The Learning Evolution Podcast

Welcome to the Learning Evolution.

This episode discusses our show’s rebrand and how it helps us to drive our mission to help you get better at making other people better.

We will discuss the mindset behind where the show is going and what to expect going forward.

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Matt Smith has worked for over 20 years managing people across a wide range of industries, 12 of those in formal L&D roles. He has worked as an employee at larger businesses, run his own business, as well as operated independently.

His wide range of experience has given him a unique perspective on what it means to provide effective training.

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L&D is often seen as a cost center, and for good reason.

With the economy slowing and recession likely on the horizon, some companies are laying off staff and many others are cutting budgets.

Prepare yourself for what is ahead and prove your value to business leaders to navigate the coming uncertainty.

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Heidi Kirby transitioned from being a college professor into a more than 9 year working in a variety of L&D roles. 

She has worked as an instructional designer for NASA, a large health insurance company, a small tech startup, and a software company in her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. She has led instructional design functions for small and mid-sized organizations throughout Northeast Ohio. 

For her PhD program, she is studying leadership competencies instructional designers need to be successful. She is focused on growing new learning and development professionals and to bring positive change and a sense of belonging and learning culture.

Heidi is the host of the BLOC podcast and recently founded Useful Stuff.

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There is a perception amongst many employees and business leaders that their training teams are not providing value.

But they want more training.

We've talked over many episodes how to create and deliver trining and support experiences that drive better performance.

Today we are going to look at skills that may seem unconventional for a training team to have, but are absolutely needed.

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Katja Schipperheijn is an internationally recognized learning strategist, consultant, author, guest lecturer and keynote speaker on innovation to support learning and knowledge sharing. Her area of expertise focuses on the symbiosis between humans and machines to achieve sustainable growth with attention to engagement and well-being.

From her experience with multinationals, learning institutions and start-ups, Katja launched a non for profit organization in 2017 to support children and young people with the challenges of digital citizenship and the competences that go with it. More than 15,000 children participated in these workshops. This was also the inspiration for the first book 'Digitale Burgertjes' (Little Digital Citizens) published in Dutch in 2018 to support educators and parents in guiding children in an increasingly virtual world.

Based on her experience with organizations and her work with children, Katja published the book 'The LearnScape, Learning as Oxygen for the Nimble Organisation' also in Dutch in 2021. In this book, she focused on the symbiosis of humans and machines to enable organizations to achieve sustainable growth from human talent and to support the expectations of the future of work.

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People that work in L&D don’t get enough development.

2️⃣ Regularly evaluate performance and provide specific and actionable feedback.

3️⃣ Provide Development paths and work to help your people get better.

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Sharon Koifman is all about remote management. He has over two decades of experience running three companies 100% from his computer, with two toddlers in the room! 

He is the President of DistantJob, a remote recruitment agency that focuses on soliciting full-time remote workers worldwide. Along with a rapidly-expanding new media company, Think Remote, Sharon's organization has also created a successful podcast featuring interviews with tech industry professionals about remote management and leadership.

During the wake of the COVID crisis, Sharon wrote a best-selling book on multiple Amazon categories, "Surviving Remote Work." His goal was to help businesses thrive in this new environment. Koifman has studied and researched not just how to operate remote companies but also how to establish an exceptional work culture, one where people love to work in.

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This episode is fourth and final part in our Trainer Roles series.

Everybody who leads learning sessions - whether a business leader, a subject matter expert, or someone in a formal L&D role - has multiple roles that they must fill. Over the coming weeks, we are going to highlight each of these roles and provide actionable tips to deliver when in each role.

So far we have discussed how to be a good host, how to make training real and relevant, and how to be engaging. This final part in the series covers how to be adaptable with unexpected things that come up - AKA: how to roll with it.

Best laid plans can often be interrupted, disrupted, or interfered with.

On this episode we discuss the 4 ways to be adaptable and ensure that you are able to achieve your goals no matter what happens.

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Harris Fanaroff was drafted to play for the Washington Nationals baseball team out of high school.

While in college, he ran into a mental block that resulted in him pivoting from his planned career as an athlete and focus on academics.

He finished college and pursued a career in both coaching and in onboarding.

Now, Harris helps businesses to get better results from their employee onboarding. He focuses on pre-boarding - the period between offer acceptance and Day 1 - as a way to help employees feel like a part of the company culture. This focus on pre-boarding has lead to companies seeing more people show up and stay.

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