The Mindtools L&D Podcast

Curation tools allow organisations to deliver high-quality, relevant content to learners. But is this how they're actually being used? This week on the podcast, Ross D and Owen are joined by Jam Pan's David Wood to drain the content swamp. If you'd like to share your thoughts on the podcast, you can find us on Twitter @ross__dickie, @owenferguson and @jampanlearn. To find out more about GoodPractice, visit goodpractice.com or tweet us @GoodPractice and @GoodPracticeAus. The book Owen mentioned in What I Learned This Week was Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester. You can listen to ReplyAll on their website, or wherever you get your podcasts. David recommended the book 24 Assets by Daniel Priestley. To find out more about Jam Pan, visit jam-pan.com

For two years we've been chatting work, performance and learning in the cramped confines of our office - but no longer. For our 100th episode, Ross G, Owen and James sloped off to the Raeburn Hotel in Edinburgh to reflect on favourite episodes, greatest guests and, of course, what we learned this week And, as it's our anniversary, we filmed that discussion for a one-off special: Podcasters in Pubs Getting Pints. You can watch the video version of this podcast on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/_sKUx3DEJSQ To share your thoughts on the podcast, you can find us on Twitter @RossGarnerGP, @OwenFerguson and @JamesMcLuckie. To find out more about GoodPractice, visit goodpractice.com or tweet us @GoodPractice and @GoodPracticeAus. The episodes mentioned were: 17 — AI and jobs: What is the future of work?, with David D'Souza at: http://podcast.goodpractice.com/ai-and-jobs-what-is-the-future-of-work 30 — Compliance training: Ticking a box or having an impact?, with Sukh Pabial at: http://podcast.goodpractice.com/compliance-training-ticking-a-box-or-having-an-impact 32 — How should L&D respond to millennials?, with Ross' brother Grant Garner at: http://podcast.goodpractice.com/how-should-ld-respond-to-millennials 49 — Evidence-based practice for HR and L&D, with Mark Hendy at: http://podcast.goodpractice.com/evidence-based-practice-for-hr-and-ld 59 — How can L&D support performance?, with JD Dillon at: http://podcast.goodpractice.com/59-how-can-ld-support-performance 66 — Discernment in L&D, with Simon Heath at: http://podcast.goodpractice.com/66-discernment-in-ld 80 — How do we make digital learning accessible?, with Michael Osborne and Mike Shaw at: http://podcast.goodpractice.com/80-how-do-we-make-digital-learning-accessible 87 — Building a learning culture, with Michelle Ockers at: http://podcast.goodpractice.com/87-building-a-learning-culture 89 — Introducing learning design, with Nick Robinson at: http://podcast.goodpractice.com/89-introducing-learning-design 92 — Best of breed ecosystems vs the LMS, with Adam Harwood at http://podcast.goodpractice.com/92-best-of-breed-ecosystems-vs-the-lms 94 — Challenge trends in L&D, with Anthony Williams at http://podcast.goodpractice.com/94-challenging-trends-in-ld The paper Owen referenced for 'What I Learned This Week' was: Cullen, D., & Gotell, L. (2002). From orgasms to organizations: Maslow, women's sexuality and the gendered foundations of the needs hierarchy. Gender, Work & Organization, 9(5), 537-555. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227501292_From_Orgasms_to_Organizations_Maslow_Women's_Sexuality_and_the_Gendered_Foundations_of_the_Needs_Hierarchy The Twitter conversation that Owen referenced was: https://twitter.com/wildejoanna/status/1002583221006106624?s=21 Ross discussed 'asymmetrical polling', a concept he learned about on The West Wing Weekly podcast's crossover episode with Five Thirty Eight. You can listen to that here: http://thewestwingweekly.com/episodes/002 The transcript of the West Wing episode discussed is online at: http://www.westwingtranscripts.com/wwscripts/1-21.php With thanks to The Raeburn, Edinburgh.

Have you ever completed a project, only to find that someone else had already done it? Have you ever spent hours trying to learn something new, only to find that the person across the hall could have explained it in two minutes? On this week's show, Ross D and James are joined by author Jane Bozarth to discuss social learning and the challenges of managing knowledge in organisations. If you'd like to share your thoughts on the show, you can find us on Twitter @ross__dickie, @JamesMcluckie or @JaneBozarth. To find out more about GoodPractice, visit goodpractice.com or tweet us @GoodPractice and @GoodPracticeAus. Jane's latest book, Show Your Work, is available here.

