Like you, we at Bluewater are passionate about people and their potential, so we’re tackling the constantly changing world of learning & talent and the technology implications through this podcast. We will focus on a variety of learning and talent-focused topics each week and how these topics impact the way HR and L&D departments are making decisions every day.
Episodes
Mar 11, 2021
Mar 11, 2021
37 min
Welcome to a brand-new episode of the Human Side of Learning and Talent Technology!
In today’s episode, we discuss how to choose an effective learning and talent technology as well as important questions to ask yourself during this process.
We also discuss:
- Recapping the Texas snowpocalypse
- What do you need to know to effectively choose an LMS?
- Processes versus functionality? It depends!
- How important is looking forward when choosing learning technology?
- What role does analytics play?
- What happens when technology falls short?
- How to start thinking 7-10 years down the road
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Mar 2, 2021
Mar 2, 2021
40 min
Welcome to a brand-new episode of the Human Side of Learning and Talent Technology!
Today’s topic has to do with the actual process of evaluating your current learning ecosystem and what that might look like for your organization.
We also discuss:
- Does Chris only wear one outfit?
- Mapping out the employee lifecycle to start
- What does a learning ecosystem require?
- What does waste in technology systems look like?
- How do you gather critical data?
- Don’t solve for the business, solve with the business
- How to include vendors in the evaluation process
- What does the timeframe look like?
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Feb 24, 2021
Feb 24, 2021
27 min
Welcome to a brand-new episode of the Human Side of Learning and Talent Technology!
Today we dive deep into why evaluating your learning ecosystem is critical to the success of developing your employees.
We also discuss:
- Chris having an unwanted visitor in his house
- How roughly 60% of companies are currently reevaluating their learning technology this year
- Why are people evaluating their learning tech right now?
- What’s an effective learning ecosystem based on?
- How do skills gaps effect your evaluation
- Why there is no such thing as a single solution
- Why evaluation of your systems are critical
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Feb 10, 2021
Feb 10, 2021
30 min
Welcome to a new episode of the Human Side of Learning & Talent Technology!
In this episode, we discuss how to build a technology ecosystem and why that’s a critical part of managing your learning & talent technology.
We also cover the following topics:
- Living life as a ginger in the sun
- What do you do on vacation?
- What is a learning ecosystem?
- What are the goals of an effective ecosystem?
- What do I need to understand in order to start building a learning ecosystem?
- How does this impact career pathing?
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Feb 5, 2021
Feb 5, 2021
33 min
Welcome to another episode of the Human Side of Learning & Talent Technology!
Today we cover how to evaluate your current learning & talent tech when deciding whether to fix it or ditch it. We also touch on the following topics.
- What travel did you miss due to COVID?
- Digging deeper into Fix it or Ditch it
- How do you begin to evaluate your current technology?
- Addressing the 7 key areas of learning & talent technology
- What is your user experience?
- Do you have the right content? Content is king.
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Jan 27, 2021
Jan 27, 2021
34 min
Today we address how to handle skills in the workplace in our increasingly virtual world.
We start the podcast off with a critically important question, do aliens exist?
We also discuss:
- The importance of defining necessary skills
- How living in a skill-based economy effects the workplace
- How skills and career paths intersect
- Capabilities of AI in addressing skills
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Jan 20, 2021
Jan 20, 2021
32 min
Today we do a quick 2020 recap and have a welcome embrace of the new year!
We also cover the topic of addressing skill in the workplace and discuss:
- How the need for skills have evolved
- What are the effects of technology/working from home on skills
- What skills are transferrable and why is that important?
- What is the benefit of focusing on skills
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Jan 14, 2021
Jan 14, 2021
41 min
In our latest episode, we keep digging into whether to fix or ditch your learning & talent technology. Today we focus on the topic of technology and discuss:
- The three reasons to either ditch or fix your learning & talent technology
- Stories of organizations who decided to either fix or ditch their learning & talent technology systems and why they did it
- Why someone would want to ditch their learning & talent technology in the first place?
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Jan 6, 2021
Jan 6, 2021
30 min
In this episode, we discuss whether to fix or ditch your learning and talent technology.
We also cover:
- Tiffany has new twins (goats)
- We deep dive into the strategy behind effective learning & talent technology
- We ask how to know when to either ix or ditch your learning & talent technology
- We cover the three main reasons to either fix or ditch your current learning & talent technology
Fix:
You are looking for an immediate impact on your people and finance
You recognize it’s not your technology that’s bad, it just needs to be updated or optimized
You have no new budget for getting new learning & talent technology
Ditch:
Organizational frustration - there’s no way to recover
Your current technology does not solve your specific business problems
You need a comprehensive learning and talent ecosystem
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Dec 17, 2020
Dec 17, 2020
51 min
Welcome back to The Human Side of Learning and Talent Technologies! This episode, we dive deep into utilizing tech in order to drive employee engagement. We cover topics like:
- What does the marriage of technology & engagement look like?
- Using technology for effective recruiting
- How can technology effect employee growth & promotions?
- What are effective strategies to incorporate technology with onboarding?
- What does effective use of management technology look like?
- How does technology impact pay?
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