The Training Guy
I post weekly videos on YouTube about training, leadership, technology, and other topics relevant to a Learning and Development organization. I share my expertise from years of experience in the L&D world as both an independent contributor and a leader, as well as content that I’ve learned as I continue to grow and develop in the space.
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L&D and AI Assistant Training
It's time we look at how this works, and how Learning and Development is the team that can make this happen.Show More

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L&D and AI Assistant Training
Learning and Development is poised to be the best team to enable your ...
Learning and Development is poised to be the best team to enable your company with AI Assistants. Not AI chatbots, not AI Agents, but fully proactive AI Assistants for ...your employees, 10x'ing their performance and, as a consequence, your company. But those employees need to know how to use their AI Assistants in their roles, what to delegate to AI, what to own. Likewise, your AI Assistants need to know what's expected of them when working with their humans.
It's time we look at how this works, and how Learning and Development is the team that can make this happen.Show More
It's time we look at how this works, and how Learning and Development is the team that can make this happen.Show More

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Future of AI in Learning and Development
AI is changing things fast. Last year, when attending DevLearn, I saw ...
AI is changing things fast. Last year, when attending DevLearn, I saw some basic tasks or avatars. This year? Full course creation from a prompt. What's ...missing? Learning Paths, though AI Agents are able to manage that with some set up. What of the future? Openclaw gives us a glimpse of what that would be. Let's discuss!Show More

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Social Learning: An essential part of your learning journey
As L&D Professionals we focus a lot on delivering courses, content, ...
As L&D Professionals we focus a lot on delivering courses, content, and classes. We set up learning paths for students, and expect them to magically pick up what they ...learn from that. Or, if you are a manager, you probably think folks should just read the manual and learn on their own.
The reality is, we learn in a 70/20/10 rule: 70% self-guided learning, 10% formal course learning, and 20% is learning socially. This is often forgotten or misunderstood. So, let's talk about it!Show More
The reality is, we learn in a 70/20/10 rule: 70% self-guided learning, 10% formal course learning, and 20% is learning socially. This is often forgotten or misunderstood. So, let's talk about it!Show More

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Operationalizing AI
So, you've decided to use AI, and you even have someone in charge to ...
So, you've decided to use AI, and you even have someone in charge to take ownership of your AI platform. Now what? Why does it still feel like ...AI isn't working, or that it's not being utilized fully? Perhaps you are asking the wrong questions.
In this edition of Leadership in Learning, we dive into operationalizing your AI strategy, how it works, and what you can do to make that happen. This context will be centered on Learning and Development, but the principles are the same.Show More
In this edition of Leadership in Learning, we dive into operationalizing your AI strategy, how it works, and what you can do to make that happen. This context will be centered on Learning and Development, but the principles are the same.Show More

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Scaling with a Strong Enablement Program
There's a common myth that enablement programs are not important. ...
There's a common myth that enablement programs are not important. After all, that's why we have Customer Success, right? Or perhaps, the Deployment or Implementation team should have trained ...the customer correctly. This is snapshot customer training, not true enablement.Show More

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Becoming Neurodivergent-Inclusive
Continuing with the theme from my LinkedIn posts, let's discuss some ...
Continuing with the theme from my LinkedIn posts, let's discuss some practical steps you can take to make your content, team, organization, or company more neurodivergent-inclusive.

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Motivation and Resilience
Resilience for your employees means moving them through their 5 levels ...
Resilience for your employees means moving them through their 5 levels of need. Let's discuss what they are, how to help employees move along, and building resilience along the ...way.Show More

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AI Series 5: AI and Learning
The capstone. We know what AI can do, and we know what it struggles ...
The capstone. We know what AI can do, and we know what it struggles with (at least at this point in time). Can we use AI in place ...of learning? Should we?
The original video posted by the Premier Institute for Theoretical Physics: https://youtu.be/0xS68sl2D70?si=ElRTIYjkIaIzARroShow More
The original video posted by the Premier Institute for Theoretical Physics: https://youtu.be/0xS68sl2D70?si=ElRTIYjkIaIzARroShow More

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AI Series 4: AI and Education
Is there a place for AI in Education? There's a lot of talk about how ...
Is there a place for AI in Education? There's a lot of talk about how AI will revolutionize education, much the same as radio was supposed to, then television, ...the internet, mobile learning, MOOCs, etc. How is AI going to be best utilized in education today?Show More

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AI Series 3: AI and Productivity
Stanford University conducted a study of 100,000 developers to ...
Stanford University conducted a study of 100,000 developers to determine if AI was increasing productivity. The short answer: yes, with a LOT of errors to be fixed. ...Let's discuss whether blindly using AI to replace roles is a good thing.
The link to the Stanford University presentation: https://youtu.be/tbDDYKRFjhk?si=_M6nBdc0KWOh6i5wShow More
The link to the Stanford University presentation: https://youtu.be/tbDDYKRFjhk?si=_M6nBdc0KWOh6i5wShow More

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AI Series 2: Agentic AI
Agentic AI understands the limitations of thinking that AI inherently ...
Agentic AI understands the limitations of thinking that AI inherently has and works around that by keeping context throughout the decision-making automation process. Let's walk through how Agentic AI ...leverages automation.Show More

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AI Series: 1. The Illusion of Thinking
AI has been a revolution, and will continue to impact the way we think ...
AI has been a revolution, and will continue to impact the way we think about the world around us. But how does it work? Let's dive into the ...recent articles by Apple and Anthropic to discuss the Illusion of Thinking.
Apple's article is here: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking
Anthropic's Response is here: https://arxiv.org/html/2506.09250v1Show More
Apple's article is here: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking
Anthropic's Response is here: https://arxiv.org/html/2506.09250v1Show More
