Are you getting all the data you need to determine the effectiveness of your learning programs? On this week's podcast, Megan Torrance shares some insights on how xAPI can help you collect the right data.

Ok, "highjacked" may be a little extreme. I have a new book coming out tomorrow and it might be a little too unconventional to interview myself. Today, Sophie Oberstein takes the interview chair to ask me about my new book: What's Your Formula? Combine Learning Elements for Impactful Training.

We all want shortcuts in life, but sometimes we need to spend the time learning over weeks and months, not just hours and days. This episode features Alexander Salas of eLearning Launch to explain why this is.

Jon Tota has literally made his living through the "70" part of the 70/20/10 model - by having conversations with other people. Recently, I had a chance to talk with Jon, not just about the value of having conversations, but simply how to have meaningful and productive conversations with others in order to learn.

The most effective sales training in the world doesn't simply rely on a sales model. According to Spencer Wixom, Senior Vice President at Challenger Inc, the ability to listen to training participants trumps both a trainer's sales experience and a training program's instructional design.

What's the difference between training people and training puppies? It turns out, there may be a lot more similarities than differences. In this week's episode, we talk with Baxter & Bella Online Puppy School founder, Amy Jensen, who shares some of the keys to her successful podcasts and virtual training programs.

On Monday we began a conversation with education theory titan Jane Vella, and left on a sort of cliffhanger note. I asked her if Dialogue Education was ever not an appropriate approach to learning design. Today, in part 2 of this conversation, we get her answer to this and several other questions around effective learning design and facilitation.

I recently had an opportunity to talk with a legend in the field of education whose concept of Dialogue Education built upon her mentor, Malcolm Knowles', theory of Adult Learning to further transform the world of learning: Jane Vella. While this is a longer conversation than our typical Train Like You Listen episode - and has been split into 2 parts, I hope you'll indulge me and spend some time listening to (or reading) this conversation with someone whose work has influenced every corner of every training program I've developed (or written about on my blog) since I learned about Dialogue Education in 2007.

As a therapist, facilitator, consultant and coach, Carrie Heron spends a lot of her time focused on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. In today's episode she shares some of her experiences on what's worked, and what hasn't, when it comes to organizational DEI initiatives.

If they made a "Law & Order"-style television series about the world of learning and development, one of the characters might be based upon Kevin Yates, a real-life L&D detective who is constantly in search of the impact and value of training initiatives.