and more.

Improving productivity and output is critical through disruptive times, but it can often come at the cost of our wellbeing. Improving productivity and reducing stress is possible through small changes to our everyday behaviour and systems. Learn from Matt Cowdroy, a leading productivity coach that regularly advises executives in the fast paced financial services industry. Matt shares his best tips to help you move the most important work forward, with more calm and less stress.  He shares:  

• Tips for managing email more effectively 
• Why employees struggle and suffer with productivity 
• Managing meetings 
• How to set up your day, week and quarter for success 
• Creating and managing your master list 

Leading global analyst Josh Bersin has a rich understanding of black swan events and how they affect the psyche of our people and organisations. Josh is a world renowned data analyst and people consultant based in San Francisco and leaders in some of the world's largest global brands and companies. 

Emily seeks the advice of Josh to assist leaders leading teams through crisis and black swan events. Josh shares: 

• The immediate three strategic focus areas for those leading people or teams through black swan events and crisis 
• His experience and learnings from past black swan events 
• His own experience after a major layoff and recession starting his data consultancy - Bersin
• Four pivotal leadership capabilities for leaders to build and draw on over the next twelve months 
• The advice he's sharing with ex co's, CEO's, Human Resources, Learning and Development, People and Culture leaders, 

Join host of Learning to Thrive, Emily Walker in this brand new, sometimes funny, podcast about learning, leadership, mindset and behaviour change. Let's all learn to thrive in this rapidly digital world.