The Mindtools L&D Podcast

In case you’ve missed it, 2023 has become the year when automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) started displacing cognitive and creative work. Chat-GPT, DALL-E and other tools are becoming ubiqu…

In an uncomfortable first for The Mind Tools L&D Podcast team, we’re handing over this week’s hosting duties to friend-of-the-show Matt Pleger, Organizational Development Consultant at UMass Memorial…

Used effectively, video can be the most emotive part of a learning experience. So how do you get it right? 

In this episode of The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, Ross D and Gemma are joined by Samson Owol…

Does everyone have a book in them? How hard it is to take an idea to publication?

In this episode of The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, authors Andy Lancaster, Nelson Sivalingam, Michelle Parry-Slater and G…

The opportunities we have access to in life are shaped by our background, our environment and our networks. It is difficult to create equitable organizations if a single homogenous group are making m…

Learner surveys get a hard wrap: at best they’re a waste of time, at worst they actually mislead us. But what if we just did them well? 

This week on The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, Gemma and Ross G ar…

Can we improve our workplace performance through learning outside of work? Are there benefits to this? How might we go about it?  

This week on The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, Gemma and Ross Garner are…

What do business leaders think about L&D? What do they expect? What’s the reality for L&D?

This week on The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, Gemma is joined by Nahdia and Anna to discuss our latest Leadership…

What are L&D practitioners excited about in 2023? Is it the rise of artificial intelligence? Or is it the Metaverse? What about skills-based talent management? Or learning analytics?

This week on The…

How do you pick from the hundreds of platforms out there? What questions might you ask to refine your options?

If you’re looking for a learning platform, then you’ve got quite the decision to make! N…

What do employees and managers care about in 2023? How do we keep them feeling happy, interested and safe?

A new report from Reward Gateway offers six human-centred strategies to build strong, resili…

Ten years ago, Henry Stewart wrote The Happy Manifesto, outlining 10 principles for happier workplaces. Among them: Make your people feel good; Be open and transparent; Celebrate mistakes. 

This we…

With inflation high, and high profile redundancies hitting the headlines, L&D is once again under pressure to demonstrate the value it offers and to have an impact in our organisations. So what can y…

Last week on the show we had James McLuckie join us to share his advice for winning an award, and this week - as we're approaching Oscars season - we thought we'd host our own award show: where the n…

Industry awards offer a chance to reflect on your work, raise your profile and win some prestige, but they also take a lot of work. So if you’re going to enter, you want to maximise the chances of wi…

In January, many of us like to take stock, reflect on the last twelve months, and make plans for the year ahead. In this spirit, we’re kicking off 2023 with a few early insights from our Learning Per…

Back by popular demand (ish), the Mind Tools L&D Podcast team are wrapping up this year with a tenuous spin on festive favourite Home Alone! This time it isn’t Macaulay Culkin getting left behind: it…

In this episode, we'll be chatting about the common jargon used in the Learning and Development field. We'll break down these phrases and explain what they mean, so you can understand and use them in…

‘Big data’ promised us an end to uncertainty, but we realise now that this is a myth. Uncertainty will always remain, and intuition can help us navigate it.

That’s the claim of Oded Netzer, one of th…

This October saw cities across Scotland play host to the first ever ‘Scottish Games Week’, a nationwide event featuring a conference, an education symposium, and awards show. What lessons from that e…