This week on The GoodPractice Podcast, Ross G and Owen are joined by Hello2morrow's Chloe Walton to ask how far we can generalise 'millennials'. We explore just some of the benefits to be found when organisations encourage conversations across generations, and ask what those of us in L&D, HR and OD do to facilitate these conversations. To share your thoughts on the podcast, you can find us on Twitter @RossGarnerGP, @owenferguson and @Chloe2morrow. To find out more about GoodPractice, visit goodpractice.com or tweet us @GoodPractice and @GoodPracticeAus. Hello2morrow can be found at www.hello2morrow.co.uk. Her research can be found at www.hello2morrow.co.uk/research. Ross' John Adams quote is nicely dissected by Freakonomics at: freakonomics.com/2011/08/25/john-adams-said-it-first/ The podcast that Owen recommended was Malcolm Gladwell's interview with Adam Grant, available at: overcast.fm/+NG9LuTWQE The article Chloe referenced on the home field advantage was: zidbits.com/2012/01/is-home-field-advantage-real/ And the travelling musical Ross recommended was Isle of Love, featuring the music of Adam Ross and Randolph's Leap. Tickets are available at rightlines.net/rightlines/the-isle-of-love/ and Randolph's Leap are on Spotify at: open.spotify.com/artist/2rdghy8NeNCFZcDyAlkRFb.

In this episode, Ross D and Owen are joined by Craig Taylor of HT2 Labs to discuss the success of his YouTube channel, 'The Bushcraft Padawan'. How effective is YouTube at delivering 'learning' content? What does it take to build an audience? What even is bushcraft anyway? All these questions and more are tackled on this week's show. To share your thoughts on the podcast, you can find us on Twitter @ross__dickie, @owenferguson and @CraigTaylor74. To find out more about GoodPractice, visit goodpractice.com or tweet us @GoodPractice and @GoodPracticeAus. To check out Craig's channel for yourself, click here or search for 'Bushcraft Padawan' on YouTube.

Blockchain is an open, distributed ledger, that records transactions in such a way that it is nearly impossible to edit. That might sound technical, but it creates a level of trust that could reconstruct the architecture of the internet and change the nature of banking, government and education. Will this foundational technology have an impact on Learning and Development? In this week's podcast, aNewSpring's Ger Driesen joins Ross G and Owen to discuss. If you want to share your thoughts on the show, you can tweet us @RossGarnerGP, @OwenFerguson and @GerDriesen. To find out more about GoodPractice, visit goodpractice.com or tweet us @GoodPractice and @GoodPracticeAus. Find out more about the aNewSpring platform at www.anewspring.com. The Open University produced a report on innovating pedagogy which includes a nice summary of blockchain's potential at: https://iet.open.ac.uk/file/innovating_pedagogy_2016.pdf Digital Trends ran a series of articles on blockchain that cover some of the opportunities and challenges this technology faces: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/beyond-bitcoin-how-blockchain-will-reshape-the-future/ You can see the LeBron James shot that Owen referenced at: https://www.inc.com/john-brandon/this-one-quote-from-lebron-james-could-change-your-life-seriously.html It was discussed in more detail on USA Today at: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2018/05/06/lebron-james-iconic-game-winning-shot-cavaliers-raptors-game-3/584519002/ The Freakonomics episode Ross referenced is at http://freakonomics.com/podcast/misused-psychology-terms/. The original academic paper was: Lilienfeld, S. O., Sauvigné, K. C., Lynn, S. J., Cautin, R. L., Latzman, R. D., & Waldman, I. D. (2015). Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: a list of inaccurate, misleading, misused, ambiguous, and logically confused words and phrases. Frontiers in psychology, 6, 1100. This was also covered, with a handy graphic, on Stack Exchange: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/6209/what-is-meant-by-steep-learning-curve Finally, the site Ross referenced where you can buy designers a cup of coffee was ko-fi.com.

Smart recommendation systems are commonplace across consumer sites like Amazon, Netflix and Facebook. But how do they compare with recommendations from a trusted human? In this episode of the GoodPractice Podcast, Ross G and Owen are joined by Filtered's Marc Zao-Sanders to discuss some of the difficulties around machine recommendations and their place in learning. If you want to share your thoughts on the show, you can tweet us @RossGarnerGP, @OwenFerguson and @MarcZaoSanders. To find out more about GoodPractice, visit goodpractice.com or tweet us @GoodPractice and @GoodPracticeAus. The Tim Harford blog that Ross suggested (literally a list of recommendations) can be found at: http://timharford.com/2018/04/understanding-algorithms/ If you're interested in 'hardening', check out: https://www.rhs.org.uk/Advice/profile?PID=386 The Washington Post article Owen discussed is at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/05/04/one-space-between-each-sentence-they-said-science-just-proved-them-wrong-2 And Ross' Guardian story about Sainsbury's can be found at: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/may/06/rotten-results-sainburys-drops-project-to-halve-food-waste

