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Dorie Clark, Wall Street Journal author and one of the Top 50 Business Thinkers in the World according to Thinkers50, joins us to discuss the importance of networking, how far out to plan your long game and Dorie's secret long game plan.

Dorie Clark

Dorie's Assessment

The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World, by Dorie Clark

JD Dillon, chief learning officer at Axonify and founder of LearnGeek,  joins Accidental Trainer to share how L&D teams can support their workplace through disruption. We discuss several topics inspired by his new book, The Modern Learning Ecosystem, including: how a mindset shift is the critical first step to navigating constant change; how organizations can use the Modern Learning Ecosystem Framework to create right-fit solutions; the role of technology in learning ecosystems; and advice for anyone with limited budgets and time.

Resources:

• JD’s website: https://www.learngeek.co/mle-framework/
• JD’s book, The Modern Learning Ecosystem: https://www.td.org/book/the-modern-learning-ecosystem
• JD’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jddillon/
• Blog Article: The Problem With Learning in the Flow of Work: https://www.td.org/atd-blog/the-problem-with-learning-in-the-flow-of-work

Betty Dannewitz, founder of ifyouaskbetty and immersive experience designer at Ken Blanchard Companies, joins us to discuss imposter syndrome. She shares her own personal experience and research on the topic as we chat about why it happens, the way it manifests, and strategies to defeat your “imposter monster”.

Betty also shares a variety of resources to diver deeper if you want to learn more about imposter syndrome.

Resources:

·       Betty on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ifyouaskbetty

·       Betty’s site: https://ifyouaskbetty.com/

·       ifyouaskbetty Imposter Syndrome series: https://ifyouaskbetty.com/imposter-syndrome/

·       Why Do I Feel Like An Imposter? by Sandi Mann

·       Ditching Imposter Syndrome by Clara Josa

·       Think Again by Adam Grant

·       Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown

·       UFYB Your Brain by Kara Loewentheil

·       HBR article discussed: Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome: https://hbr.org/2021/02/stop-telling-women-they-have-imposter-syndrome

Dr. Karl Kapp is a well-published author, professor at Commonwealth University, and all-around expert on instructional design and technology application in the L&D field. On the podcast, he shares his yearly predictions for the industry and which trends he expects to be popularized. Karl also gives his personal method for finding the latest fads, talks in-depth about the future of AI, and explains what soft skills will be deemed most valuable to organization leaders. 

Resources:

• Karl Kapp's Website: https://karlkapp.com/
• On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karlkapp/
• Monthly Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/l-d-easter-eggs-6599686641453977600/ 
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ProfKapp01
• L&D Mentor Academy: https://www.ldmentor.com/ 
• For ATD: https://www.td.org/user/about/karlkapp-000001
• Commonwealth University Program: https://www.bloomu.edu/academics/programs/information-technology-ms

Whitney Johnson, CEO of Disruption Advisors and author of Smart Growth, joins the podcast to discuss The Great Aspiration, how to determine your place on the S curve, why it's important to have an action board, and how to jump to the next S curve with confidence. We also chat about how leaders can impact their employee's growth with the assessments and insights presented in her new book. 

Smart Growth

Disrupt Yourself podcast

Whitney Johnson

HBR article

Whitney's assessment

*The giveaway is now closed.

Destery Hildenbrand, XR Solution Architect at Intellezy, joins the podcast to discuss extended reality (XR), and its evolving role in L&D. Destery defines XR, AR, VR, and MR with a quick “reality check”. He shares his impressions of the Apple Vision Pro product announcement and the implications new immersive technologies like this may have for L&D, workplaces, and our everyday lives.

Resources:

·       Destery on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/desteryhildenbrand

·       TD at Work guide: https://www.td.org/td-at-work-guide/bring-training-to-life-with-virtual-reality

Under the Hood of Chat GPT with Myra Roldan

Myra Roldan is a talented technologist, TEDx speaker, and go-to expert on new and emerging technologies. She joins the podcast to discuss new AI tools on the market and what to know about the generative AI chatbot everyone is talking about: Chat GPT. Myra defines AI and Chat GPT and provides various AI tools and use cases that can enhance your L&D workflow. Myra also predicts how new generative AI tools will shape the workforce and how anyone can start working strategically with AI today.

Resources:

• Myra on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/myraroldan/
• Myra on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@learnwithmyra
• Myra’s sessions at ATD TechKnowledge conference: https://techknowledge.td.org/2023-agenda/new-technologies-learning; https://techknowledge.td.org/2023-agenda/heck-blockchain-care
• Myra’s Toolbox Tip for Creating Subtitles for Videos: https://www.td.org/videos/toolbox-tip-how-to-create-subtitles-for-videos

Executive Development Advisor and Coach Martha Soehren has thrived in the field of talent development for decades and she didn't rise to the top by herself; mentors and champions played a big part in how Martha got ahead. She relays tips for our listeners on how to pick the right mentors and how to work with them for maximum benefit. 

