Recruitment, talent development, employee engagement and performance management are just a few of the areas where L&D and HR overlap. But are the functions in competition with one another? This week on the podcast, Ross D and Owen are joined by Steve Browne to talk about how L&D and HR can work together more effectively.  If you'd like to share your thoughts on the show, you can find us on Twitter @ross__dickie, @owenferguson, and @sbrownehr.  To find out more about GoodPractice, visit goodpractice.com or tweet us @GoodPractice or @GoodPracticeAus For more from Steve on all things HR, check out his website: sbrownehr.com

Structured courses are great for learning new skills, but they also tend to be expensive, time-consuming and focused on teaching content that most workers don't need. So why are they our 'go-to' solution for every L&D challenge? This week on The GoodPractice Podcast, Ross G and Owen discuss alternatives to 'the course' with Qunnivation's Clark Quinn. If you'd like to share your thoughts on the show, you can find us on Twitter @RossGarnerGP, @OwenFerguson and @Quinnovator.  To find out more about GoodPractice, visit goodpractice.com or tweet us @GoodPractice or @GoodPracticeAus. You can read more from Clark at quinnovation.com or learnlets.com. His book, Revolutionize Learning and Development, can be found at revolutionizelnd.com. This week, Owen recommended The Economist piece 'Mistakes: We've drawn a few', online at: https://medium.economist.com/mistakes-weve-drawn-a-few-8cdd8a42d368  And Ross recommended Isaac Asimov's I, Robot, a science fiction short story collection about troubleshooting that's more fun than it sounds. Available from Amazon and other book shops: https://www.amazon.co.uk/I-Robot-Isaac-Asimov/dp/000753227X 

A couple of years ago, James, Owen and Ross G consigned order-taking, visionary thought leaders and other sins of our profession to L&D's Room 101. This week on the podcast, we add a few more items to the list.  If you'd like to share your thoughts on the show, you can find us on Twitter @ross__dickie, @RossGarnerGP and @OwenFerguson.  To find out more about GoodPractice, visit goodpractice.com or tweet us @GoodPractice or @GoodPracticeAus. If you want to follow in Ross G's footsteps and join Zak George's Dog Training Revolution, you can do so here. To delve down the rabbit hole of lorem-ipsum generators, head over to loremipsum.io 

Is your learning and development department transactional, taking orders and ensuring compliance? Or does it focus on building capability with targeted initiatives that have support from the senior team? In this week's GoodPractice Podcast, GP Strategies' Barbara Thompson (formerly of BP and PA Consulting) joins Ross G and Owen to share her insights working both internally and externally. We discuss the challenges to transforming learning functions, the role of technology and how coaching techniques can help gain the support of senior colleagues. If you'd like to share your thoughts on the show, you can find us on Twitter @RossGarnerGP, @OwenFerguson and @BarbaraThompson. This week we had production support from our own @Ross__Dickie. To find out more about GoodPractice, visit goodpractice.com or tweet us @GoodPractice or @GoodPracticeAus. Barbara was too modest to plug anything, but blogs at: https://medium.com/@ba_thompson Barbara recently shared her advice as a female leader in the business world at: https://www.stratxcorporate.com/industry-insights/how-to-rise-the-ranks-advice-from-a-female-leader-on-making-it-to-the-top?hs_amp=true  Deloitte's 2014 summary on learning transformation is online at: https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/global/Documents/HumanCapital/gx-cons-hc-learning-transformation-placemat.pdf  The Towards Maturity 2019 benchmark is a great place to get started if you're interested in this topic, with guidance on what top performing L&D teams are doing differently. Their latest benchmark, The Transformation Journey, came out in February and is available online at: https://towardsmaturity.org/2019/02/14/the-transformation-journey-2019-annual-research-report/  And for something completely frivolous, you can find out the actors who have made the most money at the US box office at: https://www.businessinsider.com/actors-with-highest-box-office-2016-9?r=US&IR=T This list is heavily skewed by how many films the actors have been in, and how many of those films were produced by Marvel. Owen wanted to point out that this list is not adjusted for inflation.

What is innovation? Can anyone be creative? On this week's GoodPractice Podcast, full-time doodler Simon Heath joins Ross G and Owen to discuss. We ask why the concept of 'innovation' is so attractive and debate the notion that we should bring our creative pursuits into the workplace. If you'd like to share your thoughts on the show, you can find us on Twitter @RossGarnerGP, @OwenFerguson and @SimonHeath1. To find out more about GoodPractice, visit goodpractice.com or tweet us @GoodPractice or @GoodPracticeAus The Ken Robinson TED Talk that Simon referenced was: 'Do schools kill creativity?', online at: https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity?language=en Harold Jarche's blog discussing this talk is online at: https://jarche.com/2019/02/education-does-not-destroy-creativity/  The subreddit that Owen recommend was r/fantasy, at: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/  He recommends the Apollo App for using Reddit: https://apolloapp.io/  The paper Ross recommended was: Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1974). Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases. science, 185(4157), 1124-1131. It's incredibly readable, and available online at: http://psiexp.ss.uci.edu/research/teaching/Tversky_Kahneman_1974.pdf 

What will be hot in workplace L&D in the year ahead?. Will it be Artificial Intelligence? Or maybe performance support? What about learning analytics?  This week on the podcast, Ross D and Owen are joined by Donald Taylor to discuss the results of the 2019 Global Sentiment Survey.  If you'd like to share your thoughts on the show, you can find us on Twitter @ross__dickie, @owenferguson and @DonaldHTaylor. To find out more about GoodPractice, visit goodpractice.com or tweet us @GoodPractice or @GoodPracticeAus To download a copy of the report, head to www.donaldhtaylor.co.uk/report19 The book Don mentions is The Spy and The Traitor by Ben MacIntyre.

