The hardest part of developing a plan for your team can be where to begin.

James' effective planning tool provides you with a simple framework for crafting business goals and how to carry out meaningful conversations as well as:

- Clarify and target the strategic objectives and tactics that will get your org to your annual revenue target

- Identify partnership opportunities and other ways to collaborate & divide workload

- Pinpoint the determining factors necessary to design content built to impact your target audience & ease growing pains

Sources and Resources:

- The Canvass https://getplexd.com/free-planning-tool-performance-problem-canvas/

- Lori Niles-Hoffman DBL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorinileshofmann/

- Bianca Baumann: https://www.linkedin.com/in/biancabaumann/

- Cathy moore- https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathy-moore-5383187/

- Keegan peterson - https://www.linkedin.com/in/keeganpeterson/

- Jake Knapp- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-knapp/

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In this episode we explore the things to consider if you're looking to scale up your VR projects and my guest is expert Sam Watts.

Sam is actively engaged in the immersive technology community, living his passion for VR and games for Make Real. Sam has delivered and supported dozens of digital products at Zynga, NCsoft, Kerb and Epic. Clients have included BBC, Channel 4, EDF Energy, Sky and Sony PlayStation.

Sam’s commitment to the VR community means that he is an in-demand panelist and commentator on the emergence of VR. Maintaining close relationships with industry leaders such as Oculus, HTC/Valve and Sony, Sam also ensures that Make Real has early access to all key emerging technologies.

Check out Sam on Twitter - https://twitter.com/vr_sam

Read Sam's Articles - https://medium.com/@vr_sam/interviews-quotes-blog-posts-more-3ecf3eee2d16

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Kevin M Yates is a "Fact Finder for Learning & Development". An expert on data driven learning, Kevin provides us with some fantastic ideas and concepts to apply to our learning strategy.

This episode follows on from our conversation with Stacey Hatch on the topic of measuring impact (https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/e1vdtb) and it's no surprise that Kevin and Stacey both mention Jack and Patti Phillips' ROI approach as a great way to measure performance improvement.

We discuss xAPI, data approaches and questions to ask stakeholders!

Sources and Resources mentioned during the show:

Kevin's website - https://kevinmyates.com/

LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/kevinmyates

Facebook - facebook.com/kevmyates

Twitter - twitter.com/kevinmyates

Jack and Patti Phillips from the ROI Institute - https://roiinstitutecanada.com/

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Adam Harwood is an experienced L&D professional who’s worked in organisations in both the tourism industry and retail sector. He’s currently working at the fashion brand ASOS, where he is responsible for the transformation and development of the digital learning strategy.

When we conducted this recording Adam was close to finishing his time with ASOS and we though it would be a unique time to reflection on his learning experiences so others could benefit from his achievements.

Sources and Resources mentioned:

Adam on Twitter - https://twitter.com/adamharwood26

The Good Practice Podcast - http://podcast.goodpractice.com/

MindChimp Podcast - http://mindchimp.co.uk/

David James - https://twitter.com/DavidInLearning

Myles Runham - https://twitter.com/mylesrun

Nick Shackleton-Jones - https://twitter.com/shackletonjones

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Microlearning is a popular topic in learning right now. Some people swear by it whilst others seem frustrated at the notion of a simplistic approach to learning.

In this episode JD Dillon - a savant on the topic - answers questions from the podcast audience. We discuss what microlearning is, why some observers of microlearning are not so keen on the term and the need for context when applying a microlearning strategy. Most importantly, we discuss how the principles can be applied to day-to-day learning. These can be used in any area of learning!

Sources and Resources mentioned:

JD on Twitter - https://twitter.com/JD_Dillon

Jane Hart on Twitter - https://twitter.com/C4LPT

Axonify - https://axonify.com/

LearnGeek website - https://www.learngeek.co/

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If you've enjoyed this show please share to your audience and feel free to leave an iTunes review in the podcast section of the platform.

