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The Learning Evolution Podcast

The Learning Evolution Podcast

By The Learning Evolution Podcast

The way that we learn, teach, and train must evolve.

We must keep and enhance what is and has worked, while discarding the things that do not.

This podcast will allow you to get better at making other people better. We will be talking to people who are at the forefront of future-focused learning and providing actionable frameworks that you can implement at your business or in your life to develop others to perform better.
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60: Fostering Training & Development in a Remote Work Environment - Bonus Episode of Distant Job Podcast

60: Fostering Training & Development in a Remote Work Environment - Bonus Episode of Distant Job Podcast

Bonus Episode

For our first episode of 2023, we are offering a bonus episode form my interview on the Distant Job Podcast.

Enjoy this opportunity to hear Adam switch from interviewer to interviewee.

The Distant Job Podcast features interviews with people who are experts in remote work and management.

You can find the Distant Job Podcast on all podcast players, and their show archive can be found online: https://distantjob.com/blog/podcasts/

Our first year producing The Learning Evolution Podcast has come to an end.

Thank you to all who listened, interacted, provided feedback, and shared the show.

On this episode, we discussed:

  • The gaps with most modern education and learning
  • How to make remote training effective
  • Performance and development as a new way of education
  • Strategies to make trainings in the workplace more effective
  • Why mentors bring a lot of value to the workplace
  • Tips to make engaging webinar

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Podcast introduction music used with full permission from Anthai the Protagonist and PenSwift, 7 1 Raw records from the album Quintessentials vol. 1 - The Original Intent ft. PenSwift.

Jan 09, 202349:19
59: Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2022
Dec 22, 202217:56
58: JD Dillon on Creating a Modern Learning Ecosystem (Interview Part II)
Dec 14, 202239:19
57: JD Dillon on Focusing on the Frontline & Learning in the Workflow (Interview Part I)
Dec 12, 202247:13
56: Dr. Barbara Covarrubias Venegas on Delivering Engaging and Impactful Virtual Training
Dec 05, 202246:35
55: Hannah Frankman on Fixing Childhood Education to Prepare Kids for Life
Nov 28, 202201:00:42
54: Dan Gallagher on Leveraging Systems Thinking & Behavioral Economics to Drive Employee Performance
Nov 21, 202201:02:19
53: Jerome Myers on Exiting the Matrix and Maximizing Fulfillment
Nov 14, 202246:31
52: Joe Dunlap on Learning Without Classrooms
Nov 07, 202253:04
51: Kate Tonda on Navigating Bureaucracy to Deliver Effective Learning Solutions
Oct 31, 202257:29
50: Welcome to The Learning Evolution Podcast
Oct 27, 202221:32
49:Matt Smith on Delivering Realistic Training that Drives Results
Oct 24, 202253:38
48: It’s Time For L&D Teams to Prove Their Worth
Oct 20, 202223:49
47: Heidi Kirby on How to Transition into an L&D Career & Drive Impact
Oct 17, 202252:59
46: Five Unconventional Skills That Training Teams Need to Drive Impact
Oct 13, 202229:10
45: Katja Schipperheijn on Creating Lean and Tech-Driven Learning Ecosystems

45: Katja Schipperheijn on Creating Lean and Tech-Driven Learning Ecosystems

Katja Schipperheijn is an internationally recognized learning strategist, consultant, author, guest lecturer and keynote speaker on innovation to support learning and knowledge sharing. Her area of expertise focuses on the symbiosis between humans and machines to achieve sustainable growth with attention to engagement and well-being.

From her experience with multinationals, learning institutions and start-ups, Katja launched a non for profit organization in 2017 to support children and young people with the challenges of digital citizenship and the competences that go with it. More than 15,000 children participated in these workshops. This was also the inspiration for the first book 'Digitale Burgertjes' (Little Digital Citizens) published in Dutch in 2018 to support educators and parents in guiding children in an increasingly virtual world.

Based on her experience with organizations and her work with children, Katja published the book 'The LearnScape, Learning as Oxygen for the Nimble Organisation' also in Dutch in 2021. In this book, she focused on the symbiosis of humans and machines to enable organizations to achieve sustainable growth from human talent and to support the expectations of the future of work.

On this episode we discussed:

  • How Technology can impact how we learn and train others
  • The future of work and what companies and workers need to do to be successful in it
  • What we can implement from how children learn
  • How to be a lifelong learner in the rapidly evolving future

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Oct 10, 202258:04
44: Why Aren’t Training Professionals Getting Enough Development?
Oct 06, 202230:24
43: Sharon Koifman on Surviving & Thriving in a Remote Work Future
Oct 03, 202201:03:16
42: Trainer Roles Part 4 - Roll with It
Sep 29, 202222:18
41: Harris Fanaroff on Optimizing Onboarding so Your New Hires Show Up and Stay
Sep 26, 202243:04
40: Trainer Roles Part 3 - Be Engaging
Sep 22, 202229:30
39: Matt Dicks on Maximizing Productivity and How Everybody Can Get Better at Storytelling

39: Matt Dicks on Maximizing Productivity and How Everybody Can Get Better at Storytelling

Matt Dicks is a man of many talents.

