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Writer, consultant and podcaster (The Learning Hack podcast) on learning and technology. NOT the journalist who writes on Russia with the same name.

Brighton, UK
Joined December 2008
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Missed it? Josh Cavalier on performance design, the supervision tax, and why there's no taking humans out of the loop. At DevLearn next week. Full conversation: linktr.ee/learninghack
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Josh Cavalier says that AI has a 'supervision tax'. Extract from LH134 AI's Hidden Tax with Josh Cavalier, on the Learning Hack podcast.
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"They're still order takers." Josh Cavalier on where most L&D practitioners are with AI, and where the job goes next. Trailer 👇 Full episode: linktr.ee/learninghack
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Now on YouTube: - Why instructional designers become performance designers. - Why agents are still rare behind the firewall. - Why Josh Cavalier "hates to say it" about jobs. My full conversation with Josh: ▶️ youtu.be/jmkM4yqg8D4
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New episode. LH134 AI's Hidden Tax with Josh Cavalier Most L&D practitioners are still order takers, says Josh Cavalier. On performance design, the "supervision tax", and the new hires who get the work done without understanding it. 🎧 linktr.ee/learninghack
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Missed it? Ross Stevenson on AI enablement, AI fluency, and why he doesn't know whether any of it will stick. LH133 The Great AI Steal 🎧 linktr.ee/learninghack
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Has L&D really grasped how different AI is? Ross Stevenson: mostly no. A mandate from senior leaders, and L&D told to make it stick. "It's kind of like this Wild West really." LH133 The Great AI Steal 🎧 linktr.ee/learninghack
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"A lot of this is not a technology issue, it's a people issue." Ross Stevenson on AI enablement. Trailer 👇 LH133 The Great AI Steal 🎧 linktr.ee/learninghack
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Now on YouTube: LH133 The Great AI Steal with Ross Stevenson. Ross Stevenson helps organisations to use AI productively. His job is not about adoption, he says, but enablement. ▶️ youtu.be/vwnZFeR_4J4
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New episode out now. LH133 The Great AI Steal with Ross Stevenson Licences, logins, minutes on the tool. That's adoption. Ross Stevenson argues enablement is the real work, and that it's a people issue, not a technology one. 🎧 linktr.ee/learninghack
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Missed it? The chair of World of Learning on why training doesn't stick, and what he wants delegates to take home from the NEC next week. Full conversation in thread ⬇️
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The Intern Did His Training For Him LH132 Your People Are Fine: It's the System That's Broken with Robin Hoyle Extract from my conversation with Robin Hoyle, Chair of the World of Learning conference. Full episode: linktr.ee/learninghack
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"If you pit a good performer against a bad system, the system invariably wins." Robin Hoyle on research from 1990 that L&D still hasn't acted on. Trailer 👇 Full episode: linktr.ee/learninghack
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Now on YouTube: - Why the training that works in one organisation fails in another. - Why leadership development comes always too late. - Why the job of all learning consultants is to make themselves redundant. My full conversation with Robin Hoyle: ▶️ youtu.be/F5yHzr_U7JQ
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New episode. LH132 Your People Are Fine: It's the System That's Broken with Robin Hoyle 1/3 of UK workers say their organisation gets in the way of them doing good work. Robin Hoyle on why that's a system problem, and how L&D keeps fudging it. 🎧 linktr.ee/learninghack
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Podcast producers chop episodes into chapters and break them up with music, and the reasons are usually aesthetic. Turns out there's a better reason, grounded in science. I'm writing about how science affects how we use podcasts for learning: learninghack.substack.com/p/…
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Missed it? Erica Farmer on writing about AI while it changes every few weeks, and why L&D should stop waiting for HR to tell it what to do. Full conversation: link in thread 🧵
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Erica Farmer, author of AI for People Professionals, says L&D's response to getting people up to speed is currently patchy. Some teams do it well, others ... don't. Full episode: linktr.ee/learninghack
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