

I’m very well, thank you.īrian Washburn: Well, I’m excited to get into this conversation because a lot of what we talk about on this podcast, a lot of what you see on LinkedIn, a lot of what you’ll see through resources like ATD is all about formal training, whether it’s instructor-led or virtual or eLearning. let’s get to know who we’re talking with. If you want to try it for free, you can go visit Sign up, and you can try it out for two weeks, for free. So basically you go in, you tell the computer how long your presentation is, how many people are going to attend, is it going to be in-person, is it going to be virtual, what your learning objectives are, and then Soapbox will instantly generate a training plan for you that has clusters of training activities designed to help you accomplish each and every one of your learning outcomes. We’re going to be talking a little bit about the idea of learning without formal training.īefore we get into all of that, I do want to mention that today’s podcast is brought to you by Soapbox, which is an online tool you can use for 5 or 10 minutes, and you can take care of about 50 or 60% of the work when it comes to developing live, instructor-led training. I’m also the Co-founder of a training company called Endurance Learning, and today I am joined by Sherry Johnson Metz, who is the Owner and Principal Consultant at Lead Forward Consulting. Introductionīrian Washburn: Welcome, everyone, to another episode of Train Like You Listen, a podcast about all things learning and development in bite-sized chunks. In today’s podcast, Sherry shares her thoughts on how organizations can create a culture of learning without needing to create actual training.

Of course, training strategy development is very different from training development, and it actually may not include traditional training at all. Sherry Johnson Metz, the owner and principal consultant at Lead Forward Consulting, knows how to put training programs together for organizations, but where she really excels is in training strategy development.
