Learning While Working Podcast

This podcast is a return to talking about live online learning.  When people signed up for the 2020 Remote Learning Conference we asked them what they wanted to know more about and inclusion was one of the themes to emerge.  In this podcast Robin is talking with Brigit Ritchie from WE.  WE is a learning studio facilitating workshops, retreats and art experiences to re-imagine relationships in and out of work.  This podcast explores what inclusion is and it’s importance. It’s also partly a case study of how WE delivers live online learning.  Brigit wraps up with a great discussion about the importance of listening.About Brigit Ritchie Brigit is the founder of WE.  Brigit’s vision is to develop Relational Mindfulness® to equip people across the world with relational skills to thrive in life. Over the past decade, WE has facilitated experiences for thousands of people to explore how to connect deeply with themselves, each other, and our communities.  Brigit leads this work within the WE community across the USA creating cultures of inclusion and belonging in companies like Google, Instagram, and lululemon.  Brigit is a mother of two living in LA with an active studio practice where she paints commissions and murals for clients and brands.Links from the podcastFind out more about WEConnect with Brigit Ritchie on LinkedIn and visit Brigit Ritchie’s own site.  Connect with WE on Instagram

In this conversation Robin is talking with Gareth Killeen from Reece about how they used design thinking to re-imagine their leadership development program. Themes include human centered design, design thinking and micro-learning and spaced learning. This is another podcast that was recorded at LearnX 2019.Links from the podcast Connect with Gareth KilleenFind out more about ReeceFind out more about LearnXSprout Labs eBook on design thinking and L&D.

This is the next in the series of podcasts from LearnX 2019.  This podcast is a return to a series of podcasts that were recorded face-to-face at LearnX 2019. Future podcasts may keep on exploring live online learning and learning in hybrid workplaces.  In this podcast Robin is talking with Zoe Sharan from Amicus about how she is using the 70:20:10 learning model in their leadership development program.Links from the podcastFind out more about the 70:20:10 learning modelFind out more about LearnXConnect with  Zoe Sharan on LinkedIn

The remote learning virtual conference brings together guests from the Learning While Working podcast series on virtual facilitation. It's four half-day sessions over 3 days from November 17th 2020 (Australian time zones). One of the sessions is designed for the European/UK time zone.The event is a mixture of group sessions and small breakout sessions with your peers where you will be exploring the issues and possibilities of live remote learning. If you're listening to this after November 18th, 2020 you can now buy the recordings from the event.Sign up here 

In this podcast Rachel Burnham is talking about sketchnoting as a way for accelerating the process of learning and cognitive science behind the practice of sketchnoting. If the idea of sketchnoting is new to you, Rachel explains what sketchnoting is at the start. Also, towards the end of the session Rachel talks about how she is now teaching sketchnoting online.   About Rachel Burnham Rachel helps trainers and L&D professionals become even more effective. She has over 25 years of experience in training and L&D, this includes a wide range of organisations from the private, public and voluntary sectors.   Links from the podcastRead L&D Matters by RachelConnect with Rachel BurnhamConnect with Rachel Burnham on TwitterRachel’s upcoming events on  EventBrite

How do you make sure a virtual event runs smoothly and is engaging? Your event producer is key to a successful virtual event but what does a producer do?  In this podcast, Robin is talking with Karyn Gleeson about this question. The podcast focuses on large events but producers are also key to small events. In smaller groups, producers can help new online facilitators, support the learners with technology and help read the digital body language of participants.   About Karyn Gleeson Karyn Gleeson is an online events production manager for The Learning Guild, where she manages both the tactical needs of producing online events as well as the strategic needs of managing the staff and event deliverables. Previously, Karyn was an LMS administrator and manager of technical support staff for an online curriculum provider. Karyn also has years of experience as a business analyst, project manager and trainer for a custom software development firm.Links from the podcastConnect with Karyn Gleeson The Complete Virtual Classroom Checklist: 30 Tips for a Successful Event by Karyn Gleeson Prepare, Plan, and Practice for Your Virtual Classroom Sessio by Karyn Gleeson

