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The Mindtools L&D Podcast

The Mindtools L&D Podcast is a must-listen for anyone involved in Learning and Development or Human Resources. The weekly show features regular appearances from the Mind Tools team plus special guests to get right to the heart of issues affecting the L&D and HR communities. From learning needs analysis and evidence-based practice through to the impact of technology on work and hot topics at industry conferences, you'll get critical insights into the world of work, performance and learning.

Are you levelling up your managers?

44 mins; March 31, 2026

L&D is a bit more complicated than that

38 mins; March 24, 2026

The future of e-learning interfaces (Rebroadcast)

50 mins; March 17, 2026

How to escape the 'hero trap'

41 mins; March 10, 2026

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

41 mins; March 03, 2026

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

44 mins; February 24, 2026

The insider secrets L&D pros want you to know

38 mins; February 17, 2026

482 — Are organizations getting AI upskilling wrong?

36 mins; February 10, 2026

Managers: The "squeezed" middle

41 mins; February 02, 2026

480 — Click 'Next' to acknowledge

37 mins; January 27, 2026

479 — So, you're new here?

36 mins; January 20, 2026

478 — Navigating the fog of learning design

30 mins; January 13, 2026

477 — A Manager's Guide to Self-Development

37 mins; January 06, 2026

Christmas Special: Die Hard on an LMS

32 mins; December 23, 2025

Is self-directed learning a myth?

32 mins; December 16, 2025

So long 2025, what's hot for 2026?

41 mins; December 10, 2025

Learning at LV=

30 mins; December 02, 2025

472 — Delivering business value

41 mins; November 25, 2025

471 — A long-term view on learning

38 mins; November 18, 2025

470 — AI in L&D: The Race for Impact

34 mins; November 11, 2025

469 — How businesses can hold on to their best people

27 mins; November 04, 2025

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

35 mins; October 28, 2025

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

40 mins; October 21, 2025

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

30 mins; October 14, 2025

The business impact of play at work

41 mins; October 07, 2025

Order taker to strategic business partner

40 mins; September 30, 2025

The empathy problem: Balancing emotion in decision-making

40 mins; September 23, 2025

Umbrage over troubled water: Disputing last week's episode

38 mins; September 15, 2025

It takes a village: Isolating training's impact

36 mins; September 09, 2025

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

35 mins; September 02, 2025

OHLs over OKRs: A new approach to goal-setting

48 mins; August 25, 2025

458 — What do you bench(mark)?

36 mins; August 19, 2025

457 — Evaluation or justification?

39 mins; August 12, 2025

456 — Building tolerance in the workplace

33 mins; August 05, 2025

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

33 mins; July 29, 2025

454 — Designing learning experiences that feel authentic

33 mins; July 22, 2025

What's your e-learning P(doom)?

35 mins; July 15, 2025

Pity the frontline manager

49 mins; July 08, 2025

451 — Upskilling your managers on AI tools

42 mins; July 01, 2025

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

36 mins; June 24, 2025

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

40 mins; June 17, 2025

448 — Encouraging teams to adopt AI

35 mins; June 10, 2025

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

43 mins; June 03, 2025

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

35 mins; May 27, 2025

445 — Setting up a L&D team

33 mins; May 21, 2025

This game will make you a better collaborator

36 mins; May 13, 2025

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

34 mins; May 06, 2025

Is AI making us dumber?

40 mins; April 29, 2025

Podcasts for learning and the end of email

42 mins; April 21, 2025

Terrible task? Just delegate it!

37 mins; April 15, 2025

Leveraging data for inclusion and wellbeing

44 mins; April 08, 2025

438 — Where culture and learning collide

40 mins; April 01, 2025

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

40 mins; March 25, 2025

Content libraries: Less is more

38 mins; March 18, 2025

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

41 mins; March 11, 2025

434 — Cyborgs, centaurs and the role of choice infrastructure

43 mins; March 04, 2025

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

39 mins; February 25, 2025

432 — Sales enablement for product teams

31 mins; February 18, 2025

Sales enablement for sales and marketing teams

31 mins; February 11, 2025

Digital learning for behavior change

41 mins; February 04, 2025

Developing leaders at the National Trust

36 mins; January 28, 2025

The art and science of better questions

48 mins; January 21, 2025

Designing an award-winning blended learning programme

33 mins; January 14, 2025

Making hybrid work… work!

40 mins; January 07, 2025

Christmas Special: L&D Actually

39 mins; December 17, 2024

Why emotions make simulations so powerful

46 mins; December 10, 2024

Embracing change by 'unlearning' (Rebroadcast)

38 mins; December 03, 2024

The future of e-learning interfaces

50 mins; November 26, 2024

Good managers balance care with results

39 mins; November 19, 2024

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

34 mins; November 12, 2024

Measurement on a shoestring

39 mins; November 05, 2024

How do we measure management capability?

33 mins; October 29, 2024

Can L&D be the new R&D?

39 mins; October 22, 2024

Book Club: Power to the Middle

42 mins; October 15, 2024

Who is responsible for learning at work?

39 mins; October 08, 2024

The Learning and Development Handbook Returns: Part 2 - Requiem

36 mins; October 01, 2024

Your questions answered (Part 2)

37 mins; September 24, 2024

Three research papers with Jane Bozarth (Rebroadcast)

44 mins; September 17, 2024

Your questions answered (Part 1)

40 mins; September 10, 2024

Agile L&D puts the 'human' into 'Human Resources'

49 mins; September 03, 2024

Communication skills for geeks

34 mins; August 27, 2024

Early careers: What if we teach them and they leave?

35 mins; August 20, 2024

Revisiting 70:20:10: From learning to performance

52 mins; August 13, 2024

Revisiting 70:20:10: Theory into practice

45 mins; August 06, 2024

405 — What's in your book bag this summer?

46 mins; July 30, 2024

We're all too busy for your L&D

32 mins; July 23, 2024

How do we support more experienced managers?

44 mins; July 16, 2024

How do we build better managers?

39 mins; July 09, 2024

What makes a great manager

45 mins; July 02, 2024

400th Episode Special!

40 mins; June 25, 2024

How to build engagement with your content libraries

39 mins; June 18, 2024

Star Trek Special: The future of AI

46 mins; June 11, 2024

Do organizational learning communities ever work?

41 mins; June 04, 2024

396 — Applying the COM-B model for behavior change

41 mins; May 28, 2024

Once upon a time: Data-based storytelling in L&D

35 mins; May 21, 2024

394 — Burn your bullsh*t in a bonfire moment

42 mins; May 14, 2024

Is positive psychology practical?

39 mins; May 07, 2024

Adaptive vs linear courses: Which performs better?

42 mins; April 30, 2024

Knock out your tasks with timeboxing

44 mins; April 23, 2024

Joining forces with your brain

35 mins; April 16, 2024

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