490: Learning Evaluation as a Competitive Advantage with Will Thalheimer
Decades of research say the traditional learner survey—the smile sheet many learning businesses still rely on—is virtually uncorrelated with...
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20 of 490 episodes489: Stop Tweaking, Start Questioning
The new year will be here before we know it, so now is a natural time to make plans. While it can be tempting to copy and paste this year’s...
488: Auditing Portfolios and Pressure-Testing Strategy with Lauren Brechner
Many learning portfolios accumulate over time—a Webinar added here, a course there—until nobody’s quite sure which offerings are still earni...
487: Frontline Lessons for Every Learning Business with JD Dillon
Courses and conferences are the backbone of many learning businesses’ portfolios, but for frontline and deskless workers—who make up roughly...
486: Metrics That Matter: A Lifecycle Framework for Learning Businesses
Many learning businesses are data-rich and insight-poor. It’s easy to track what’s easy to count—e-mail opens, registrations, completions—bu...
485: Turning Learning Data into Personalized Experiences with Steven Khraiss
Many learning businesses evaluate their programs with data that only tells them what already happened. By the time a lagging indicator like...
484: Associations at the Inflection Point with Artesha Moore
The association sector is at a genuine inflection point because so much is changing at once. AI is reshaping entire professions. Federal fun...
483: Foresight and the Future of Credentialing with Denise Roosendaal
The credentialing landscape is changing fast. With 1.8 million credentials now in the U.S. marketplace and AI reshaping entire professions,...
482: Leading with Outcomes with Amy Michalski and Shelly Strickland of AIIM
Many learning businesses market what they offer. The ones that get better results market what their learners need. In this episode of the Le...
481: From Content Economy to Trust Economy with Panos Siozos
When everyone has access to the same powerful tools and technologies, polished content becomes table stakes, and learning businesses that co...
480: Learning Isn't Content with Dr. Tessa Forshaw
Learning is, at its root, a neurobiological process. But most workplace learning doesn’t recognize that reality. In this episode of the Lead...
479: From Lean Startup to Incorruptible Organization with Eric Ries
Many organizations say they are mission-driven. But mission drift is real and often happens because of the very structures and activities or...
478: Getting Learners to Act with Nancy Harhut
It can be frustrating when your marketing doesn’t convert the way you expect. You put in the time to craft messages that you feel are clear,...
477: What Learning Business Leaders Need to Stop Doing
Learning businesses are operating in an environment that feels more demanding, more uncertain, and harder to parse than ever. It’s natural t...
476: Who Decides? Bringing Sanity to Managing Your Learning Portfolio
Many learning businesses struggle with decisions about what to create, improve, and retire. With input coming from committees, volunteers, s...
475: Pricing Association Education with Dr. Michael Carr-Tatonetti
Many associations struggle with pricing their education offerings. Should education be bundled into membership? Sold à la carte? Packaged as...
474: Revisiting Reach, Revenue, and Impact—Ending with Impact
In this episode of the Leading Learning Podcast, co-hosts Celisa Steele and Jeff Cobb wrap up their three-part look at reach, revenue, and i...
473: Revisiting Reach, Revenue, and Impact–Continuing with Revenue
In this episode of the Leading Learning Podcast, co-hosts Celisa Steele and Jeff Cobb focus on revenue and why it—along with reach and impac...
472: Revisiting Reach, Revenue, and Impact—Starting with Reach
Reach, revenue, and impact are familiar concepts to long-time listeners of the Leading Learning Podcast. But they’re often treated as separa...
471: Social Learning Objects: From Content to Collective Learning
Most learning businesses are rich in content, but far fewer are intentional about which pieces of content sparks collective learning? In thi...