Hosted by Jeff Walter, Founder and CEO of LatitudeLearning
The Training Impact Podcast focuses on Partner Training Programs and how to maximize their impact on organizations. Iām Jeff Walter, host of the Training Impact Podcast, and Founder and CEO of LatitudeLearning. Iāve been a member of the Learning and Development industry for over twenty years. During that time, weāve accomplished much as an industry yet weāve ignored two important dimensions of our industry: Partners and Programs.
Partner Training (i.e. training resellers, franchises, authorized service providers, customers, suppliers, etc.) is the fastest growing segment of our industry and yet thereās little thought leadership on the unique challenges L&D professionals face training partners. Instead the industry focuses almost exclusively on challenges of employee training.
Managing Training Programs is what we do for a living and yet thereās little thought leadership on how to do this for maximum strategic effect. Instead the industry focuses almost exclusively on tactical course level techniques of instruction.
The Training Impact Podcast is my humble attempt to explore these two neglected dimensions of the Learning and Development industry: Partners and Programs. I will be interviewing partner training program managers and discuss the challenges they face training partners and techniques they use to manage those programs for maximum impact. Along the way Iāll also share insights weāve developed exploring partner training programs. It should be an exciting journey! Thank you for joining me, and thank you for listening.
Jeff Walter (00:02.072)
Hi, and welcome to the Training Impact Podcast. I’m your host, Jeff Walter, CEO of Latitude Learning. I’ve been in the learning development industry for over 20 years. It’s been a great ride in this industry, a lot of great people, a lot of great work that’s happened. And it’s really exciting to see all the technology that’s come into the industry over the last decade or so. The Training Industry Podcast…
We’re starting the Training Impact Podcast.
I started the Training Impact Podcast because one thing that I’ve seen that’s been lacking in the industry is a focus on training programs. There’s a lot of great work happening at the course level and bringing different technologies in to help learners.
There’s been a lot of great work at the course level helping learners understand things better faster.
There’s been a lot of great work at the course level helping learners.
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The reason I started the Training Impact podcast is that I’ve noticed a lack of
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The reason I started the Training Impact podcast is I wanted to focus on training programs and how to maximize their input packed on organizations.
Jeff Walter (01:42.146)
The reason I started the Training Impact podcast is I wanted to focus on training impacts and how to maximize their impact on organizations. As an industry, we’ve done a lot of great work at the course level, figuring out how to use technologies to help students learn and how to develop skills. But there hasn’t been a lot of focus on the program level, how to have a highly impactful program.
And so that’s the purpose of this podcast is we want to focus on a program level, how to develop a highly effective training program. And so we’ve developed some, some frameworks I’m going to share with you over the different episodes. And we’ll be interviewing a number of program directors that manage different training programs, learning about what they’re trying to accomplish and some of the challenges they’ve faced developing those programs. And so it should be a fun ride. Thank you for joining me and thank you for listening.
Have a great day.