Last week on the show we had James McLuckie join us to share his advice for winning an award, and this week - as we're approaching Oscars season - we thought we'd host our own award show: where the nominees haven't entered, the winners don't get anything, and the only criteria is what we think was interesting or cool in 2022.

So, in this episode of The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, Ross G, Gemma, Nahdia and Owen are going to reveal their winners from the following shortlists:

Book of the Year

• The Business of Race, by Gina Greenlee and Margaret Greenberg
• Smart Growth, by Whitney Johnson
• The Digital Mindset, by Paul Leonardi and Tsedal Neeley
• HR for Hybrid Working, by Gary Cookson
• How to Work Remotely, by Gemma Dale
• Learning at Speed, by Nelson Sivalingam
• Decisions Over Decimals, by Paul Magnone, Oded Netzer, Christopher J. Frank
• The Expectation Effect, by David Robson

Guest of the Year

• Margaret Greenberg and Gina Greenlee
• Nathalie Nahai
• Professor Doctor Jonathan Wilson
• Oded Netzer
• Bedford Falls’ own George Bailey

Episode of the Year

• Christmas Special: Home Alone
• Halloween Special: Edgar Allan Poe and ‘unity of effect’ in learning design
• 300 — Celebrating live from London!
• Live from the Metaverse: VR for learning
• What will be hot in workplace L&D in 2022?

Technology of the Year

• ChatGPT
• The Metaverse
• Miro
• Dall-e 2, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion

Tweet of the Year

• Elon Musk - Let that sink in
• Sam Altman - Today we launched Chat GPT
• Rob Briner - 18 things I think I got wrong in trying to promote evidence based practice
• Rob Lennon — Everyone's stuck in beginner mode with ChatGPT

L&D Pro of the Year

• Nelson Sivalingam
• Ross Dickie
• Michelle Ockers
• Donald Clark

During the discussion, Gemma referenced the book Statistics without Tears, from Penguin: penguin.co.uk/books/13568/statistics-without-tears-by-derek-rowntree/9780141987491

In ‘What I Learned This Week’, Gemma recommended the book Cairngorm John, by John Allen: sandstonepress.com/books/cairngorm-john-pb-1

Ross recommended the film Cliffhanger.

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Connect with our speakers   

If you'd like to share your thoughts on this episode, connect with our speakers on Twitter:

• Ross Garner - @RossGarnerMT    
• Gemma Towersey - @GemmaTowersey
• Owen Ferguson - @OwenFerguson
• Nahdia Khan - @NahdiaKhan