L&D Disrupt

We’re shaking things up in this episode as we’re joined by HowNow’s very own Head of Customer Success, Lulu Dermeche. Lulu has tons experience helping customers to implement L&D, and today we’re making the most of her expertise to help you successfully launch your L&D strategy! Running Order: 00:00 Intro 02:13 Are you communicating the ‘why’? (1) 04:46 Thinking like a marketer! (2) 06:40 Involve your stakeholders at the right time (3) 08:56 Examples of great marketing 11:12 Finding your L&D champions (4) 15:25 Focus in on the problems you want to solve (5) 20:58 Get employees creating content (6) 22:52 Everybody is knowledgable! How to connect: Find Lulu on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luciledermeche/ Find Nelson on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonsivalingam/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThatNelsonDude Find HowNow on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/ Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

How can you make employee mental health a priority in fast-paced startups? That's the topic we tackled in the very first edition of L&D Disrupt Live! James Routledge, Lauren Cunningham and Will Beaton joined us to answer questions like: Why should startups make mental health a priority? Can you spot when efforts are just performative? Which metrics should we be looking at? What action can you take this week to really make a difference? Running Order 04:50 Why should startups make mental health a priority? 07:25 Why it’s taken so long for mental health to get on the agenda 08:41 Can you spot when efforts are just performative? 13:19 Bringing a wellbeing team into the business 15:00 How to position a business case for wellbeing initiatives 19:43 Rolling out new measures in a hybrid setting 21:49 Empowering leaders to drive mental wellbeing across teams 23:45 Keeping volunteers engaged and inspired 26:23 The importance of making people feel heard 28:15 Which metrics should we be looking at? 31:27 What to do when you feel like a cultural misfit 37:38 Creating a strategy in a startup vs larger corporate company 40:45 How can you prevent burnout in startups? 46:18 Taking control of your own wellbeing 47:43 Is there a clash between growing revenue and a people-first culture? 53:13 What’s one thing you can do this week to move the needle? How to connect: Find James on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdroutledge1/ Find Lauren on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenleacunningham/ Find Will on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-beaton-24228b106/ Find Nelson on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonsivalingam/  Find HowNow on: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/

You’re the first ever L&D hire in a startup and you have a complete blank slate to work with - but where on earth do you start? Artheka Sivaharan, Learning and Development Lead at MyTutor, was in this exact position just a few months ago. Listen to the episode to hear exactly how Artheka handled the situation as she shares her best tips for growing L&D from the ground up. Running order: 01:15 How do you know when you should bring in an L&D person? 02:18 Where do you start when you have a blank slate? 03:51 Directing people away from self-prescribing 06:33 Positioning the value of L&D 08:15 Choosing which problems to tackle first 09:58 Using data to build business cases 11:10 Creating a business case proposal 16:22 The benefits of working in sprints 18:48 Getting tangible results 21:30 Supporting your first L&D hire 23:33 Quickfire round How to connect Find Artheka on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artheka-sivaharan-assoc-cipd-38852714b/ Find Nelson on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonsivalingam/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThatNelsonDude Find HowNow on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/ Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

In this episode of L&D Disrupt we’re joined by Sara Frasi, Senior People Partner L&D at Native Instruments. Throughout this conversation we explore a really important and exciting part of L&D; supporting employees to become autonomous learners. Stay tuned to hear Sara and I delve into topics from learning budgets and time blocking right through to empowering employees to own their development.  Running order: 01:23 The importance of a bottom up approach 03:14 Changing mindsets within an organisation 05:00 Getting employees to look at L&D in a different way 06:31 A good manager conversation blueprint 07:43 How can we get managers more involved? 09:58 Empowering employees to own their development 11:42 Choosing learning budgets 14:41 Defining and measuring ROI 17:58 Creating a culture of learning 21:06 Curating content 23:00 Time blocking: does it work? 25:30 Quickfire round How to connect Find Sara on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarafrasi/ Find Nelson on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonsivalingam/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThatNelsonDude Find HowNow on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/ Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

