How Do You Become a Better Learning Designer with Ant Pugh

About Ant Pugh

Ant is a self-employed learning design consultant and instructional designer, with a career in learning and development spanning twenty years, with experience working in several continents, and global clients including ANZ, Westpac, Link Group, Microsoft and Carnival. He is renowned for using a performance-based approach to design training, passionate about implementing human-centred solutions to change behaviour, improve performance and deliver measurable business results.

Key takeaways:

• The vast majority of learning is ineffective. Ant unpacks how a great learning designer questions everything and trusts their instincts. It’s very easy to just copy what others are doing, but if you ‘break out’ of the L&D world and review how else you learn in your day-to-day life, it’s easier to think outside of the box.
• Writing is a great way of teaching (and learning). From writing a daily email to his mailing list, Ant has become a better writer and has learnt a lot more about learning design. Find your medium where you can capture – or report – daily on what you have learnt or thought about to a community, no matter how small.
• Some of the biggest blockers for writing are not knowing who you are writing to and your mindset around writing. Ant has reframed what writing is to him – it’s about documenting, not creating content. This has been a powerful way to beat overwhelm for Ant, which enables him to write so frequently in a flow state. Focus on being a reporter rather than a leader or teacher, and simply share with others what has worked for you so far.

Chapters:

• (00:00:00) Introduction.
• (00:02:26) How to become a better learning designer.
• (00:04:34) Ant’s strategy to seeing things differently.
• (00:07:10) How to move forward in new ways of thinking.
• (00:13:57) Why learning designers should write more.
• (00:17:41) Making the time to write daily and Ant’s writing process.
• (00:21:20) Some of the biggest blockers for writing – and how to overcome them.

Links from the podcast:

• Subscribe to Ant’s daily newsletter
• Connect with Ant on LinkedIn
• Find more about Ant Pugh
• Check out GaryVee’s YouTube channel,
• Watch GaryVee’s ‘Document, Don’t Create’ video on youtube
• Watch recording of Sprout Labs webinar ‘Creative thinking for learning designers’