Martha Soehren 

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

Heather R. Younger, author of The Art of Caring Leadership and CEO of Employee Fanatix, discusses the power of caring leadership in this episode. Heather talks about how to create safe spaces and how leaders need to incorporate the whole person when managing their employees. Being a leader is an influencer. a mentor and a teacher.

Listen to Heather explain the difference between empathy and compassion and much more in this deep dive into heart-winning leadership development.

Resources

The Art of Caring Leadership, Heather's book

Leadership with Heart, Heather's podcast

Employee Fanatix

Heather R. Younger on LinkedIn

Luke Hobson, Senior Instructional Designer and Program Manager at MIT xPRO, joins the podcast to share the value of blogging and why talent development professionals should leverage it in their work. He describes how blogging can help repackage content and how to implement it in organizations today. We also discuss the active learning benefits of writing a blog, and how to build both your personal brand and knowledge base by blogging on social platforms like LinkedIn.  

Resources:

Luke’s website: https://drlukehobson.com/ttps://drlukehobson.com/

Luke on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-hobson-edd-7a685622

Marcus Buckingham, New York Times bestselling author, speaker and business consultant, joins us for an extra long, extra fun episode. We covered a lot of ground here about his new book, Love + Work, how talent development pros and managers can help their employees find meaningful work by discovering their red threads, how unique we all really are and how to find those threads we have to really look deep within. 

Marcus Buckingham

Love + Work

Marcus Buckingham Company 

ADP Research Institute

In this episode of The Accidental Trainer podcast, Leadership Coach and Founder of the Ghannad Group Amir Ghannad discusses how intent and demeanor are imperative in leadership development. Amir relays some of the seven hidden saboteurs he outlined in his book to help our listeners become true transformative leaders.

The Ghannad Group

Amir Ghannad

The Transformative Leader 

Danielle Wallace, Chief Learning Strategist of Beyond the Sky, joins the podcast to share her passion for learner personas in L&D. Listen to her explanation of what learner personas are, the “do’s and dont's” of building learner personas, and the ways you can use personas in training. 

Meet some of Danielle’s favorite learner personas as she discusses how you can build personas through holistic data collection, and what to do if data is not made available. She also goes into the common mistakes of building learner personas that trainers will want to avoid.  

Our episode with Danielle will touch on accessibility, what goes into a good learner persona, and the best use cases. Danielle’s expertise will leave you eager and prepared to include learner personas in your next training course. 

Resources:  

• Danielle on LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/daniellewallace 
• Beyond the Sky website: https://www.beyondthesky.ca/ 
• You in 2042 Podcast: https://www.beyondthesky.ca/podcast/ 

Belo Miguel Cipriani, digital inclusion strategist and founder of Oleb Media, joins the podcast to help us rethink accessibility. Learn how to overcome the intimidation factor of accessibility and engage in active digital inclusivity with Belo’s empowering recommendations.  

Belo shares his personal experience living with a disability and addresses the overwhelming learning curve of accessibility standards and guidelines. He offers actionable strategies and powerful questions to integrate into the procurement of new tools, content creation, and the evaluation of your content’s accessibility.

The conversation also considers how organizations can maintain an inclusive workplace while respecting employees’ privacy. Belo’s insight for teams working in virtual environments gives confidence that anyone can get started with digital inclusion today.  

Belo on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/belo-miguel-cipriani/  

Oleb Media: https://www.olebmedia.com/oleb-media-services/

Oleb Media on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oleb-media/ 

Oleb Books: https://olebbooks.com/  

Belo at ATD Intensive: https://atdintensive.td.org/agenda

Katrina Kennedy is a talented master trainer who’s been leading train-the-trainer for over 27 years. She joins the podcast to reveal how she puts evidence-based learning strategies into practice in her training programs.

Katrina passionately shares practical examples and tools you can use to facilitate retrieval practice and reflection for your learners. Katrina also discusses the value of spaced retrieval, and how to strategically incorporate feedback into your learners’ practice. Check out the episode for tips, tricks, and resources that will make implementing active learning strategies easier in both in-person and virtual training.

Resources:

• Katrina on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katrinakennedytraining
• Katrina at TK: https://atdtk24.eventscribe.net/speakers.asp?pfp=Browse%20by%20Speaker
• Katrina’s website: https://katrinakennedy.com/
• Katrina’s ATD content profile: https://www.td.org/user/content/KatrinaKennedy
• Katrina on ATD YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ATD_Official/search?query=katrina%20kennedy
• Tools mentioned in the conversation:
  • Kahoot: https://kahoot.com/
  • Mural: https://www.mural.co/
  • Miro: https://miro.com/
  • Google Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/create
  • Scrumblr: http://scrumblr.ca/

Chris Thorne, retired Navy Master Chief Petty Officer and Founder and Owner of Chris Thorne Consulting, joins us to discuss his journey from being in uniform to the field of HR and talent development.  

