Performance Matters Podcast

Companies can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on training, but often are not sure how to measure its impact.

Listen to Dr. Bonnie Beresford share how she cracked the code to learn the what, the why, and the how of measurement and the top 5 best practices you should use for your training measurement.

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Join Michael Thiel as he reflects on a year filled with amazing conversations on innovation and best practices in business.

Listen to highlights from select conversations on artificial intelligence (AI), from voice synthesized AI personalities discussing what AI means to how it will impact the human roles in business.

Learn how the power of storytelling can create authenticity in connection in a world filled with technologies and the distance those technologies can sometimes create.

Discover how coaching can help fight career fear and how new generations are learning and their expectations for learning programs at work.

This episode is a treasure trove of inspiring interviews and a healthy dose of future-facing optimism. You won’t want to miss it!

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Organizational change management (OCM) plays a pivotal role in tech transformations. Successful adoption goes beyond technology installation, necessitating a robust OCM strategy.

In this episode, Ellen Kumar shares valuable insights on how change leaders can advocate for early OCM involvement, explores the quantifiable outcomes tied directly to change management, and outlines the transformative power of concise and effective OCM in technology implementations.

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With government employees 15% less engaged compared to “best-in-class” organizations, it’s time to put the public sector in the spotlight. What trends are we seeing in the industry? How do government structures differ from other corporate environments? What do their employees need today and in the future?

Join GP’s Annie McManus, Caitlyn Strunk, and County of San Mateo’s Conrad Fernandes as they discuss navigating the challenges unique to government organizations.

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Over the last few years we’ve seen a dramatic shift in the way our clients are using gamification with real intention. Not a gimmick or just something different to grab attention, but with a specific behavioural goal in mind for a specific audience. What does this mean for the kinds of games and gamified learning we’re making, and what benefits has this created for our clients and learners?

In this podcast, Micheal Thiel is joined by two active practitioners in the learning experience space, Rich Calcutt and Emma Jourdan of the GP Strategies Learning Experience Team, who share insights on gamification 2.0 and how game-based learning strategies are levelling up.

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The possibilities for artificial intelligence tools are almost limitless, and the learning and development industry is abuzz with this excitement. Listen and discover which AI tools are leading the charge right now.

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Listen to Jeff Fissel from LTG and Matt Donovan from GP discuss where humans fit into an AI future.

In this episode, they explore how organizations are using AI and what boundaries are emerging, AI assistants, AI fails and cautionary tales, and the human roles and responsibilities of a world full of AI assistants.

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We are in the age of velocity of information. Overwhelming people with data is a challenge. The IT industry calls it Big Data and is constantly struggling with how to reduce vast data sets down into understandable information.

Listen to Scott Barber and Michael Thiel discuss the science of delivering information to learners effectively, from designing for what learners actually need to the “training vs. learning” problem and how individual performance leads to business performance.

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AI itself isn’t new. At first, only the data science compartments of an organization were researching and working with AI.

But with the emergence of generative AI, every company will be impacted and every role will too, from customer support, sales and marketing, to engineering, learning, and more. Companies need to decide how they will approach AI.

The first step is to ramp up employees’ understanding of generative AI concepts and tools and then ensure they are being used responsibly.

In the latest Performance Matters Podcast, Michael Thiel is joined by two AI thought leaders, Matt Donovan and Sanchita Sur. Learn about four ways to harness AI in your enterprise.

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The world’s only getting more and more technical, so of course people with technical skills are in high demand. But while workers flock to information-economy desk jobs, organizations in trade industries like energy and automotive are really struggling to fill all their open technical roles.

With a shrinking talent pool, many companies are looking in-house or recruiting from non-traditional sources. They’re bringing in people from nontechnical professional backgrounds and upskilling them to take on technical work. Needless to say, that’s easier said than done.

Back to talk with us about how organizations can craft a successful technical workforce is Roger Boisse, Senior Director of the online technical training platform GPiLEARN+. After graduating from Maine Maritime Academy, Roger started his career as a naval officer before moving into the private industrial sector.  He then spent 30 years in the power generation industry working his way from frontline technician to corporate executive, with responsibility for several power plants. He’s been with GP Strategies since 2021, putting all that expertise to use supporting customers in the technical industries.

Listen to the episode and discover how technical skills can be taught and developed, even among those who come from nontechnical backgrounds.

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