T is for Training 227 : You are my work therapist – Make them smart, important, and significant

This week we were joined by Christie Ward, who is one of Paul’s ATD (Association for Talent Development) colleagues.  Also on the call were Andrea Snyder, Jill Hurst-Wahl, Paul Signorelli, and Maurice Coleman.  Maurice interviewed Christie about her work, her association involvement, and her thoughts about delivering keynotes.  Christie did a wonderful job talking about the difference between delivering versus facilitating.  We ended the conversation talking about artificial intelligence (IA), augmented reality (AR), and the fourth industrial revolution.

In talking about how she collects information prior to delivering a workshop or speech for a client, some of the questions she uses are:

• What is it in your workplace environment that is helping or hindering your performance?
• What technology in your workplace helps or hinders your performance?

In her coaching work, she often asks:

• What do you do when you lose track of time?  This is a great question to discover someone’s passions and to understand if those passions relate to a person’s work.

At the end, Maurice reminded us that each person wants to be seen as smart, important, and significant. As trainers-teachers-speakers, part of our work is to help our participants feel that.

The entire episode is available on TalkShoe.

Resources:

• National Speakers Association
• Association for Talent Development
• Clifton StrengthsFinder
• Augmented Reality Comes to the Workplace
• The Great A.I. Awakening
• The Fourth Industrial Revolution
• Forgotten Middle-Skill Jobs: State by State Snapshots

Yes, we talked for 70 minutes and ended hearing that the older episodes (pre-2015) are no longer on the TalkShoe platform.  They are, however, still available through Apple iTunes.  We’ll post more information on how to get to those older episodes.

T is for Training 226 : The less you know the more you THINK you know

Mike Taylor, Maurice Coleman, Jill Hurst-Wahl, Andrea Snyder, Henry Mensch, Jay Turner, and Paul Signorelli. were today’s show.  This was Mike’s first T is for Training! We talked about how we apply learning after a conference, which was suggested by Paul based on a recent blog post.  We talked about a number of things, which this list of questions captures:

• How do we synthesize what we learn at an event?
• How do we share what we have learned? What is our sharing process?
• How do we make connections between those that we met at one event with people at another?
• Can you create time after the event, and before heading back to work, to synthesize your learning?
• If you go to several conferences in a row, do you see several themes popping up over-and-over again?
• How do we select which conferences to attend?
• How do we let our learning breathe?

Near the end, we got reflective and very meta!  We hope you enjoying listening to this very lively episode.

Our next shows will be on May 25, then June 8. We will not have a show on June 22 due to the ALA Annual Conference.