Train Like You Listen

Research shows that management quality is the single biggest predictor of employee satisfaction and retention. In this episode, Brian Washburn speaks with Dan Lawner, Founder of Bevel Talent, about why managers are the key to employee engagement and organizational success. They discuss common challenges mid-sized organizations face as they grow, what makes leadership development programs effective, and practical ways to start improving leadership, even without formal programs.From accountability and peer support to mentorship and cohort discussions, Dan shares actionable strategies to address leadership gaps and help organizations align managers, boost engagement, and drive performance.📖 Brian shows how the build-borrow-buy approach can help small L&D teams deliver amazing training in Instructional Design on a Shoestring. 📖 Brian’s first book, What’s Your Formula? helps professionals find the right approach for their business problems. You can also check out the companion website, 51 Elements of Learning. 🆓 Get access to more free resources from Endurance Learning. 🎓 Learn about Endurance Learning’s Foundations of L&D course at L&D Pro Academy.📜 Read the full transcript of this episode.💻 Start a FREE TRIAL of Soapbox +AI, the revolutionary tool helping professionals created facilitated training faster and better.

If you're interested in how L&D professionals can support better leadership at every level of an organization, check out my latest podcast with The HR Lady, Wendy Sellers. Wendy brings a direct, practical approach to leadership, and she doesn’t shy away from tough conversations or tough truths.Tune in to hear thoughts on what leadership really means, why titles don’t make leaders, and how HR and L&D can work together to support stronger workplace culture and retention.Wendy also shares a practical technique (something you could try tomorrow with your team!) to help leaders step outside their own perspective.📖 Check out Wendy's book Suck It Up, Buttercup: Be a Leader People Will Follow.📖 Brian shows how the build-borrow-buy approach can help small L&D teams deliver amazing training in Instructional Design on a Shoestring. 📖 Brian’s first book, What’s Your Formula? helps professionals find the right approach for their business problems. You can also check out the companion website, 51 Elements of Learning. 🆓 Get access to more free resources from Endurance Learning. 🎓 Learn about Endurance Learning’s Foundations of L&D course at L&D Pro Academy.📜 Read the full transcript of this episode.💻 Start a FREE TRIAL of Soapbox +AI, the revolutionary tool helping professionals created facilitated training faster and better.

Host Brian Washburn chats with learning consultant and author Mike Taylor about his new book, Think Like a Marketer, Train Like an L&D Pro, which he co-authored with Bianca Baumann. Taylor dives into the overlap between marketing and learning & development (L&D), arguing that marketers are far better at capturing attention and sparking behavior change, two areas where L&D often falls short. He shares ways that, with just a shift in mindset, applying marketing principles to training design can create a strikingly more engaging and effective learning experience.📖 Visit Mike Taylor's book website Train Like a Marketer📗Get Mike Taylor's book: Think Like a Marketer, Train Like an L&D Pro🎯 Use AI in your training process with the free learning objectives generator.📙Brian simplifies training design in his book, Instructional Design on a Shoestring. 📘 Brian’s book, What’s Your Formula? helps professionals find the right approach for their business problems. You can also check out the companion website, 51 Elements of Learning. 🆓 Get access to more free resources on this topic and others from Endurance Learning. 💻 Start a FREE TRIAL of Soapbox with AI, the revolutionary tool helping professionals created facilitated training faster and better.

Whether you are working in an NGO or not, this discussion with Gretchen Regehr from Conservation International will have you thinking more deeply about the role of both talent management and talent development in your organization.I've added some links below to relevant resources including the newest, our Free Learning Objectives Generator!🎯 Create training session descriptions and learning objectives with a free learning objectives generator.📖 Brian shows how the build-borrow-buy approach can help small L&D teams deliver amazing training in Instructional Design on a Shoestring. 📖 Brian’s first book, What’s Your Formula? helps professionals find the right approach for their business problems. You can also check out the companion website, 51 Elements of Learning. 🆓 Get access to more free resources from Endurance Learning. 🎓 Learn about Endurance Learning’s Foundations of L&D course at L&D Pro Academy.📜 Read the full transcript of the discussion of Talent Development in NGO's.💻 Start a FREE TRIAL of Soapbox, the revolutionary tool helping professionals created facilitated training faster and better.

Brian spoke with John Edinger, a trainer he met while delivering a train-the-trainer session.John shares just what it was about the design of the program that he went through that inspired him to be doing things new or differently or better, even though he'd already been training for a while. 📖 Brian shows how the build-borrow-buy approach can help small L&D teams deliver amazing training in Instructional Design on a Shoestring. 📖 Brian’s first book, What’s Your Formula? helps professionals find the right approach for their business problems. You can also check out the companion website, 51 Elements of Learning. 🆓 Get access to more free resources from Endurance Learning. 🎓 Learn about Endurance Learning’s Foundations of L&D course at L&D Pro Academy.📜 Read the full transcript of this episode.💻 Start a FREE TRIAL of Soapbox, the revolutionary tool helping professionals created facilitated training faster and better.

How strategic is your training program? How outcome-oriented, governed or sustainable is it? In today's podcast, Danielle Duran speaks with Brian Washburn about how to objectively measure your training program in those four key areas.Endurance Learning is a full-service training design and development firm that has helped dozens of organizations build out mature training programs using elearning, instructor-led training, and train-the-trainer programs. Since 2015, our team of expert instructional designers and developers has helped professionals with deep subject matter expertise design and develop training that delivers real impact.📖 Brian shows how the build-borrow-buy approach can help small L&D teams deliver amazing. training in Instructional Design on a Shoestring. 📖 Brian’s first book, What’s Your Formula? helps professionals find the right approach for their business problems. You can also check out the companion website, 51 Elements of Learning.🆓 Get access to more free resources to help develop your training program from Endurance Learning. 📝 If you want to learn more about creating your own training, read about what questions you should ask yourself when building a program.🎙️Listen to Brian talk with Michelle Baker about some of the most common training elements and how to use them effectively.🎓 Learn about Endurance Learning’s Foundations of L&D course, which can help you build a training program, at L&D Pro Academy.📜 Read the full transcript of this episode.💻 Build your training program faster with a FREE TRIAL of Soapbox, the revolutionary tool helping professionals create facilitated training and develop training programs faster and better.