Chris Thorne

Chris Thorne Consulting

Gary Sinise San Diego chapter

San Diego Military Council

Jared Cooney Horvath, a neuroscientist, educator, and published author, joins the podcast to discuss overcoming the three biggest hurdles blocking learning transfer: knowledge, contextualization, and adaptation. 

The conversation also explores the distinctions between subject comprehension and ability, the dynamics of digital versus in-person learning, and the disparity between AI teachers and live instructors. Enjoy this episode to discover more about Jared’s research and his “hack” for expediting learning transfer.  

Resources:  
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jared-cooney-horvath 
• LME Global: https://www.lmeglobal.net/?r_done=1 
• Jared’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCypIIZtJ1JOJ8VdED2L360Q  
• Harvard Business Review article: The Limits of GenAI Educators: https://hbr.org/2024/07/the-limits-of-genai-educators 
• The Dilemma Regarding Transfer: https://www.td.org/content/td-magazine/the-dilemma-regarding-transfer

Bryant Galindo, founder of CollabsHQ and a workplace mediator and executive coach, joins the podcast to discuss conflict resolution tools every modern learner should know. Bryant defines mediation and highlights the similarities and differences between coaching and mediation. Bryant shares communication techniques to create more productive dialogues. We also discuss navigating stress, strategies to use when you have a disagreement with someone and exercises to find common ground.

Resources:

• Bryant on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryantgalindo
• CollabsHQ: https://www.collabshq.com/
• Bryant’s book: The New Middle: Connecting Heart and Mind to Collaboratively Disagree

Annie Murphy Paul, author of The Extended Mind, joins the podcast to discuss the benefits of thinking outside of the brain. Our conversation explores how to enhance our thinking abilities by harnessing the power of our bodies, our environments, and the people around us.  

Resources:

• AMP’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/anniemurphypaul
• AMP’s Website: https://anniemurphypaul.com/
• The Science of Creativity newsletter: https://anniemurphypaul.substack.com/
• AMP’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annie-murphy-paul/
• A Modern Approach to Apprenticeship with Jake Gittleson: https://atdpodcast.libsyn.com/a-modern-approach-to-apprenticeship-with-jake-gittleson

Megan Torrance, CEO and founder of TorranceLearning, joins the podcast to share how to get started with data and analytics.  Megan provides a framework for talent development professionals to archive, analyze, and act on workplace learning data, whether you are a beginner or a long-time data user.

Resources:

Megan’s new book: Data and Analytics for Instructional Designers

Megan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/megantorrance

TorranceLearning website: https://www.torrancelearning.com/

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.

Host Lisa Spinelli takes a look back at the most common themes for the year of 2021 on The Accidental Trainer podcast, transformation and customization, and what is coming up for 2022. 

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

Monique Russell, founder of Clear Communication Solutions, joins the podcast to discuss how to cultivate your public speaking skills. She shares her public speaking framework and its interconnected relationship with emotional intelligence. Monique reveals techniques to enhance any conversation or speaking opportunity – including influencing stakeholders and sponsors, communicating the value of your work, leading empathetic conversations, and more.

Resources:

• Clear Communications Solutions: https://clearcommunicationsolutions.com/ 
• Monique Russell: https://moniquerussell.com/
• Monique on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clearcommunicationcoach/ 

Kris Newbauer, Chief People Officer and Head of People and Talent at Rotary International and author of Aligning Instructional Design with Business Goals, breaks down his eight-step framework that TD professionals can apply to strategically identify business needs, define success, and design curriculum with evaluation in mind. 

Resources:

·       Kris’ new book: Aligning Instructional Design with Business Goals

·       Kris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristophernewbauer

·       Kris’ recent blog: https://www.td.org/atd-blog/dollars-make-sense-money-doesnt-have-to-be-a-dirty-word-in-td

Julie Dirksen is a learning strategist and author of the recently released book, Talk to the Elephant. She joins the podcast to chat about designing learning for behavior change. We discuss several topics from her book, including the COM-B behavior model, and how to map it to your behavior change interventions. Julie reveals the biggest barriers to behavior change– like motivation, competing priorities, and feedback– and what you can do about them. The examples Julie shares from different organizations’ behavior change initiatives demonstrate how these strategies can be applied across various domains and industries.

Resources:

• Julie Dirksen on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliedirksen
• Talk to the Elephant: https://usablelearning.com/elephant/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/designforhowpeoplelearn

Louise Hendey, CEO of Erickson Coaching International, joins the podcast to discuss how a coaching mindset can build critical skills and resiliency in the workplace. She shares common ways organizations leverage coaching, including leadership development, team collaboration, and innovation.  Louise also describes the interconnected role that social connections and psychological safety play in building resilience, and provides examples of powerful coaching questions anyone can use for transformative change.

