The Learning Brief #3 🧠
A by-weekly inside scoop on all the hottest events, juicy discussions, and oh-so-many other exciting things happening in our dynamic L&D community. 🧡
Hello Shaker,
Can you believe we're already through the first quarter of the year? How have things been going for you so far? Care to share?
Let’s deep dive to explore exciting events lined up for you, catch recordings of past events, take a look into the projects co-created, collect some resources to make your work more interesting and see the Shakers taking the stage.
Coming up next 🔎
🗓 Upcoming Events
Our next weeks’ event lineup is here! Join us for super practical, fun and interesting sessions.
Lisbon Local Hub | April 12th: Join Vanessa Sotano, Catrina Ferreiria and other Shakers based in Lisbon after work to meet other Shakers and discuss anything and everything about L&D.
Instructional Design Learning Cluster | April 14th: Join Tom McDowall along with Damla for an interesting session on how to adopt an evidence-informed approach while creating a learning experience for our learners. Get ready to learn some fantastic tips on how people learn.
Learning Cluster | April 18th: Join Valentina Riccardi to explore how to lay a foundation for building a memorable online session. Got an idea for your session? Mind you, the spots are already full but we have a waiting list. So hurry up and fill in your name on the waiting list if you want to learn some kick-ass tips to make your session engaging!
London Local Hub | April 18th: Join Sam Isaacson author, coach and facilitator as a guest speaker along with Lucie Coudret for an offline event happening in London to learn about the role of artificial intelligence in the coaching industry, based on his new book Two Truths and a Lie: Coaching with AI.
Leadership Learning Cluster | April 19th: Join David Wen and Michael Nicodemus along with Patricia Bittencourt and Or Perlman for an unwrapping leadership development session where they’ll share their hard-learned lessons on leadership development.
L&D Backstage | April 20th: Join Patrick Mullarkey along with Ana Silva to uncover and learn how the L&D team at Snyk helped the People team embed a new talent management process that encourages meaningful conversations between the employees and the managers.
Playground | April 25th: Join Daisy Hilbrands along with Angela Dionysopoulou to learn a recipe on how to facilitate verbal group interactions so that you can hear it from everyone in the room.
See you in sessions and don’t forget to bring an L&D friend! 🤗
🖇Community Project
🎧UNSCRIPTED is back with a new series- Brilliant Little Ideas with Anamaria Dorgo and Dinye Hernanda!
A mini podcast series celebrating the creativity and innovation that L&D Shakers are bringing into their work.
And the first guest of the series is- Srishti Sehgal. Srishti shared her “Learning Museums” idea—a creative way to measure learning progress, achievements, effort and competency. Tune into the chat to learn why “Learning Museums” are powerful tools that will make your learning visible, tangible and shareable.
📱Get ready to take your L&D game to the next level! We're thrilled to announce the launch of our new Slack channel: #3-ai-chatgpt. Shout-out to Toby Newman for thinking of starting a channel around AI and ChatGPT.
Join the channel to discover and learn how this powerful technology is revolutionizing the world of L&D. From chatbots to virtual assistants and beyond, the possibilities are endless. Share your insights, learn from others, and be part of the future of L&D.
Join us today and let's learn, grow, and innovate together!
💛ARTEFACT 500—a one-week community project aiming to explore the process of learning artefact creation just got over.
And our lovely Shakers created and shared some beautiful artefacts which are just a-mazing. You can see the lovely creations by the Shakers on this Miro board.
And if this inspires you, then you’re invited to create one thing that showcases your unique take on a specific skill, lesson or topic of your choosing.
This could be anything you want, but it has to teach something! It could be a postcard, poster, new tool, framework, activity, soundbite, or a poem.... the options are limitless!
📃 What got you to join L&D Shakers?
What could you learn from this community?
What would you like to learn from this community?
Stephan van de Ven and Anamaria Dorgo are curious to know so they can provide more value to you from this platform and keep on increasing the impact of the L&D Shakers in your L&D lives.
Fill out L&D Shakers Consensus 2023 and let them know about the value L&D Shakers can provide you in your L&D journey.
Cool stuff you don’t wanna miss out 🔥
🗓 Past Events
Got caught up with work and couldn’t make it to the session? We got you covered!
Here is the recording of the ThoughtLab with Lena Nasiakou on dealing with difficult participants, keeping the panel on track and managing silent audiences.
Watch it and make your next session smooth like butter!
🔥 Hottest Resources
This week’s gems to spice up your work are:
Create interactive, high quality and easy animations for your learning programs, eLearning and presentations using this free and open-source animation tool by LottieFilies.
A visual tool to keep everyone engaged and updated on the project planning by the team at Project Canvas.
This article on Learning Content Strategy Maturity Model written by Ross Stevenson from Filtered so that you can assess whether your content is creating chaos or an impact.
This article on Performance Management in hybrid teams by RedThread Research and the 3Cs that organisations need to focus on in a hybrid world.
This article on Co-Development talks about using co-development as a reflective training approach to solving the problems of the client. And, this template if you want to see how it works as a step-by-step visual process.
🌊 Brainwaves
This week’s topic is Onboarding Programs. Join the conversation on our LinkedIn and Slack groups and share what makes an onboarding program successful. Have you ever designed one? Then share your experience of creating it. Or if you were at the receiving end of a smooth onboarding process then share with the community what made the process smooth for you.
Some interesting thoughts already popping in on our Slack and LinkedIn groups!
Community Corner 🧡
🎤Shaker Stage
Let’s welcome Inês Carriço, WW Training Lead at Microsoft to take the Stage.
What was a pivotal moment in your career?
-The moment I decided to leave the company I'd been working for 14 years, take my chances and look for new challenges!
A podcast others should listen to
-L&D Talks. Although it's in Portuguese, it is organized by our wonderful L&D Shakers from Local Hub Lisbon, Vanessa Sotano & Catarina Ferreira.
Share a tool, method, or framework you find useful
-I love using Slido in my deliveries. It's similar to Kahoot!, although the free version offers a lot more features. Participants have a lot of fun, especially in quizzes. If you're curious, have a look at Slido.com.
What does being an L&D Shaker look and feel like for you?
-It's an amazing opportunity to meet people working with L&D and especially to learn new strategies, procedures, and tools from highly experienced people!
〜See you soon
Till then, keep spicing up your learning! 🧠🧂
Sejaal