Getting Into And Smashing Your First L&D Role | L&D Disrupt Live | Episode 36

🤝 Thinking about transitioning into your first L&D role? ​😀 Maybe you’re new to a role and need that early stage advice? 🤔 You might be an old-head who’d benefit from hearing non-traditional L&D perspectives? Wherever you sit, you’ll learn something from Lauren Scholtz (L&D Manager at intelliHR) and Sarah Cannistra (The Overnight Trainer) Lauren transitioned from customer success and enablement into IntelliHR’s first L&D role. ​And Sarah Makes people’s learning and development career dreams a reality by coaching them into their first position in the industry. Running order 0:00 Intro to Sarah, Lauren and today’s episode. 5:52 Finding your L&D why. 10:15 Transferable skills to L&D. 15:40 Having the right mindset. 21:37 Work out the context for the role. 25:45 Audience question: Transitioning to a new L&D role 30:10 Audience question: Preparing for an L&D interview 36:32 Building a personal brand 42:29 Audience question: Getting buy-in for L&D 50:17 Leveraging your network as a newbie How To Connect Find Lauren on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenscholtz/ Find Sarah on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scannistra/ Learn more about The Overnight Trainer: https://www.theovernighttrainer.com/ Find Gary on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-stringer-copywriter/ Find HowNow on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/hownowteam Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hownowhq/ Our Website: https://gethownow.com/