Resources:

·       Louise on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/louise-hendey-globalblueocean/

·       Courageous Conversations podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3nglsJdiECgHB7wXT5PtfV

·       Erickson+ Coaching Network: https://www.erickson.edu/en/erickson_plus

Amanda Smith, Deputy Chief Human Resources Officer at the City of Alexandria, joins the podcast to discuss her approach to innovation in the government sector. Amanda shares her four-pillar approach to creating a culture that cultivates innovation and provides examples of how to rethink your strategy for leadership, workforce, processes, and partnerships. 

Resources:

·       Amanda Smith on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-smith-08320711

·       Amanda’s TD at Work, “Self-Directed Learning Made Simple”: https://www.td.org/td-at-work/self-directed-learning-made-simple

·       Maryland Removes College Degree Requirements from some State Jobs: https://www.newsnationnow.com/solutions/maryland-opened-up-jobs-to-people-without-four-year-degrees

Director of Learning at Circulo Cara North joins us on the podcast to discuss the need for and how to create customized learning assessments. Cara gives her take on work-based scenario training, personalizing compliance training, long-term learning success and much more. 

Cara North

ATD22 in Orlando

Brent Schlenker and Chris van Wingerden, co-hosts of the popular IDIODC podcast from dominKnow, fill us in on how they started their podcast and provide listeners with valuable insights into starting one of your own.

Instructional Designers in Offices Drinking Coffee (IDIODC) podcast

dominKnow

YouTube IDIODC episodes

IDIODC LinkedIn Group

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

Freelance eLearning Designer and Creator of the eLearning Designer's Academy Tim Slade give us his tips on how to develop and showcase an instructional design portfolio.

Tim Slade
@sladetim
eLearning Designer's Academy 

Founder of Aloha Learning Advisors Kimo Kippen joins the podcast to discuss why today is learning and development's day in the sun. We chat about the swift adoption of learning platforms, the transformation of workplace environments, and his co-founded volunteer organization L&D Cares.

Aloha Learning Advisors

Kimo Kippen

L&D Cares

Forward-Focused Learning

Tanya Boyd, Learning Experience Architect at Insights, joins the podcast to share the power of activating awareness. By developing this skill, Tanya shows how we can achieve our goals and unlock future outcomes with more efficiency and effectiveness. She defines various types of awareness and examples of each, how they work together, and the role of awareness in our digital world today. She also provides a series of questions you can immediately apply to improve performance results.

Tanya on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanyaboyd

Jeremy Utley, director of executive education at Stanford’s d.school, joins the podcast to share how anyone can innovate by building their ability to be creative. Jeremy reveals misconceptions about creativity, defines “Ideaflow,” and how your team can achieve it. He shares strategies to discern good ideas from bad ones by creating a lab environment.

Jeremy covers other topics from his new book, Ideaflow, including how teams can best develop and select ideas, and the impact of ideating with remote teams.

Jeremy’s Blog: https://www.jeremyutley.design/blog

Ideaflow Website: https://www.ideaflow.design/

Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters

Cindy Huggett, virtual training expert and consultant, joins us on the podcast to discuss the evolving role of virtual trainers to learning experience facilitators. We chat about the mindset shift all trainers and facilitators need to make, how to reframe your relationship with technology, and various strategies to enhance your facilitation skills, no matter what learning environment you use.

Resources:

Cindy Huggett’s website: https://www.cindyhuggett.com/

Cindy’s new book: https://www.td.org/book/the-facilitators-guide-to-immersive-blended-and-hybrid-learning

Cindy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindyhuggett/

Markus Bernhardt, Chief Consultant for Endeavor Intelligence Insights, is an AI and digital transformation strategist. He joins the podcast to help us set realistic expectations about AI. He breaks down how large language models are built and explains why hallucinations in AI tools like Chat GPT will continue to occur. He also reveals how L&D professionals can leverage a deeper understanding of generative AI’s limitations to drive more meaningful conversations with AI suppliers and vendors that go beyond the hype. 

Resources:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/markus-bernhardt

https://www.learningguild.com/publications/183/ais-increasingly-important-role-in-ld/ 

SVP of Technology and Product at Instructure Peter Brussard joins the Accidental Trainer to discuss how to save your company culture during this trying time. We also dive into saving your talent development budget, how employee development intersects with company culture and applying lean-agile methodology toward that culture.

Resources

Peter Brussard on LinkedIn

Instructure's website

ATD TK

Slack collaboration tool

Six Sigma

Lean-Agile Methodology

Airline no change fees, The Points Guy

Holly Burkett is the principal consultant of HB Consulting and Evaluation Works, a performance consultancy in Northern California, and the author of Learning for the Long Run. She joins the podcast to discuss change fatigue, where it comes from, and how TD professionals can help organizations overcome common change fatigue challenges.  

Holly reframes change management as energy management and offers suggestions to embed wellness into organizational culture. Her 4-R framework will alter how L&D tackles change fatigue, and how leaders view capacity and capability within their employees.  

