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The Mindtools L&D Podcast — 522 episodes · page 1 of 6

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518 — Julie Dirksen takeover: What does it mean to be 'the human in the loop'?

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517 — Julie Dirksen takeover: Who judges the work when AI contributed?

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516 — Is AI turning us into idiots?

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515 — Is performance the real cause of burnout?

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514 — Learning design was never about building courses

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513 — Articulate goes all in on AI: our reaction

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512 — Learner enthusiasm, AI tutors, and a neuromyth that won't die

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511 — L&D at scale: How do you support 750,000 people?

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510 — You don't have to talk to add value (Rebroadcast)

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509 — What are L&D teams really doing with AI?

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508 — What will compliance training look like in the age of AI?

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507 — Do learning games still have a place?

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506 — Is your AI companion a colleague or rival?

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505 — Are your managers killing your AI strategy?

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504 — Becoming a skills-based organization

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503 — The Eras Tour: Part 4 (AI takes over)

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502 — The Eras Tour: Part 3 (The hybrid period)

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501 — The Eras Tour: Part 2 (The pandemic years)

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500 — The Eras Tour: Part 1 (Starting with evidence)

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499 — Why workplace learning has never been more important

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498 — Know yourself to know others

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497 — The business impact of play at work (Rebroadcast)

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496 — How to project presence

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495 — Driving performance with AI

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494 — What we learned at Learning Tech 2026

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493 — Developing the timeless skill of communication

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492 — Enabling frontline workers to succeed

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491 — Better meetings, more psychological safety, and cognitive offloading

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490 — Creating the environment for self-directed learning

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489 — Are you levelling up your managers?

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488 — L&D is a bit more complicated than that

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487 — The future of e-learning interfaces (Rebroadcast)

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486 — How to escape the 'hero trap'

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485 — What will be hot in workplace L&D in 2026?

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484 — Level-up your LMS: How points and rewards drive behavior

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483 — The insider secrets L&D pros want you to know

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482 — Are organizations getting AI upskilling wrong?

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481 — Managers: The "squeezed" middle

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480 — Click 'Next' to acknowledge

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479 — So, you're new here?

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478 — Navigating the fog of learning design

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477 — A Manager's Guide to Self-Development

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476 — Christmas Special: Die Hard on an LMS

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475 — Is self-directed learning a myth?

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474 — So long 2025, what's hot for 2026?

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473 — Learning at LV=

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472 — Delivering business value

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471 — A long-term view on learning

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470 — AI in L&D: The Race for Impact

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469 — How businesses can hold on to their best people

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468 — What can L&D learn from product management? (Rebroadcast)

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467 — Decisions, decisions, decisions... by AI?

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466 — What L&D should (and shouldn't) be doing with AI

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465 — The business impact of play at work

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464 — Order taker to strategic business partner

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463 — The empathy problem: Balancing emotion in decision-making

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462 — Umbrage over troubled water: Disputing last week's episode

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461 — It takes a village: Isolating training's impact

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460 — The irony of L&D: When do we develop ourselves?

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459 — OHLs over OKRs: A new approach to goal-setting

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458 — What do you bench(mark)?

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457 — Evaluation or justification?

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456 — Building tolerance in the workplace

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455 — The case (for some people) to go back to the office

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454 — Designing learning experiences that feel authentic

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453 — What's your e-learning P(doom)?

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452 — Pity the frontline manager

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451 — Upskilling your managers on AI tools

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450 — AI and the Future of Content (Assemble You crossover episode)

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449 — Performance support is back, baby! (Assemble You crossover episode)

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448 — Encouraging teams to adopt AI

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447 — Hard science, soft skills: L&D in the space sector

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446 — Think Like a Marketer, Train Like an L&D Pro

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445 — Setting up a L&D team

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444 — This game will make you a better collaborator

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443 — So, you've decided to be creative...

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442 — Is AI making us dumber?

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441 — Podcasts for learning and the end of email

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440 — Terrible task? Just delegate it!

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439 — Leveraging data for inclusion and wellbeing

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438 — Where culture and learning collide

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437 — How to build engagement with your content libraries (Rebroadcast)

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436 — Content libraries: Less is more

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435 — What will be hot in workplace L&D in 2025?

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434 — Cyborgs, centaurs and the role of choice infrastructure

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433 — What does 'AI literacy' look like in organizations?

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432 — Sales enablement for product teams

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431 — Sales enablement for sales and marketing teams

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430 — Digital learning for behavior change

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429 — Developing leaders at the National Trust

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428 — The art and science of better questions

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427 — Designing an award-winning blended learning programme

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426 — Making hybrid work… work!

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425 — Christmas Special: L&D Actually

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424 — Why emotions make simulations so powerful

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423 — Embracing change by 'unlearning' (Rebroadcast)

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422 — The future of e-learning interfaces

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421 — Good managers balance care with results

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420 — Toxic productivity: Time to say 'no!'

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419 – Measurement on a shoestring