Community Discussion: What is your most helpful "non-ID" skill?

08/27/20 • 62 min

Call centers, food service, retail sales, catering - all places our community has picked up skills that have helped lead them to instructional design, skills that are sometimes called upon to do their jobs in L&D.

Quite a few guests with host Kristen Hayden Safdie in this one - including a live chicken. So give this episode a listen and you'll surely reflect on your own helpful "non instructional design" skills.

Featuring guests Cara North, Simon Blair, Kim Lindsey, Sam Rogers, Craig Sybert, and Katie Stroud.

Featuring guests Cara North, Simon Blair, Kim Lindsey, Sam Rogers, Craig Sybert, and Katie Stroud.

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It was a great pleasure to talk with Vanessa Alzate in our latest Member Showcase!

As the President and CEO of Anchored Training, this showcase shows you why Vanessa and her company are heading for great things. The passion and enthusiasm for what she does is evident throughout the conversation and she's only just getting started.

Check out her YouTube channel and be sure to connect with Vanessa!

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LMS Real Talk: Guest Quetzalcoatl Cortes on Life as an LMS Admin

Recently in our Slack group at tldchat.us, Rubina Halwani suggested bringing on some guests willing to talk about the LMSs they use or support, and what their experiences are like.

Excellent idea!

So in this episode, we talk with Quetzalcoatl Cortes about his experience as an LMS Admin. Quetzal is an instructional designer with a penchant for being resourceful --- pretty an ideal combination for being an LMS Admin.

And in this talk, I learned much more than I expected about the role of an LMS Admin, and how truly challenging the job can be.

In fact, the conversation was so rich in ideas and concepts, I've decided it's going to be the first part of a new TLDC playlist specifically about LMSs.

Give it a listen and you'll see why. And stay tuned for more episodes about how community members work with their LMS. It's an overlooked topic about a tool that is mission critical to the L&D function; this series is sure to be interesting and worth learning from.