Leading Learning Podcast

In this episode, Celisa talks with of Diane Simmons of the American Academy of Dermatology and Carol Hodes of NIGP: The Institute for Public Procurement about their paths to retirement, what they’ve seen – and expect to see – that excites them most about learning, as well as some of the biggest lessons they’ve learned over the course of their careers.

Highlighted Resource – Resources for Organizations in the Business of Lifelong Learning – a document that serves as a single point of reference for accessing many other documents. In it we’ve organized our tools, models and frameworks, our research reports, and a range of other resources in a way that makes it easy for you to see what they are and access them. This document is free, and all of the resources it lists – other than our two annual events – are free.

Many thanks to the four companies that have stepped up to help us get our new initiative, ReviewMyLMS, off the ground:

• Community Brands
• Digitell
• NextThought
• WebCourseworks

In this episode of the Leading Learning podcast, Celisa and Jeff look at seven core practices of successful Internet marketers and how they might be emulated to grow and improve your learning business.

Highlighted Resource - 10 Realistic, Cost-Effective Ways to Grow and Improve Your Learning Business. It is just what it sounds like – 10 ways that you can move the dial on your learning business without spending a lot of money or having to do back flips to find resources.

Special thanks to the Founding Sponsors of ReviewMyLMS:

• Community Brands
• Digitell
• NextThought
• WebCourseworks

Full Show notes available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode109/

In this episode, Celisa talks with Dr. Andy Molinsky about his latest book Reach: A New Strategy to Help You Step Outside Your Comfort Zone, Rise to the Challenge and Build Confidence.

Highlighted Resource: A Harvard Business Review article by Andy titled, If You’re Not Outside Your Comfort Zone, You Won’t Learn Anything.

Full show notes available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode108. 

In this episode, Celisa Steele talks with Wayne Skipper, founder and CEO of Concentric Sky, and a key player behind the open source project Badgr, about the emerging Open Pathways initiative for connecting digital credentials from different organizations.

Highlighted Resource: Exploring the Fringe: Flipping, Microcredentials, and MOOCs, a free white paper that discusses three emerging formats—the flipped classroom, microcredentials, and massive open online course —and then looks at when each might make sense for an organization to pursue and factors to consider before jumping on the trendy bandwagon. 

Fill show notes available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode107. 

In this episode of the Leading Learning podcast, Celisa and Jeff discuss specific lessons that can be learned from some of the Big Learning companies and how they might be applied to benefit your learning business.

Highlighted Resource –Learning Business Maturity Model™ - a free resource designed specifically to help learning businesses of any size reach their full maturity.

Full show notes available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode106. 

In this episode of the Leading Learning podcast, Jeff Cobb talks with Sheri Jacobs of Avenue M about the role that non-dues revenue plays for membership organizations, why they are on the rise, and ways to potentially increase them, particularly in the areas of education and learning.

Highlighted Resource – Four reports/white papers related to the association sector that have come out in the past year or so that have been discussed on this show:

1. Growing Non-Dues Revenue: A Benchmarking Report - discussed in this episode
2. Member Loyalty and Learning with Amanda Myers - episode 102
3. Association Learning + Technology (our own report) - episode 99
4. The Association Role in the New Education Paradigm with Shelly Acorn and Elizabeth Weaver Engel - Episode 44

Full show notes available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode105. 

Celisa Steele interviews Dr. Barbara Oakley, professor, speaker, and author of A Mind for Numbers : How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra), and Mindshift : Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential. Her wildly popular massive open online course (MOOC), Learning How to Learn. has attracted 2 million participants.

Celisa talks with Barbara about why helping people learn about learning is so effective, the importance of creating better online materials, and tips for organizations who provide learning to create more value by focusing on these areas.

Full show notes at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode104. 

Highlighted Resource – a Web page we’ve compiled that focuses specifically on massive open online courses and provides information that is useful for anyone considering using MOOCs in a professional development context.

Related Episodes:

• Make It Stick with Peter C. Brown
• Exploring How We Learn with Dr. Monisha Pasupathi

What if you organization could make the competition irrelevant and deliver unique value to the learners it serves? In this episode, Jeff and Celisa discuss the concept of blue ocean strategy and some of the key tools you can use to create blue ocean for your learning business.

Full show notes available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode103.

Highlighted Resource: 6 Paths to Leading Your Education Business to Blue Ocean

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Celisa Steele interviews Amanda Myers, director of product marketing, membership solutions, at Community Brands, and one of the co-authors of the recent Member Loyalty Study: A Deep Dive into Member Retention and Preferences. This report has findings to help organizations understand why members stay—or leave—and the most effective ways to connect with them.

Celisa talks with Amanda about key findings from the report, ways to increase member connectedness, where segments of members fall within the loyalty spectrum, and the implications all of this has on learning and education.

Full show notes at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode102. 

Highlighted Resource  – Member Loyalty Study: A Deep Dive into Member Retention and Preferences

Thank you to YourMembership the podcast sponsor for the third quarter of 2017. YourMembership’s learning management system is specifically designed for professional education with a highly flexible and intuitive system that customizes the learning experience. YourMembership’s LMS seamlessly integrates with key systems to manage all of your educational content formats in one central location while providing powerful tools to create and deliver assessments, evaluations, and learning communities.

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In this episode of the Leading Learning podcast, Celisa talks with Katie Hill, associate director of DIA Learning at Drug Information Association, about her efforts to revamp DIA's core curricula, incorporate new business models like business-to-business selling, and introduce new approaches like microlearning and digital badging.

Show notes available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode101. 

Highlighted Resource – Tagoras Platform Directory for Learning BusinessesTM – A free report that profiles 30 different companies that are a good fit for trade and professional associations, as well as other learning businesses.

Thank you to YourMembership, the podcast sponsor for the third quarter of 2017. YourMembership’s learning management system is specifically designed for professional education with a highly flexible and intuitive system that customizes the learning experience. YourMembership’s LMS seamlessly integrates with key systems to manage all of your educational content formats in one central location while providing powerful tools to create and deliver assessments, evaluations, and learning communities.