56 time Moth StorySLAM Champion and 9 time grand champion, Matt is an expert on storytelling. He even wrote a book on it, called Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling.

Matt is also the internationally bestselling author of a number of fiction and nonfiction titles, which have been translated into 25 languages worldwide.

In addition, Matt has authored a rock opera, several musicals, and comic books. He is a columnist for multiple magazines and has been published in many more.

In his day job, Matt has been an elementary school teacher for more than 25 years. He also works as a marketing and storytelling consultant, a speaking coach, a blogger, a wedding DJ, a minister, and is the Lord of Sealand. Matt works with many business organizations and has taught at a variety of higher education establishments.

Somehow, Matt has managed to do all this, while also raising two children with his wife Elysha - who he runs a podcast with - called Speak Up Storytelling. (He has a second podcast too).

How does Matt manage so many activities and remain so productive in his life? He has developed a system of simple and actionable ways to manage time and propel his creativity. His new book - Someday is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life - shares these techniques.

On this episode, Matt and I discuss:

  • His recommendations for how you can maximize your time
  • How you can think like your future 100 year old self will to help you prioritize your time
  • Why "Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good" is a poor life philosophy
  • What the most important element of a story is
  • How anybody can create effective stories from their day to day life, no matter how normal or mundane

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Sep 19, 202201:02:13
38: Trainer Roles Part 2 - Make It Real & Relevant
Sep 15, 202229:32
37: L&D Real Talk with Matt Bibby
Sep 12, 202256:31
36: Trainer Roles Part 1 - Be a Good Host

36: Trainer Roles Part 1 - Be a Good Host

This episode is the first of a series. Anybody who leads learning sessions - whether a business leader, a subject matter expert, or someone in a formal L&D role - has multiple roles that they must fill. Over the coming weeks, we are going to highlight each of these roles and provide actionable tips to deliver when in each role. The first role that everyone who leads learning sessions must fulfill is to host the participants. Must like somebody hosting people at an event at their house, when hosting a learning session the gaol is to help people to feel welcome and comfortable so that they are able to learn and perform better afterwards. On this episode we discuss: How being a good host can ensure that participants' base needs are met Setting up the location Making people comfortable Treating your guests as adults Ensuring your guests enjoy their stay Connect with Adam: Twitter LinkedIn Apex Performance Group We'd love to hear from you about what you are liking, and what you want to hear more of. Connect and engage on socials or send us a message through the website.
Sep 08, 202228:00
35: Dr. Kuva Jacobs and Charles Masuku on Balancing Science-Backed Learning Methods and Performance Impact

35: Dr. Kuva Jacobs and Charles Masuku on Balancing Science-Backed Learning Methods and Performance Impact

This episode features Apex Mind's first two-guest interview!

We are pleased to welcome to the show Dr. Kuva Jacobs and Charles Masuku. Dr. Jacobs has worked for years provided evidence-based instructional design in a variety of industries and verticals. Charles has leveraged his extensive sales and marketing background to deliver performance impacting learning solutions.

They have recently partnered together to found Emergent Learning - a learning consulting firm that combines Dr. Jacobs' background in evidence-based learning design and Charles' experience with creating performance impact.

On this episode we discuss:

  • L&D myth busting
  • How L&D professionals can get better at sales and marketing
  • The proprietary EMERGE model and how it combines sound learning science and a performance focus

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Sep 05, 202245:51
34: How you Can Influence Senior Leaders to Avoid Being an Order Taker and Gain Buy-In for Your Learning Solutions
Sep 01, 202230:59
33: Pat Michaels on Driving Consistent & Effective Training with Participant & Leader Guides
Aug 29, 202250:14
32: Linda Reynolds on Transforming Aviation Training from Boring Box Checking to Involved and Problem-Centered
Aug 22, 202250:12
31: Joshua Remerowski on Driving Performance Through L&D Leadership
Aug 15, 202253:43
30: The Story of the Crying CEO
Aug 11, 202224:35
29: Fred Baker on Project Management in L&D
Aug 08, 202252:19
28: Liz Reveles on High Impact Leadership Development
Aug 01, 202232:18
27: Learning Quickly in an Ever-Changing World

27: Learning Quickly in an Ever-Changing World

On this episode, we  look at how the skill of learning effectively and efficiently is necessarily in today’s world. 

This episode will provide you with a 4-step model to learn just about anything as quickly as possible.

We also explore a Business Insider article that features the Microsoft CEO promoting being a learn-it-all.

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Jul 28, 202219:14
26: Guy Wallace on supporting business performance and building support systems
Jul 25, 202249:52
25: Yu-kai Chou - Using Core Drives and Octalysis Gamification to Motivate Behavior

25: Yu-kai Chou - Using Core Drives and Octalysis Gamification to Motivate Behavior

Yu-kai Chou is an Author and International Keynote Speaker on Gamification and Behavioral Design. 

