Leading Learning Podcast

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.

The 100th episode of the Leading Learning podcast - hard to believe! To help us mark the occasion, we invited two-time guest and our all-around favorite superfan Brian McGowan to guest host the show. He asks the questions, we provide the answers, and along the way, we highlight some of the episodes that we think best demonstrate what we are up to with the Leading Learning podcast. Show notes available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode100  Highlighted Resource – For our resource for this episode, we want, appropriately enough, to highlight all of the first 99 episodes of the Leading Learning podcast. Access the full list here >>> We would also be truly grateful if you would give the podcast a rating and brief review on iTunes. 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.

Celisa and Jeff talk about some of the findings in the latest version of the Association Learning + Technology report and how the data has changed over the years. They also discuss why Tagoras publishes the report and how organizations can use it to support their learning and technology efforts. Full show notes available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode99  Highlighted Resource  – For our resource for this episode, we want, appropriately enough, highlight our Association Learning + Technology report. The report is based on a survey of a broad range of trade and professional associations, Association Learning + Technology and it provides the most comprehensive insights currently available on the use of technology to enhance and enable education in the association sector. You can access it for free by going to www.tagoras.com/learntech. If you are listening to this episode before September 15, 2017 grab it and you will automatically be sent the next edition; after September 15, 2017, we will link to the current version. 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.  

Celisa Steele talks with James Young, chief learning officer ofthe Society for College and University Planning (SCUP), about his path to becoming CLO, what the role means to him, and how he plans to grow and develop SCUP’s learning offerings in the near future. Full show notes available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode98. Highlighted Resource – Tagoras Platform Directory for Learning BusinessesTM – A free directory that profiles 30 different companies that are a good fit for trade and professional associations and other market-facing 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.

With over 35 years of research and expertise, Dr. Ellen Langer, a Harvard psychologist and Guggenheim Fellow, is widely known as the “mother of mindfulness”. She is the author of eleven books including Mindfulness, and Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility, and has written more than two hundred research articles on the topic of mindfulness. In this episode of the Leading Learning podcast, Jeff Cobb talks with Dr. Langer about what it really means to be mindful, the benefits that come along with it, and ways you can encourage achieving it in your own life as well as in the design of learning experiences. Full show notes available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode97.  Highlighted Resource – Video of Dr. Ellen Langer’s talk, Mindfulness Over Matter. In it she highlights many of the key points from her book, Mindfulness. 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.

In this episode of the Leading Learning podcast, Celisa and Jeff talk about how to staff online learning—specifically platform, content, and business development positions—including why each is important, what skills you’ll want to look for in the person that fills each role, and resources to help you along the way. Full show notes available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode96. Highlighted Resource – A sample job description for a learning technology manager role. 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.  

In this episode of the Leading Learning podcast, Celisa Steele talks with LaTrease Garrison,executive vice president of the Education Division at the American Chemical Society (ACS), about how her career at ACS has evolved over the years, the important role that learning plays in their organization, and the current struggles and opportunities that exist for them and others in the business of lifelong learning. Highlighted Resource – Adventures in Chemistry – an initiative from the American Chemical Society designed for kids to explain the core concepts of chemistry. This is a different type of learning initiative than what you might normally see from trade and professional associations, with the idea of building knowledge and familiarity within the profession/field/industry you serve. 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.  

When it comes to the design and marketing of educational experiences—particularly those from trade and professional associations—there is an emotional element that is often lacking. But tapping into people’s emotions is perhaps one of the best and most effective ways to convey your brand and your mission. In this episode of the Leading Learning podcast, Jeff Cobb talks with Graeme Newell,co-author of Red Goldfish: Motivating Sales and Loyalty Through Shared Passion and Purpose,  about emotional marketing including what it is, why it’s important, and ways to implement it. Full show notes available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode94. Highlighted Resource – A series of 3-minute emotional marketing lessons from Graeme Newell – there are more than 40 videos and they are a great way to learn what emotional marketing is all about and how to do it. 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.  

In this episode of the Leading Learning podcast, Celisa and Jeff talk about the role of questions and questioning in learning, why it is such an important topic, and what learning businesses can do to encourage questioning. Resource of the Week – An infographic from Global Digital Citizen which covers a 5 step process for asking good questions by thinking about focus, purpose, intent, framing, and the follow-up of questions. 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.

In this episode of the Leading Learning podcast, Celisa Steele talks with John Mancini,chief evangelist and past president and CEO of the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), about how digital transformation is impacting the way people learn, including the way organizations provide learning, the link between content marketing and education, and opportunities and threats for organizations like AIIM that are providers of lifelong learning. Full show notes available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode92  Highlighted Resource – Information Chaos vs. Information Opportunity, an e-book by John Mancini that explains the challenge of information chaos and offers 34 actions that organizations can take to gain control over it. 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.