Summary
This podcast episode has been inspired by the David James podcast interview with Tracey Waters on Agile L&D. Tracey taught 30,000 people from a very traditional learning and development process to an agile one, and it sparked my interest to find out who's doing this in New Zealand. My good friend Emma put me in touch with Nick Mackeson-Smith, Founder and CEO of FIVE NZ who develop world-class leaders, learning strategies, and capability programmes to give people an edge in business.
In this episode, I ask Nick key questions on what it takes to adopt the Agile way of learning in a traditional learning team, and he does not disappoint!
About the guest:
Nick Mackeson-Smith is the Director at Five NZ and an expert in leadership development, executive coaching, learning strategy design and implementation, culture change and engagement. He’s worked in capability and leadership in blue chip companies such as Mckinsey, Deloitte and Goldman Sachs. He’s passionate about people over process.
About your host Rustica Lamb:
Rustica is a learning designer, LMS consultant, edupreneur, facilitator and founder of Bloom Learning Technologies (2012). She is one of New Zealand’s best known learning and development personalities, a trusted L&D advisor and a well respected leader in the industry.
Rustica has 25+ years experience as an L&D Manager, eLearning designer, senior instructional designer, capability advisor, SAP trainer, facilitator, project manager and mentor. She designs learning experiences and spaces which are engaging, affirming, empowering and inspiring.
Rustica has worked internally and externally with a number of organisations, including: Westpac, ANZ, Ministry of Health, Contact Energy, Vodafone, Ministry of Justice, Mighty River Power, Telecom, Vodafone, Green Cross Health, Orion Health and Morgan & Banks. She held the position of Vice President for the New Zealand Association of Training and Development (NZATD) from 2012 to 2015, and was the NZATD Practitioner of the Year in 2012.
In this episode we discuss:
- What really is Agile learning?
- How to adopt the Agile way of learning in a traditional learning team
- How Nick and his team built their own LMS in just 5 weeks
- Traps to avoid when transitioning into Agile learning
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