The Mind Tools L&D Podcast
1) 468 — What can L&D learn from product management? (Rebroadcast)
Hello listeners! No new episode this week, but we wanted to take the opportunity to revisit our 2021 'documentary special' on product management. It took a lot more work than our usual roundtable for...Show More
2) 467 — Decisions, decisions, decisions... by AI?
When Dr Anna Barnett, Ross Garner and Ross Dickie discussed the role of empathy in decision-making in Episode 463, they started to ponder the role that AI plays in our decisions. In this week's episo...Show More
3) 466 — What L&D should (and shouldn't) be doing with AI
According to Donald Taylor and Egle Vinauskaitė's recent AI in L&D: The Race for Impact report, 'creating learning content' and 'learning design tasks' remain the primary use cases for AI in learning ...Show More
4) 465 — The business impact of play at work
All children play but, over time, that instinct goes away. We don't lose it, we don't forget. Instead, we get taught to stop. For author and toy designer Cas Holman, that's a problem. With a very real...Show More
5) 447 — Order taker to strategic business partner
Why does L&D so often feel like the drive-thru window of requests—'one leadership program, hold the ROI please'? As L&D professionals, it's not who we understand ourselves to be. So how can we flip th...Show More
6) 463 — The empathy problem: Balancing emotion in decision-making
Decision-making is a key aspect of being a manager, and a complex mix of skills, experiences, judgments and instincts. So how do you help your managers make smarter decisions at work? In this week's e...Show More
7) 462 — Umbrage over troubled water: Disputing last week's episode
Last week on The Mindtools L&D Podcast, L&D Detective Kevin M Yates joined Ross D and Dr Anna to talk about isolating the impact of training at work. When listening back, Ross G took umbrage at some o...Show More
8) 461 — It takes a village: Isolating training's impact
Is it up to the humble L&D pro to change people's behavior at work? Or is it up to everyone? In this week's episode of The Mindtools L&D Podcast, return guest Kevin M. Yates (aka The L&D Detective) sp...Show More
9) 460 — The irony of L&D: When do we develop ourselves?
As learning and development professionals, we spend most of our days thinking about how we help others build their skills. But how many of us neglect our own development while doing so? It's what L&D ...Show More
10) 459 — OHLs over OKRs: A new approach to goal-setting
Objectives and Key Results have long been a staple of the working world. You set a stretch objective, define the results that will tell you if the objective has been met, and scaffold throughout the o...Show More