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Federico Presicci is Head of Sales Training & Enablement at GDS group, an accredited personal coach (ACC) and a certified Meditation Teacher. He won the Gold Award in the Rising Stars category at the 2022 UK Learning Awards. Impressive achievements for any 27 year-old – but Federico came to the UK only five years ago. At the time he knew nobody here, and didn't speak English. John, who was one of the judges of the Rising Stars award that Federico won, listens to his story, and hears his aspirations for the future.

• 0:00 - Intro 2:27 - Learning Awards win
• 5:08 - Life when arriving in the U.K.
• 9:48 - How his career kickstarted in the U.K.
• 17:27 - Making the move from Sales to Learning
• 21:54 - Federico's work in Onboarding
• 32:00 - The submission's evaluation
• 41:42 - How Covid shaped his learning practice
• 49:16 - Hopes and Goals

Follow Federico:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/federico-presicci/
• Twitter: @FedPresicci

Contact John Helmer

• Twitter: @johnhelmer
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/
• Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/

Download the white paper from Learning Pool written by John Helmer – The Spacing Effect: Harnessing the Power of Spaced Practice for Learning That Sticks https://learningpool.com/spacing-effect-harnessing-power-of-spaced-practice/

John's guest this time is Donald H. Taylor, Chair of the Learning Technologies Conference, of the Learning and Skills group, of the Learning and Performance Institute, Network Chair of Emerge Education, Editor of Inside Learning Technologies Magazine and a Non Executive Director of Filtered. He's also been called the James Bond of learning. Each year since 2013, Donald has produced his L&D Global Sentiment Survey, which asks the question: 'What will be hot in workplace L&D next year?' John and Don discuss the results of the latest survey and what it shows about an industry transformed by the global pandemic.

• 0:00 - Intro 2:42 - The Global Sentiment Survey
• 4:29 - What's hot & what's not?
• 12:16 - Pandemic's effect on L&D
• 17:00 - What's going to be big in demand?
• 26:04 - Possible generalisations
• 34:19 - David's beginnings
• 39:27 - How people can access the report

Follow Donald:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donaldhtaylor/
• Twitter: @DonaldHTaylor
• Website: https://donaldhtaylor.co.uk/

Contact John Helmer

• Twitter: @johnhelmer
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/
• Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/

Download the white paper from Learning Pool written by John Helmer & Ben Betts – Suite Dreams: The Past, Present and Future of Learning Systems https://learningpool.com/suite-dreams/

When a car accident brought an untimely end to Trish Uhl's athletic career, equestrian sport's loss became a massive gain for IT and learning technologies. Trish is founder and CEO of Owl's Ledge LLC, a firm that helps learning professionals improve their performance, drive business results, and produce organizational outcomes. She works with Global 500 and Fortune 500 clients on four continents. Describing herself as someone who, in words often attributed to hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, is always skating to where the puck is going rather than to where the puck currently is, she tells John about treating L&D like an engineering problem and what Web 3 has in store for learning and HR.

• 0:00 – Intro
• 3:14 - Why Trish became a learning engineer
• 8:48 - L&D as a business partner
• 22:56 - NFTs within Web3 & learning
• 42:24 - Recruitment factors within these organizations
• 47:40 – Will L&D be outsourced?
• 49:47 – How to follow Trish's thought

Follow Trish:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trishuhl/
• Twitter: @trishuhl

Websites:

• owls-ledge.com/yaycake (Company Website)
• nft.owls-ledge.com (#CryptoOwls NFT)
• learningonblockchain.com/ (Learning on Blockchain)

Contact John Helmer

• Twitter: @johnhelmer
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/
• Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/

Download the white paper from Learning Pool written by John Helmer & Ben Betts – Suite Dreams: The Past, Present and Future of Learning Systems https://learningpool.com/suite-dreams/

John talks to David Lockie, an entrepreneur and investor in leading-edge web technologies who is Co-chair of the British Interactive Media Association's Blockchain Counsel and passionate about blockchain, open source software and crypto. Over the last two decades, the internet and the world wide web have had transformative effects on workplace learning. Now around the corner is Web 3, and everything's about to change all over again. So what is Web 3, and will it be good news for those now forging careers in the learning profession – or bad?

