ATD Accidental Trainer

Carrie Addington joins us on the podcast to share how the internal ATD facilitation team came together to write their new book, Facilitation in Action: Finding Your Authentic Training Style. Carrie and her co-authors worked together to address a common challenge they see participants grapple with in their trainings: How do you execute facilitation best practices while still honoring who you are as a unique individual? And, how can you master the mechanics of facilitation while simultaneously developing an authentic facilitation style? Carrie discusses her approach, how to leverage observation and feedback, and the art of collaboration in this episode. Resources: Find Carrie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carrie-addington-mfa/ Facilitation in Action: Finding Your Authentic Training Style

Heidi Kirby, host of the BLOC podcast, joins us on ATD Accidental Trainer to share her take on learning experience design. She discusses the origins and evolution of instructional design, and its relationship with learning experience design. As a PhD candidate in instructional design and technology, she talks about the interdisciplinary components in both instructional and learning experience design and influences any designer should be thinking about in their solutions, such as the role of learning technologies, accessibility, and moving away from a focus on instructors to the learning and learners. Resources: Heidi Kirby on LinkedIn Heidi Kirby’s Website Useful Stuff Newsletter

Matt Gjertsen, founder and Chief Learning Officer of Better Every Day Studios, joins us on the podcast to discuss how to formalize your onboarding process. He shares his approach for designing effective onboarding with a three part strategy, and covers considerations for virtual onboarding. He also highlights the advantages to adapting in-person onboarding with blended learning solutions, reveals how defining your onboarding processes can create intentional culture, and how L&D can be a driver for businesses to scale. Resources: Matt Gjertsen on LinkedIn Matt Gjertsen’s Website

Ryne Sherman, the Chief Science Officer of Hogan Assessments, joins us on the podcast to clear up misconceptions about personalities and how we measure them. He describes the complexity involved in evaluating personalities, whether personality is changeable over time, and how we can use personality assessments in the workplace. Ryne also reveals the challenges that exist without regulations in the personality assessments space, and recommendations TD professionals can take when considering an assessment tool for their organization. He also shares his current research areas of interest, including examining technology and how it can be used to better understand ourselves.   Connect with Ryne: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rynesherman/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/rynesherman?lang=en Science of Personality Podcast: https://www.thescienceofpersonality.com/

Nataly Kogan joins us on the Accidental Trainer podcast to share how to escape from daily burnout. Her own personal journey to find healing, happiness, and work she loved without sacrificing her wellbeing led her to write her latest book, The Awesome Human Project. Nataly defines burnout, addresses the systemic issues that cause it, and shares how you can recover. She reveals daily practices to build emotional fitness and refuel your energy. We also chat about other topics from her book, including developing self-compassion and how to tackle your inner critic. Resources: Nataly Kogan’s Website The Awesome Human Project Book Nataly Kogan on Instagram Nataly Kogan on LinkedIn

Melissa Daimler, CLO of Udemy, and former ATD board member joins the Accidental Trainer podcast to discuss how to redesign workplace culture. She defines system thinking and describes how she applies this mindset and approach to change the way people work together. Melissa provides practical guidance on addressing culture gaps and operationalizing a continuous review of behaviors, practices, and processes. No matter what your role is within your organization, Melissa shares how you can be a culture champion. Find Melissa at: Her website: https://www.melissadaimler.com/ On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissadaimler On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mdaimler/ Check out her new book: ReCulturing: Design Your Company Culture to Connect with Strategy and Purpose for Lasting Success

Blair Bloomston, CEO of GameNation, joins us to discuss how to enhance our relationships, interpersonal skills, and joy at work. She shares improv techniques to cultivate active listening, failure stories and how mistake-making builds empathy, and how to rebuild connection with simple practices. She also gives us a preview of her upcoming TD magazine article on leveraging game dynamics to improve any relationship, communication, or learning activity. Find Blair on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blairbloomston Check out the Game On Nation live streams: https://www.youtube.com/user/thegameonnation/videos See her keynote at Core4: https://core4.td.org/keynotes

Diana Howles, CEO and Co-Owner of Howles Associates and author of Next Level Virtual Training, joins the podcast to discuss her virtual training capability model, how she identifies evergreen training principles amidst ever-changing technology, and how to support hybrid (or live online mixed) learners in our modern workplaces. We also chat about applying learner experience design to virtual training, and how to advance your virtual facilitation skills with the models and principles she’s provided in her new book. Diana’s new book: Next Level Virtual Training Check out Diana’s website Find Diana on LinkedIn

In this episode, Lisa Spinelli says goodbye to her hosting role and passes the torch to the podcast’s new host, Alexandria Clapp. Lisa shares the journey of launching the Accidental Trainer podcast and reflects on some of the topics that have been discussed over the past few years. She recalls favorite moments that made her laugh and taught her new lessons. Lisa also introduces Alexandria Clapp, a fellow content manager at ATD, and they discuss Alexandria’s background and the perspective she hopes to share in future episodes.

RealizeIt CEO Manoj Kulkarni joins us to discuss adaptive learning. He describes how adaptive learning has evolved over the years, why it’s necessary to customize learning for individual employees, how personalized learning can improve performance at scale, how to implement adaptive learning in a talent management strategy, some obstacles still facing adaptive learning, and more. Find Manoj on LinkedIn: Manoj Kulkarni Learn more about RealizeIt: https://www.realizeitlearning.com/