In Learning & Development, we love a good buzzword: 'blended learning', 'micro learning', 'learning management systems'... anything with 'learning', really. Is this a problem? Or just a time-wasting argument? This week on The GoodPractice Podcast, Ross G and Owen are joined by the eLearning Guild's David Kelly to discuss. If you'd like to share your thoughts on the show, you can find us on Twitter @RossGarnerGP, @OwenFerguson and @LnDDave. To find out more about GoodPractice, visit goodpractice.com or tweet us @GoodPractice or @GoodPracticeAus. For everything eLearning Guild, visit: elearningguild.com The Learning Solutions Conference and Expo runs March 26-28. See: learningsolutions19.com The Realities360 Conference and Expo runs June 25-27. See: realities360.com The DevLearn Conference and Expo runs October 23-25. See: DevLearn19.com For Owen's WILTW on Einstein and Feynman, see: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8742/did-einstein-say-if-you-cant-explain-it-simply-you-dont-understand-it-well-en  Dave recommended the Cooper Hewitt Museum, online at: https://www.cooperhewitt.org/  For a review of the learning styles literature, see: Pashler, H., McDaniel, M., Rohrer, D., & Bjork, R. (2008). Learning styles: Concepts and evidence. Psychological science in the public interest, 9(3), 105-119. The article is available online, but for those seeking a short version, the key paragraphs are: "Although the literature on learning styles is enormous, very few studies have even used an experimental methodology capable of testing the validity of learning styles applied to education. Moreover, of those that did use an appropriate method, several found results that flatly contradict the popular meshing hypothesis. "We conclude therefore, that at present, there is no adequate evidence base to justify incorporating learning-styles assessments into general educational practice." This does not mean that learning styles do not exist, but that there is not yet any evidence for the concept making an effective contribution to how people learn.

At this year's Learning Technologies conference, we asked delegates what they thought was missing from the learning-tech industry. Better authoring tools? More interactive video? Dogs as learning stimulants? On this week's show, Ross D, Ross G and Owen discuss a few of the more interesting responses.  If you'd like to share your thoughts on the show, you can find us on Twitter @ross__dickie, @RossGarnerGP and @owenferguson. To find out more about GoodPractice, visit goodpractice.com or tweet us @GoodPractice or @GoodPracticeAus. For an overview of single sign-on, check out this entry on Wikipedia.  The Freakonomics episode Ross G refers to is 'The Future of Meat'.

Many organisations regard digital transformation as a strategic priority. But what exactly do we mean when we talk about digital transformation, and where does culture fit into the equation? This week on the podcast, Ross D and Owen are joined by Julie Drybrough from Fuchsia Blue and Daniel Caborn from Manchester Metropolitan University to discuss the role L&D can play in supporting digital transformation. If you'd like to share your thoughts on this episode, you can find us on Twitter @ross__dickie, @owenferguson, @fuchsia_blue and @DanielCaborn. To find out more about GoodPractice, visit goodpractice.com or tweet us @GoodPractice or @GoodPracticeAus. A summary of the Deloitte research Ross D mentions can be found on the HBR website. If you'd like to brush up on your physics, the two podcast episodes Dan refers to are The Measurement of Time and The Physics of Time. The Dropout podcast, charting the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes, is available on the ABC Radio website. If you're interested in learning more about Manchester Metropolitan University's programme to improve the student journey, more details can be found here. Manchester Metropolitan University also have their own podcast, MetCast, including a recent episode on Industry 4.0. 

Think of an experience that triggered such an emotional reaction that your behaviour was permanently changed. Such experiences often happen by accident, but they can also be designed. This week on the GoodPractice Podcast, Ross G is joined by Owen and PA Consulting's Kenny Temowo to discuss experience design in detail, and ask whether it can be scaled to reach larger audiences. If you'd like to share your thoughts on the show, you can find us on Twitter @RossGarnerGP, @OwenFerguson and @K_Temowo. To find out more about GoodPractice, visit goodpractice.com or tweet us @GoodPractice or @GoodPracticeAus. Kenny blogs on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ktem1/detail/recent-activity/posts/  The 'crossing the line' experience to demonstrate privilege can be viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K5fbQ1-zps  Cathy Moore's Haji Kamal scenario is discussed on Cathy's blog: http://blog.cathy-moore.com/2010/05/elearning-example-branching-scenario/   The College of Extraordinary Experiences in Poland is online at: https://www.extraordinary.college/  Kenny's work-in-progress acrostic for 'experience design' is: U - Unexpected (Do people know it is going to happen?) S - Setting (Where will you set the experience?) H - Humour (Can you disarm, without harming?) I - Interaction (Can you focus on the interaction, rather than tech?) F - Frame (How will you frame the experience?) T - Task (What will the challenges be during the experience?) The paper Owen discussed was: Morehead, K., Dunlosky, J., & Rawson, K. A. (2019). How Much Mightier Is the Pen than the Keyboard for Note-Taking? A Replication and Extension of Mueller and Oppenheimer (2014). Educational Psychology Review, 1-28. You can find out more about China's moon-based botany at: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/plants-flowers-international-space-station-moon-mars/581491/  NASA's surprisingly comprehensive list of U.S. material on the Moon is online at: https://history.nasa.gov/FINAL%20Catalogue%20of%20Manmade%20Material%20on%20the%20Moon.pdf