Deb Gallo, Learning & Development Director at SentinelOne, joins us this week to discuss the highlights and challenges of scaling L&D in a high growth organisation. Deb shares fantastic advice on a wide range of topics, from managing the changing requirements of a fast-growing business to bringing a company culture to life. The episode is packed with expert insight that you certainly don’t want to miss, so sit back and enjoy! Running Order: 01:18 When should you make your first L&D hire? 03:29 The pros and cons of implementing L&D in different sized businesses 06:24 How do you work out what the business needs? 07:34 Pre-empting the changing requirements of a fast-growing business 09:15 Minimum Viable Product mindset 11:58 Walking the walk in L&D 12:54 How do you know if your solution is working? 15:12 Delivering learning in a hybrid setting 21:10 When does it make sense to create rather than curate content? 22:55 L&D’s role in scaling culture 26:32 Quickfire round How to connect Find Deb on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deboragallo/ Find Nelson on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonsivalingam/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThatNelsonDude Find HowNow on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/ Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

In this week's episode we speak with Doug Ellin - People Partner L&D at GoHenry. Doug is incredibly passionate about serving the internal customer, and shares his experiences of using this insight to carve out successful, tailored L&D solutions. Throughout the conversation we cover everything from getting to know your internal customer to tracking whether your interventions are successful or not. This conversation is a wonderful testament to the fact that L&D should always be about people before anything else and we can’t wait for you to listen! Running order 01:13 How do you get to know your internal customer? 04:46 Using this knowledge to help you deliver better L&D 06:00 The steps you need to take before developing the L&D strategy 09:38 Identifying the influencers within a business 12:43 Striking the balance between addressing people’s training requests but giving the business what it actually needs 17:15 Working out what to include in an L&D solution to make it successful 20:26 Ways to track if your interventions are working 24:07 Quickfire round How to connect Find Doug on:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doug-ellin/ Find Nelson on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonsivalingam/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThatNelsonDude Find HowNow on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/ Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

Lavinia Mehedințu, Learning & Development Content Curator at Offbeat, is our podcast guest this week. There’s no doubt about it, Lavinia has a genuine passion for learning, and her enthusiasm in this episode is bound to rub off on you. This episode will help you level up the knowledge sharing within your organisation, and features some great advice on how to make your curated content more relevant than ever before. Enjoy! Running Order: 01:58 Why content curation - how did it all begin? 04:11 Using analytics to shape content curation 06:23 What L&D can learn from other fields 07:40 Putting the focus on our user’s needs 10:19 The unrealistic expectations faced by L&D teams 12:31 Building an L&D community 14:09 Fostering a collaborative environment 16:55 Lavinia’s 3 personal learnings from building an L&D community 18:34 How L&D can use behavioral science to influence work 21:39 The future of Offbeat 22:25 Quickfire round How to connect Find Lavinia on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laviniamehedintu/ Offbeat Website: https://offbeat.works/ Find Nelson on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonsivalingam/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThatNelsonDude Find HowNow on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/ Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

Creating a progressive company culture is a challenge in itself, but once you’ve nailed this, how do you then effectively scale it within a high-paced organisation that is growing rapidly? Luckily, we have Tina Phillips joining us on this episode to offer some insight. Tina has a truly impressive wealth of experience to share - from training hiring managers to acknowledge their unconscious bias, to creating a culture where everyone feels safe enough to give and receive feedback - if company culture is your thing, this one’s for you.  Running order: 0:00 Introduction to this week’s episode 1:57 Unique challenges around scaling cultures in high-growth organisations 4:09 The benefits of hiring slow 6:54 Training interviewers to be aware of unconscious biases 12:43 How do you change people's mindset around bias and bring them on that journey with you? 15:36 Successfully communicating the company culture 19:34 The leaders in a business aren’t acting in line with the company culture - what now? 24:46 Creating a culture where everyone feels safe enough to give and receive feedback 29:18 Quickfire round How to connect Find Tina on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinateeto/ Find Nelson on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonsivalingam/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThatNelsonDude Find HowNow on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/ Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

