PIDP 3100 Call with Learning Partner Victor W Lee Key Points

I had a great mid-day discussion with my PIDP 3100 Learning Partner Victor W Lee. Together we discussed our trends in our fields and in adult education based on our blog posts, as well as a little bit of intro/background as to our career journeys.

Here is Victor's blog: My PIDP Journey – PIDP 3100 – Personal Blog (Roles & Trends) – My PIDP Journey (wordpress.com)

To start, Victor has a really nice looking blog. It's clean, with good image selection that is relevant to the content. It's clearly not his first time working with WordPress! He also did a really professional job putting his references at the end of his blogs, something that I didn't do (I just straight up put links into my blog).

When talking about trends he has noticed in his field, he discussed an evolving training approach to keep people engaged and effective. Victor also discussed using AI trainers, something that I don't deal with on a day-by-day basis. Most of my clients/workplaces are trying to do the bare minimum for workplace training and don't invest in anything other than Microsoft products, which makes creating engaging content a challenge. My creations rely on what my clients are willing to pay for, and there's a lot of people not wanting to pay for Adobe and Articulate licenses among other things. Using an AI trainer with avatars is like...space age technology for some of my clients! When Victor discussed using AI trainers, he talked about the lack of human element being evident, but it is helpful for training mass groups of people with dry policy/compliance-type stuff that needs to be done consistently. I can definitely see a use for that sort of stuff, to reduce liability and for consistency. Victor mentioned that he could see a AI trainer end up facilitating discussions, which is an interesting concept. I hate facilitating, so I wouldn't mind AI taking over that component.

We discussed how the trends in Ukrainian dance I discussed were related to culture/identity/values, and how using Indigenous ways of knowing can really add to training in that regard. Both of us being non-Indigenous, we already acknowledge that just the fact that we are Canadian, we already are experiencing a different culture-blend than others may have in other geographical areas. Victor had very succinctly put that my learning "was understanding my responsiblity to be a better global citizen"...I liked that. How very professional HR-speak, you can tell he's good at his career 🙂

We both seemed to be on the same track about what trends we noticed in adult education, which is on demand, just in time, bite sized and immediately applicable. Not too much to share/compare on that, but it's good we both got the same take-aways from the course materials!

All in all, it was a great call and really refreshing to speak with another HR/Learning & Development professional out there doing their thing. Sometimes it feels really isolating to be in L&D.