Learning Leadership Links - 2/4/2021
David Kelly
L&D Keynote Speaker & Writer exploring the Intersection of learning & technology | Chairman @ The Learning Guild
The challenges faced by today’s learning leaders continue to grow. It’s therefore critical that leaders take the time to develop themselves, developing the skills needed to overcome the leadership challenges we are faced with in our work.
Learning Leadership Links curates resources that place a spotlight on the knowledge and skills required to improve the learning leadership we provide to our organizations and the people we support.
How To Develop a Collaborative Learning Culture
Learning leaders are often the greatest champions of their organization's learning culture. This post by Thomas Runds looks at why organizations should look to increase collaboration in their learning efforts, and provides specific tips on how to develop that within the culture.
6 Steps to Get Your Team to Agree to Change
The ability to motivate and influence others is a core skill of learning leadership. It's this skill that enables us to build and lead effective teams and to help drive meaningful change in our organizations. This post by Peter Cohan looks at specific things learning leaders can do to gain buy-in from members of a team.
Building a Better Boss
What does it mean to be a good boss? This post by Dori Meinert explores this question from multiple angles, including the damage bad bosses cause, how to be more self-aware, and how to deal with having a bad boss yourself.
Empathy and Self-Care as Leadership Skills
Empathy is, unfortunately, an often overlooked part of the leadership skill set. However, the disruptions caused by the pandemic have put empathy in the spotlight. This post by Lisa Boylan looks at the role empathy plays in leadership, and some of the unique ways to put it into practice in the context of the pandemic.
What Leaders Can Learn from 2020 to Make 2021 a Success
2020 was a very difficult year, but despite the challenges, there were important lessons for us to take into 2021 and beyond. This post by Sheri Sesay-Tuffour explores a number of tips for 2021 that are inspired by lessons we can take away from 2020.
We are currently experiencing one of the most challenging periods most of us have ever seen in our careers as learning professionals. Our organizations have been disrupted like never before as we deal with remote workers, new virtual tools and techniques, and the continued journey towards the moving target that is “the new normal”.
All of these challenges require the support of learning leadership.
The Learning Leaders Online Forum explores these challenges, and more importantly, shares proven strategies that can help us and the organizations we serve navigate the crisis. The Forum is your opportunity to connect and learn from learning leaders all around the globe, helping you address the urgent challenges of today while also building the skills that will help take your career to new heights in the future.
Better yet, as part of our launch of this new event, everyone that attends this Learning Leaders Online Forum will also get an annual membership in the new global Learning Leaders Alliance, which provides one year of access to online and face-to-face leaders forums, exclusive monthly programming, and much more.