This blog post explores the design process and learning possibilities of workbooks.

Michelle Ockers joins the Learning While Working podcast to talk about what are some of the critical skills for L&D teams, being mindful of our blindspots, how L&D experts are ‘impact explorers’, and some key insights from her podcast, Learning Uncut.

Ant Pugh helps unfulfilled learning designers graduate from frustrated order-takers to valued business partners. In this conversation, Ant talks about why the vast majority of learning in the world today is ineffective – and what learning designers can leverage from ‘documenting’ daily to an audience.

Dani Johnson joins the Learning While Working podcast to discuss key insights from their Next-gen Learning Method Report, how the RedThread’s Employee Development frameworks help organisations improve their learning cultures, and why L&D roles are becoming more central to organisations.

Geoff Rip joins the Learning While Working podcast to share his Six Lenses Evaluation Model that he has developed as part of his Predictable Performance Design methodology, which aims to make it easier and faster to design training that is both engaging and effective.

Jeff’s main focus is on internal mobility and skills based talent management through upskilling and reskilling teams and employees. Listen as we delve into his 20 Questions framework, having performance conversations and how to handle push back from stakeholders about working differently.

Warren Kennard joins the show to share how we can develop future skills in workplaces from higher education, the power of tailoring off-the-shelf programs, and the need to keep focused on the learner.

Aman Eid believes in the power of learning to transform humans and social communities. As an Organisational Designer and Learning Strategist, it was great having Aman on the show to share what it takes to reimagine organisational learning. Tune in as we explore striving for the ‘thrivability’ of organisations.

Working in pairs is a common practice in software development, it can also be an effective ‘learning while working activity’ in any workplace.

In our digital first world, workbooks are often an overlooked learning strategy. They don’t have to be one-dimensional printed documents, they can be exciting tools to help learners summarise, reflect, plan for change and track new behaviours.