In this episode, author and virtual classroom expert Kassy LaBorie discusses the trouble with being both the trainer and producer during virtual training sessions. We also touch on how to set up your online training space and cover everything from Kassy's new book, "Producing Virtual Training, Meetings, and Webinars," to RuPaul and knuckleballs. 

Resources

"Producing Virtual Training, Meetings, and Webinars: Master the Technology to Engage Participants," Kassy's new book

Kassy LaBorie Consulting, LLC 

Kassy's LinkedIn Page

Other books by Kassy

RuPaul's Official Site 

Knuckleball pitcher Phil Niekro

Executive Director of Quinnovation and ATD author Dr. Clark Quinn joins us for this episode of The Accidental Trainer to discuss his new book, Learning Science for Instructional Designers. We cover how learning science underpins all instructional design work, fills the gaps in learning theories as well as grounds those theories. Don't miss this cognitive-heavy episode with our very own learning doctor.

Resources

Clark's Book

Quinnovator on Twitter

Quinnovation.com,

Clark on LinkedIn

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

Remote-work leaders and experts Kevin Eikenberry and Wayne Turmel join the podcast to discuss their new book, The Long Distance Teammate. The co-authors talk about the importance of honest and proactive communication, the 3-P model in their book, mindsets, Spiderman and more. 

Resources

The Long-Distance Teammate: Stay Engaged and Connected While Working Anywhere, by Kevin Eikenberry and Wayne Turmel

Remote Leadership Institute

Wayne Turmel on LinkedIn

Eikenberry and Turmel will be speaking at ATD 2021

Kevin Eikenberry on LinkedIn

Spiderman saying

Jake Gittleson, Senior Expert of Learning Design at McKinsey & Company and Co-Host of the Learning Geeks podcast, joins ATD Accidental Trainer to share a modern approach to apprenticeship. We discuss how to use cognitive apprenticeship for everyday learning and Jake describes how to create a culture that encourages bidirectional relationships where everyone can be both a teacher and learner in your organization. 

 Jake on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-gittleson

Learning Geeks podcast: https://www.learninggeekspod.com/

Mallory Flynn, Content Manager of Organizational and Career Development at ATD, joins the podcast to discuss the latest projects she’s been working on. Mallory shares what it was like to work behind the scenes on the newly released, ATD’s Organization Development Handbook, and how the book was specifically created to support L&D professionals navigate OD from an L&D lens. She also shares how the OrgDev conference has grown and evolved over the past year, including a brand new advisory board, RFP process, new tracks, new preconference workshops, and what to expect at this year’s upcoming event. We also discuss the unique qualities ATD’s Job Bank offers for L&D professionals.

Resources:

• Mallory on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/flynnmallory
• ATD's Organization Development Handbook: https://www.td.org/book/atds-organization-development-handbook
• OrgDev: https://orgdev.td.org/
• ATD Job Bank: Jobs.td.org

Lauren Weinstein, co-author of The Empowered Job Search and the Career Discovery & Enablement Lead at Microsoft, is on the podcast this week to discuss the complexities of job changes and career development. Sharing her personal story of being laid off, Lauren offers advice for those transitioning between roles, companies, and industry fields. 

A job change, whether intentional or unplanned, can be an emotional experience. In the conversation, Lauren covers separating work from identity, reflecting on both the positives and negatives of career shifts, and empowering others as they go through a transitionary time. 

Lauren also breaks down how L&D professionals can balance leading others through career development while going through it themselves. Listen for more on her ongoing research on the topic, career coaching tips, and job search coping recommendations. 

Resources: 

• Lauren Weinstein on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenbweinstein  
• The Empowered Job Search: https://www.laurenbweinstein.com/theempoweredjobsearch 

Leadership Consultant and podcast host Eddie Turner focuses on the keys to unlocking your great leadership potential in this episode of the Accidental Trainer. Eddie breaks down the role of an organization in developing their leaders as well as how to stand out as a leader in your organization today and everyday by using your communication and EQ skills.

Eddie Turner

Keep Leading! podcast

140 Simple Messages to Guide Emerging Leaders

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/

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

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

In this episode, crowd-favorite speakers Bridgett McGowen and Rick Lozano join us to discuss why the ATD International Conference and Expo is so important to them and their careers; how the unexpected can happen at any point and time during the conference and leave you with a life-long lasting impression! They also discuss why going in-person this year was a must for them and what you can expect to see from these two, separately, in the year to come. Stick around until the end of the episode for a Lozano surprise!

ATD22 in Orlando (Flash sale until April 1!)

Brigett McGowen

Rick Lozano

Kelly Palmer, chief learning and talent officer at Degreed and co-author of the book The Expertise Economy, joins us to talk about the power and importance of customized and personalized learning experiences. We discuss how to gather the data you need to create those experiences, how we're designing our learning and professional lives and much more.  

