Smart Upskill Podcast: Recent Episodes
Michal Juhas
This is a podcast for people passionate about professional development; entrepreneurs and trainers who are keen to upskill the workforce of tomorrow.
We discuss how can we upskill a million people, how can we accelerate our children’s education, how to build an online business around it and—most importantly—enjoy the journey we’ve embarked on.
Testing a new training program for a group of manual workers, to help them transition to the digital world.
It's so easy these days to build a digital product, right?
Encyclopedic cards for parents
How have we created buyer personas for our new online Academy?
Michal Juhas' Smart Upskill Podcast
Learn about how do we at the EdTech Labs / Geekruiter build additional products for our Geekruiter Academy students.
Michal Juhas Smart Upskill Podcast
How to get feedback about your new product or service the right way?
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If IT sounds too nerdy for you, upskill yourself in digital skills instead.
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Model a growth mindset attitude at your office and at home. Someone with a growth mindset:
- Embraces challenges
- Sees effort as the path to mastery
- Persists in the face of failure
- Learns from critism
- Finds lessons and inspiration in the success of others
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What convinces a CFO to provide a full support and cover costs of an upskilling program?
- Increase of productivity of employees
- Improved employee retention
- Increased revenue
- Improved succession planning
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What are some of the tools I used yesterday to deliver a Live webinar?
- Marketing: Drip
- Recording: Zoom, Logitech 4k webcam, Blue Yeti mic, Recording studio (lights, background, whiteboard, ethernet cable)
- Post-production: Camtasia
- Hosting: Wistia
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Set up an ebook as a lead magnet. Go to https://geekruiter.com to see our new ebook in action.
Learn how to innovate with the Design sprint methodology.
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Let's briefly look at different ways we can upskill our family members:
- My wife — weekend off to watch a conference replay
- My kids — a set of activities they perform daily
- Myself — ongoing online training
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Continuous innovation is crucial. In order to successfully launch innovative products and services, a company needs to properly manage its innovation funnel.
In this episode, I talk about how we launched Geekruiter Academy as one of the ideas at the EdTech Labs.
"Sometimes adversity is what we need to face in order to become successful." –Zig Ziglar
That's how I look at a webinar that I failed to stream yesterday. People waiting online, calling me on a cell phone... what could go wrong, went wrong.
Listen to my story about how we failed to stream a webinar yesterday.
My takeaways:
- Take ownership, no excuses
- Keep learning, keep improving, keep hustling.
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Starting your business? You need to keep costs low. Discover what strategy have we used to get 400+ email subscribers free on LinkedIn.
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My older article on Medium: Learnings from launching my first course on Udemy
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There's no time to waste.
- Kumon workbooks
- Simply piano - JoyTunes
- Blog: Something Is Wrong With YouTube Kids
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The lead magnets for Geekruiter Academy as of today are:
- Five-day e-mail mini-course (Five emails + follow-up bonuses)
- Video mini-class (3 videos)
- E-book (How to hire and engage developers)
- Webinars (Just released the first one, more to come)
Next:
- More webinars
- Assessment tool
- Free one-hour consulting call
When building an online academy, make sure you solve a problem of your target group.
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"It's not about how hard you hit, but how hard you can get hit." -Rocky https://michaljuhas.com