L&D Disrupt

Join Nelson as he speaks to Lara Morgenthaler, Chief People Officer at ShipBob. They discuss why Lara moved from recruiting to HR business partnering, building tolerance for change, whether you can teach curiosity, lessons from working at Amazon, and much more. Book a demo of HowNow: https://hubs.la/Q01RWy9P0 Download your FREE Death of the LMS guide: https://hubs.la/Q01RWyMr0 See HowNow in action! Sign up for a live walkthrough: https://hubs.la/Q01RWzht0  Running order 0:00 Intro and Lara’s first job in HR 3:34 Moving from recruiting to HR business partnering 8:15 Can you teach curiosity 9:21 Lessons from 6 years at Amazon 12:00 Recognising you’re ready for a CPO role 16:51 What Lara wishes she knew at the start 18:17 Current HR and people challenges 21:41 Building an inclusive workplace 25:38 Quickfire questions Find Lara on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laralandua/ Find Nelson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonsivalingam/ 

Join Nelson as he speaks to Fidelma Butler, Chief People Officer at Couchbase. They discuss how Fidelma entered the HR space, the power of storytelling and data to drive change, how CPOs can spend more wisely, work-life balance as a HR leader, and much more. Book a demo of HowNow: https://hubs.la/Q01RWy9P0 Download your FREE Death of the LMS guide: https://hubs.la/Q01RWyMr0 See HowNow in action! Sign up for a live walkthrough: https://hubs.la/Q01RWzht0  Running order: 0:00 Intro to the show 0:40 Getting into HR 4:36 HR transformation and buy-in 7:54 Storytelling and other CPO skills 10:27 Moving in-house from consulting 12:57 Keeping calm in fast-changing environments 15:18 What you wish you knew at the start 17:27 Future challenges for people leaders 19:12 Work-life balance as a CPO 21:22 Quickfire questions. Find Fidelma on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fidelmabutler/ Find Nelson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonsivalingam/

Download your FREE Death of the LMS guide: https://hubs.la/Q01RWyMr0 See HowNow in action! Sign up for a live walkthrough: https://hubs.la/Q01RWzht0 In the final L&D Disrupt Short from this year’s Learning Technologies, David Callander, Head of Learning Design at Mint Interactive, share his lessons on building effective learning experiences. From creating content that solves real problems to making it accessible in moments of need, David shared some great advice. Connect with David on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-callander/  Learn more about Mint Interactive: https://www.mint-interactive.com/  Learn more about HowNow: https://gethownow.com

Review your L&D strategy honestly, redefine the problems and build what you’re doing around impact! This is a process we should be doing periodically, to ensure L&D is aligned with the business. 📝 Take stock of what works! ​ 🤔 Re-establish which problems need solving and the skills required.​ 🤝 And prime your strategy to deliver more L&D impact for the whole business. ​This live workshop will give you a five-step framework to refocusing and realigning your strategy Running order 0:00 The risk of doing nothing. 3:49 Taking stock of where you are now. 15:37 Understand current skills gaps. 27:25 Review your tech and processes 37:15 Bake impact into everything 45:21 Find your influencers and advocates Download your FREE Death of the LMS guide: https://try.gethownow.com/death-of-lms-guideSee HowNow in action! Sign up for a live walkthrough: https://try.gethownow.com/see-hownow-weekly Learn more about HowNow: https://gethownow.com/ How to connect Find Alfie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alfiegardner/ Find Gary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-stringer-copywriter/ Learn more about HowNow: https://gethownow.com/

Join Nelson as he speaks to Angela Benmassaoud, Chief People Officer at HealthAxis Group. They discuss how Angela’s mum inspired her early career, what makes a great leader, fostering a sense of openness, and so much more. Book a demo of HowNow: https://hubs.la/Q01RWy9P0 Download your FREE Death of the LMS guide: https://hubs.la/Q01RWyMr0 See HowNow in action! Sign up for a live walkthrough: https://hubs.la/Q01RWzht0  Running order:0:00 Intro to the show 0:40 How Angela’s Mum inspired her career journey 7:30 What makes a great leader? 9:09 How Angela built leadership skills 12:09 Has being a single Mum influenced Angela’s journey? 13:50 Creating an open culture. 18:00 Getting C-Suite buy-in 25:20 What do wish you knew at the start? 26:56 Quickfire questions Find Angela on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-benmassaoud-mba-shrm-scp-executive-coach-02369673/  Find Nelson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonsivalingam/