Following last week's live episode, Ross G and Owen revisit some of the topics covered with the help of our friend Anthony Williams. We discuss whether L&D professionals really reflect on their practice, how design decisions can exclude certain groups, and whether L&D has a God complex. If you want to share your thoughts on the show, you can tweet us at @RossGarnerGP, @OwenFerguson and @Bullsboy. To find out more about GoodPractice, visit goodpractice.com or tweet us @GoodPractice and @GoodPracticeAus. With thanks to @Jo_Coaches, @AndyLancesterUK, @PhilWillcox and @Dannyboy83 for prompting these discussions. If you want to know what a 'God complex' is, check out Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_complex The origin of the phrase 'the willies' is explained by How Stuff Works: https://people.howstuffworks.com/the-willies.htm The Kineo 'Stream of Thought' podcast is available on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/kineos-stream-of-thought You can find out more about the Kernit typeface at Gizmodo: https://gizmodo.com/kernit-is-the-jim-henson-inspired-typeface-muppet-fans-1825719538 And, finally, you can find Anthony's podcast 'Reality TV Warriors' on Twitter @RTVWarriors.

In our second LIVE episode, Ross G and Owen pitched up on the first night of the CIPD Learning and Development Show to ask: What is the state of our profession in 2018? We tackled this question in front of a live audience of L&D professionals, with special guests Andy Lancaster from CIPD; Jo Cook from Training Journal; and Phil Willcox from Emotion at Work. If you want to share your thoughts on the show, you can tweet us at @RossGarnerGP and @OwenFerguson, or @GoodPractice and @GoodPracticeAus. To find out more about GoodPractice, visit goodpractice.com. Our guests can be found @AndyLancasterUK, @LightbulbJo and @PhilWillcox. The CIPD 'UK Working Lives' survey for 2018 is available at: https://www.cipd.co.uk/knowledge/work/trends/uk-working-lives CIPD's joint research with Towards Maturity, 'Driving the New Learning Organisation', is: Overton, L. (2017). Driving the new learning organisation. Training & Development, 44(4), 9, available at: https://www.cipd.co.uk/Images/driving-the-new-learning-organisation_2017-how-to-unlock-the-potential-of-Land-d_tcm18-21557.pdf Jo summarised her ideas in a couple of blog posts for Training Journal. Part 1 is at: http://www.trainingjournal.com/articles/opinion/your-ld-department-business-focused-enough Part 2 is at: https://www.trainingjournal.com/articles/opinion/your-ld-department-business-focused-enough-pt2 She also referenced LinkedIn Learning's '2017 Workplace Learning Report': http://ilpworldwide.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/LLS-2017-Workplace-Learning-Report.pdf And Leo's 'Measuring the Business Impact of Learning - 2018 Survey Results': https://leolearning.com/resources/measuring-business-impact-learning-2018-survey-results/ The papers Owen cited were: Gal, D., & Rucker, D. (2017). The Loss of Loss Aversion: Will It Loom Larger Than Its Gain?, available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jcpy.1047 Yechiam, E. (2018). Acceptable losses: the debatable origins of loss aversion. Psychological research, 1-13, available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00426-018-1013-8 Jeff Bezos' letter to shareowners is online at: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312518121161/d456916dex991.htm Marni from Google referenced a paper on the 'hidden curriculum in digital education': Edwards, R. (2015). Software and the hidden curriculum in digital education. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 23(2), 265-279, available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14681366.2014.977809

For years the Learning Management System (LMS) has been the foundation of corporate learning but, instead of asking one technology to do everything, why don't we pick and choose the best tools for each job? This week on the podcast, Ross G and Owen are joined by ASOS' Adam Harwood to ask whether a 'best of breed ecosystem' is a better approach to learning platforms. If you want to share your thoughts on the show, you can tweet us at @RossGarnerGP, @OwenFerguson and @AdamHarwood26. You can also tweet @GoodPractice or @GoodPracticeAus. To find out more about GoodPractice, visit goodpractice.com. If you're in the mood for an egg coffee while you listen, check out BBC Good Food: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/vietnamese-egg-coffee The book Owen recommended was The Secret Barrister, available online from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Barrister-Stories-Law-Broken/dp/1509841105 A good summary of Nudge, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, can be found on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_(book) From the archives, we heartily recommend an evening of fun with the app 'My Talking Pet': http://wobamedia.info/