The Mindtools L&D Podcast

This week: GoodPractice team members Ross, Owen and James play a round of 'Room 101'. What aspects of the L&D industry do they want to see consigned to the Room's darkest depths? 

Professional actors…

This week: Ross, Owen and Peter from the GoodPractice team discuss our latest research into the online habits of UK managers.

We look at how managers respond to workplace management challenges, how o…

In this week's podcast, Ross Dickie is joined by Peter Casebow and Justin Anderson to discuss steps organisations can take to get the most out of internships and work experience.

If you'd like to sha…

As teams become more dispersed, and communication technology gets better, the need to work in the same physical space as colleagues has decreased.

This week: Ross, Owen and Jonny from the GoodPractic…

In this week's podcast, Owen Ferguson, Peter Casebow and Justin Anderson discuss classic L&D mistakes.

L&D is a challenging profession, but are there persistent errors the industry needs to address, …

In this week's episode, Ross Dickie is joined by Cat MacLeod and Justin Anderson to discuss the challenges they've faced in creating animated videos for the GoodPractice toolkit.

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In this week's podcast, Justin Anderson is joined by Owen Ferguson and James McLuckie to discuss face-to-face training, and whether it is still relevant in modern L&D. Will it survive? Should it surv…

In this week's episode of the podcast, Ross Dickie is joined by COO Owen Ferguson and Content Marketing Manager Stef Scott to discuss the second edition of our research paper, New Perspectives on 70:…

Artificial Intelligence is already creeping into our workplace and homes through Google search, smartphones and the new Amazon Echo. But what happens to us when it starts to perform our jobs?

This we…

The e-learning industry often suffers from a negative reputation, but why is that and what can we do to change it?

On this week's episode of the GoodPractice Podcast, James and Ross are joined by Fio…

What are the benefits of belonging to a 'community of practice', and what can you learn by sharing your work with colleagues?

This week on the podcast, Ross Garner is joined by James McLuckie and Ros…

This week on the show we're evaluating the performance of our learning interventions. How do we know we've been successful? What do we do if we've failed? How do we overcome our fear of finding out w…

The word 'agile' is tagged on to just about everything these days, but what does it actually mean? 

This week, Ross Dickie is joined by Owen Ferguson and Jonny Anderson to discuss the principles of a…

This week the GoodPractice team break open the dark art of Learning Needs Analysis. What is it? How do you do it? And where do you need to just get out of the way?

Then: spell-checking goofs, the pol…

When senior executives ask you to provide training, do you take a note of what they want or challenge them to define the problem? In this week's episode of the GoodPractice Podcast, Australian learni…

Pokémon GO is a cultural phenomenon. In the space of less than a month, the app has been downloaded more than 100 million times. But what is the secret to its success, and what lessons does it hold f…

This week, Cat MacLeod is joined by Owen Ferguson and Justin Anderson to discuss ways of overcoming a fear of failure.

There's also the return of 'What I learned this week', as well as some useful ti…

This week, Justin Anderson is joined by James McLuckie and Andrew McGlyn to discuss ways of driving engagement with L&D resources. They also offer some useful tips on how to break the ice when networ…

This week, Marketing Manager Paul Gray and Online Instructional Designer Ross Garner speak to Ross Dickie about the lessons L&D can learn from the world of marketing. 

There's also the return of our …

This week, three GoodPractice team members who have worked here for 10 years or more share their thoughts on how the company - and their roles - have changed.

How has the culture changed as the compa…