The Mindtools L&D Podcast

The Mindtools L&D Podcast is a must-listen for anyone involved in Learning and Development or Human Resources. The weekly show features regular appearances from the Mind Tools team plus special guests to get right to the heart of issues affecting the L&D and HR communities. From learning needs analysis and evidence-based practice through to the impact of technology on work and hot topics at industry conferences, you'll get critical insights into the world of work, performance and learning.

The Mindtools L&D Podcast is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 516 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts The Mindtools L&D Podcast, a business show with 516 episodes published.

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  Episode #512

  512 — Learner enthusiasm, AI tutors, and a neuromyth that won't die

  Sep 8, 202644 min

  What research papers did you read while lounging by the pool this summer? In this week's episode of The Mindtools L&D Podcast , Ross D is joined by Claire and Dr Anna to review three studies that have caught our attention over the last few months. Anna's pick was Vestner and colleagues' 'A dyadic training to promote technology-related learning and development among age-diverse employees: the power of co-workers' enthusiasm' , published in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology . Claire brought Kestin and colleagues' 'AI tutoring outperforms in-class active learning: an RCT introducing a novel research-based design in an authentic educational setting' , the Harvard study comparing an AI tutor with in-person active learning. Ross referenced Will Thalheimer's LinkedIn article 'The Learning Styles Challenge After 20 Years' , and Clinton-Lisell and Litzinger's 'Is It Really a Neuromyth? A Meta-Analysis of the Learning Styles Matching Hypothesis' . For more from Mindtools Kineo, visit our website mindtools-kineo.com. There, you'll find out how we can help your organization build AI skills, and how our Skills Practice scenarios help build human skills. Connect with our speakers If you'd like to share your thoughts on this episode, connect with us on LinkedIn: Ross Dickie Claire Gibson Anna Barnett

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  Episode #511

  511 — L&D at scale: How do you support 750,000 people?

  Sep 1, 202640 min

  Training one person is hard. Training 750,000 people, in more than 80 countries, spread across frontline shifts, event security and executive teams, is a different problem entirely. In this week's episode of The Mindtools L&D Podcast , Ross G and Claire Gibson are joined by Brent O'Bryan, Senior Vice President of Global Training and Talent Development at Allied Universal, to explore what L&D looks like at genuinely massive scale. We discuss: Why 750,000 employees are never one audience How to choose between the LMS, the classroom and virtual training The role of AI and automation in training frontline workers at scale. Brent and Ross G first got talking about this after Brent shared The Josh Bersin Company's research on dynamic enablement. You can read the executive summary of The Definitive Guide to Corporate Learning: From Static Training to Dynamic Enablement on the Josh Bersin site. In 'What I Learned this Week', Claire shared the world's smallest Fringe venue , a chicken coop in the Pear Tree garden in Edinburgh. Brent recommended The Surprising Power of Reflection , an episode of Trevor Ragan's The Learner Lab podcast, on why reflecting after learning can beat a second round of practice. Ross G shared Garner interference , a cognitive science effect named after Wendell Garner, in which irrelevant information slows people down. For more from Mindtools Kineo, visit our new website mindtools-kineo.com . There, you'll find out how we can help your organization build AI skills, and how our Skills Practice scenarios help build human skills. Connect with our spearkers If you'd like to share your thoughts on this episode, connect with us on LinkedIn: Ross Garner Claire Gibson Brent O'Bryan

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  Episode #510

  510 — You don't have to talk to add value (Rebroadcast)

  Aug 25, 202638 min

  We've been talking a lot about AI on the podcast recently. So this week, we're revisting a distinctly human episode from 2024 on the value of listening. As experts, managers or leaders, we often seek to help others by talking, talking, talking. But what if we didn't talk and just listened? In this episode , Ross D and Gemma are joined by Georgie Rudd, an executive coach, to discuss the trials and delights of listening. We explore: reasons that we don't listen well t he consequences of not listening (and of listening!) how we can improve listening skills. Georgie recommended Nancy Klein as an expert on listening and techniques to improve. Time to think is a good place to start. You can find out more about Liz Wiseman's concepts of multipliers and diminishers in her book Multipliers . In 'What I Learned This Week', Gemma spoke about the widest fairy ring in the world. John Wright reports that it's around 800m across in A spotter's guide to countryside mysteries , but a quick internet search revealed this to be a questionable fact. For more from Mindtools Kineo, visit our website mindtools-kineo.com . There, you'll find out how we can help your organization build AI skills, and how our Skills Practice scenarios help build human skills. Connect with our speakers If you'd like to share your thoughts on this episode, connect with our speakers on LinkedIn: Gemma Towersey Ross Dickie Georgie Rudd Georgie can also be contacted via her website: https://www.ruddcoaching.co.uk/

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  Episode #509

  509 — What are L&D teams really doing with AI?

  Aug 18, 202640 min

  Every L&D team thinks everyone else has AI figured out. Almost nobody does. Ross G recently ran structured interviews with 12 Mindtools Kineo customers, spanning tech, financial services, pharmaceuticals, energy, media and more, to find out what's really happening on the ground. In this week's episode, Ross D and Cammy Bean join Ross G to discuss his findings. We cover: Why every L&D team believes it is falling behind Where teams are continuing to invest at a time when budgets are constrained Why AI ambition keeps stalling at the governance stage During the episode, Cammy referenced a LinkedIn post titled 'L&D Overboard' by Srishti Sehgal. In 'What I Learned This Week', Cammy shared the history of Nix's Mate , a shrinking island in Boston Harbor where convicted pirates were hanged and left on display as a warning to passing sailors. Ross G recommended The Rest Is History 's interview with Paul McCartney . And Ross D recommended The West Wing Weekly 's 'Political Film Fest' review of All the President's Men . For more from Mindtools Kineo, visit our website mindtools-kineo.com . There, you'll find out how we can help your organization build AI skills, and how our Skills Practice scenarios help build human skills. Connect with our speakers If you'd like to share your thoughts on this episode, connect with us on LinkedIn: Ross Dickie Ross Garner Cammy Bean

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  Episode #508

  508 — What will compliance training look like in the age of AI?

  Aug 11, 202644 min

  Outside of L&D, most people and organizations see compliance training as a box that needs to be ticked, not something that can drive behavior change. Will AI make this problem better or worse? In this week's episode, Ross D and Cammy are joined by learning designer Anisha Sridhar to explore what AI is really doing to compliance training. We discussed: why the productivity argument for AI is incomplete contextualization, and why it beats personalization in compliance how to keep slop out of your learning content. During the episode, Anisha described using the Gunning Fog index to test whether legal text is actually readable. And Cammy brought up Bret Stephens' New York Times opinion piece, I'm Begging You: Never Write With A.I. , which argues that giving up the writing means giving up the thinking. For more from Mindtools Kineo, visit our website mindtools-kineo.com . There, you'll find out how we can help your organization build AI skills, and how our Skills Practice scenarios help build human skills. Connect with our speakers If you'd like to share your thoughts on this episode, connect with us on LinkedIn: Ross Dickie Cammy Bean Anisha Sridhar

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