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Lalaine Gedal, the Associate Director of Leader Development in the US for Takeda shares Takeda's intentional approach to supporting their people to adopt a hybrid working model from their consultation on what hybrid working should look like to developing a toolkit to support people to adopt this change and engaging Cindy Huggett to run virtual sessions on leading in a hybrid environment. Cindy, a leading expert in virtual facilitation, joins the conversation to provide insight and tips on virtual facilitation skills.

Host: Michelle Ockers

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In this episode of Learning Uncut, I speak with Catriona Malcolm (or Cat as she is also known). She is the Enterprise Design Practice Lead at Westpac Group. With a workforce of around 40,000 people across seven business entities whose core service is banking, Cat's role was created four years ago specifically to address the complexity of designing skills development solutions across these seven entities. We cover a lot of elements of the Westpac approach in this episode. We look at approaches such as "learning front door", "citizen development" and their L&D Community of Practice. Cat has provide excellent resources - if you'd like to dig deeper you can find these below.

Host: Michelle Ockers

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Welcome to our first episode for 2023. To kick off our podcasting year, Anthea Piening, the Capability and Change business leader for the sales team at Lion Australia shares a story about changes to onboarding at Lion Australia. She discusses how onboarding has been redesigned from a two-day event to a blended 12-week program. She discusses the key drivers and how the shift also reflects a move into digital learning with a mix of self-directed, leader-led and virtual activities – as well as higher value use of two days of face-to-face activities. An important insight from the program pilot was the need to support new team starters to build connection to others through onboarding activities.

Host: Michelle Ockers

Transcript and related resources: https://learninguncut.global/podcast/115/

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It's been a huge year for Learning Uncut – both the podcast and the business! The podcast celebrated its 100th episode in May and there have been almost 50,000 downloads in the past 12 months alone.

In the final episode for 2022 Michelle is joined by Ravina Bhatia, Director and CLO of Learning Tribe. Together they have been supporting Learning Uncut's clients to develop and implement organisational learning strategy since mid-2021.

In this episode, they look back on the year – covering their professional highlights and key shifts in organisational learning before discussing the 2022 podcast episodes. They reflect on themes, insights, and favourite episodes.

Host: Michelle Ockers

Transcript and related resources: https://learninguncut.global/podcast/114/

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Listening is a critical skill to increase the impact of Learning and Development professionals. Our guest, Shaheen, shares her personal journey with deep listening and how that has increased her effectiveness in her work. We weave this theme in with the story of Project Oxygen Mask, a mental health campaign conceived after noticing her own mental state and listening to others in the organisation to understand their experience. The campaign, designed in conjunction with a mental health expert in her organisation, HireUp, was run quickly and lightly on Slack. Full of great tips and resources to help us all improve our listening practices.

Host: Michelle Ockers

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Siva Kulasingam, the Digital Learning Manager at Coles, believes that "data is a beautiful thing." He joins me with Andrew Bloye from ClearXP to discuss how his team is working with xAPI data after implementing a Learning Experience Platform (or LXP) and Learning Record Store (or LRS) several years ago. We discuss how both guests think about the learning technology stack and the case to invest in both an LXP and LRS so that you can work with xAPI data. Get a clear explanation of the technical jargon before we go deeper on how to effectively work with xAPI data, drawing on the rich experience of both guests.

Host: Michelle Ockers

Transcript and related resources: https://learninguncut.global/podcast/112/

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Following the pandemic, the nature of work and the expectations people have of the workplace and employers have shifted significantly. In this episode of Learning Uncut, I am joined by Hannah Conkey, the Head of Learning and Organisational Development at the Royal Automotive Club of Victoria – RACV for short. Hannah shares how the RACV have reviewed their Employee Value Proposition, updated leadership development and how her qualification in neuroscience helped to inform their approach.

Host: Michelle Ockers

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Kate Fraser from the Australian Association of Social Workers joins me to discuss a blended learning program for clinical supervisors developed in partnership with Family Safety Victoria. She is joined by Dr Kuva Jacobs from RedPoint Consulting who worked on the design and development of the program. Some interesting design considerations shaped this program, including a high need for psychological safety for participants due to lived experience of trauma, peer support through coaching circles, and the bold move of using Miro in the face of resistance.

Host: Michelle Ockers

Transcript and related resources: https://learninguncut.global/podcast/110/

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Pene Barton, VP People and Remote at Noissue joins me for this episode of Learning Uncut, where we discuss the near-universal challenge of keeping people connected, learning and performing while working remotely. We look at how Noissue has tackled this challenge as they scaled a global workforce. Pene discusses relevant approaches and tips including the development of employee journey maps and integrating 'showing your work' into the operating rhythm. Pene also discusses a range of tech tools that are used on a budget across the organisation to enable connection, performance, and community.

Host: Michelle Ockers

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The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is Australia's multicultural public broadcasting service across a range of media. Brett Archer, their Capability Development leader, discusses how they have taken a strengths-based approach to leadership development. He has extended this to identify and leverage organisational strengths for learning purposes. If you can make it to Sydney 8-9 November 2022 join Brett and me at the L&D Innovation and TechFest where we'll both be speaking.

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