Natalie Mazzie, an experienced sales enablement professional, discussed the crossover between training and sales enablement. Hear the Top 3 Sales Enablement Lessons for Learning & Development Professionals and more in this conversation with Endurance Learning's Brian Washburn.www.endurancelearning.com

If you've ever been to an escape room, you can observe what a group of highly engaged people look like for 60 straight minutes. Is there a way to harness escape room design elements and bring them into the world of corporate training? Brian talks to Nate Martin, often cited as the founding father of the American escape room experience.While the team at Endurance Learning hasn’t designed any actual escape rooms (but did include a digital escape room in its Foundations of L&D program) it is well known as a full-service training development partner, specializing in elearning, instructor-led training, and train-the-trainer programs. Since 2015, our team of expert instructional designers and developers has helped professionals with deep subject matter expertise design and develop training that delivers real impact.📖 Learn more about how you can use instructional design and how the build-borrow-buy approach can help small L&D teams deliver amazing training in Brian's book Instructional Design on a Shoestring. 📖 Brian’s first book, What’s Your Formula? helps professionals find the right approach for their business problems.📝 Read about how you can combine AI and instructional design to perfect your results.🆓 Get access to more free resources from Endurance Learning. 🎓 Learn about Endurance Learning’s Foundations of L&D course at L&D Pro Academy.📜 Read the full transcript of this episode.💻 Want to perfect your instructional design? Start a FREE TRIAL of Soapbox, the revolutionary tool helping professionals create facilitated training faster and better.

If you're looking to pivot into a role in the corporate training or learning and development space, this episode will give you some insights and questions to think about.Transitioning fields can be tough, but Endurance Learning’s team of instructional designers can ease the pressure. Endurance Learning is a full-service training development partner, specializing in elearning, instructor-led training, and train-the-trainer programs. Since 2015, our team of expert instructional designers and developers has helped professionals with deep subject matter expertise design and develop training that delivers real impact.📖 Brian shows how the build-borrow-buy approach can help small L&D teams deliver amazing training in Instructional Design on a Shoestring. 📖 Pivot into corporate training and L&D effectively with Brian’s first book, What’s Your Formula? that helps professionals find the right approach for their business problems. You can also check out the companion website, 51 Elements of Learning.🎙️Listen to Brian talk more with Asha Aravindakshan about pivoting into L&D. 📖 Read Asha Aravindakshan’s book Skills: The Common Denominator and learn more about transitioning careers.🆓 Get access to more free resources about corporate training and learning & development from Endurance Learning. 🎓 Learn everything you need to know to be successful in learning and development with Endurance Learning’s Foundations of L&D course at L&D Pro Academy.📜 Read the full transcript of this episode.💻 Need some help in your new corporate training position? Start a FREE TRIAL of Soapbox, the revolutionary tool helping professionals create facilitated training faster and better.

The constructal law of design and evolution in nature can actually be applied in very concrete ways to the world of learning and professional development to help individuals, teams and organizations flow more efficiently.Endurance Learning is a full-service training development partner, specializing in elearning, instructor-led training, and train-the-trainer programs. Since 2015, our team of expert instructional designers and developers has helped professionals with deep subject matter expertise design and develop training that delivers real impact.📖 Brian shows how the build-borrow-buy approach can help small L&D teams deliver amazing training in Instructional Design on a Shoestring. 📖 Brian’s first book, What’s Your Formula? helps professionals find the right approach for their business problems.🆓 Get access to more free resources from Endurance Learning. 🎓 Learn more about incorporating natural laws of design and evolution with Endurance Learning’s Foundations of L&D course at L&D Pro Academy.📜 Read the full transcript of Connecting Theoretical Physics with Learning & Development.💻 Start a FREE TRIAL of Soapbox, the revolutionary tool helping professionals create facilitated training faster and better.

Karl Kapp has written 8 books, created 11 LinkedIn Learning courses and has an entire YouTube channel devoted to game and game design. Today on the podcast, he spends some time talking about how to bring game elements into learning.Endurance Learning is a full-service training development partner, specializing in elearning, instructor-led training, and train-the-trainer programs. Since 2015, our team of expert instructional designers and developers has helped professionals with deep subject matter expertise design and develop training that delivers real impact.📖 Is your team struggling with incorporating game design into training? Brian shows how the build-borrow-buy approach can help small L&D teams deliver amazing training in Instructional Design on a Shoestring. 📖 Still finding it hard to work games into your learning design? Brian’s first book, What’s Your Formula? helps professionals find the right approach for their business problems. Brian shares more about Gamification and Games on 51elementsoflearning.com.🎙️Listen to Brian talk with Lauren Wescott on cooperative and competitive games and their place in training.🆓 Get access to more free resources that can help you gamify your training from Endurance Learning. 🎓 Learn more about game design with Endurance Learning’s Foundations of L&D course at L&D Pro Academy.📜 Read the full transcript of Getting Started with Game Design.💻 Start a FREE TRIAL of Soapbox and incorporate games into your training design with the revolutionary tool helping professionals create facilitated training faster and better.

What can anyone who designs training learn from the way a keynote speaker designs and refines their presentation? Reknowned keynote speaker, Jessica Kriegel, answers that question and more in today's podcast.