The Mindtools L&D Podcast

As automation takes over many of our routine tasks, how should HR and L&D professionals respond? Do they have the skills to focus on improving 'organisational effectiveness' or will they be left behind as business leaders increasingly seek answers elsewhere? If you'd like to share your thoughts on the show, you can find us on Twitter @RossGarnerGP, @petercasebow, @GoodPractice or @GoodpracticeAus. Andrew Lambert and Andy Newall's HR Magazine interview can be found here: http://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/article-details/a-blueprint-for-hr-now-and-in-the-future You can also read articles constituting their 'New HR Blueprint' at the following addresses: http://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/article-details/a-new-hr-blueprint-capabilities-and-careers http://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/article-details/a-new-hr-blueprint-organisational-effectiveness http://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/article-details/a-new-hr-blueprint-from-hr-admin-to-employee-services Stephen King's On Writing can be purchased through Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Writing-Stephen-King-x/dp/1444723251    

Most of us working in L&D will have come across pop psychology in one form or another, but what are the actual psychological insights that can guide our practice? On this week's episode of the GoodPractice Podcast, Sukh Pabial joins Owen and Ross to share his thoughts on psychology and behavioural economics. If you'd like to share your thoughts on the show, you can find us on Twitter @RossGarnerGP, @owenferguson, and @SukhPabial.   You can also tweet @GoodPractice or @GoodpracticeAus.    Sukh's Moana video can be seen here: http://www.ellentv.com/videos/0-n0s4vtdw/   His less cheery dystopian article is available from The Guardian at: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage.   Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein is available from Amazon at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nudge-Improving-Decisions-Health-Happiness/dp/0141040017   The Guardian's podcast episode on nudge theory is available from: https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2017/feb/22/nudge-theory-the-psychology-and-ethics-of-persuasion-science-weekly-podcast    And Freakonomics have also covered this, which you can find here: http://freakonomics.com/tag/david-halpern/   The dates Ross used to describe the division of the Bible into chapters were wildly inaccuarte. Wikipedia has an interesting page on this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapters_and_verses_of_the_Bible

In the social media age, has print journalism had its day? And is it possible to host a good webinar? On this week's episode of the GoodPractice podcast, Training Journal Deputy Editor Jo Cook joins Ross and James to discuss the ways that learning and development professionals share ideas.   If you'd like to share your thoughts on the show, you can find us on Twitter @RossGarnerGP, @jamesmcluckie, and @LightBulbJo.   You can also tweet @GoodPractice or @GoodpracticeAus.    Training Journal can be found at www.trainingjournal.com and Jo's website is www.lightbulbmoment.info.   If you want to find out more the blogs and articles we referenced, you can find a complete list below:   Laura McCallum's article, '27 Rarely Known Facts About Music And The Music Industry' can be found here: http://www.knowable.com/a/27-rarely-known-facts-about-music-and-the-music-industry    Elizabeth Kolbert's article on 'Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds' can be found at: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds    And Christian Jarrett's blog on how we recall Tweets can be found at: https://digest.bps.org.uk/2016/03/29/did-you-really-understand-that-post-you-just-retweeted/    Incidentally, you should all follow Christian Jarrett on Twitter @psych_writer

What does a facilitator actually do? Who needs one? And what on Earth is an unconference? In this week’s GoodPractice podcast, Justin Anderson and Owen Ferguson are joined by ‘Delightful Goddess’ ™ Julie Drybrough, director of Fuchsia Blue, founder of the Facilitator Shindig and unconference organiser, to answer these questions and more. If you have any thoughts on the show, you can tweet us @WriterJustin, @owenferguson, and @fuchsia_blue. You can also tweet @GoodPractice or @GoodpracticeAus. If you want to find out more about some of the things we discussed, links are below: L&D Connect are on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LnDConnect and have their own website: https://ldconnect.wordpress.com/ The article Julie mentions about ‘Contagion in banks’ is here: http://www.thenetworkthinkers.com/2009/02/contagion-amongst-banks.html?m=1

If 2016 saw learning and development professionals gushing about the potential of virtual reality, then 2017 has seen them start to test those ideas. But where does it work well and what are the barriers to us all creating VR content? On this week's episode of the GoodPractice podcast: Owen and Ross are joined by Marco Faccini from Immerse Learning, one of the few companies actively pursuing VR's potential for learning. If you'd like to share your thoughts on the show, you can find us on Twitter @RossGarnerGP, @owenferguson, and @marcoable. You can also tweet @GoodPractice or @GoodpracticeAus.  Immerse Learning can be found at www.immerselearning.com. If you want to find out more the blogs and articles we referenced, you can find a complete list below: Stanley Grauman Weinbaum's 'Pygmalion's Spectacles', a short story from his collection A Martian Odyssey and Others, is available for free at http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=4543. The New York Times' 360 Video series is available from their website at https://www.nytimes.com/video/360-video. The Fourth Transformation, by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, is available from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Transformation-Artificial-Intelligence-Everything-ebook/dp/B01M5JKW3Z. Daniel Kahneman's response to priming experiments can be found at https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2017/02/02/reconstruction-of-a-train-wreck-how-priming-research-went-of-the-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-1454.

