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Evaluation: measuring the impact
March 22, 2024

In this episode John Tomlinson discusses a favourite topic with Omer Glass: learning evaluation (no, seriously, it is a favourite topic ...). It's easy to evaluate at the reaction level with a happy s

Finding Your Voice: tips to improve the impact of your voice
December 06, 2023

In this episode John Tomlinson speaks to Robert Kirby of People People about the role of the voice in our personal impact, not just in the training room, but more generally how we can train ourselves

Stop focussing on content, focus on problems!
April 22, 2023

In this podcast John Tomlinson talks to David James of 360Learning about how we need to align out digital learning strategies to fixing real problems quickly, rather than building up cumbersome librar

Transforming Communication in Organisations
January 16, 2023

Heather Hansen focuses on helping organisations communicate better, and helping individuals at work get their voices heard. Her book Unmuted talks through her holistic process of building confidence,

The medical profession: the best example of a learning culture and continuous development?
November 16, 2022

I've always though that hospitals are the best example we have of a good learning organisation, and the medical profession the best example of continuous professional development, so I was keen to cha

What can we learn from the movies about deep learning experiences
June 14, 2022

In this episode John Tomlinson talks with Kushal Bose about his remarkable career and how he's used his engineering and film making background to create deep learning experiences in organisations.Kus

Top Five Mistakes by a Learning and Development Professional
March 21, 2022

We all make mistakes, and when we're forced to suddenly start working entirely online after a lifetime of facilitating training in training rooms, we might make a lot more of them! No problem, mistake

Leadership training in the virtual world
January 06, 2022

In this episode, John Tomlinson talks to Mary Brunton about her experience of bringing leadership training into the virtual world as the pandemic took hold and face-to-face training was stopped. In th

From inclusion to belonging in Learning and Development
December 06, 2021

In this podcast John talks to Sunita Sehmi about how Learning and Development professionals can approach inclusion in our work, and how we can move from talking about words like "diversity" and "inclu

Information design in learning: tips for making great visuals
September 15, 2021

In this episode John Tomlinson talks to Lydia Hooper of Venngage about how to make great visuals for use in education and training, or more generally to communicate complex information in an engaging