Leading Learning
The Community for Learning Leaders
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 …
What do you get when you cross a lack of strategy with an absence of process and a failure to use data for decision-making? It’s no joke that what you get is a maturity gap—and the findings reported in Association Learning + Technology 2017 make it clear that just such a maturity gap exists for …
I spent several weeks in Spain this summer, and, early on in my travels, I found myself at a café, trying to decide what to eat. I saw sándwich mixto on the menu board. I’m not fluent in Spanish, but I know sándwich mixto translates to mixed sandwich. But what’s a mixed sandwich? And what …
“Exploring the Fringe: Flipping, Microcredentials, and MOOCs,” our latest white paper, defines these three fringe formats—dubbed “fringe” because our research shows that none has above a 10-percent adoption rate among associations—and then looks at when each might make sense for an association to pursue and factors to consider before jumping on the trendy bandwagon. You …
Knowing that meetings and speaking industry trends are evolving rapidly, we’ve collaborated with Velvet Chainsaw to better understand how organizations use professional and industry speakers at their meetings, conferences, and other events—how they select them, what they expect from them, and how their educational impact is measured. Based on a survey of 175 organizations, The Speaker Report …
I love language—I’m a part-time poet and a full-time grammar geek. So my short commute got sweeter yesterday when I caught Lucy Kellaway (the management columnist at the Financial Times) on BBC Newshour, “tackling” the abuse of language. (Kellaway’s commentary starts around the 24-minute mark of the podcast. You can also read her comments on …
Next week we’ll release our new Association Virtual Events report. This week we’re reissuing a free (as in no money, no name, no nothing required—just download it) companion to that report: “20 Tips for a Successful Virtual Event.” If you’re interested in virtual events, whether your association is already offering them or just considering offering …
Last week I heard an NPR segment about Taxis on Patrol. Taxi drivers are out and about at all hours, and Denver police decided to capitalize by enlisting cabbies’ help in their fight against crime. The day after Denver launched the Taxis on Patrol program, “a cab driver helped police make an arrest for a …