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Gary Cokins, founder and CEO of Analytics-Based Performance Management, LLC, is an internationally recognized expert in performance improvement systems, advanced cost management, and predictive business analytics. He’s also a speaker and co-author of Predictive Business Analytics: Forward Looking Capabilities to Improve Business Performance. And with data analytics being a focus area for those of us …
With a new year upon us, it’s likely that many of us are thinking about ways to grow and improve. And when it comes to professional growth, we at Leading Learning want to make sure listeners are aware of just a few of the resources we have available that can support an ongoing process of …
As learning business leaders, it’s inevitable that there will be times when you need additional resources. Whether it’s new staff, new technologies, extra contract help for a special project (the list goes on and on), getting those resources may not be easy. Very often you have to convince someone else—be it your boss, your board, …
As a leader – or aspiring leader – in the business of lifelong learning, it’s par for the course that you will need to have challenging conversations within your organization and the people that you serve. And related to that, oftentimes the challenge lies in effectively communicating to an audience representing a wide range in …
You can have the most inspiring vision in the world, a powerful mission, and a great strategy, but if you don’t have the capacity for executing, none of those things really matters very much. In this episode, Jeff and Celisa discuss why understanding capacity, and more importantly, how to build capacity, is one of the …
Capacity and leadership are two of the five domains around which we built the Learning Business Maturity Model. In our experience, capacity—the human resources and technology that can be put against devising and executing a strategy—is an area critical to the success of a learning and education business. In our experience too, capacity is an …
Most organizations in the business of lifelong learning have a good handle on how to staff when it comes face-to-face education but when it comes to how to staff online learning, it can be whole different ballgame. And having the proper knowledge and human resources are essential if you want to succeed in adding to …
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 …
Note: The contents of this post – and more – have also been covered in an episode of the Leading Learning podcast. What kind of return on investment will we get from implementing a new or replacement learning management system (LMS)? Sometimes, organizations get bogged down with answering this question and spend way too much …
One of the critical shifts we highlight in our 10 Critical Shifts in the Market for Lifelong Learning briefing is the growing need for organizations to invest in sales skills. Specifically, we write: In an increasingly competitive marketplace, it will be difficult for most organizations to thrive solely with retail, business-to-consumer sales of their educational …