Kelly Palmer

Degreed

Lens 2021

The Expertise Economy

Anastasia Deduykhina, founder of Consciously Digital, joins the podcast to discuss digital wellbeing. Anastasia shares how digital transformation is impacting key workplace skills, including learning, memory, active listening, and critical thinking. She provides suggestions to regain focus, reduce stress, create boundaries with digital devices, and reconnect with our bodies.

Resources:

• Anastasia on LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/anastasiadedyukhina
• Consciously Digital: https://www.consciously-digital.com/founders-story
• TEDx Talk: Are you a Robot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOul_7qAOws
• https://www.td.org/atd23news/help-your-internal-librarian-help-youhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17024677/
• London taxi drivers study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17024677/

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

ATD's Director of Conferences and Events Apryl Savino, Vice President of Learning Courtney Vital and Director of Marketing Kristen Fyfe-Mills, all join me for this episode of The Accidental Trainer. We get a peek into what to expect at ATD21, our education courses and certificate programs, and discuss why ATD21 remains the best talent development conference to advance your career. 

ATD21

ATD Education Offerings

Lenny Grinberg, Director of Business Development and Account Management at RWS, joins the podcast to discuss why localization matters. He shares the differences between translation and localization and reveals the biggest mistake content creators make when it comes to translating content. Lenny offers his perspective on the potential risks and benefits of free translation tools and how L&D professionals can enhance the user experience by changing their approach to translating content.

Resources:

·       RWS Website: https://www.rws.com/

·       Lenny Grinberg on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennygrinberg/

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David Dylan Thomas, Founder and CEO of David Dylan Thomas LLC and author of Design for Cognitive Bias, joins the podcast to share how L&D professionals can harness cognitive bias in their work.

David reveals common cognitive biases, such as confirmation bias, illusion of control, loss aversion bias, and consistency bias, and provides strategies to influence your stakeholders with these in mind. We also discuss the challenges of workplace change and why differentiating between behavior change and belief change matters.

Resources:

·       David Dylan Thomas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daviddylanthomas1

·       David Dylan Thomas’s Website: https://daviddylanthomas.com/

·       Design for Cognitive Bias: https://www.amazon.com/DESIGN-COGNITIVE-David-Dylan-Thomas/dp/1937557979

·       Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman: https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555

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/

Katy Chandler, the VP of Talent Management at DuraServ, developed an internal credentialing program to train her industry’s frontline technicians more efficiently and effectively.

Katy shares how the program evolved to become a talent recruiting and retention tool by creating a visible career path for both new and experienced employees. She reveals the lessons she’s learned and the progress made with each new iteration— from creating flexibility for different skill levels and adding new technology to avoiding scope creep, assessing the capability to sustain the program, and achieving stakeholder buy-in and end-user satisfaction.

Influence, at its core, is all about authenticity and relationship building, says Vivian Blade, president and CEO of Experts in Growth Leadership Consulting. Listen to this episode of the podcast to find out how to develop your power of influence. 

Vivian Blade

Influence in Talent Development (book)

Vivian on LinkedIn 

Be Less Zombie, by Elvin Turner and Richard Johnston

Never Split the Difference, by Chris Voss (audio version)

Don't Drop the Mic, by T.D. Jakes

In this episode, Stella Lee, chief learning strategist at Paradox Learning, shares her take on the current landscape of AI. Stella provides strategic questions everyone should be asking as they evaluate AI and its evolving role in L&D and the future of work, predicts how L&D roles will change, and gives recommendations to navigate the AI revolution happening all over the world.

Resources:

• Stella on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stellal/
• Paradox Learning: https://paradoxlearning.com/
• Futurepedia: https://www.futurepedia.io/
• FutureTools: https://www.futuretools.io/
• Crunchbase List of AI companies: https://www.crunchbase.com/hub/artificial-intelligence-companies
• Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criedo Perez
• Medium: https://medium.com/tag/artificial-intelligence/top/year
• Policies: EU AI Act, US AI Bill of Rights, Canada Bill C-27
• Ravit Dohan’s LinkedIn Post on ChatGPT and Gender Bias
• All Tech Is Human: Alltechishuman.org
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s collaborative media platform: https://hitrecord.org/

DoorDash's Head of Learning and Development Brandi Nicole Johnson discusses how DEI is the first thought in developing their workplace culture. She shares tips on how to create an inclusive, employee-first culture whether that's for in-person, virtual or hybrid work environments.

Brandi Nicole Johnson

Brandi on LinkedIn

DoorDash

TorranceLearning CEO Megan Torrance and Racial Equity Product Development Manager Jessica Jackson join us for this episode of the Accidental Trainer to discuss how companies and trainers can be more mindful of their diversity and inclusion practices. We talk about starting a conversation around DEI and psychological safety at work, how to be mindful when picking graphics for learning materials, what social equity means and much more. 