We often hear that millennials are changing the workplace, but are they really so different from their older colleagues and how should L&D professionals respond to this challenge if so? This week on the GoodPractice podcast: Peter, James, Ross and Grant share their views on generational differences and the difficulties of using labels to describe people. If you'd like to share your thoughts on the show, you can find us on Twitter @RossGarnerGP, @petercasebow, @jamesmcluckie and @grantjgarner. You can also tweet @GoodPractice or @GoodpracticeAus.  If you want to find out more the blogs and articles we referenced, you can find a complete list below: David Attenborough, Life On Air: https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/cka/Life-Air-David-Attenborough/1849900019 Donald Norman, The Design of Everyday Things: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Design-Everyday-Things-revised-expanded/dp/0262525674 Hans Rosling, The Best Stats You've Ever Seen: https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen Hans Rosling: Don't use news media to understand the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYnpJGaMiXo

Ten years after the introduction of the iconic iPhone, how are our lives different? Where is mobile learning today and where does it have the potential to go? Is “mobile learning” even the right term for what smartphones do for us? This week on the GoodPractice podcast: Justin, Owen and Jonny discuss whether our digital slaves will continue to revolutionise our lives or leave us all completely useless idiots after the inevitable apocalypse - countered by our usual “What I learned this week” feature! If you'd like to share your thoughts on the show, you can find us on Twitter @writerjustin, @owenferguson and @biofractal. You can also tweet @GoodPractice or @GoodpracticeAus. If you want to find out more about the articles and the company we discuss, you can find them below:  Betsy Sparrow, Jenny Liu and Daniel M. Wegner, “Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips” Nick Shackleton-Jones, “Post-learning: what to do now learning is dead.” Immerse Learning  

What is the purpose of compliance training? Do we want to protect our organisations from litigation, or do we actually want to make life better for our colleagues? Are those two ideas compatible? This week on the GoodPractice podcast: Owen and Ross are joined by Sukh Pabial, Head of Organisational Development at One Housing, to discuss a smarter approach to compliance training. We'll also be sharing our top learning from the past week and discuss building empathy into compliance training. If you'd like to share your thoughts on the show, you can find us on Twitter @RossGarnerGP, @owenferguson and @SukhPabial. You can also tweet @GoodPractice or @GoodpracticeAus.  If you want to find out more the blogs and articles we referenced, you can find a complete list below: Carol Dweck, 'Growth mindset is on a firm foundation, but we’re still building the house' (18 January 2017). Jon Henley, 'Deciphering Article 50 - Brexit means... podcast' (20 December 2016). Steven Johnson, 'The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks'. Available from Amazon. Simon Winchester, 'The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary'. Available from Amazon.  

This week on the GoodPractice podcast: Owen, James and Ross preview the Learning Technologies 2017 conference, taking place on February 1 and 2 at London's Olympia venue. Who are we looking forward to hearing at the conference and what do we hope to see at the exhibition? If you'd like to share your thoughts on the show, you can find us on Twitter @RossGarnerGP, @owenferguson and @jamesmcluckie.   You can also tweet @GoodPractice or @GoodpracticeAus.  You can find out more about GoodPractice by visiting our website: goodpractice.com, or by visiting stand M5 at the conference. If you want to find out more the blogs, articles and events we referenced, you can find a complete list below: LearnPatch, 'Two barcamps for Learning Technologies 2017' Owen Ferguson, 'Healthy scepticism' (24 January 2017). Stef Scott, 'Top Tips for Learning Technologies 2017' (16 January 2017). Stef Scott, 'Recommendations for Learning Technologies 2017 - Part 1' (19 January 2017). Stef Scott, 'Recommendations for Learning Technologies 2017 - Part 2' (23 January 2017). Jesse Singal, 'Is Mindset Theory Really In Trouble?' (18 January 2017). Oscar Williams, '3D TV Might Finally Be Dead As LG And Sony Pull Support' (20 January 2017).

This week on the GoodPractice podcast: Owen, James and Ross discuss 'micro learning'. According to Donald Taylor's 2016 L&D Global Sentiment Survey, micro learning was set to be a hot topic over the past year. But has it had an impact on our industry or is it just another in a long line of fads? If you'd like to share your thoughts on the show, you can find us on Twitter @RossGarnerGP, @owenferguson and @jamesmcluckie.   You can also tweet @GoodPractice or @GoodpracticeAus.  You can find out more about GoodPractice by visiting our website: goodpractice.com.  This week, the following blogs and articles were referenced:   Tom Chivers, 'A Mindset "Revolution" Sweeping Britain's Classrooms May Be Based On Shaky Science' (14 January 2017). Available at: https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomchivers/what-is-your-mindset?utm_term=.xpD1GPpGAv#.oo6nXaoXqA   Donald Clarke, 'Micro-learning: trend, fad or retred?' (1 February 2016). Available at: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=micro+learning   Donald Taylor, 'Micro learning: Advance or fantasy?' (6 January 2017). Available at: href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/micro-learning-advance-fantasy-donald-h-taylor?published=t   Will Thalheimer, 'Definition of MicroLearning' (13 January 2017). Available at: http://www.willatworklearning.com/2017/01/definition-of-microlearning.html With apologies to all the dietitians out there, who Owen referred to as 'nutritionists'.