I like to revisit periodically the concept of “leading learning” to reflect on what it means. Our current context seems like a particularly important one for doing this. A significant part of leadership, it seems to me, is to help people make their way into the future successfully. We can’t, of course, predict the future, but we can see the “accelerating present,” as Rohit … [Read more...]
Virtual Conferences in the COVID-19 Era – Webinar Recording
Below you will find links to the recording and slides for "A Why-To and a How-To: Virtual Conferences in the COVID-19 Era" Webinar. While you are here, we'd also be grateful if you would take our brief survey on virtual conferences. We will share the data we collect with you. We encourage you to share this page and the survey with others who may be interested in virtual … [Read more...]
5 Free Resources to Grow Your Learning Business
Over the years we've developed many resources to support learning businesses in growing and improving. Few, if any, of them are intended to be “one and done” - they are meant to be revisited and re-used over time. So, we find it can be helpful occasionally to highlight some of these resources and remind Leading Learning readers that they are available. In this post, you’ll … [Read more...]
Action Mapping and Activity Design with Cathy Moore
When it comes to training design, perhaps focusing on what people need to be able to do, not simply what they need to know, can make all the difference. That’s because this leads to activity-centered training rather than traditional information presentations. These concepts are what led Cathy Moore, speaker, training designer, and author of Map It: The Hands-On Guide to … [Read more...]
The Self-Directed Learner
As individuals in the business of lifelong learning, we need to embrace—and cultivate—the characteristics related to effective learning habits. In this encore episode of the Leading Learning podcast, Celisa and Jeff celebrate the self-directed learner including what it means to be one and why it’s important. To tune in, just click below. To make sure you catch all of the … [Read more...]
The 5 Key Areas of Learning Business Investment
In today's world, the relevance of organizations that serve the third sector of education really can't be overstated. At the same time, relevance can be squandered if the products and services learning businesses provide are not creating any demonstrable impact. Given the wide range of choices now available to learners - many of them free - revenue and retention will … [Read more...]
5 Key Aspects of Getting a High Return on Your LMS Investment
Do you wonder - or worry - about LMS ROI? When it comes to determining whether to implement a new or replacement learning management system, it’s important to ask, “What will the return on investment be?” Oftentimes, organizations struggle to try and answer this question—or even worse, it isn’t ever asked at all. In this episode of the Leading Learning podcast, Celisa and … [Read more...]
Are you market-focused or product-focused?
When making decisions about the strategic direction of your business, do you focus primarily on how you can improve your core products and services, increase their market penetration, and take them into new markets or market segments? Or, do you focus more on identifying new needs in your established market and continually developing offerings to meet those needs? In my … [Read more...]
The Fatal Temptation of Best Practices
I find it is very common for learning business leaders to want visibility into the "best practices" of other organizations. It's an understandable desire: why reinvent the wheel, or worse yet, make unnecessary mistakes when you can learn from what other organizations have already done? An understanding of best practices can save a lot of effort. Problems almost always arise, … [Read more...]
Inform. Perform. Transform. What do your educational offerings do?
There are three broad levels at which educational products and experiences deliver value: inform, perform, and transform.* An appreciation of them is essential not only for pricing, but for formulating a successful education business strategy. Inform Educational products at this level primarily communicate information. They speak to the lower levels of Bloom's … [Read more...]
How to Choose a Learning Management System (LMS) – and Get It Right
Wondering how to choose a learning management system (LMS) for your learning business and actually get it right? We have done a lot of technology selection work over the years and have delivered many Webinars and workshops related to our 7-step selection methodology (which, while often aimed at learning management system (LMS) selection, really applies to selection of … [Read more...]