Agile L&D, you’ve probably heard of it, but what the hell does it actually mean? In this episode Patrick Mullarkey, Learning and Development Lead at Snyk, shares his first hand experiences of implementing Agile learning, explains why it’s worth doing and how to manage the change in your organisation, as well as how exactly to measure the impact of Agile L&D on your business. Patrick explains to us how Agile L&D can encourage companies to waste less time on unsuccessful projects by speeding up the ‘failing fast’ process, and how important it is to engage with stakeholders using the right language in order to gain the trust necessary to start working in this way. Whether you have no experience of implementing Agile L&D or you consider yourself an expert - listen in as we demystify the buzzword of the moment and bring some real meaning to Agile L&D. Running Order 1:39: What the hell is Agile L&D? 4:32: Why we look to Agile L&D in the first place 8:40: What do you gain from moving to a more Agile way of working? 11:00: Failing fast 12:06: Using the right language to get stakeholders on board 17:53: I want to go Agile - where do I start? 21:35: How to measure if it’s working 25:36: Quickfire round How to connect Find Patrick on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mullarkeypj/ Find Nelson on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonsivalingam/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThatNelsonDude Find HowNow on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/ Our Website: https://gethownow.com/

All good things must come to an end. And sadly, that’s true for Series One of 99 Problems But Work Ain’t One. But we couldn’t just let it fizzle out! So we’ve compiled our favourite nuggets of knowledge from every episode. Get ready for some brilliant insights into the worlds of L&D, HR, People Development, Talent Management and forward-thinking workplaces. Thank you to anyone who’s tuned in and supported the show so far and to our 13 amazing guests who’ve joined us for some really insightful and fascinating conversations. We’ll be back for a second series soon - so make sure you’re subscribed wherever you’re listening. Each clip is timestamped below with a note of the guest and episode number, so if you want to head over to any of the conversations you missed, you can! Running order: 0:00 > Introduction to the episode. 0:51 > Paul Matthews, Episode 1: L&D’s credibility. 4:14 > Emma Leonis, Episode 2: HR's changing structure and skillset. 7:43 > Ross Stevenson, Episode 3 Who should L&D be working with? 10:56 > Kevin and Laure of Livestorm, Episode 4: Shifting to asynchronous learning. 14:08 > Esther O'Callaghan, Episode 5: Increasing entry-level talent and diversity. 16:23 > Toby Newman, Episode 6: Should you add colleagues on social media? 18:38 > Tushar Agarwal, Episode 7: The case for shared physical workspaces. 23:09 > Valerie Mann, Episode 8: Codifying and scaling culture in the workplace. 27:14 > Bob Mosher, Episode 9: Basing learning around when it's applied. 30:42 > Kevin M. Yates, Episode 10: What should L&D be measuring? 33:56 > Pam Hamilton, Episode 11: How companies can prepare for asynchronous work. 37:22> Jacquie Gay, Episode 12: How OKRs have changed behaviour and what's measured at TomTom. 40:55 > Angela Guedes, Episode 13: The optimal onboarding journey for new starters. 45:00 > Outro to the episode. Where you can find these episodes: Watch every episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNtHJIUeVUyIybZBlnsgUW3ypL4dLQhKh Listen to every episode on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/70k8Cfn70DcPD0CEBA1ySs Listen to every episode on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/99-problems-but-work-aint-one/id1572432505 Read shownotes for every episode: https://gethownow.com/podcast/ How to connect Find Nelson on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonsivalingam/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThatNelsonDude Find HowNow on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam Instagram: http://instagram.com/hownowhq Our Website: http://gethownow.com/