TLB #25 🧠 Enhance training value: Dive into Jeanne's Checklist
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,
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On March 15th, this Friday, The Learning Brief will be celebrating its first birthday! 🎉 Can you believe it's been a whole year of amazing insights and learning? Let's celebrate this milestone with joy and gratitude! 🥳🎈
As part of our celebration, we invite you to describe The Learning Brief in just 3 words.
Here’s all that you’ll experience in today’s issue:
💡Learning Bites: Ultimate Intake Checklist for a Learning Activity
🗓️ Community Calendar: Be a part of events like Acts of Leadership and many more.
🖌️ Community Creations: Let’s welcome Shayaan Malik and Eikris Biala, and Daisy Hilbrands, Phoebe Taylor, Preeti Kumari and Brendan Rice as New Core Team Members to take the lead of L&D Shaker’s initiatives! Also thanks to Anamaria Dorgo, founder of Handle with Brain for sharing about her business in the Marketplace Journal.
🔖 Resource Reel: A collection of resources on Workshops, Design Thinking, Neuroscience and many more.
🎤 Shaker's Stage: This week’s stage is taken by Abigail Rakower.
Learning Bites 💡
Learning Bites: Ultimate Intake Checklist for a Learning Activity
This week, I delved into an episode titled "Ultimate intake checklist for a learning activity," where I discovered Jeanne's checklist for handling training requests. Here's a personalized take on my top takeaways and what this means for practice for us in the L&D community:
Top Takeaways:
Say goodbye to boring learning: Jeanne's checklist ensures that training sessions are engaging, and valuable, and add real value to the learners' experiences.
Stop prescribing before diagnosing: It's akin to being a doctor who listens intently before prescribing medication. By understanding the real needs, we effectively tailor our training to address specific skill gaps and performance challenges.
Educate by asking the right questions: Imagine being a guide who doesn't just give directions but opens up a whole map of possibilities for the curious traveller. Jeanne's checklist empowers us to educate stakeholders about diverse learning solutions, expanding their horizons.
What This Means for Practice:
Mindset Shift: Let's shift gears from merely delivering training to delivering impactful business outcomes. It's about moving from a "want vs. need" mindset and ensuring our efforts align with genuine learning needs.
Prevent Unserious Requests: Think of the checklist as a filter that sieves out the serious requests from the casual ones. By diving deep into current work situations, desired outcomes, and skills gaps, we ensure that our efforts are focused where they matter most.
Collaborative Approach: Picture a brainstorming session where everyone's ideas converge to create something amazing. Involving stakeholders in the checklist process fosters collaboration, alignment of expectations, and a shared vision of success.
Holistic Approach to Learning Design: Just like building a house requires a blueprint that considers every detail, our learning initiatives should be holistic. From identifying activity types to envisioning outcomes and involving managers, every step contributes to a well-rounded design.
Commitment to Success: Success doesn't happen by chance; it requires dedication. By committing ourselves to be actively involved in every stage of the learning journey, from design to evaluation, we ensure that our efforts translate into tangible results.
In essence, Jeanne's ultimate intake checklist isn't just a tool; it's our strategic compass guiding us towards impactful and meaningful learning experiences.
That’s all Shakers! Do you have a checklist or a unique approach that you use in your L&D practice? I would love to hear from you and exchange insights. Feel free to reach out to me, and let's have a chat about our experiences and strategies for creating effective learning experiences. 📝
Coming Up Next
Community Calendar 🗓️
Our next events lineup is here! Join us for super practical, fun and interesting sessions and meet other L&D buddies. Register for events using the link below!
Register for the events below! 👇
Community Creations 🖌️
🇦🇺 Our Shakers team has landed in Australia with a brand new Local Hub in Sydney, led by two incredible women: Shayaan Malik and Eikris Biala.
With their energy and passion, I'm sure the local L&D Shakers community in Sydney will flourish under their leadership!
If you're in Sydney or nearby, join them at #2-local-hub-sydney and be part of the excitement! But that's not all...
They're also planning online learning sessions for the APAC region, making our community more timezone-friendly!
Live Marketplace Journal is back with its sixth episode with Anamaria Dorgo, founder of Handle with Brain hosted by Valeriia Forostianova. Here's a sneak peek into their conversation:
Discovering the inspiration behind the company's unique name.
Insights into what Handle with Brain has in store for us.
An exciting birthday dream for this year.
Valuable advice for our community.
Let's give a round of applause to our new "Coaching for L&D" Project Team!
Leading the charge as Project Manager is Daisy Hilbrands, and joining her are Phoebe Taylor, and Preeti Kumari. And let's not forget Brendan Rice our project veteran of two years!
