StyleLearn Origins

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Welcome to the StyleLearn Origins podcast, a weekly exploration of the past of corporate learning and instructional designs with key insights for the future. Learn about how to best train and upskill your workforce with business based research and academic insights. This podcast is offered at zero cost to the public. Learn About Learning Design on YouTube @corpraxis https://www.youtube.com/c/@corpraxis FOLLOW THE BLOG www.stylelearn.com/blog

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April 6, 2024Episode 936 min

S2 | E9 The Essence of Effective Teams with Daniel Escobar

Daniel Escobar is an experienced Learning and Development leader who is passionate about bringing individuals and groups together to build engagement in the company culture and personal accountability for their performance and results. Daniel discussed teamwork and how to best foster it as a leader. Check out this 1944 issue of Army Talks magazine emphasizing the role of discipline in teams https://archive.org/details/Teamwork_974/mode/2up National Institutes of Health paper on health care teams https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6361117/ Empirical Test of Tuckman's Theory of Group Development Check out these great productivity Ai apps ⁠Create fully captioned and edited videos in minutes with InvideoAi⁠ ⁠Need to run Windows on Mac? Do it easily with Parallels⁠ ⁠Use Ai to create videos with Fliki⁠ ⁠Create Your Own BrandKit with Looka⁠ ⁠Ai Learning Management System Check out LearnWorlds⁠ ⁠Get your 30-day free trial of iSpring Learn ⁠ ⁠Want to learn corporate skills directly from me? Build work samples and get them personally reviewed. ⁠⁠Add stock videos to your talking head videos with Jupitrr⁠⁠

March 10, 2024Episode 836 min

S2 | E8 Sales Enablement with Karen Sanderson

Sales Enablement is the most exciting area where LnD professionals can work based on my experience. It has the best salaries, and IDs supporting it need be well versed in performance support practices rather than course making. This week I talked to Karen Sanderson who has been a leader in this field that started at the turn of this century. Karen share some important nuances about what sales enablement does, the processes and the technologies supporting it. Connect with Karen The History of Sales Enablement by BigTinCan Check out the Sales Enablement Society Check out these great productivity Ai apps Create fully captioned and edited videos in minutes with InvideoAi Add stock videos to your talking head videos with Jupitrr Need to run Windows on Mac? Do it easily with Parallels Use Ai to create videos with Fliki Create Your Own BrandKit with Looka Ai Learning Management System Check out LearnWorlds Get your 30-day free trial of iSpring Learn Want to learn corporate skills directly from me? Build work samples and get them personally reviewed.

February 24, 2024Episode 731 min

S2|E7 eLearning Origins with Anna Sabramowicz

eLearning has been a beacon of innovation since its rudimentary beginnings in the 70s with Don Bitzer's PLATO system, then transitioning to PC use with Michael Allen's Authorware. There's no one better I could have had this conversation than the always innovating and inspiring Anna Sabramowicz. She was one the first eLearning developers in look up to and still admire on a daily basis. Anna stopped by to have a wonderfully candid conversation about the craft of developing eLearning courses. Interesting note: We talked about Michael Allen's ZebraZapps and guess what? It seems like it's still around [insert eyes looking left emoji] Want to start your own eLearning business? Learn from Anna's eLearning Secrets Connect with Anna Don Bitzer PLATO Check out these great productivity Ai apps Add stock videos to your talking head videos with Jupitrr Need to run Windows on Mac? Do it easily with Parallels Use Ai to create videos with Fliki Create Your Own BrandKit with Looka Ai Learning Management System Check out LearnWorlds Get your 30-day free trial of iSpring Learn Want to learn corporate skills directly from me? Build work samples and get them personally reviewed. Check Out These Great Tools Need to run Windows on Mac? Do it easily with Parallels Use Ai to create videos with Fliki Create Your Own BrandKit with Looka Check out LearnWorlds Get your 30-day free trial of iSpring Learn

February 17, 2024Episode 626 min

S2|E6 Soft Skills Enablement with Ioanna Mantzouridou Onasi

Literally, the term "soft skills" can be traced to the U.S. Army efforts after creating its Human Resource Research Organization aka HumRRO. However, upon close inspection you may find that the context in which it was examined in 1972 does not mirror what is mostly understood today as soft skills. My guest in this exciting episode is Ioanna Mantzouridou Onasi, an entrepreneurial woman, CEO and co-founder of the Dextego platform. Dextego is an soft skills training and coaching tool that uses ai to provide personalized feedback for team leaders. Check out Dextego Connect with Ioanna Create Your Own BrandKit with LookaCheck out LearnWorldsGet your 30-day free trial of iSpring Learn Need to run Windows on Mac? Do it easily with Parallels

