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Why Traditional Training Can't Keep Technical Teams Current - with Nicola Lyons of Andela

aired Sep 14, 2026 · 19.0m
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Summary

Welcome, everyone, to the Emerge AI in Business podcast. Nicola discusses why traditional event-based training can't keep up with the technical skills that now shift every 6 to 12 months and why enterprises need continuous assessment-based learning instead of one-time courses.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of learning, skills, it's, including: Today's guest is Nicola Lyons, Senior Director of Talent Operations at Andela.

Key takeaways
  1. 01She walks through how personalized learning paths target the specific gaps individual engineers have, whether that's inefficient AI tool use or hesitation to adopt new tools at all
  2. 02We've even seen Harvard and Deloitte basically come to the conclusion that the old model of sending everyone through the same course once a year is obviously no longer cutting it
  3. 03Oh where do we start So I suppose the old model of enterprise learning has always assumed that we know what skills people need We train them on them We deliver that training and th
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