MOOCs have been around for a little while now with mixed opinions. The average completion rate for a MOOC is roughly 15% and MOOCs are often lambasted with this observation. In this podcast we explore why this might be the case through the perspective of a learner motivations with my guest Sheila MacNeill

Sheila is the Vice Chair of ALT, and a Senior Lecturer in Digital Learning at Glasgow Caledonian University. She works as part of the Academic Development team providing strategic direction, pedagogic guidance and practical support to staff embedding digital, blended online learning across the curriculum.

Sources and resources mentioned in the podcast:

Article reviewed:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260293764_Signals_of_Success_and_Self-directed_Learning

Follow Sheila on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sheilmcn?lang=en

Learn more about ALT: https://altc.alt.ac.uk/2018/

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In this episode we have expert Dr. David Chandross answer a range of questions on gamification.

We discuss lots of of the research and questions from the audience. David provides tips for everyone to take away and lots of great resources.

The show notes are more like a reflection blog and can be found here https://lloyddean.co.uk/football-manager-psychology-gamification/

Sources and resources mentioned in the episode:

David Chandross https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-chandross-ph-d-92a01234/

The Gamification Report https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loaTbicPzoA

Board Game Geek https://boardgamegeek.com/

Top 100 People in Gamification https://www.rise.global/gurus/r/latest\

Amy Jo Kim https://twitter.com/amyjokim

Andrzej Marczewski https://twitter.com/DaveRage?

Michiel van Eunen https://michielvaneunen.nl/blog-2/

Gamification Hub https://www.facebook.com/groups/gamificationhub/

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Fosway have produced an interesting case study with Sky's Learning and Development teams following their innovative approach to organising their team and solving business problems. For example, instructor led training no longer exists and elearning is limited to specific use cases - e.g. certain mandatory training.

David James supported Sky during this journey and offers us further insight from the case study.

Sources and resource mentioned during the show:

Fosway Innovation Case Study Report:

http://www.fosway.com/innovation-profile-sky/

Guardian Long Reads:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/the-long-read

Scroobius Pip Podcast:

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/distraction-pieces-podcast/id929136539?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

MindChimp Podcast:

http://mindchimp.co.uk/

David's Blog:

https://modernlearninginpractice.com/

Nick Shackleton-Jones:

https://twitter.com/shackletonjones

Loop:

https://www.looop.co/

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In this episode I discuss with V model with Stacey Hatch. Stacey is an expert in the area of return on investment (ROI) and was awarded "Global ROI Practitioner of the Year" in 2015.

Stacey provides lots of great tips on how to better evaluate training requirements and explore the need to partner with the business rather than be subservient to perceived needs.

Resources discussed:

The V model https://roiinstitutecanada.com/roi-methodology/evaluation-planning-the-v-model/

ROI Institute https://roiinstitutecanada.com/

10 Easy steps to ROI https://roiinstitutecanada.com/roi-methodology/10-easy-steps/

Check out Stacey's LinkedIn page - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacey-hatch-79904257/

Get in touch with Lloyd on:

Twitter - https://twitter.com/LloydDeanUK

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lloyddeanuk/

This show is the start of my "reference list" chapter and my guest is Danny Seals and we discuss lots of things including Danny's podcast "The Mindchimp podcast"

Danny’s podcast is just great. It’s slightly different to some of the others out there as he explores the person behind the role. The benefit of this is a very rich conversation. Whenever I listen to an episode of Danny’s podcast I find myself being submerged in the conversation that he is having with his guest. This means I usually end up having my opinion and thoughts on the conversation they are having and will work through “problems” with them.

Listening to Danny’s podcast during the commute in the morning is like a warm up for my day!

Follow Danny - https://twitter.com/Dannyboy83

Listen to the Mindchimp Podcast - https://mindchimp.podbean.com/

Book mentioned in the show:

"You've been publicly shamed" https://www.amazon.co.uk/So-Youve-Been-Publicly-Shamed/dp/1594487138

Follow Lloyd - @LloydDeanUK (Twitter)