Leading Learning
The Community for Learning Leaders
We believe deeply in the power of learning to transform individuals, organizations, and communities. That’s why we focus the Leading Learning Podcast on serving the learning businesses and learning business professionals that create and support adult lifelong learning, continuing education, and professional development. Learning business professionals need to invest in their own learning and development …
Longtime listeners of the Leading Learning Podcast have heard us talk about the Learning Business Maturity Model™ before. We’ve dedicated entire episodes to it in the past, covering what it is and how to leverage it. In this episode, we focus less on the logistics and specifics of the model and more on the purpose …
The current coronavirus crisis is necessitating major changes in how many learning businesses meet existing needs. For example, a change like investing in expanding and improving your online learning portfolio as so many organizations are currently considering. But before making any major changes or investments, it’s important to first have a solid understanding of where …
What exactly does it mean to be a learning business? It’s a topic that permeates our work, but it’s not something we have explicitly discussed in quite some time. Given the concept of the learning business is central to what we do while also often difficult to grasp we felt it was time to time …
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 …
You may already be familiar with the Learning Business Maturity Model™, a simple yet powerful tool we created to provide a framework to help organizations assess the maturity of their learning and education businesses. And even though the model has been discussed in a previous episode, we thought it would be helpful to provide some …
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 …
We often talk about the importance of innovation to help learning leaders ensure that their education businesses both survive and thrive in the rapidly evolving learning business landscape. But in order to innovate and move an organization forward, it’s crucial to first have a strong grasp of where you are now. That’s why we developed …
Celisa Steele and Jeff Cobb introduce the Tagoras Learning Business Maturity Model at the 2016 Leading Learning Symposium. Download a full explanation of the maturity model, a visual, and the accompanying assessment on the Tagoras Web site.