A huge shout-out and thank you to Andreea Nate, Lucie Coudret, and Serhat Bilge for their dedicated contributions in previous editions. Thanks to them, we've impacted hundreds of Shakers and raised over 2,000£ for a noble cause.
The 7th edition kicks off on May 1st, with a call for Coaches coming soon. Stay tuned if you're ready to contribute to this meaningful cause!
Cool Stuff You Don’t Wanna Miss Out
Resource Reel 🔖
This week’s hottest resources are:
Workshop Structure for Problem Solving, a miro board template by Jenny Martin based on AJ&Smart's '4 Cs' workshop structure, along with a range of templates, offers a systematic approach to exploring challenges and solutions, promoting rapid progress and alignment to desired outcomes in workshops.
How to run a Design Thinking workshop by AJ and Smart. It is an almost 2-hour live training video where they show you how to work through every stage of the Design Thinking process. It includes everything you need to learn how to facilitate and run it, including the presentation and the guide.
A list of Agile Podcasts by Virtual Agile Coach with a list of active podcasts on Agile with a brief description for each.
2024 Workplace Learning Report by LinkedIn Learning, dives into the transformative realm of AI in learning and talent development blending survey insights, LinkedIn data, and expert advice to guide you in crafting a future-ready playbook.
Make it Stick with AI by Nidhi Sachdeva, PhD, a micro-learning series on leveraging the power of AI to integrate evidence-informed practices in your approach.
Neuroscience-Based Learning: Strategies for making your content stick by Mentimeter, a short 60-minute course that teaches you how to design brain-friendly training and lectures that enhance retention and engagement.
List of Lists of Learning Science Principles by Gabrielle Sun that list so many learning principles that we can implement in our design process.
Community Corner:
Shaker's Stage 🎤
Let’s welcome Abigail Rakower to take the Stage.
Something that fills your energy cup these days is:
-I'm based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For the last few months, I've been volunteering in an ONG that has student residencies in 22 Argentinian Provinces that provide housing, academic support and counselling for young students, based on socio-economic backgrounds. Right now, all the 250 new residents (ages 17, and 18 y/o) are together in Buenos Aires for a month-long course to enhance their language and math abilities before starting their academic studies. I joined as an assistant teacher and I'm very grateful for the opportunity. I'm not a teacher, however, I'm glad to discover that my experience in L&D for adult employees comes in handy, adding some adult-learning perspectives and techniques into the classes. Theory is crucial and very much needed, no doubt about it. And, after seeing how the dynamic unravels, my opinion is that transferring some of the focus onto them - their opinions, and needs, together with hands-on practice - really pays off. It must be really hard for them to leave their house, town, and families and travel to the big city... I'm very happy to see that the students are opening up and owning their space, speaking their minds and building their confidence, day by day. After all, these students are tomorrow's workforce.
What’s the biggest challenge you’re facing in your role/business/project right now and how are you tackling it?
-Right now I'm launching my independent consulting business focusing on L&D! So exciting (and also a bit intimidating, I admit. I've never done this before, I need to LEARN how to be an entrepreneur!). I LOVE getting to know different perspectives, frameworks and concepts, at the moment I'm drawing inspiration from areas of expertise different to mine. Argentina is a very big country and in each province or region, there are a variety of contexts and needs, quite different to what I'm used to. So, to get a glimpse into the realities of potential clients, I surveyed colleagues in a variety of roles, industries and locations (brief questionnaire and interviews), focusing on non-HR roles. It was very enlightening to have a closer look into their day-to-day and get acquainted with the specific characteristics of different industries, considering the macroeconomic reality of Argentina. Also, due to cultural characteristics and language, I'm under the impression that Latin America needs to locally develop learning initiatives, mainly in Spanish and thought in Spanish. The wheels in my head started rolling: "How can L&D be a central player in achieving the business goals and delivering value to clients/users in this complex context?". "What areas of expertise can L&D integrate to propose relevant learning initiatives that sustain employee engagement and make sense business-wise?". To be continued... :)
A book that left an impression on you:
-"Thinking - Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman. Kahneman and Amos Tversky are two of the most important psychologists in what we currently know as behavioural economics. Their work focuses on how human cognition works, how the thought process happens, how we make decisions and how the wide variety of innate cognitive biases play a part in all these. For their valuable contributions Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002, sadly Tversky passed away in 1996.
Also - "Antifragile" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
What does being an L&D Shaker look and feel like for you?
-To be an L&D Shaker is to provide and facilitate the opportunity for people to own their own learning experiences. Not everybody learns the same, nor has the same interests or needs: the L&D Shaker listens, guides, co-creates and recommends, with the intention of enhancing learning agency and curiosity.
〜See you soon
Till then, keep spicing up your learning! 🧠🧂
Sejaal