February 5, 2024Episode 544 min

S2:E5 Change Management with Dr. Mandolen Mull

Not many people can handle change at work, and then even less people can fathom drastic changes in their life. Dr. Mandolen Mull's story of personal change seems like a godsend since she was already studying the science of change. This is the most impactful episode I have ever experienced and Mandolen is just an inspiration to everyone. She's living proof of the power we all have to transform into the best adaptations of our potential. Check out Mullmentum Follow Dr. Mull on LinkedIn ADKAR Change Model Kotter Change Model CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS Create Your Own BrandKit with Looka Get a Free Trial of LearnWorlds LMS Get your 30-day free trial of iSpring Learn Need to run Windows on Mac? Do it easily with Parallels Learn corporate skills with Corpraxis. Build work samples and get them personally reviewed.

January 22, 2024Episode 424 min

Onboarding and Everboarding with Amber Watts S2:E4

Amber Watts is a good friend in the LnD space and a champion of all things everboarding. Considered an innovative approach for onboarding, everboarding emphasizes a continual effort in connecting and valuing employees. Amber stops by to chat about how her firm Radical Learning addresses the onboarding practices of businesses this way.

January 8, 2024Episode 330 min

Effective Training Design with Tim Bruce "The Training Guy" S2:E3

Tim Bruce "The Training Guy" stops by to share his wisdom on effective training design. We explore the basics and the strong historical evidence of the Herbartian Steps, which led to the J-Methods used in the Training Within Industry TWI movement. These were training methods that are still in use today and were part of the foundation of the Association of Training Directors today known as the Association for Talent Development. Connect with Tim https://www.linkedin.com/in/timbruce/ Manual Training Magazine 1912 (page 2) https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/community.28752189.pdf Learn about the TWI J-Methods https://stylelearn.com/training-within-industry-a-historical-blind-spot-in-learning-and-development/

December 24, 2023Episode 114 min

Maslow's Hierarchy is Not a Hierarchy? S2E1

Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) was an American psychologist well known for his work on the Theory of Motivation from which, the Hierarchy of Needs was established. The reality is that he never placed the needs in a pyramid and the order of the needs is not a fixed hierarchy. Follow Alex on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/stylelearn/ 1943 Maslow's Theory of Motivation https://bit.ly/3SNg9uK 2015 Baumeister's Towards a General Theory of Motivation https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11031-015-9521-y 2018 Why Maslow was Wrong-The House Simply Psychology Article https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html

December 24, 2023Episode 234 min

Voiceover for Learning with Kerri Acheson and David Goldberg S2E2

Since the invention of the radio by Guglielmo Marconi, audio became an essential medium in the way we communicate and learn. Marconi's "wireless telegraph" was just the beginning as other names like Reginald Fessenden expanded the use of radio waves in the early 1900s. Today, we have audio as a very popular format in the way of podcasts and audio conversations in social media. This StyleLearn Origins episode had professional voice actor Kerri Acheson and studio owner as well as celebrity director David Goldberg chat with me about the craft of voiceover. David Goldberg is the owner of Edge Studio for voice actors http://www.edgestudio.com/ Kerri Acheson is owner of Utter Voices https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerri-acheson-utter-voiceovers/ The Effectiveness of Selected Methods of Radio Education at the School Level https://www.jstor.org/stable/20150646?seq=3 History of Voiceover First 100 years by Voquent https://www.voquent.com/blog/the-history-of-voice-over-part-1/

July 9, 2023Episode 2049 min

Instructional Design Models Dr. Tonia Dousay (#020)

Instructional Design (ID) models are visual representations of the ID process grounded in theoretical frameworks. One ID model that gave birth to the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation (ADDIE) process is the Interservice Procedures for Instructional Systems Development or IPISD model. Although there are many ID models and only a few seem to be in use in workplace learning today. In this episode, Dr. Tonia Dousay has co-authored published several editions for the Survey of Instructional Design Models which is a great resource to learn about ID models. She and I had a thoughtful discussion about the evolution of ID models from behavioral to systemic approaches to training. We looked at which models can fit better for a particular context and many other interesting facts about them. Sources Survey of Instructional Design Models 5th Ed https://aect.org/survey_of_instructional_design.php ADDIE the Model That Never Was https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/addie-id-model-never-alexander-salas/ Tosti and Ball's 1969 Behavioral Approach to ID and Media Selection https://www.jstor.org/stable/30217477