
65 // Identifying Your Values with LCDR Chaplain Ryan Williams
06/29/21 • 43 min
Today’s guest is Lieutenant Commander Ryan Williams of the US Navy. Before joining the Navy he enlisted in the US Air Force where he served as a member of The Band of the Golden West and later he served as a staff chaplain at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Additionally, he served as a Staff Chaplain at St. Mark’s Hospital and the Salt Lake City VA hospital. Ryan’s Navy Chaplain Corps service has included assignments with the Marines, Clinical Staff Chaplain at Naval Medical Center in San Diego, Command Chaplain on the USNS MERCY hospital ship, and the USS Antietam. He is now at the US Coast Guard Training Center in Petaluma California.
Today we discuss:
- Identifying and aligning with your values
- The power of inviting reflection to make room for learning
- Motivation as an outcome of taking action
- Facing conflict by choosing to engage and letting go of controlling the outcome
Resources
- See the transcript and chapter headings on the LX Leader Website
- Join the conversation on LinkedIn
- 64 // Reframing Conflict and Helpfulness with Heather Gilmartin Adams
- 26 // The Outward Mindset with Sam Whitney
- 23 // Learner Agency & Responsibility with Dr. Michael Matthews
- The Application of Layer Theory to Design: The Control Layer (Dr. Andy Gibbons and Matt Langton)
Today’s guest is Lieutenant Commander Ryan Williams of the US Navy. Before joining the Navy he enlisted in the US Air Force where he served as a member of The Band of the Golden West and later he served as a staff chaplain at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Additionally, he served as a Staff Chaplain at St. Mark’s Hospital and the Salt Lake City VA hospital. Ryan’s Navy Chaplain Corps service has included assignments with the Marines, Clinical Staff Chaplain at Naval Medical Center in San Diego, Command Chaplain on the USNS MERCY hospital ship, and the USS Antietam. He is now at the US Coast Guard Training Center in Petaluma California.
Today we discuss:
- Identifying and aligning with your values
- The power of inviting reflection to make room for learning
- Motivation as an outcome of taking action
- Facing conflict by choosing to engage and letting go of controlling the outcome
Resources
- See the transcript and chapter headings on the LX Leader Website
- Join the conversation on LinkedIn
- 64 // Reframing Conflict and Helpfulness with Heather Gilmartin Adams
- 26 // The Outward Mindset with Sam Whitney
- 23 // Learner Agency & Responsibility with Dr. Michael Matthews
- The Application of Layer Theory to Design: The Control Layer (Dr. Andy Gibbons and Matt Langton)
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64 // Reframing Conflict and Helpfulness with Heather Gilmartin Adams
Heather is a senior consultant at RedThread Research. Trained in conflict resolution and organizational development, Heather has spent the past ten years in various capacities at organizational culture and mindset change consultancies as well as the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Today we talk about:
- Heather’s journey in trying to answer the question: how can I help people and organizations to stop fighting and get along?
- What makes us human and implications for learning design and conflict resolution
- Systems change vs behavioral change
- The 3 levels of partnership from Arbinger Institute and how to to reframe what it means to help
- Methods for approaching conflict and hard conversations, including saying “no”
Resources:
👉 ReadThread Research Paper - Humanizing Learning research
👉 Episode 26: The Outward Mindset with Sam Whitney
👉 Episode 49: Positive Deviance and Facilitating Transformational Leadership with Dr. Beth Wilkins
👉 The Making of a Manager: What to do When Everyone Looks to You (book)
👉 Difficult Conversations (book)
👉 Works from John Paul Lederach
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66 // Value Paths, Orientation, and the UX of Onboarding to New Products with Samuel Hulick
Samuel is the person behind UserOnboard.com, which provides tips and tricks for user onboarding in the form of critiques of popular web app onboarding examples. Samuel has worked with UX and User Onboarding for companies like Spotify, Audible, Intuit, and Khan Academy, and a host of others. He's also working on something new at ValuePaths.com, a growth framework for reliably and sustainably generating revenue.
Today we talk about:
- Overview of Samuel’s Value Path concept and how it relates to learning design
- The messy process of converting raw materials into a determined outcome
- How can we create an ecosystem to help people succeed beyond their expectations
- Orienting people towards the goal of your learning product will help them achieve
Resources:
- Learn more about Samuel and access his work: https://www.useronboard.com/contact/
- View the epic teardowns of onboarding sites at https://www.UserOnboard.com
- Video explaining the concept of value path: http://valuepaths.com/
Join the conversation on the LX Leader LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/learning-experience-leader-podcast
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