Resources

TorranceLearning

Racial equity

Tokenism

Gaslighting

ATD TechKnowledge

Nicole Papaioannou Lugara, founder of Your Instructional Designer, joins the podcast to discuss social learning. She describes how advocating for better needs-analysis with stakeholders and clients led her to social learning solutions. Nicole shares an easy-to-understand definition of social learning and describes crucial elements like feedback and reflection.

Nicole provides examples of digital technology that help enable social learning opportunities, and shows how she differentiates between social media and social learning. Nicole also breaks down digital ecosystems and how to operationalize a social learning strategy. Next, she shares how to make social learning environments thrive with the strategic use of moderators, culture champions, and influencers. Lastly, she remind us not to overthink social learning and shares what social learning in action can look like with a digital cohort example.

Nicole on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolepapaioannouphd/

Your Instructional Designer: https://www.yourinstructionaldesigner.com/

In this episode of The Accidental Trainer, Senior Director of Leadership Development at GP Strategies Leah Clark joins us to discuss how leaders are reinventing themselves. We also chat about what talent development professionals can do to develop their future leaders, how leaders can help to retain employees during the Great Resignation, and much more. 

Leah Clark

GP Strategies

Professor and Co-Director of the MPS in Organization Development and Change at Penn State World Campus William Rothwell joins the podcast for this extraordinary episode. We get this OD legend's input on culture change that is befalling all organizations today as well as what it takes to become successful in OD. 

Resources

Penn State World Campus

MPS in Organization Development and Change 

William Rothwell's professor page

Rothwell & Associates, LLC

William's ATD author page

Many of us have moved to a hybrid or fully remote office environment, but continue to struggle with keeping our in-person company culture. Neha Lagoo Ratnakar has incredibly beneficial insights on virtual onboarding, workplace flexibility, and engaging a remote workforce in this episode of The Accidental Trainer. 

Resources

Neha Lagoo Ratnakar's LinkedIn page

Institute of Management Accountants (IMA)

Diwali

Khojees

ATD Content Managers Eliza Blanchard, Ryan Changcoco, and Alexandria Clapp join me to discuss trends in instructional design, training delivery, diversity and inclusion, management development, government workforce, and of course learning technologies. I also touch on talent management, organizational as well as professional development. We chat about our upcoming events, including ATD OrgDev happening in just 10 days!

Resources

ATD OrgDev

ATD Government Workforce

ATD DEI Podcast

ATD-Yale Management Excellence certificate

ATD TechKnowledge

Elaine Lin Hering is a facilitator, communications coach, and author of the newly released Unlearning Silence. An expert on using your voice in the workplace, Elaine unpacks several major themes from her book, common challenges facing trainers, cultivating awareness around learned silence, and empowering others to speak up. 

Elaine offers practical advice for finding your authentic voice and navigating and mitigating direct speech. She also shares the basics of her “Three Buckets” framework and Little Experiments Method and how to implement them into a team’s culture. Listen for Elaine’s thought-provoking ideas to dismantle your own learned silence.

Resources: 

• Elaine Lin Hering on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elainelinhering/  
• Elaine’s website: https://elainelinhering.com/  
• Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully: https://elainelinhering.com/book/ 
• Elaine’s Newsletter: https://hello.elainelinhering.com/newsletter  
• Elaine’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elainelinhering/  

Co-founder and CEO of Endurance Learning Brian Washburn joins us to discuss his book, What's Your Formula? Brian divulges the secrets to mixing up a good learning design and strategy as well as what you should do if you create an explosion. 

What's Your Formula?

Endurance Learning

Train Like a Champion (podcast)

The Overnight Trainer’s Sarah Cannistra joins us on the podcast to discuss how she started her own consulting business. Sarah found herself misaligned in her previous corporate role, despite having things she really loved about her job. She shares how she pushed back on advice like “don’t rock the boat”, her first challenges as a first- time business owner, why she started coaching, how she discovered her differentiators, the power of saying yes and no, how she turned her side gig into a full time business, and more.

Find Sarah on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scannistra

Check out the Overnight Trainer podcast: https://theovernighttrainer.podbean.com/

Impassioned speaker and author of Leading Imperfectly, James Robilotta, shares how tapping into the power of curiosity can transform communities. James breaks down his framework for cultivating curiosity and reveals how starting with better questions will lead you to more authentic connection and loyalty at work and in your personal life.

Tune in for more advice on disrupting your patterns with others, resetting difficult relationships, and a phrase that may be better than any active listening question.

Resources: 

• James’ Website: https://jamestrobo.com/
• James’ Book, Leading Imperfectly: https://jamestrobo.com/book  
• James on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesrobilotta/  
• James on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamestrobo/?hl=en  
• James on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jamestrobo  
• James on X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/JamesTRobo  
• James on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JamesTRobo/  

In this episode of the Accidental Trainer, Career Sherpa and job search strategist Hannah Morgan gives us expert advice on conducting the most effective job search in 2021. We chat about growth opportunities, video interviews, resume updates, and the separation of work and personal life. 

