S11 E9: Your L&D Strategy Is Broken and No, a Workshop Won't Fix It with Hanan Sahourieh
I Hate It Here
Pushing Back on Senior Leaders Effectively
Hanan recommends using data, clear roles, curiosity and a sponsor to manage ego and influence leaders.
L&D gets done dirty constantly and I have been saying this for years!!!
It's the function that gets underfunded, overcomplicated, blamed for culture problems it didn't create, and somehow still expected to fix everything with a workshop and a Kirkpatrick model.
Hanan Sahourieh got into all of it: why L&D functions fail before they even get started, how ego and power dynamics quietly destroy learning cultures, what trust actually looks like when you have to rebuild it from scratch, and the mistakes learning professionals make without even realizing it.
Oh, and she wrote a book called Everybody Be Cool which is the most accurate title for an L&D book I have ever heard in my life.
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00:01:42 - Something New Hanan Wants to Learn This Year
00:04:30 - The First Thing Hanan Notices When L&D is a Mess at an Org
00:07:35 - The Story Behind Hanan’s Book Title, Everybody Be Cool
00:13:12 - Why Cross-functional Leaders Keep Over-engineering Stuff That Isn’t Theirs to Run
00:19:44 - Pushing Back on a Senior Leader When They Think They Know Better Than the Learning Team
00:25:52 - A New Idea in L&D Right Now
00:30:29 - How to Build Trust That’s Brand New or Even Lost
00:38:16 - Some of the Most Common Mistakes Learnig Professionals Make Without Realizing
00:42:13 - The Single Most Important Thing HR Should Get Right About Learning in Year One
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