Getting Into And Smashing Your First L&D Role | L&D Disrupt Live | Episode 36

🤝 Thinking about transitioning into your first L&D role?

​😀 Maybe you’re new to a role and need that early stage advice?

🤔 You might be an old-head who’d benefit from hearing non-traditional L&D perspectives?

Wherever you sit, you’ll learn something from Lauren Scholtz (L&D Manager at intelliHR) and Sarah Cannistra (The Overnight Trainer)

Lauren transitioned from customer success and enablement into IntelliHR’s first L&D role.

​And Sarah Makes people’s learning and development career dreams a reality by coaching them into their first position in the industry.

Running order

0:00 Intro to Sarah, Lauren and today’s episode.

5:52 Finding your L&D why.

10:15 Transferable skills to L&D.

15:40 Having the right mindset.

21:37 Work out the context for the role.

25:45 Audience question: Transitioning to a new L&D role

30:10 Audience question: Preparing for an L&D interview

36:32 Building a personal brand

42:29 Audience question: Getting buy-in for L&D

50:17 Leveraging your network as a newbie

How To Connect

Find Lauren on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenscholtz/

Find Sarah on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scannistra/

Learn more about The Overnight Trainer: https://www.theovernighttrainer.com/

Find Gary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-stringer-copywriter/

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