Learning Rebels Podcast

Defining Instructional Design

It all starts with the BIG question: What is Instructional Design and what does it mean in today's ever-changing workplace?
 
Several years ago, I wrote a blog post titled "Instructional Design Isn't Dead." I suppose now, I could write a post about how "Instructional design isn't dead. It just has a new name".
 
But as Shakespeare said, "A rose by another name is still a rose." And this holds true for instructional design.
 
Today’s chat took us through a journey of what the role of instructional design should be and the importance of keeping business goals as our North Star. It’s critical we have the ability to communicate our value in business terms.
 
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Access to the “Defining Instructional Design” Miro Board here
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The science behind emotions and memory
Research Paper: Debunking Learning Styles (A Journal Of The Association For Psychological Science (n.d.). Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence)
 
 
Read these!
What I Wish I Knew Before Becoming an Instructional Designer by Luke Hobson
Hacking Instructional Design: 33 Extraordinary Ways to Create a Contemporary Curriculum by Micheal Fisher
Design Thinking for Training and Development: Creating Learning Journeys That Get Results by Laura Fletcher
Map It: The hands-on guide to strategic training design by Cathy Moore
 
 
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Host: Shannon Tipton 

Learning Rebels Live with Andrew Jacobs

Going LIVE with Andrew Jacobs!
 
It’s always nice to have Andrew Jacobs, owner of Llarn Learning Services, visit the Learning Rebels Coffee Chat and share his expertise in the L&D field. However, today I wanted to dig in a bit deeper to discover the back story behind his popular, “Women Talking About Learning” podcast.
 
Why this, Why now?
 
What were his thoughts behind being a man hosting a podcast about women in Learning? And how can we all do more to lift the voices of women everywhere?
 
In short, Andrew sees the underrepresentation of women in senior roles in the learning function and uses his podcast to amplify women’s voices as they tell their stories all while talking about Learning and Development.
 
Sit back and enjoy the ride.
 
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Subscribe to Andrew’s podcast here
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Visit Llarn Learning Services here
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Host: Shannon Tipton 

Shedding SMART Goals

It all started with a question: Why do SMART goals fail to work?
 
SMART goals may be good for project management, such as when you are trying to achieve a very specific goal for a very specific outcome. However, they fail us when trying to create larger goals for our personal and professional growth and development.
 
We need to dig deeper.
 
Where's the stretch?
Where's the motivation?
Where's the flexibility?
 
Start with Big Hairy Audacious Goals
 
What are BHAG's?
 
BHAG (pronounced bee-hag) stands for Big Hairy Audacious Goals. The term was first coined in 1994 by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in their book "Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies."
 
The issue with SMART goals is that when written and followed explicitly, they are way too constrictive. When we fall outside the boundaries of the SMART goal, it all looks like failure. If you don't achieve the goal by the "date," does that mean you've failed? If you don't achieve the measurement, does that mean you've failed? That's a lot of failures to pile into one goal.
 
This Coffee Chat will help you to set yourself up for success and here are the resources to support you.
 
Download the Big Rock Planner here
How-to video: Completing the Big Rock Goal Sheet
Andrew Jacobs ABCDE Goal Setting Method
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Extras!
Forbes: SMART Goals, 5 Shocking Reasons why they may be dumb.
Asana: Do the Impossible with Big Hairy Audacious Goals
 
 
Read these!
How to Set Goals with Kaizen & Ikigai: Focus, Cure Procrastination, & Increase Personal Productivity
Goal Setting: Forget SMART Goals Try SMARTER Goals by Martin Formato
Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals by Michael Hyatt
How to Begin: Start Doing Something That Matters by Micheal Stanier
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Learning Rebels Live - JD Dillon

Have you ever wondered what the BLEEEEEP is a Learning Ecosystem? Well, JD Dillon wrote a book!
 
“The Modern Learning Ecosystem” is the brainchild of JD. And in this Learning Rebels LIVE, JD walks us through his journey to writing this, his love of all things “Back to the Future” and are L&D professionals really Batman in disguise.
 
Sit back and enjoy the ride.
 
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Buy the Book! https://amzn.to/3uCm2O6
 
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Cultivating Workplace Communities

It all starts with a question: How can we find, nurture and support organic workplace communities?
 
With the increasing adoption of workplace collaboration technology such as Microsoft Teams or Slack, there are more communities organically taking root in our organizations.
 
Today’s chat left us with a plethora of helpful information! The gardening puns & analogies were deep and fruitful (see what I did there?), so hopefully, you will begin to walk the digital hallways and find information to share.
 
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Download the Cultivating Workplace Communities here
Download Cigna Loneliness and the Workplace Report here
 
 
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Inspiring Self-Directed Learning

It all starts with a question: How can we inspire people to take ownership of their own professional development?
 
According to Malcolm Knowles, self-directed learning “describes a process by which individuals take the initiative, with or without the assistance of others, in diagnosing their learning needs, formulating learning goals, identifying human and material resources for learning, and evaluating learning outcomes.”
 
In Learning and Develop the case becomes, “You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink”.
 
However, you can add sugar to the water to make it tastier.
 
Meaning we can do things on our end to encourage and support those who want to dive in and begin the process of taking ownership of deepening the level of their knowledge.
 
So what can we do to encourage people to take more ownership? This is what we discussed today.
 
Together can we build a map to help people out?
To show where and how to start?
To help them link concepts together?
To learn how to learn?
 
 
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Resources:
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Self-Directed White Paper by SparkLearn
Self-Directed Learning a Cognitive Perspective: Research Paper
 
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The Secret Sauce Behind Successful Sales Training

It all starts with a question: How can we make training more effective for sales teams?
 
According to the Marketing Research Organization, ES Research, “between 85% and 90% of sales training has no lasting impact after 120 days. At the same time, companies are spending billions of dollars on sales training each year. That’s billions of dollars wasted on training that disappoints and only produces short-term boosts in sales”.
 
There’s nothing Sales Leaders hate more than wasted time and wasted money. So how can we move the needle on Sales Enablement?
 
It all starts with the mentality of “No fluff, no extra stuff!”
 
From there we must get creative to build energy, and be smart so that we aren’t creating disruption and frustration.
 
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Resources:
Read: The five things sales-growth winners do to invest in their people
Read this Report: The Difference Between Good and Bad Sales Training
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Sticky Learning: Creating Sustainable Learning After the Fact

Sticky Learning: Creating Sustainable Learning After the Fact
 
It starts with a question: What can we do to help learning stick?
 
We know that people are working at speeds not seen prior to the COVID19 pandemic. The way business operates has changed, therefore the way we work within businesses has changed. Ultimately this means in order to help learning gain traction means changing how we view developing and implementing training to include reinforcement learning after the fact.
 
But where do we start? Fortunately, the community had A LOT of thoughts.
 
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I encourage you to download the chat there were many actionable ideas included.
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Host: Shannon Tipton