In this episode of THE TALENT DEVELOPMENT HOT SEAT, Andy welcomes Shay Potter, a 20-year Army veteran who recently transitioned out after being an officer for more than 20 years. They will walk us through how onboarding has been done and what training looks like for different fields in the Army. They also share how the Army handled and responded to COVID by switching some of the training to remote and keeping some people on site while others were working remotely.

Shay Potter is a 20-year Army veteran who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan as a military intelligence specialist, design and change management planner, and has held multiple jobs developing the workforce and its leaders. They very recently transitioned out of the Army and are working on the next steps but enjoys coaching people and consulting with organizations to help them better understand how to attract and retain military veterans. Shay Potter also writes fiction and nonfiction books and is a contributing writer on career change topics for veterans.

In this interview, you’ll hear:

1. Shay Potter’s background and how they landed in military intelligence for the Army and developed an interest in learning and development.
2. Why military life can be very structured at the lower levels but drops away as you become more senior and have to make more complicated decisions.
3. What onboarding looks like when you join the Army and how it is decided by enlisting as a private or as a commissioned officer.
4. The approach they used to create and run new training programs and help officers understand new concepts within their fields and become more proficient.
5. How the transition to working virtually worked in the Army, how it affected training and development, and what the Army did to manage that transition.
6. Why talent development was so appealing to Shay Potter and how they approached it with more creativity.
7. What consumer-based training is and how the Army is innovatively using that method.
8. The methodology the Army uses for learning and development compared to the corporate world.
9. Where Shay Potter is in the transition away from the military and how they’re approaching a career post-military.

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