According to Donald Taylor and Egle Vinauskaitė's recent AI in L&D: The Race for Impact report, 'creating learning content' and 'learning design tasks' remain the primary use cases for AI in learning and development. But should they be?

In this week's episode of The Mindtools L&D Podcast, L&D consultant Heidi Kirby joins Ross D and Claire to discuss:

• the obvious appeal of using AI to scale learning content;
• why Heidi believes outsourcing development to AI is a mistake;
• what L&D could or should be using AI for, if not content generation.

In 'What I Learned This Week', Ross mentioned the website mcbroken.com.

For more from Mindtools and Kineo, visit mindtools.com. There, you'll also find details of our new face-to-face and virtual workshops, each aligned to our Manager Skills Assessment.

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• Ross Dickie
• Claire Gibson
• Dr Heidi Kirby

All children play but, over time, that instinct goes away. We don't lose it, we don't forget. Instead, we get taught to stop.

For author and toy designer Cas Holman, that's a problem. With a very real impact on business performance.

In this week's episode of The Mindtools L&D Podcast, Cas joins Ross G and Gemma to discuss:

• how traditional workplaces surpress play
• the business benefits of play at work
• how to encourage play when your organization won't tolerate it.

You can find out more about Cas and her book Playfulness at casholman.com/book. You can also see her in the Netflix series Abstract: The Art of Design.

In 'What I Learned This Week', Ross discussed peculiar experiments involving moths, via The Economist.

For more from Mindtools and Kineo, visit mindtools.com. There, you'll also find details of our new face-to-face and virtual workshops, each aligned to our Manager Skills Assessment.

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• Cas Holman
• Ross Garner
• Gemma Towersey

Why does L&D so often feel like the drive-thru window of requests—'one leadership program, hold the ROI please'? As L&D professionals, it's not who we understand ourselves to be. So how can we flip the script so that we're seen and treated as strategic business partners?

In this week's episode of The Mindtools L&D Podcast, we're joined by Jess Almlie, author of "Order taker no more!"

We discuss:

• What keeps us stuck in an order taker role?
• What are the foundations of great strategic business partnering?
• What might a move into this new role look like?

You can find out more about Jess, her work and book on her Almlie Consulting website.

In What I Learned This Week, Gemma mentioned the Tree Equity Score website.

Sadly we don't have a photo of Ross on a horse.

For more from Mindtools and Kineo, visit mindtools.com. There, you'll also find details of our new face-to-face and virtual workshops, each aligned to our Manager Skills Assessment.

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If you'd like to share your thoughts on this episode, connect with us on LinkedIn:

• Jess Almlie
• Ross Dickie
• Gemma Towersey