Elevate 21: Skills Development Elements - Goal Alignment

What’s new in learning and development in 2024? Whether we’re talking about what’s hot, or what concerns us, you might be forgiven for thinking that the answer can be expressed in two letters: AI. But things are more complex than that. Donald H Taylor, lead researcher, discusses key insights from the L&D Global Sentiment Survey 2024.

Hosted by Michelle Ockers 

Transcript and related resources: https://learninguncut.global/podcast/elevate-29/

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In this episode of Learning Uncut, Peter McKenzie from UnitingCare Queensland joins Michelle Ockers to discuss the First Nations Cultural Appreciation course. They dive into the process of creating the four-module eLearning program including the research, story gathering, design processes and stakeholder review. Furthermore, they discuss what aspects of the program have made it so successful including storytelling, graphic design and collaboration. Lastly, they talk through the challenges such as having to condense such a rich and complex history into understandable, digestible modules.

Host: Michelle Ockers

Transcript and related resources: https://learninguncut.global/podcast/141/

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Dr Anna Barnett and Gent Ahmetaj join Michelle Ockers to discuss the third of the 20th anniversary reports from the annual L&D benchmark research conducted by Mind Tools for Business. They discuss the key megatrends forecasted to reshape the future of L&D including AI, climate change and diversity. They explain how these trends were identified, potential impacts and key takeaways. This discussion provides insightful knowledge for L&D professionals on how they can shape business transformation.

Hosted by Michelle Ockers 

Transcript and related resources: https://learninguncut.global/podcast/elevate-28/ 

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In this episode, we dive deep into how Fletcher Building, one of New Zealand's largest employers, has created a significant shift in safety culture and outcomes. Anthony Mitchell, an EHS Manager from Fletcher Building, and Heidi Lance from Real Learning share the story of how their award-winning Safety Leadership program dramatically shifted the belief that all accidents are preventable. Two key aspects we dive into are storytelling and leader-led learning.

Host: Michelle Ockers

Transcript and related resources:  https://learninguncut.global/podcast/140/

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Gent Ahmetaj and Dr Anna Barnett join Michelle Ockers to discuss a the 20th anniversary reports from the annual L&D benchmark research conducted by Mind Tools for Business. They discuss the key findings from analysing this year's benchmark data, particularly focusing on the importance of strategic business alignment for high-performing L&D teams. They explain how their network analysis uncovered this insight and share examples from the data. The discussion provides useful perspectives for L&D professionals on analysing data, connecting learning to business priorities, and continually improving practices.

Host: Michelle Ockers 

Transcript and related resources: https://learninguncut.global/podcast/elevate-27/ 

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There is a shift underway in workplace behaviour in the Australian construction industry to create a more welcoming, respectful and inclusive culture. Multiplex has embraced this change with their award-winning Appropriate Workplace Behaviour program. Karina Moon and Annaleigh McKay discuss the program which aims to equip employees with the knowledge to identify appropriate versus inappropriate behaviour, and confidence to speak up, encouraging them to be ‘upstanders’ rather than ‘bystanders’.

Host: Michelle Ockers

Transcript and related resources: https://learninguncut.global/podcast/139/ 

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Strategic and business alignment is a key practice for top-performing L&D teams. Creating an organisational learning strategy is an opportunity to focus intensively on alignment, deepening stakeholder relationships and getting clarity on what matters most to them. Putting a learning strategy and action plan in place that aligns with these priorities increases the impact of learning and the credibility and influence of L&D in your organisation. The L&D Strategy Accelerator is a six-month expert guided process to co-design your strategy and prepare plans to implement and sustain it, supported with Learning Uncut’s licensed Strategy Builder workbook and toolkit. Listen to this episode and/or use the link below for more information on the L&D Strategy Accelerator.

Presented by Michelle Ockers 

Transcript and related resources: https://learninguncut.global/podcast/elevate-26/ 

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Are you moving into a new organisation in an L&D Leader role? Set yourself up for success with this special Learning Uncut Playbook. Drawing upon the experience of past Learning Uncut podcast guests, we’ve identified a number of aspects to focus on in your first 90 days to establish and position yourself in your organisation to have strong influence, business connection and impact. We’ve added an introductory discussion with Nigel Paine on navigating organisational politics, and round out with relevant findings on taking bold action while building your personal safety net from our Emergent series.

Thank you to Sagar Nair for his support to analyse past episodes and help select the themes and extracts to include in this Playbook.

Host: Michelle Ockers

Transcript and related resources: https://learninguncut.global/podcast/138/ 

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Continuing their series on skills development, Ravina Bhatia and Michelle Ockers walk through a real world case study from a mid-sized Australian Retail Bank to showcase the application of Learning Uncut’s three stage process for skills development. This example highlights how the context of the team/organisation influences skills development and details the level of impact that the approach had. It brings to life the principles, elements and process for skills bulding covered in previous episodes in this series.

This is the seventh – and final – episode in our current Learning Uncut Elevate series on Skills Development.