• 0:00 - Intro
• 4:02 The BIMA Blockchain Council
• 6:56 What is Web 3.0?
• 18:11 - Implications for Learning
• 29:14 How ideal is this vision?
• 37:57 - DAOs
• 42:18 - Advice for L&D people
• 44:47 - Where to follow David's work

David's links on microcredentials and DAOs:

• https://galaxy.eco/
• https://www.accredible.com/
• https://info.credly.com/
• https://www.pwc.co.uk/blockchain/smart-credentials.htm/
• Balaji Srinivasan: https://tim.blog/2021/11/15/balaji-srinivasan-2/ , https://tim.blog/2021/03/24/balaji-srinivasan/
• 1729: https://1729.com/

Follow David:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidlockie/
• Twitter: @pragmaticweb
• Website (includes a link to his Notion): https://www.divydovy.com/

Contact John Helmer

• Twitter: @johnhelmer
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/
• Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/

Download the new white paper from Learning Pool written by John Helmer & Ben Betts – Suite Dreams: The Past, Present and Future of Learning Systems https://learningpool.com/suite-dreams/

John talks to Stefaan van Hooydonk, Founder of the Global Curiosity Institute. Stefaan has lived, worked and studied all over the world, in a learning career spanning three decades. He has held numerous leadership roles in large companies. As Chief Learning Officer at Cognizant he was in charge of L&D for 300,000 people. Last June he published The Curiosity Manifesto: How Curiosity Helps Individuals and Workplaces Thrive. Curiosity, he believes, is the key to an organization's success in the 20th Century. So what is L&D's role in making an organization, and its employees, more curious? Timestamps

• 03:35 Being CLO to 300k Learners
• 07:44 3 Tips for talking to the business
• 13:07 How does he define curiosity?
• 23:20 Are algorithms bad for curiosity?
• 33:36 Is curiosity rationed?
• 41:06 How can you make a company curious?
• 48:46 Where to find out more ...

Links

• HBR on Curiosity: https://hbr.org/2018/09/the-business-case-for-curiosity
• The Global Curiosity Institute: https://www.globalcuriosityinstitute.com/
• Stefaan's book: The Workplace Curiosity Manifesto: https://www.globalcuriosityinstitute.com/shop

Contact Stefaan:

• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/stefaanvanhooydonk
• Twitter: @stefaanvanhooyd

Contact John Helmer:

• Twitter: @johnhelmer
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/
• Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/

Download the new white paper from Learning Pool written by John Helmer & Ben Betts – Suite Dreams: The Past, Present and Future of Learning Systems https://learningpool.com/suite-dreams/

Josh Bersin describes Cornerstone's new platform, Xplor, as a 'skills-based, AI-powered platform designed as an LXP, talent mobility, career, and skills platform, [with] the potential to change the L&D landscape.' In this episode, last of the present season, John talks to Summer Rivers Salomonsen, VP Content Product at Cornerstone. Is this type of huge, all-inclusive system that brings together LXP, talent management system and skills really what organizations and learners need right now?

• 0:00 – Intro
• 3:41 – Summer's role at Cornerstone
• 6:18 – What does Xplor do?
• 12:55 – The learning business and the talent business
• 17:19 – Is this the right direction for the business?
• 22:48 – The state of microlearning
• 28:51 – Applying learning science to the system design
• 34:53 – Summer's hopes for the learning and talent business
• 43:20 – How to follow Summer's work

Seasonal Competition Time!

• What else are YOU doing when you listen to the Learning Hack podcast?
• Tell us, attaching your photos and videos for proof, to [email protected]
• Winner will be announced next season, and will bag a bottle of champagne!

Cornerstone Xplor http://www.csod.info/futureready Contact Summer

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/summer-salomonsen/
• Company website: https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/

Contact John Helmer

• Twitter: @johnhelmer
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/
• Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/

Download the new white paper from Learning Pool written by John Helmer & Ben Betts – Suite Dreams: The Past, Present and Future of Learning Systems https://learningpool.com/suite-dreams/

John is joined by Megan Torrance, Chief Energy Officer of Torrance Learning, a custom development company based in Michigan USA. With an MBA from Cornell and a consultancy background, Megan has a firm grasp of the business value of learning initiatives. But her two decades of experience in learning technologies also includes a strong bent towards using data for learning. She is strong advocate for xAPI, and organizes the 'xAPI Party'. How does she feel about the slow rate of adoption of xAPI among learning departments?

• 0:00 – Intro
• 2:09 – How she leads Torrance Learning
• 6:03 – Normalising Data in L&D
• 10:42 – Current state of xAPI
• 15:17 – xAPI Examples
• 20:43 – Learning as a process
• 30:33 – Women in L&D
• 39:42 – How to follow her activities

The xAPI Party https://xapicohort.com/xapi-party/ Megan's work can be found at ATD: https://my.td.org/search?query=megan%20torrance and Learning Solutions https://learningsolutionsmag.com/author/megan-torrance Professional development workshops: http://www.torrancelearning.com/shop Contact Megan

• Twitter: @MMTorrance
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/megantorrance
• Website: http://www.torrancelearning.com/

Contact John Helmer

• Twitter: @johnhelmer
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/
• Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/

Download the new white paper from Learning Pool written by John Helmer & Ben Betts – Suite Dreams: The Past, Present and Future of Learning Systems https://learningpool.com/suite-dreams/ Don't miss Cornerstone Convergence on November 16 and 17. With an incredible lineup of speakers focused on helping talent and learning leaders like you gain the tools to create a better experience for your people, you won't want to miss this all-virtual, all-free event. Register today at https://www.cornerstoneconvergence.com/?utm_campaign=EMEA_UK_PROS_2021_Q4_10_EN_Convergence-2021&utm_medium=paid-social&utm_source=the-learning-hack&utm_content=registration

John Helmer talks to Craig Weiss, the straight-talking learntech analyst and consultant. Craig is CEO and Lead Analyst for The Craig Weiss Group, and the founder of FindAnLMS, a learning system search engine. With the so-called 'Great Resignation' underway, skills issues are uppermost in many business leaders' minds: do learning systems have a part to play in helping organizations deal with the fallout? Craig has a view – and as with the other topics that John has crowdsourced from the community for him, he gives his answer with characteristic frankness.