Conference style events have a different set of problems to events that are designed for small group learning, they are even harder to make engaging.  For Barbara Covarrubias Venegas the key to making an event memorable is the connections between the speakers and audience and connections within the audience. In this interview Robin is talking with Barbara Covarrubias Venegas about approaches to building connections and designing large virtual events.   About  Barbara Covarrubias VenegasBarbara Covarrubias Venegas is a virtual events expert and new ways of working researcher.  She is founder of #virtualspacehero where she works with a diverse team of people from across the globe and she designs and produce EXTRAordinary and memorable virtual events.   Links from the podcastFind out more about Barbara Covarrubias VenegasFind out more about virtualspaceheroConnect with Barbara Covarrubias Venegas

 Scenarios are a powerful way to ensure your learning is performance focused.  Using scenarios moves your online sessions away from being information dumps to being active and engaging experiences, where participants are sharing and problem solving together.  One approach Ray talks about, is working with the group to bring out their experiences and basing the learning on those scenarios instead of fictional scenarios.    About  Ray JimenezRay Jimenez  Ph.D. is the Chief Learning Architect at Vignettes Learning, trainingmagnetwork.com and situationexpert.com. He has worked with the American Bankers Association, Neiman Marcus, the US Air Force, NASA, Blue Cross, Goodwill Industries, Pixar Studios, Edison Missing Group, Dendreon, Netafim, Progressive Insurance, Bridgepoint Education, and the California Institute of Technology among others.  Ray's expertise is in microlearning, story-based learning design, scenario-based learning design and creative problem solving.   Links from the podcastFind out more about Vignettes LearningConnect with Ray Jimenez

Conversations are at the core of how we learn with each other, too often live sessions both face-to-face and online are presentations not conversations.  Moving online does make designing learning around conversations more challenging but not impossible.  In this interview Robin is talking with Joshua Davies from Knowmium about what a conversation architect does.  Powerful conversations helping people transform the way they think and behaviour don't just happen, they need to be planned and designed.  This podcast will give you ideas and strategies on how to design conversations.      Joshua and the team at Knowmium have put together the Radically Remote Facilitation Toolkit which is a book, a toolkit of templates for activities, a short course and tutorials on using Zoom. About Joshua Davies Joshua is the founder of Knowmium.  He has 14 years of business and communications training experience in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, as well as both South and North America. He has worked with Fortune 100 companies around the world, conducting research, coaching and workshops on various areas of communications improvement at all levels of management.  Links from the podcastFind out more KnowmiumConnect with Joshua DaviesRadically Remote Facilitation Toolkit Find out more about Liberating StructuresWhiteboarding tools - Miro, Conceptboard and MURALPolling - Typeform, MentimeterTools for analysing your online sessions  - Otter  for transcripts, Marco for monitoring participation and Cyran for automatic analysisQuestions and ideas to explore from this interview How could your online sessions become conversations?Could your session planning be more like designing a map of options and different directions for a conversation rather than writing session notes?Learner expectation about what online learning is. How can these expectations be broken down?What Liberating Structures could you use in your online sessions?How could you make your sessions be more like ‘spaces’ by using collaborative whiteboard tools such as Miro?How can you structure and scaffold complex, powerful questions so they are easier for your learners to interact with?Does your icebreaker and check-in actually prepare your participants to share deeply in the session?How could you use video to bring the physical space around your participants?How could you use transcriptions to analyse your sessions?

Everyone who is working remotely knows the experience of Zoom fatigue and the negatives of video conferencing; pixel vision, seeing yourself all the time, and what sometimes feels like an ocean of blank faces; but video conferencing also has many powerful possibilities for learning. These are the possibilities that Robin explores with Chad Owen in this latest interview.One of the themes that often recurs in interviews around online facilitation is showing up as human online and really connecting with others. Chad explores ways to use video to help with being human online. The interview also includes some great tactics and finishes with a discussion about whiteboarding. There is a sub-theme in this podcast about working visually online.About Chad OwenChad is the founder of Stimulus. Stimulus specialises in team acceleration for disruptors and innovators. Chad has a background in video making and storytelling and has worked for companies such as NIKE, CISCO and Wells Fargo. Chad has recently moved to learning and training. He creates immersive experiences to teach and practice new ways of working to reshape how people and systems operate. Recently, as well as moving his own learning experiences online, he has been helping other learning professionals move their work online.Links from the podcastFind out more StimulusConnect with Chad Owen