TLB#20🧠 2024 Core Team Roles: Applications open!

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,

Let’s deep dive to explore exciting events lined up for you, catch recordings of past events, look into the projects co-created, collect some resources and see the Shakers taking the stage.

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Coming up next 🔎

🗓 Upcoming Events

Our next events lineup is here! Join us for super practical, fun and interesting sessions.

1. Playground | December 7th: Join Magdalena Tatarczewska in the experimental session to learn about the root cause of perfectionism and imposter syndrome and get to know about the strategies and tips on how to minimize their impact while working on your challenge.

2. Local Hub Zurich | December 11th: Join the dynamic duo Nevena Buzek and Teresa Moreno for a cozy networking evening and have insightful conversations with fellow L&D enthusiasts.

3. L&D Shapers | December 12th: Join Diana Enache if you are looking to create a career plan for yourself for the coming year and you’ll walk away with a clear career direction and execution steps and action list that support your career goals.

4. ID Power Hour | December 15: Join Dr. Dawn DiPeri to dig deeper into the topic of meeting the needs of learners with disabilities and the art of designing for accessibility.

5. Local Hub Amsterdam | December 15th: Join Anna Svitak, Toby Newman and Jane Yang for L&D Shakers Secret Santa, a fun and christmassy session with a gift that screams "Learning" or "Development" for up to 10 Euros.

6. Local Hub Berlin | December 19th: Join Vanessa Dsouza, Hany Elfouly, Ribana Mos, and Denise Philipp for a jolly L&D Networking Event amidst the festive charm of Berlin's Nikolaiviertel Christmas Market.

🖇 New Project

🌱As we gear up for a fantastic year-end, our Core Team is reshaping the future, and YOU could be a part of it!

New Core Team Roles are up for grabs, and we're on the lookout for dynamic, creative, and passionate Shakers to join the adventure.

Here are some of the roles waiting for YOU:

1. Social Mixer Event Catalyst

2. Coaching for L&D Project Lead + Project Team Member

3. L&D Shapers Mentoring Project Team Member to continue working with Eveli

4. Resources Library Project Lead/ Curator

5. Community Events Lead (for our online recurring events)

6. Local Hubs Lead

7. Saõ Paulo Local Hub Leads

8. Lisbon Local Hub Leads

9. APAC Regional Hub Leads

For more details, check out below for info on spots available, tasks, skills, and time commitment.

Ready to dive in? Fill out the form and tell us why you're the perfect fit!

Deadline: December 17th.

🎙The fourth episode of L&D Marketplace Live Journal is out, hosted by Valeriia Forostianova. The L&D Shakers Marketplace aims to make the search process for different solution providers, and learning tools easier for any L&D professional.

The episode features Ryan Viehrig, Co-Founder at Trevato. Ryan talked about the most significant discovery when Trevato started, what he would have done differently for Trevato, one tip for an effective feedback survey and knowledge check and two pieces of advice to the Shakers Community. 

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Cool stuff you don’t wanna miss out 🔥

🔥 Hottest Resources

This week’s gems to spice up your work are:

1. Agile People Project Toolbox by Build A Rocket Boy to unlock the secrets of Agile adoption in your People team! This resource provides practical strategies to define, design, and deliver cultural change.

2. The COM-B Model for Behavior Change by The Decision Lab guide aids in analyzing, defining, and intervening in behaviours, helping practitioners discern whether a training problem exists or consult stakeholders more effectively.

3. DesignLoop by DesignKit is a 10-step methodology to design breakthrough change. Each step comes with a set of tools and a hero to inspire and guide you on your design journey.

4. E-learning by Tracy Parish is a list of free e-learning tools that you can use in the design and development phase of your e-learning project.

5. Gamification of Learning by Moe Ash, a free course with lots of use cases, examples, and extra resources on gamification of learning.

6. Career Development Toolkit by Learngility which aims to help build self-awareness & understanding of what is truly important to you, paint a picture of the future that you want and set goals & strategise the best way to achieve what you want.

7. Better Collaboration Within Organizations by Hargraves Institute is a collection of toolkits, templates, cards, whitepapers, playbooks, and canvases that you can use to embed innovation and create a thriving collaborative culture at your workplace.

8. Megatrends Reshaping the Future: The Crucial Role of L&D in
   Business Transformation report by MindTools focuses on the evolving landscape of workplace learning to identify how L&D teams can prepare to meet the changing needs of the business.

9. AI in L&D: The State of Play by Donald H Taylor and Egle Vinauskaite talks about the state of AI in L&D.

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Community Corner 🧡

🎤Shaker Stage

Let’s welcome Alice ter Haar, Chief Sorcerer at Badass Unicorn to take the Stage.

What was a pivotal moment in your career?

-The most pivotal moment in my career have all been as a result of failure... Being rejected from a leadership scholarship led me to discover the power of personal development. Being demoted in my role as EU marketing lead at Deliveroo was a catalyst to carving a path that was aligned to my strengths in Learning & Development. Being put at risk of redundancy during the peak of Covid Wave 1 gave me the push to make my side hustle in personal development become my full-time job. I don't believe that everything happens for a reason...but I am proof that we can create a compelling reason for even the most difficult challenges with the right mindset.

Share a tool, method, or framework you find useful

-Every night when I go to sleep I focus on my "ta-da" list vs. my "to-do" list - these are the things I'm grateful for that day. This ranges from the benign e.g., the baby slept through and woke up at 6am (!). To the brilliant e.g., I won a new piece of business. Focusing your mind on what you're grateful for instead of your worries helps you to fall asleep with a smile on your face.

What mistake have you made, and what did it teach you?

-I am constantly making mistakes - it would be hard to name just one! A recent mistake I'm processing now is there were a couple of typos in my sales deck. For any mistake, I try to put this into perspective using a technique I teach called "Take 5". Will this thing still matter in...5-mins (yes, still reeling), 5-hours (still annoyed, but calmer now), 5-days (still a bit bothered but it has lessened a lot), 5-week (forgotten about it), 5-month (what was that thing?), 5-years (huh?). I like to ask myself each time (actually writing it down helps)...What did I learn? What will I do differently next time? How will this make me stronger in future? I also remind myself about the intention that led to the mistake - if I was trying my best and did something for the right reasons, it helps the process of letting myself off the hook! I always say to myself, if you're not making mistakes, you're not doing things differently or trying hard enough...we can only make the best decisions that we can with the information available to us at the time.

What does being an L&D Shaker look and feel like for you?

-It looks like sharing ideas and advice. It feels like a wonderfully rich and supportive community.

PS: Thank you for all the love and support you’ve given to The Learning Brief in 2023. We are grateful for YOU! This is the last digest for the year and we’ll come back in 2024 with a fresh energy and look! Promise, you’ll stay with us! 💛

〜See you in 2024

Till then, keep spicing up your learning! 🧠🧂

Sejaal