7. Is Lockdown Our Learning Time?

The Two Old Dogs discuss the impact that Coronavirus has had on the learning profession and where this may take us in the future. Are you reading for the change in L&D?

The Two Old Dogs discuss the impact of prejudice, bias and racism in the training room and whether trainers can overcome any unconscious biases that they are perhaps unaware of.

Continuing from podcast 8, the Two Old Dogs review their last three books that have had a significant impact on the way that they think, behave and work.

In this episode (the first of 2 parts) the two old dogs (Jonathan Smith & Nathan Akers) review the first two books, from their top 5 list, that have changed their working lives.

If you've been furloughed during lockdown, or found yourself with more time because you're not commuting to the office, have you used your spare moments to catch up on learning? If not, is this the best time for people to be trained in new things? The Old Dogs (Jonathan Smith and Nathan Akers) discuss the issue and discover the link between this and performance.

How did L&D become the servant of Human Resources, never the senior partner of the group, always the 'broom that is used to sweep the floor clean'? In this episode, the two old dogs (Jonathan Smith and Nathan Akers) discuss how L&D professionals can elevate themselves to higher levels of business respect.

These terms are frequently used interchangeably, along with 'Teacher' and 'Instructor', in order to identify what we do in L&D - but are they all descriptors of the same role? or do they require difference skillsets and experience? These are the questions the two old dogs (Nathan Akers and Jonathan Smith) answer in this podcast.

Resilience is a modern buzz word that organisations throw around the workforce at random times, but what does it mean and how do you become resilient? The two old dogs, Jonathan and Nathan discuss this in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic and identify practical things you can do to build stronger mental maturity and resilience.

Since the advent of digital learning, more pressure is placed on L&D to abandon classroom training in order to save money and reduce time spent training people. The Old Dogs (Nathan Akers and Jonathan Smith) discuss whether this is a viable decision or whether there are quality and learning issues that need to be considered before making such policies.

Trust is a huge, if unspoken, issue in business and is nowhere else seen so blatantly as in the training room. Do participants 'trust' you? Why do we have to prove ourselves worthy of their trust? and how do we go about it at such speed that the participants will actually listen and learn from us? All these questions are discussed in this podcast.