Ep 37: Building a True Learning Culture and the Four Pillars of Success with Kevin Delaney from LinkedIn
Highlights include:
- Kevin's background and how he got to where he is today
- What helped him figure out the career he wanted
- Why he decided to move to a big tech company
- His work experience over the last 10 years
- Why he chose LinkedIn
- His unique perspective on HR and L&D
- Don't bore people, bored people don't learn
- The 4 pillars of success
- Believing #alwaysbelearning
- Learning is always part of the ecosystem
- Equipping, engaging, motivating, and inspiring people to do their best work
- Addressing your employees so they stay engaged and productive
- Spending 60% of effort focusing on a manager's effectiveness
- His greatest accomplishment in talent development
- On learning as a personal driver
- Using Lynda platform in LinkedIn learning
- His biggest mistakes or failures and learnings along the way
- Changing is hard for everyone
- 1 or 2 of the major trends he sees in talent development that can affect his work
- Biggest challenges he encountered
- His advice to people who want to accelerate in learning development
Links:
- Kevin's LinkedIn profile
- Book: The Happiness Advantage
- Talent Development Hot Seat
- Connect with Andy on LinkedIn!
- Join the Talent Development Hot Seat group on LinkedIn!
For questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at storch@advantageperformance.com