Ep33: Donald H Taylor, Workplace Educator & Researcher

Today my guest is Donald H Taylor, an educator and researcher specialising in workplace learning and development (L&D). Donald has more than 30 years of experience across the globe, from English language teaching through to roles as director and vice-president of various software companies. In this episode Donald provides insights into the L&D Global Sentiment Survey, a survey he created over ten years ago to take the pulse of the global learning and development community. This one-minute survey attracts responses from thousands of respondents in over 80 countries, asking workplace trainers, facilitators and other professionals a single question: What will be hot in workplace learning and development this year? We explore approaches to survey scope and design, the data gathering processes and the final reporting. In our conversation, we find out some of the current trends including reskilling and upskilling, the use of data to inform L&D planning and practice, the recent spike in interest of collaborative and social learning, and preferred technologies, along with regional trends, such as a strong interest in collaboration in Sweden, and of micro learning in New Zealand. Links: https://donaldhtaylor.co.uk/