Download your FREE Death of the LMS guide: https://hubs.la/Q01RWyMr0 See HowNow in action! Sign up for a live walkthrough: https://hubs.la/Q01RWzht0 In this conversation recorded at Learning Technologies 2023, Gary is joined by Sarah Mian, Head of Learning Content at The Access Group, to discuss how we can create more engaging learning content. From why it so often disconnects to how we take a more human-centered approach, these tips will take your content to the next level. Connect with Sarah on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-mian-32a39a42/ Learn more about The Access Group: https://www.theaccessgroup.com/en-gb/ Learn more about HowNow: https://gethownow.com

In this episode, Nelson is joined by Sarah Coleman, Chief People Officer at Adarma Security. They discuss Sarah’s HR background, whether we need experience in a sector to excel in it, Ruthless prioritisation as a CPO, and much more.  Book a demo of HowNow: https://hubs.la/Q01RWy9P0Download your FREE Death of the LMS guide: https://hubs.la/Q01RWyMr0 See HowNow in action! Sign up for a live walkthrough: https://hubs.la/Q01RWzht0 Running order 0:00 Intro to Sarah. 4:45 The first HR role and impostor syndrome. 8:17 Building Head of HR skills. 9:55 Creating work-life balance. 15:36 The importance of main sector expertise 17:18 Where should a CPO start in a new business? 20:50 Ruthless prioritisation as a CPO. 23:03 Quickfire questions. 29:40 Advice to aspiring CPOs. Find Sarah on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahcoleman31/ Find Nelson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonsivalingam/

Download your FREE Death of the LMS guide: https://hubs.la/Q01RWyMr0 See HowNow in action! Sign up for a live walkthrough: https://hubs.la/Q01RWzht0 In this L&D Disrupt Short, Gary is joined by Felix Ohlhauser, Head of Sales International at PINKTUM, to discuss how we can make learning more accessible and applicable at the point of need.  They also explain how you can build courses to make each part and resource work independently. Connect with Felix on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/felix-maximilian-ohlhauser-a65a734b/  Learn more about PINKTUM: https://www.pinktum.com/en/  Learn more about HowNow: https://gethownow.com

When it comes to learning budgets, you're probably at one of two stages: ☝️You've given people a personal budget to support their growth. ✌️You're not there yet! But you're looking at ways to free up time, funds and resources. Either way, this live podcast will give you the tools to build learning budgets and drive impact with them. Join ​Bonita Matthee (Learning and Development Lead at Permutive), and Ulrika Hofman (People Partner at Scrive) to discuss the full learning budget journey.  From what to do before you offer a dedicated financial budget to rolling that out when the time does come and optimising the process for ROI. Running order: 0:00 Learning budgets are more than money 5:31 Enabling managers to have better development conversations 9:23 Establish career goals and skills gaps 13:36 Using data and collaborative spending 18:19 What someone wants to do vs. what’s beneficial 21:39 The request process for budget spend 30:26 Building relationships with managers 34:25 Progression and learning’s relationship 40:45 Employer branding and talent attractionHow to connect Download your FREE Death of the LMS guide: https://try.gethownow.com/death-of-lms-guide See HowNow in action! Sign up for a live walkthrough: https://try.gethownow.com/see-hownow-weekly  Find Bonita on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonita-matthee/  Find Ulrika on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ulrikahofman/  Find Gary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-stringer-copywriter/

In this episode, Nelson is joined by Anthony Onesto, Chief People Officer at Suzy. They discuss the benefits of Anthony’s commercial background, the issue of being a generalist vs. a specialist, his recently-published book, and much more.   Book a demo of HowNow: https://hubs.la/Q01RWy9P0 Download your FREE Death of the LMS guide: https://hubs.la/Q01RWyMr0 See HowNow in action! Sign up for a live walkthrough: https://hubs.la/Q01RWzht0  Running order 0:00 Anthony’s backstory 4:25 Has a commercial understanding helped as a CPO? 6:19 Wanting to become a CPO 8:07 Balancing being a generalist vs. specialist 11:00 AI, innovation and tech 20:53 What you wish you knew when you started in HR. 22:47 Ella The Engineer 29:26 Anthony’s book and COVID’s influence 37:00 Quickfire questions Find Anthony on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonyonesto/  Find Nelson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonsivalingam/