Episodes

  • Learning Experiences with Empathy

    Learning Experiences with Empathy
    Aug 27 2021
    Learning Experiences with Empathy Manja interview Vince Grabowski on the ins and outs of digital learning, new methodologies, and learning experience with empathy. This episode is engaging and well-worth listening to! ... Learning digitally can feel disconnected, slow, or even annoying — and no we're not talking about the wifi. Done poorly, digital learning can leave people with the same knowledge and skill gaps that they've had when they started. Done well, digital learning can be engaging, responsive, adaptive, and even empathy-building for learners. So how can we create learning like this? Listen and find out. ... About Vince Grabowski "Vince Grabowski is a learning experience designer with over 25 years of adult learning experience and a passion for designing, developing and delivering industry leading learning solutions. He is also a father, coach and mentor and has dedicated over 30 years to helping young athletes and adults realize their potential and develop action plan
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    42 mins
  • How to Make DEI Training Work

    How to Make DEI Training Work
    Jul 27 2021
    In Episode 15 of Your Greatest Work, Manja talks with Belinda and Calvin about supporting diversity and inclusion in course creation. You won't want to miss this incredibly useful episode. ... Diversity, equity, and inclusion are incredibly important topics that require incredibly hard conversations. For many people, those conversations are emotionally packed, sensitive, and uncomfortable. That's why trainings exist on the topics — and why corporations and institutions are hungry for courses and learnings that will help their people. Belinda and Calvin know this very well. They create and facilitate trainings on this exact topic. In our fifteenth episode of Your Greatest Work, Belinda and Calvin shared their thoughts and insights on the topic with Manja. Why is it important to talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion? The simplest question first: Diversity, equity, and inclusion are important in course creation because everyone has different lived experiences. It's that simp
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    36 mins
  • Negotiation and Virtual Sales Training

    Negotiation and Virtual Sales Training
    Jul 20 2021
    In Episode 14 of Your Greatest Work, Manja and Josh talk about the nuances of virtual negotiation and sales. ... So you have a course. It's refined, tweaked, tested, and it's your greatest work. Amazing. Wonderful. Exciting! But now you need learners. What's a course without learners? And how do you attract learners for your course? Yes, the s-word. Sales. You have to sell your course and convince potential learners that they have something to gain by paying for your materials and spending their efforts on your course. Negotiations and sales can make many of us feels uncomfortable, but it's an essential part of being successful. So how can you effectively negotiate and make sales? And how can you do that in a virtual environment? Josh Jenkins, the Director of Business Developments at Shapiro Negotiations Institue, has plenty of experience doing just that. Here are Josh's top four tips: 1. Don't think about a sale or negotiation as a single event We often think of negotiation
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    32 mins
  • Help Adults Measure Learning Progress

    Help Adults Measure Learning Progress
    Jul 13 2021
    In episode 13 of Your Greatest Work, Manja and Deborah talk in-depth about strategies for effectively teaching adults. ... Teaching is hard. Whether you're teaching English to a classroom of children, teaching violin to just one teenager, or teaching practical skills to adults in a virtual setting, teaching is difficult. Getting lessons to stick and keeping learners engaged takes creativity and strategy. Deborah knows this very, very well (after all, she once had Manja as her student). Through decades of teaching experience in schools and in one-on-one settings, Deborah has developed some go-to strategies to effectively work with learners of different ages. Here are just three key lessons from Deborah on working with adult learners. 1. Recognize the Fear Factor According to Deborah, the biggest difference between adults and children is the fear factor. Children may not be very focused on learning but they have no inhibitions. But adults... well, we are incredibly intimidated wh
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    37 mins
  • Creating Professional Course Videos

    Creating Professional Course Videos
    Jul 6 2021
    In Episode 12 of Your Greatest Work, Manja and Amanda talk about strategies for creating professional course videos! ... Many courses involve video components. Why not? Videos can engage your visual and audio senses, make the course seem more personable, and simply mix-up learning activities. There are several styles of learning videos and today we discuss Amanda's specialty "talking head" format. Now we've all seen poorly done learning videos — we've all skipped past poorly done learning videos. So how can you avoid this and create effective video content? Amanda Horvath has loads of experience creating videos and designing courses. Her DIY Video Roadmap is high quality and 5 Star for helping you share professional video thought leadership online. She shares in this episode some top tips on how to create high-quality learning videos. #1. Always structure your videos According to Amanda, people often think that they can just sit down in front of a camera and record themselves ta
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    38 mins
  • Creating Explosive Online Learning Experiences

    Creating Explosive Online Learning Experiences
    Jun 29 2021
    Manja and Cath talk about finding creative ways to make learning experiences engaging and even explosive. Some courses are dry. Like mouth-parchingly, kind of like eating flour, click-through-as-fast as possible sort of dry. But learning doesn't have to be dry. Learning can be engaging and exciting and —dare we say it?— explosive. How? Creative delivery. Learn about Cath's creative process, where she finds inspiration and why she is passionate about exciting learning.
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    46 mins
  • Every Program Should Have Skills Practice

    Every Program Should Have Skills Practice
    Jun 22 2021
    Taking hard communication skills and helping people practice them in a safe and effective way can boost on the job performance by up to 50%. Want to know how to sustain sales, communication, and DEI training with experiential learning? At Practica Learning, where today’s guest Doug Robertson is the AVP of business development, they do this. There, the learning doesn’t stop after the knowledge has been transferred in an individual training session. They’ve created a reality providing opportunity for people to practice the skills either before they go back to their workplaces, or just after they get to the workplace. Wouldn't that make a difference to their ability to take the knowledge that they had learned and transfer it to the workplace; put learning into practice and change their behaviors? We talk about the unique way in which Practica Learning does this. It’s their incredible ability to create a safe learning environment that makes all the difference for learning retention. Liste
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    41 mins
  • Neuroscience of Learning

    Neuroscience of Learning
    Jun 15 2021
    Marketing is so wildly successful because sales and marketing people have been able to capture the primal brain, triggering emotion and primal urges to buy. This exact same neuroscience applies to learning design. In the process of change, it starts with awareness. A lot of course creators are trying to convince people with facts and data. Basically trying to convince the rational brain when in fact you should first impact the primal brain to impact decision. My guest in this week’s episode is Bogdan Manta. Making neuroscience digestible and easy to apply to our own learning experiences is his special skill. Bogdan Manta has key expertise in the fields of persuasive communication, neuromarketing, neuroscientific persuasion, behavior profiling, live immersive experiences, show production and more. Despite this impressive experience, ego doesn’t get in the way; he is a pleasure to learn from and you will absolutely take away ideas to appeal to the emotional brain, helping people learn a
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    42 mins