Sep 8, 2026 · 44 min · 10 segments
What research papers did you read while lounging by the pool this summer? In this week's episode of *The Mindtools L&D Podcast*, Ross D is joined by Claire and Dr Anna to review three studies that…
Claire GibsonGuestWell, on that note, Anna, do you want to get us started? So what's the, what paper have you read or what is one of the papers that you've read? Cause you're always reading multiple that you found interesting recently.
And that's partly because every project that we work on always often starts with some form of a literature review.
And so we like to get our heads stuck into different papers, which means when Ross suggests that we do these pods, I usually have a little bank to dip into.
Obviously, whenever I come onto these pods, I always talk about behavioural science wherever possible.
the things that you're actually trying to change or exist outside of the learning experience itself.
So one of the actually speaking to a client only yesterday and they were talking to me about age and how they've got uh you know different ages within the organization people working together across the business you've got younger individuals perhaps with knowledge on skills related to maybe technologies and you've got older employees who are working longer so they're going to stay in the business for a long period of time that have a huge amount of knowledge and with knowledge And it's kind of how you bring those things together.
And the client that I was chatting to was saying that they've just had somebody unexpectedly quit and they've taken a lot of tacit knowledge with them.
And now there's just chaos everywhere as they're trying to scramble and piece it all back together.
And off the back of that conversation, I thought, I know I've read a cool paper recently about age and I thought that would be the one I would share.
Well, on that note, Anna, do you want to get us started? So what's the, what paper have you read or what is one of the papers that you've read? Cause you're always reading multiple that you found interesting recently.
And that's partly because every project that we work on always often starts with some form of a literature review.
And so we like to get our heads stuck into different papers, which means when Ross suggests that we do these pods, I usually have a little bank to dip into.
Obviously, whenever I come onto these pods, I always talk about behavioural science wherever possible.
the things that you're actually trying to change or exist outside of the learning experience itself.
So one of the actually speaking to a client only yesterday and they were talking to me about age and how they've got uh you know different ages within the organization people working together across the business you've got younger individuals perhaps with knowledge on skills related to maybe technologies and you've got older employees who are working longer so they're going to stay in the business for a long period of time that have a huge amount of knowledge and with knowledge And it's kind of how you bring those things together.
And the client that I was chatting to was saying that they've just had somebody unexpectedly quit and they've taken a lot of tacit knowledge with them.
And now there's just chaos everywhere as they're trying to scramble and piece it all back together.
And off the back of that conversation, I thought, I know I've read a cool paper recently about age and I thought that would be the one I would share.
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