Most L&D teams are solving the wrong problems and Natal Dank explains why

A pioneer in business and HR agility, Natal Dank joins the Rogue L and D Podcast to challenge everything you think you know about learning and development.

Natal is a globally recognised workplace transformation specialist, author of Agile HR and Agile L&D, and Executive Director at PXO Culture. Known for her evidence based, value led approach, she works with organisations worldwide to improve performance, productivity, and the experience of work.

In this episode, Natal shares why L&D must stop jumping to solutions and start solving real business problems. She breaks down what it means to work product led, how to prioritise the right challenges, and why Agile as an industry may have lost its way.

If you want to move from delivering training to driving measurable impact, this conversation is essential listening.

Key Takeaways

1. You need to stop treating requests as learning problems and instead focus on solving real business challenges that impact performance
2. You should prioritise ruthlessly because there are always more problems than capacity and not all are worth solving
3. You must test and validate solutions early rather than jumping straight into building full programmes

Timestamps

[00:04:10] Delivering value vs delivering training

[00:05:15] Employee experience as a product

[00:06:20] Why onboarding is a shared problem

[00:07:10] The real skill is prioritisation

[00:08:05] Stop jumping to solutions

[00:11:35] It is not a learning problem

[00:13:10] Design thinking in L&D

[00:14:05] The internal job marketplace experiment

[00:18:00] Measuring real performance outcomes

[00:19:15] Agile HR is dead explained

Links

• Natal Dank on LinkedIn
• Natal Dank’s Website
• Tom Bailey on LinkedIn
• Tom Bailey Website
• PXO Culture