364 — You have to work with IT. Can we make it easier?
Oct 2, 2023
Have you ever found a learning technology that you were convinced was going to transform your organization, only to have your IT team act as a blocker? Maybe they were being difficult, but maybe you just hadn't involved them early enough?
In this episode of The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, Jon Baxter, founder of Baxter...
363 — What the heck is Mind Tools?
Sep 26, 2023
This year, at the ATD Conference in San Diego, friend-of-the-show Will Thalheimer asked Ross G what he was working on. Ross replied: ‘Well, how much do you know about Mind Tools?’
To whit Will said: ‘I hardly know anything.’
This astounded Ross. Will has been on our show multiple times, and Ross feels like he...
362 — Using creativity in L&D
Sep 19, 2023
Coaching usually takes a standard format: a series of conversations in which the coachee considers their goals, reflect on how they think and behave, and sets down their intentions. What if the coachee didn’t just talk, but instead used a variety of other medium to express and develop themselves?
In this week’s...
361 — How do we measure productivity?
Sep 12, 2023
Productivity is traditionally calculated with a simple division: total output / total input. Great for measuring widget production, not so much for gauging how productive a knowledge worker has been.
So how do we measure productivity when there isn’t a widget in sight?
In this week’s episode of The...
360 — Evidence-based leadership development
Sep 5, 2023
What do we mean by ‘evidence-based leadership development’? Development of evidence-based leaders? Or an evidence-based approach to leadership development? Well, both.
In this week’s episode of The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, Ross G and Nahdia are joined by Helen Bailey, Head of Learning and Development at Strategi...