L&D Must Change 49. World Learning Content Cleanup Day with Ger Driesen
Is your L&D content closet getting a bit cluttered? When was the last time you cleaned it up? In this episode, Jess sits down with Ger Driesen, founder of World Learning Content Cleanup Day (#WLLCD), to challenge L&D's obsession with creation over maintenance. They explore why outdated learning erodes credibility, how to adopt a "retire by default" mindset, and how a simple annual cleanup can uncover powerful data insights. Let's reduce risk and increase the benefits of our content together with a cleanup celebration.
Jess and Ger Discuss
- Why L&D teams prioritize creation and neglect maintenance
- The concept behind World Learning Content Cleanup Day
- The idea of learning hygiene as a professional standard
- How to evaluate content using relevance, usage, accuracy, and risk
- Using LMS data to inform cleanup decisions
- The retire by default mindset shift
- Refreshing, rewriting, or retiring content strategically
- What heat illness training in Alaska can teach us about relevance
- How cleanup builds credibility with stakeholders
- Navigating resistance and "killing your darlings" conversations
- Turning a one day event into an ongoing process
- Simple ways any L&D pro can get started
About Ger Driesen
Ger Driesen started working in L&D in 1990 and has taken on almost every L&D role there is during his career. He's served as a L&D consultant, a learning designer, an L&D manager, a Trainer/facilitator, a teacher for L&D at a university of applied sciences, a writer, and speaker. As the Learning Innovation Leader at Newspring, Ger launched the World Learning Content Cleanup Day (#WLCCD) in 2023. He is the co-founder and independent learning and leadership consultant for Challenge Leadership Development Academy. Ger is based in the Netherlands and also known as the Dutch L&D trend catcher.
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