He is the Founding Partner and Chief Creation Officer of the premium consulting/design firm The Octalysis Group, as well as Co-Founder and Chief Experience of Metablox – an NFT platform powered by Real World Places and Real Life Memories.

Yu-kai is the Original Creator of the Octalysis Framework, and the author of Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards

Yu-kai has been a regular speaker/lecturer on gamification and motivation worldwide, including at organizations like Stanford/Yale/Oxford, Google, Tesla, IDEO LEGO, BCG, the governments of UK, Singapore, Kingdom of Bahrain, and many more. 

His design work has empowered over 1 Billion users’ experiences across the world.

You can find Yu-kai at:

https://yukaichou.com/

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Jul 18, 202255:42
24: We Live in the Greatest Time in Human History
Jul 12, 202227:09
23: Jason Klietz on Accountability and the Journey to Make Yourself Better
Jul 08, 202236:26
22: Don’t Motivate Your Employees. Ensure That They Thrive.
Jul 06, 202223:59
21: The Economy is Slowing. What You Should Do To Thrive.

21: The Economy is Slowing. What You Should Do To Thrive.

***Oops, I did it again - We continue to have technical issues with the video. We will be adding video soon once we sort this out, but I did not want to hold this episode back any longer. Despite what is mentioned during the episode, this is audio only***

Episode 21

The Economy is slowing and we are likely heading for a recession.

Many large tech companies have already been laying off staff.

Your company may be tightening budgets or reducing staff.

Times like this can be scary, but there are opportunities.

On this episode, we discuss:

  • Proving your value to your company leadership
  • Doing more with less when budgets and resources are reduced
  • What to do if you are impacted by job cuts

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Jun 28, 202234:28
20: How to Support and Develop Your Top Performers
Jun 14, 202226:26
19: How Better Training Can Address The Great Resignation
May 16, 202231:22
18: What At-Work Training Can Learn From Video Games
May 04, 202236:21
17: Influence is a Super Power

17: Influence is a Super Power

This episode is all about influence. 

The best ways to have more influence. 

How to change minds. 

How to have more of an effect on others without the use of force. 

This is an invaluable skill for anybody that is trying to develop others, for making a difference with people who don’t report to you (or may be a higher position), or when you have to change minds.

First, we look at an article from Arthur Brooks in the Atlantic entitled A Gentler, Better Way to Change Minds. This article presents a 3-step process to approach extreme disagreements, whether they be socio-political disagreements or challenges with other people or teams in the workplace.

After that, we dive into six influence principles from the definitive book on the subject - Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Chialdiani. These six principles will help you to get people to do what you want them to do, without force or coercion.

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Apr 28, 202237:47
16: The Number One Reason Why People Don't Learn
Apr 08, 202240:17
15: I've Solved the Return to Work Debate
Mar 21, 202233:56
14: College Enrollment Decreasing, Google Offers Tech Certifications, Increase in Trades, How to Learn Anything

14: College Enrollment Decreasing, Google Offers Tech Certifications, Increase in Trades, How to Learn Anything

This is a packed episode folks.

Today we look at some recent news and tie it together by sharing a technique to learn anything.

First, we see why College enrollment has been decreasing.

This is a trend that has been happening for several years and there are multiple reasons why.

Next, we look at the Highest Paying Tech Certifications and the Google Cloud Certifications that are an option that are cheaper and faster than a college degree.

Is this a solution that more companies will adopt? Can this truly be an alternative to a 4-year college degree program?

Then, we analyze why there has been an Increase in trades.

This is absolutely a good thing. We need people in these trade positions to support any functioning society and these types of jobs were shunned for too long.

Last, we look at the Feynman technique.

Richard Feynman was a Nobel Prize winning physicist, who was considered the father of quantum computing. He taught at both Cornell and Cal Tech, so he knew a thing or two about learning and teaching complex subjects.

His 4-step technique to learn anything was to:

  1. Choose a concept and do your research
  2. Teach someone else
  3. Learn more focusing on your gaps
  4. Simplify to be able to explain to a child.
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Mar 07, 202231:11
13: The Biggest Mistakes Companies Make When Onboarding

13: The Biggest Mistakes Companies Make When Onboarding

20% of new hires leave within the first forty-five days of employment.
Onboarding new employees into your business can be time consuming, it can affect your company's performance, and it can be a waste of time.
These are some common gaps that many businesses make when onboarding their people:

Onboarding is a one-and-done event
Inadequate prior planning was done
The information is not easy to absorb or access

This episode will help you address these gaps if they exist at your business.
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Feb 25, 202227:51
12: Does Your Company Need a Training Team?
Feb 21, 202226:42
11: Use Slack, Teams or WebEx to Train and Support Your Workforce
Feb 18, 202228:28