The eLearning Champion Pod

If you are a training professional making a career in the digital learning space, this podcast is for you.

The eLearning Champion Pod is a education podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 82 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts The eLearning Champion Pod, a education show with 82 episodes published.

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  Episode #4

  Execution Capacity: The Truth Nobody Budgets For | Episode 4: Why Most L&D Teams Are Built for the Wrong Job

  Sep 29, 202618 minS1

  Most L&D teams ask the same people to handle needs analysis, content development, stakeholder communication, and measurement, all at once. As a result, strategy and execution crowd each other out, and neither gets done well at scale. In this episode of Execution Capacity, the Truth Nobody Budgets For, Sushmitha Kolagani of CommLab India covers what internal L&D should own, what should become elastic, and how to decide what to build in-house and what to partner on.What you'll learn: What's the design mistake most L&D teams make? Treating strategy and execution as the same job, even though one needs judgment and the other needs speed and volume. What should internal L&D own? Needs analysis, learning architecture, stakeholder management, and measurement. Content production can move to elastic capacity. How do you decide what to build vs. partner on? Classify demand first: recurring, deadline-bound spikes, or role gaps. Each one needs a different capacity model. What does the split look like in practice? A 15,000-employee firm cleared a 60-project backlog and cut deployment from four months to six weeks, at roughly the cost of the headcount it had been declined.

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  Capability Architecture: Building Leadership That Holds ft. Stuart Andrews

  Sep 17, 202655 min

  How can organizations build leadership capability that lasts beyond a workshop or coaching session? Dr. RK Prasad , CEO and Co-founder of CommLab India, speaks with executive coach Stuart Andrews about leadership development, psychological safety, emotional intelligence, and Capability Architecture.Discover how alignment, execution, capability pathways, and cultural reinforcement can help organizations develop leaders at every level and make leadership learning stick through change and AI adoption.

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  How to Choose the Right Learning Partner for Scale and Speed ft. Stuart Moriens

  Sep 10, 202654 min

  When L&D teams need more capacity, the right learning partner can be the difference between hitting deadlines and constantly firefighting. But how do you decide what to outsource, which capabilities actually matter, and when a specialized partner makes more sense than building everything in‑house?In this episode of the eLearning Champion Podcast, Dr. RK Prasad , CEO of CommLab India, sits down with Stuart Moriens, a learning professional with around 25 years of experience in eLearning and digital learning. If you’re an L&D leader, training manager, instructional designer, or business owner trying to build learning capacity while keeping strong review and governance, this conversation gives you a clear, practical framework to choose and work with the right learning partner.

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  Episode #2

  Execution Capacity: The Truth Nobody Budgets For | Episode 2: Why Your Training Backlog Is a Business Risk, Not an L&D Problem

  Aug 21, 202618 minS1

  Learning debt is the gap between what your workforce actually needs to know and what it's actually been trained for — and like technical debt, it compounds until it surfaces as a lost deal, a compliance failure, or a bad hire. Employees who fall behind on skill development are nearly 6x more likely to repeat preventable mistakes than those who keep up, and 62% resort to workarounds when training doesn't reach them in time.In this episode of Execution Capacity, the Truth Nobody Budgets For, Sushmitha Kolagani of CommLab India explains why learning debt is a business risk, not an L&D problem, and what it takes for a functional leader to fix it before it becomes one.What you'll learn:1. What is learning debt? It's the training equivalent of technical debt — the gap between what employees need to know and what they've actually been trained for.2. What does learning debt cost by function? Real numbers for Sales (up to $5M in lost quota attainment for a 100-person team), Compliance (fines, remediation, audit findings), HR (turnover costing half to double an employee's salary), and Marketing (lost deals and eroded trust).3. How does learning debt accumulate without anyone noticing? Four patterns — content drift, coverage gaps, velocity mismatch, and measurement blindness — let a "green" completion dashboard hide a real problem.4. Who should own the fix for learning debt? Not L&D alone. A real financial services case shows what changes when a functional leader sponsors the fix instead of delegating it.

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  Episode #1

  Execution Capacity: The Truth Nobody Budgets For | Ep 1: We Have More Learning Work Than We Can Execute

  Aug 17, 202620 minS1

  41% of employees say their role changed faster than their company could train them for it. That's not a training gap — it's an execution gap, and most organizations are living it without knowing what to call it.In this opening episode, Sushmitha Kolagani introduces the idea of learning execution capacity, the ability to actually turn learning priorities into finished, governed training that reaches people on time, at scale. You'll learn: What learning execution capacity really means, and why most L&D teams are quietly struggling with it under a different name Why the real gap isn't strategy, but the space between the roadmap and what actually gets built and delivered How this shows up differently depending on the function you lead — Sales, Compliance, HR, and beyond Five questions to ask your own function this week to find out exactly where your execution ceiling is.

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