The Learning Xchange
The Learning Xchange focuses on the ever-changing landscape of online learning and talent management. It is a place where L&D and HR practitioners and leaders can enjoy an “Xchange” of ideas, explore innovations in learning, and gain insights from others who share the same profession on how we can improve and influence the future of learning and development.
Episodes
70 episodes
Fostering Diversity Within Your Personal Network
How often do you explore ideas outside your learning community, your industry, or even your organization? There’s this notion that stepping out of these confines is unnecessary because what’s out there is too different. But as Matt...
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Episode 69
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11:45
Addressing and Tackling Trauma in the Workplace
How equipped is your general employee population to navigate and handle trauma in the workplace? Now, that’s a question that’s getting increasingly impossible to overlook in modern workplaces.The impact of unresolved workplac...
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Episode 68
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17:53
Digital Body Language in 2022
The L&D landscape is constantly changing.The pandemic caused a drastic shift in the way many of us work. For that reason, we can’t carry on adhering to the same principles and ideas we’ve always believed to be true.Body langua...
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Episode 67
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15:31
Building Effective Mental Health Support in the Workplace
We all let things get on top of us once in a while. But how do we know when our struggles become genuine mental health concerns? And how can we build effective support systems for this in our workplaces?In this episode of The Learning Xc...
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Episode 66
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18:02
The Concept of Redefining Roles in The Workplace
Guess what? The world is still changing and at this pace, it’s pretty clear that there are more sudden changes we need to embrace. But to bring things better into focus in the workplace, there’s been a pressing need to redefine role...
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Episode 65
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20:02
Inclusivity and Designing Learning Content for Cognitive Bias
What’s your intent when creating content for your learners? Is it to tick off a few learning objectives or to ensure your learners really understand, comprehend, and apply that knowledge to the job? To improve knowledge ...
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Episode 64
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15:12
The Importance of Evaluating Systems Implemented for Learning
How often do you revisit business and learning systems to check if they still align with your organization’s goals?In most cases, not nearly as often as necessary.While that’s understandable, it could potentially cause a unique se...
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Episode 63
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12:04
How Coaching Facilitates the Learning Process
What role does coaching have in your learning strategy today?In most cases, we get caught up in the intricacies of delivering training that coaching blends into the background. Or it’s simply mistaken for training.In t...
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Episode 62
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9:19
Fostering Flexibility and Adaptability Within the Workplace and Beyond
How do you ensure that your workforce is ready for change?There’s often a lot of talk about how to navigate deploying new technology, introducing new talent, or other innovative ways to keep up with the times.But it’s important to...
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Episode 61
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17:07
5 L&D Trends to Watch Out For in 2022
What’s new in the world of learning and development? The space is changing. Learners now have different expectations about training content, so we must rethink how training is delivered.Matthew Brown, Schoox’s Chief People &a...
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Episode 60
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15:51
How to Drive Changes in Training and Overcome Objections
How many times do you or your team face objections when attempting to change training and development? Perhaps you’ve been asked to design training that you know just won’t work.Often, customers or business partners bring requests to the...
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Episode 59
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10:57
Managing Personas in a Virtual Training Environment
It’s fair to say that virtual training is here to stay. Now that it’s become the new normal, it’s vital to learn how to manage participants while keeping them engaged. One way to do that is to hone in on the differen...
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Episode 58
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19:46
Why We Should Rethink the Way We Learn
How do you learn? You could ask a hundred people that question, and each one could give a totally different answer. Many wouldn’t even know what to say. The truth is that everyone learns in different ways, and yet school...
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Episode 57
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11:07
Building Learning Engagement in a Post-Pandemic World
Without a doubt, the nature of the workforce has changed drastically over the past couple of years. And with that has come an overhaul of ideas, concepts, and methodologies that simply don’t fit the bill anymore.At the top of that list i...
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Episode 56
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8:34
The Importance of Trust-Building in the Workplace
When was the last time you really stopped to think about the concept of trust in your workplace?If you think about it, on one side, the workplace is where it all starts. It’s your home base. When seeds of distrust are scattered, it’s bou...
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Episode 55
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6:02
How L&D Professionals Can Improve the Employee Experience
What can employers do to improve the employee experience and create positive changes? In the last couple of years, one thing has become crystal clear. Nothing stays still for very long. The speed of change we’ve all experienced ove...
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Episode 54
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9:04
How to Rethink Career Mobility
What are you doing to take control of your own career? How about your employees? How we navigate our career journey depends on many factors, but it all starts with how much control we believe we have over it.In this episode o...
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Episode 53
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11:46
Why We Need More Self-Awareness in the Workplace
Far too often, people find themselves struggling to connect with other people in the workplace. Sometimes it’s a case of a personality mismatch. Other times it can be a difference in communication styles. Whatever the reason, this i...
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Episode 52
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8:56
How to Help Neurodiverse People in Training and the Workplace
The learners’ needs are at the heart of any training program’s success. Part of the role of learning and development is to develop training that sticks and that learners can digest.However, not all learners are the same. Everyone has var...
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Episode 51
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10:27
Vulnerability, Authenticity, and Partnership in the Employee Experience
Vulnerability, authenticity, and a partnership mindset are crucial elements of the employee experience. Yet, many organizations overlook them. Showing vulnerability in the workplace is not a priority when other important things like...
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Episode 50
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13:27
Why L&D Professionals Should Prioritize Personal Development
When did you last make time for personal development?Learning and development professionals work tirelessly to help others develop themselves, but what about their own development? L&D is a somewhat one-sided relationship...
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Episode 49
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10:07
Why We Need to Embed Empathy Within Training
Is there enough empathy in the workplace? What about within your training sessions?Over the past 18 months, empathy has been crucial to holding workplaces together. As learning and development professionals, we often lead with empathy du...
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Episode 48
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10:45
How to Prioritize Psychological Safety in the Workplace
Do employees at your workplace feel comfortable sharing new ideas and worries?It’s important that all people in an organization feel confident to share their ideas and thoughts without fear of repercussions. Not all workplaces are open, ...
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Episode 47
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22:00
What We Need to Relearn About In-Person Events
When was the last time you attended an in-person event? For many, it’s been months or even over a year. As people head back to the office and from virtual to in-person events again, a degree of relearning is in order. For the past 1...
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Episode 46
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18:10
Why the Smallest Gestures Can Have the Greatest Impact
Sometimes in work and life, we forget about the simplest of things. In the age of COVID and all the stress that comes with it, we need to remember not to neglect the little things.In a fast-paced, modern world, sometimes it pays to just ...
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Episode 45
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8:03