Resources

CareerSherpa.net

Career Sherpa (Hannah) on Twitter

Hannah on LinkedIn

Author, speaker and consultant Julie Winkle Giulioni joins The Accidental Trainer to discuss how career development is shifting in this ever changing world. She discusses career switching during COVID,  career growth without that necessarily meaning a typical promotion, and the misconceptions around one-and-done goal setting.

Resources

Julie's website

Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go

Julie's Twitter page

Julie Winkle Giulioni's ATD author page

Join us for an inspirational episode with CEO of the Learning Cluster Design Group and OD Consultant Crystal Kadakia. Crystal joins us to discuss how to realize your impossible possibility and create a future path you didn't fully believe was in your reach. We also chat about when to say "no" and how empowering it can be, life during COVID, and appreciative inquiry. 

Resources

Crystal Kadakia's consulting 

Crystal's email

Learning Cluster Design website

Crystal Kadakia on LinkedIn

Crystal's speaking site

Crystal's author page on ATD

Lead HR Jetpacker and business founder Christina A. Danforth joins us to discuss how she started a profitable e-learning business. Christina also gives out tips on what advice to take when starting out, how to make your e-learning more effective and what she's learned through this pandemic. 

Resources

HR Jetpack

Christina's LinkedIn page

Global leaders agree that many people across the world are feeling the impact of a “loneliness epidemic.” Speaker, author and thought leader Devin Hughes discusses the state of human connection and how loneliness affects employee productivity on this episode of the Accidental Trainer Podcast.  

Devin offers solutions for leaders struggling to approach the topic of loneliness with their team, how L&D can foster opportunities for connection, and improve the psychological safety of the organization’s culture. Check out the podcast for more insight into overcoming loneliness.  

Sounding Board CEO and Co-founder Christine Tao joins us for an in-depth look at how coaching can transform leaders and employees. We discuss how the market has changed for leadership coaches and the skill of coaching as well as the biggest myths around leadership coaching. 

Christine Tao

Sounding Board

This week, Shannon Martin, former director of communications at Podbean, joins Accidental Trainer to discuss the growing popularity of podcasting. Shannon shares how podcasting is changing the L&D landscape and why you should jump on the trend if you haven’t already. Tune in for tips on how to get started, including figuring out your “why” and how to pilot and segment a new initiative with small groups in your organization. Shannon also recommends what to prioritize no matter how limited your resources are, and ways to improve your storytelling skills.

Resources:

Shannon Martin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannonmartinwrites/

Mic Check: https://www.td.org/magazines/td-magazine/mic-check

VP of Consulting and public speaker Amy P. Kelly joins The Accidental Trainer to discuss when to adjust and customize human performance improvement (HPI) strategies. She dives deep into the benefits and warnings around assessments that HPI professionals use as well as how to shift and peel back the layers of HPI. Catch Amy speaking at ATD OrgDev.

Resources

Amy P. Kelly's website

ATD's HPI Model

Jon Gordon website

ATD's Improving Human Performance Certificate class

Learn how to break up emotional disconnection and repair workplace relationships with organizational psychologist Lola Gershfeld, founder of EMC Leaders. Discover the evergreen importance of emotional intelligence, how to disrupt negative relationship patterns, and practical steps to build stronger connections within your team. We delve into building emotional connection training and explore metrics to measure its effectiveness.

Resources:

• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lolagershfeld
• EmC Leaders: https://emcleaders.com/
• TD Magazine article : https://www.td.org/magazines/td-magazine/together-everyone-achieves-more
• Emotional Connection Book: https://emcleaders.com/emotional-connection-book 

Karin Hurt and David Dye, CEO and President of Let’s Grow Leaders, join the podcast to discuss their newly released book, Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict: What to Say Next to De-stress the Workday, Build Collaboration, and Calm Difficult Customers. The duo shares practical communication techniques from their book to help start difficult workplace conversations.

They empower listeners with a framework for handling any conflict conversation: the “Four Dimensions of Constructive Conflict.” Enjoy the episode now to learn more about the 4-Cs and how to inject powerful phrases into your organization when navigating common workplace challenges, such as overwhelming workloads, matrixed teams, and difficult bosses.

Executive and Leadership Coach and Author Melody Wilding joins The Accidental Trainer podcast for a captivating discussion on sensitive strivers and leaders. What are sensitive strivers? How do you know if you are one? What sort of things can be a benefit and a hindrance to being a sensitive striver? Learn all this and more in this episode.

Resources

Sensitive Strivers

Melody's book, Trust Yourself

Melody's website

Overcome Imposter Syndrome

The New Power Skill: Empathy, from ATD

In this episode of The Accidental Trainer, global learning partner Elizabeth Fine reaches out to fellow former K-12 teachers looking to transition into the field of training and talent development.

The Jr High Dropout on Apple Podcasts

The Jr High Dropout on Spotify

Elizabeth on LinkedIn