videos and webinars
Videos and webinars on Learning Transfer, Performance Consultancy, Informal learning, L&D strategy and more…

Learning Horizons - Episode 5: Driving Learning Impact Through Accountability January 2025
Accountability is often overlooked in the learning design process, yet research shows it is an essential factor for successful learning transfer. Paul Matthews explores the highly complex corporate learning ecosystem. By aligning learning design with clear business objectives and a focus on impact, technology can help make accountability relationships visible and generate data to compare outcomes. This episode delves into the critical role of accountability and the measurable difference it makes when managers hold learners accountable for their development.
Topics: Learning design, learning transfer, business impact
Time: 30 minutes minutes
The Future of L&D on RiseUp Radio September 2024
In this Rise Up Radio podcast, Paul Matthews joins Ashish Manchanda (Founder of Risely) to talk about the future of L&D and the movements shaping it.
Topics: Learning & Development, future of learning, learning strategy
Time: 36 minutes minutes
Organizational Agility and Learning - GSDC Tech Talk December 2023
Paul Matthews shares his perspectives on fostering agility through continuous learning in order to drive innovation, responsiveness, and growth for organisations navigating complexity. Tune in to gain timely insights into becoming an agile, adaptive and creative learning
Topics: Continuous learning, organisational growth, agile learning
Time: 26 minutes minutes
The Learning Reinvented Podcast - Learning Workflows August 2022
In this episode hosts James Poletyllo and Katie Godden (The Learning Effect) talk with Paul Matthews on learning pathways, and the importance of them to organisations. Learning pathways aren’t to be confused with learning in the flow of work, this is something different which Paul gives a deeper insight into!
Topics: Learning workflows, learning impact
Time: 53 minutes minutes
99 Problems But Work Ain’t One podcast March 2021
In this episode of the 99 Problems But Work Ain't One podcast Paul Matthews talks through the three elephants in L&D: Learning transfer, capability and informal learning. Find out how you can harness informal learning’s power, how to become a better performance consultant, the need for a credible L&D brand and plenty more.
Topics: Informal learning, learning transfer, capability, brand of L&D
Time: 48 minutes minutes
Learning Hack podcast with John Helmer July 2020
John Helmer talks to Paul Matthews about learning transfer, the business of ensuring that what is learned results in real and measurable change in behaviours and performance. Coming from an engineering background, Paul was motivated to focus on this area by the high failure rate he observed in organisational training initiatives.
Topics: Learning transfer, behaviour change, performance improvement, organisational learning
Time: 47 minutes minutes
Paul Matthews was interviewed by My Learning Hub in December 2019
This was a wide-ranging interview on many of the things that affect people in L&D roles.
Topics: L&D effectiveness and mistakes, e-learning, learning cultures and much more.
Time: 30 minutes
Paul Matthews delivering a webinar for the Institute of Leadership and Management in 2019
The webinar topic was ‘How to discover your superpower’ and was aimed at managers and their role in managing others.
Topics: Performance diagnostics, capability, competence, management
Time: 29 minutes
BTN interviewed Paul Matthews in 2018 #4
The Business Transformation Network interviewed Paul Matthews in 2018 and created four videos. This is video #4 which focuses on informal learning.
Topics: Informal learning, 70:20:10
Time: 9 minutes
BTN interviewed Paul Matthews in 2018 #3
The Business Transformation Network interviewed Paul Matthews in 2018 and created four videos. This is video #3 which focusses on Paul’s 3 elephant metaphor for things that are often ignored by L&D.
Topics: Learning transfer, performance consultancy, informal learning, the brand of L&D
Time: 7 minutes
BTN interviewed Paul Matthews in 2018 #2
The Business Transformation Network interviewed Paul Matthews in 2018 and created four videos. This is video #2 which focusses on using performance diagnostics to save L&D budget.
Topics: Performance consultancy, budget, performance diagnostics
Time: 10 minutes
BTN interviewed Paul Matthews in 2018 #1
The Business Transformation Network interviewed Paul Matthews in 2018 and created four videos. This is video #1 which focusses on using learning transfer approaches to stop wasting training budget.
Topics: Learning transfer, ROI, budget
Time: 11 minutes
Paul Matthews was interviewed for the TJ Talks webinar series in 2019
Jo Cook from Training Journal interviews Paul on the topic “Should L&D give managers what they need or what they want?”.
Topics: Performance diagnostics, capability, competence, performance consultancy
Time: 30 minutes
Paul Matthews being interviewed at the CIPD show in London in 2017
The question Paul was asked…“Is there a difference between being capable and being competent?” and he told the mechanic story.
Topics: Competence, capability, performance
Time: 4 minutes
Paul Matthews interviewed by the CIPD in Manchester in 2018
Paul was interviewed at the CIPD Annual Conference in Nov 2018 about the brand of L&D. This video is used as CIPD training course material for some of their qualifications.
Topics: The brand of L&D
Time: 6 minutes
Paul Matthews interviewed on Learning Now TV in 2015.
The interview topic was Informal Learning and focussed on Paul’s first book. This was the inaugural broadcast of the Learning Now TV channel and Paul was honoured to be invited to be part of the launch.
Topics: Informal learning, 70:20:10 model
Time: 14 minutes
Paul Matthews interviewed on Learning Now TV in 2018.
This is the second time Paul was interviewed on the Learning Now TV channel, and the topic is performance consultancy.
Topics: Performance consultancy
Time: 8 minutes
Paul Matthews interviewed on Learning Now TV in 2019.
This was the third time Paul was interviewed on the Learning Now TV channel. The topic was Paul’s latest book on Learning Transfer: How to Ensure Training >> Performance
Topics: Learning transfer
Time: 8 minutes
Paul Matthews speaking at the World of Learning Conference in 2018
Paul co-delivered a session on learning transfer and training impact with Dr Ina Weinbauer-Heidel from the Institute of Transfer Effectiveness in Austria. This excerpt is the second part of the session delivered by Paul.
Topics: Learning transfer, BJ Fogg, behaviour change, learning stack
Time: 12 minutes
Paul Matthews delivering a webinar on the 3 elephants in the L&D room.
This webinar was run internally for the L&D team in a global company in 2019.
Topics: The 3 L&D elephants, performance diagnostics, capability, competence, learning consultancy, informal learning, learning transfer, the learning stack, the brand of L&D
Time: 53 minutes
Paul Matthews speaking at an event organised by Autonomy in October, 2018
Autonomy Multimedia is an award-winning supplier of eLearning and learning portals to many sectors with a strong history in automotive.
Topics: Capability vs competence, performance diagnostics, informal learning, electronic performance support, learning transfer
Time: 38 minutes
Paul Matthews speaking at the CIPD show in London in 2015.
This CIPD Learning & Development show was in May 2015. Paul spoke on the topic of performance and capability. This is an excerpt from his session and includes his metaphor about broken glass.
Topics: Leadership, need vs want
Time: 5 minutes
DPG interview Paul Matthews at a conference in 2018.
DPG is an approved CIPD centre that has been delivering HR, L&D and management programmes for 30 years. They caught up with Paul at a conference and asked him about the three elephants.
Topics: The 3 L&D elephants
Time: 3 minutes