• 02:47 Can vendor systems solve post-Covid skills issues?
• 12:25 The current state of buyer knowledge
• 20:54 How effective are Top 10 lists?
• 30:36 Are learning systems too general?
• 39:20 What has he seen recently that's hot?
• 53:28 Outro

Contact Craig Twitter: @diegoinstudio LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigweissinla Blog: http://www.elearninfo247.com Web site: https://www.craigweissgrp.com FindAnLMS: https://findanlms.com Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/ Download the new white paper from Learning Pool written by John Helmer & Ben Betts – Suite Dreams: The Past, Present and Future of Learning Systems https://learningpool.com/suite-dreams/ Don't miss Cornerstone Convergence on November 16 and 17. With an incredible lineup of speakers focused on helping talent and learning leaders like you gain the tools to create a better experience for your people, you won't want to miss this all-virtual, all-free event. Register today at CornerstoneConvergence.com. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.cornerstoneconvergence.com/?utm_campaign=EMEA_UK_PROS_2021_Q4_10_EN_Convergence-2021&utm_medium=paid-social&utm_source=the-learning-hack&utm_content=registration__;!!JqsUqw!k6p3zv4wtzy2qFWhTEbsdxfyQuQTXik6gEmmq2FRwOUkdahknnWmiAYQl1Q_lQ$

How is digital technology impacting the way people work, learn and think – and what upcoming technology trends should we look out for? In this episode, John talks to Ezri Carlebach, writer, lecturer, communications expert and imagineer, who has worked extensively in educational and workplace learning contexts. Why is imagination so important to learning – and in what ways has the pandemic changed the way we relate to technology? 2:31 - What is 'imagineering'? 5:54 - Ezri's career journey 13:22 - Digital anthropology 20:40 - Are we worrying about the right things? 25:12 - Imagination as a focus 42:35 - How covid has affected human/machine interaction 46:35 - Views on 'Hybrid Working' The Royal Anthropological Institute: https://www.therai.org.uk/ Centre for Study of Humans and Machines at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin: https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/chm The Happy Writing Book, by Elise Valmorbida https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57356168-the-happy-writing-book Contact Ezri Twitter: @ezriel LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ezrie/detail/contact-info/#:~:text=linkedin.com/in/ezrie Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/ Download the new white paper from Learning Pool written by John Helmer & Ben Betts – Suite Dreams: The Past, Present and Future of Learning Systems https://learningpool.com/suite-dreams/ Don't miss Cornerstone Convergence on November 16 and 17. With an incredible lineup of speakers focused on helping talent and learning leaders like you gain the tools to create a better experience for your people, you won't want to miss this all-virtual, all-free event. Register today at https://www.cornerstoneconvergence.com/?utm_campaign=EMEA_UK_PROS_2021_Q4_10_EN_Convergence-2021&utm_medium=paid-social&utm_source=the-learning-hack&utm_content=registration.

John talks to Tom Hickmore, award-winning Creative Director of video learning company Nice Media, about his newly released book Watch & Learn. The book aims to help learning professionals in designing, commissioning and producing effective video drama for learning. Tom has also produced a popular series of videos drawing particular lessons from hit movies and TV series such as Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad and the Bond franchise. But can video dramas for learning paid for by organizations ever aspire to comparable levels emotional intensity? ---------- 03:14 Who is Watch & Learn written for? 06:15 How can a learning video emulate movies & TV? 13:38 How adventurous are learning clients prepared to be? 18:02 Drama and storytelling 24:30 What formal constraints do learning videos have? 34:52 Do technicians and actors see corporate as just a meal ticket? 40:06 Is now a great moment for learning video? ---------- Tom's book: Watch & Learn: Designing, commissioning and producing effective video drama for learning. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Watch-Learn-Designing-commissioning-producing/dp/1739930002/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Contact Tom Twitter: @TomHickmore LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomhickmore?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_contact_details%3BNcva0yKPSzadWRV01aos5Q%3D%3D Nice Media: https://www.nicemedia.co.uk/ Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/ Download the new white paper from Learning Pool written by John Helmer & Ben Betts – Suite Dreams: The Past, Present and Future of Learning Systems https://learningpool.com/suite-dreams/