The Learning Culture Podcast

Joining me this week is Ajay Pangarkar.Ajay is an award-winning Performance and Cost Strategist. He's an expert on training in the workplace, as well as on finance and accounting. He's also an author, and his books bring together his wealth of experience and insight across these various fields. His most recent book, The Trainer's Balanced Scorecard , which he wrote with his co-author Teresa Kirkwood is the starting point for a lot of our conversation. We explore the often tricky topic of measuring training ROI, and with Ajay having authored and published multiple courses on these very topics, it was a real privilege to be able to pick his brain and map new insights. .I know you're going to get a lot of value from this episode, so feel free to share any takeaways or moments that stand out to you.For now, please sit back and enjoy my conversation with Ajay Pangarkar.👉Continue the conversation with me: https://twitter.com/Bazzaruto~ This episode is brought to you by The Learning Culture Experience. Learn more at https://curiouslion.cloud/experience ~

Joining me this week is Steve Bousquet.Steve is the President of American Landscape and Lawn Science, a lawn care and landscape business based in Connecticut. Reading that, many of you are probably thinking, "That's an interesting guest for a podcast about Learning Culture". I had the same thought when I first met Steve, a self professed learning nerd who never hesitates to hire a coach or to get a certification in something that he thinks could help him in what he sets out to do.In this episode, we unpack important lessons about the learner path mindset that Steve has installed for his team of 30 people. It covers communication styles, leveraging strengths, the growth mindset, and of course, purpose. Steve shares some very practical tools that you could use to enhance these four areas of your business to promote and enable your people. Sometimes you have to look at a business entirely different from your own, to learn a new approach that resonates and can be applied to the situation you face. I left my conversation with Steve energized by his fresh perspective, and with a new set of practical ideas that I want to apply at Curious Lion. I have no doubt that you will find gems of your own hidden within this conversation.So please sit back and enjoy this episode with Steve Bousquet.

Joining me this week is Daniel Quick.Daniel is the SVP for Learning Strategies at Thought Industries, a platform for customer education. He is also the author of a new book called The Customer Education Playbook, and most of our conversation revolves around the ideas that Daniel and his co-author share in the book.I went into this conversation prepared, but still with massive blind spots on what customer education truly is. What I learned from speaking to Daniel is that this is to be expected, because the field of customer education is fresh and newly emerging. It's a bit of a mixture of instructional design, marketing,  entrepreneurship and research.I think of Daniel as an SME for customer education. His book is an incredible resource for anybody who wants to get into the space, whether you are responsible for people development internally or for people development through customers. If you do anything in the field of education or learning, there are deep insights to be gleaned from Daniel's work.So please sit back and enjoy my conversation with Daniel Quick.

Mark is the founder of Tech Learning Network, one of the leading video-based educational platforms around web development, mobile applications, programming, digital design, and a lot of skills that companies are going through digital transformations need more and more of.Mark's background in the space goes back to the OG level era.  This was a fun, interesting, engaging conversation where we pushed some spiky points of view. So if you're looking for ideas and inspiration on how to make your learning more engaging, more effective, if you're looking for inspiration on what skills you should be thinking about as you start to build the skills architecture within your company, this conversation will give you a lot of great ideas.So please sit back and enjoy my conversation with Mark Lassoff.

Joining me this week is Angus Fletcher.Angus is a Professor of Story Science at Ohio State's Project Narrative. Project Narrative is the world's leading think tank for studying the nature of stories and how they work. He's also the author of Wonderworks, a book that explores the rich generational history of authors who laid out narrative and plot techniques that can help us understand how to overcome grief, stimulate joy or increase creativity. Ultimately, creativity is about tapping into the potential within. Unleashing hidden creativity is how we transform great companies into unbeatable learning machines. The work that Angus and his team does really pushes the envelope, and hones in on one of the cornerstone skills that we need to make a culture of learning a reality. Teaching creativity.So if you're ready to join me on this journey, please sit back and enjoy this great conversation with Angus Fletcher.

Joining me this week is Anna Petosa.Anna is the VP of People Operations at Pelmorex, a Canadian media company. She is responsible for the entire people function at a company of around 500 people. I met Anna through the work that we’re doing around Learning Culture. Anna thinks holistically about people within organizations, from the Operations, to the People Development, to Performance Management, and really everything in between. Please sit back, relax and enjoy my episode with Anna Petosa.👉 Continue the conversation with me on Twitter and LinkedIn.~ This episode is brought to you by The Learning Culture Experience~

Joining me this week is Andy Storch.Andy is an author, consultant, coach, speaker, and facilitator - best known for helping clients turn strategy into action and getting people to do the best work of their lives. Andy and I explore careers. Our conversation focusses on what you can do to get the most fulfillment and enjoyment out of your career.Andy shared some incredibly valuable tips to build a network and cement a personal brand. So if you're looking to get ownership of your career, definitely give this a listen and see what you can apply right away.Please sit back and enjoy my conversation with Andy Storch.👉 Continue the conversation with me on Twitter and LinkedIn.~ This episode is brought to you by The Learning Culture Experience~

Joining me this week is the Senior Director of People Development at PagerDuty, Phylicia Jones.What PJ brings to the table as a learning professional is a deep understanding of the potential of others, and an incredible passion for the development of that potential. She has incredibly insightful and interesting ideas around releasing that potential. The way she's applied her unique skills at PagerDuty has been visibly effective.In this conversation, we break down and give some really practical examples of how a lot of these ideas have taken shape among many others. So please sit back and enjoy my episode with Phylicia Jones.👉Continue the conversation with me: https://twitter.com/Bazzaruto~ This episode is brought to you by The Learning Culture Experience. Learn more at https://curiouslion.cloud/experience ~

Joining me this week is Maya Huber, the CEO of Skillset.Skillset is a job simulation and AI analysis platform that is seeking to solve the problem of skills-based hiring. In this episode, we unpack the problem of applicant tracking systems that have degree-based filters that have the unintended consequence of rolling out potentially strong candidates from the recruiting pool.No matter what part of the talent process you focus on, the ideas and principles that Maya brings out in this conversation are applicable to the entire employee life cycle. So there is definitely something in here for everybody.So please sit back and enjoy my episode with Maya Huber.👉 Continue the conversation with me on Twitter and LinkedIn.~ This episode is brought to you by The Learning Culture Experience~

Welcome back to another special bonus episode - It's part two of the Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge summary which we started last week!In the previous episode, we looked at what is crumbling and decaying in our education and management systems. We explored what the future might look like in the form of five learning disciplines, and we ended off part one by discussing the first - Personal Mastery.In today's episode, we're going to break down the final four pieces of the puzzle, in our pursuit of truly transformational learning organizations.Please sit back and enjoy my Part 2 summary of The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge.Continue the conversation with me on Twitter and LinkedIn.~ This episode is brought to you by The Learning Culture Experience ~