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ABOUT THIS EPISODE
This is Episode 02 from Season 01 Education. This season contains eight episodes featuring guests from the education sector. Each episode is a deep dive into the guest’s career highlights and more. Interviews are candid and unfiltered.
ABOUT MOHSIN MEMON
Mohsin helps learning facilitators to use games to facilitate virtual and classroom instructor-led training. He used to work as a learning designer and facilitator in the past, facilitating learning experiences for Marsh, Netflix, Flipkart, Uber, Siemens, Bayer, JP Morgan, Capgemini and many others.
Mohsin knows, first-hand, how games and technology can change the way learning happens by creating authentic and life-like learning experiences which ultimately lead to realisation and change. He dreams of a world where people play to learn. Based in Mumbai, India, Mohsin has also developed Evivve, a certification program that will equip facilitators with the ability to run MOGL (Multiplayer Game-based Learning) experiences.
SHOW NOTES
- I came to realise that the marriage between games and learning was one that could yield incredible results (03:30)
- I am a huge advocate for game-based learning for enabling change and behavioural shifts (04:20)
- Some of the things that really worked for me started with me identifying my singular message (07:20)
- I track everything (08:15)
- The things that have been key to building my profile (10:00)
- I couldn’t do other platforms. I tried Twitter and I reached about 10,000 or 12,000 followers and I didn’t quite get there. It didn’t really resonate and that led me to LinkedIn (12:15)
- I prefer not to just copy and paste something I find (13:25)
- I share a lot of resources with my community. People are going to value me and my work if I add value to them (15:00)
- Recently, I decided to give away my certification program on using games for learning to anybody in India who has the ability to hop on board at no cost (15:40)
- One way I put myself out there is through authoritative content (16:30)
- Learning credibility tension by Harvard Business Review (17:50)
- A good place to start when networking is to connect with the right people (21:25)
- Try to keep your answers short, crisp and concise on social media (23:47)
- Past, present and future. Identify the work you have done over the last 5 – 10 years and identify what makes it unique and brings value. With the present, where are you now? And that should hopefully, give you an idea of where you are going in the next two or more years. Where do you want to be in two years? What do you want to be recognised for? (26:10)
- Why you need to be aware of who’s in your network (30:10)
- The thing that led to my first game (37:40)
- Learning is constant and everybody starts somewhere (39:45)
- I work a four day work week and I allocate a whole day for learning (39:58)
- I do a whole lot of experimentation which I embrace in all parts of my life (40:10)
- One of the stumbling blocks for me for a long time has been vulnerability (45:10)
- The conversation that changed everything (50:10).
RESOURCES MENTIONED
- Harvard Business Review article of July 2018, How Consultants Project Expertise and Learn at the Same Time by Alaric Bourgoin and Jean-Francois Harvey
- Pokemon Go
- Assassin’s Creed
- Mohsin’s Evivve certification programme