Having done a lot of strategy work with organizations over the years, one commonality I have found is that nearly all organizations make strategy more complicated than it needs to be. Indeed, I suspect that a view of strategy as being something time-intensive and complex is one of the key factors that keeps many organizations …

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I think most education businesses could do a lot worse than to have these two aims at the foundation of their vision and mission. Fluency suggests a high level of competence. Indeed, it is competence in action. When we are “fluent,” we feel deeply familiar with the knowledge and skills related to our chosen field …

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What if you enrolled in a graduate program and then never really graduated? Instead, after an initial immersive experience, you are able to access “mini-courses” and other resources as they actually apply throughout your career. As a result, you are able to move from “learn-learn-learn-certify-wait-wait-wait-deploy” – often not very effective as a way of transferring …

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I see this as a “beautiful question” that can spark some very productive discussion when asked of the right stakeholders in you organization. It’s a question that can fundamentally impact both your education business strategy and your ongoing operations.

As a complement to our free report paper on social learning in the association space, I thought I’d share some thoughts on social learning for associations and why it is so important. (For how I define social learning, see “Defining Social Learning”.) The following points certainly aren’t exhaustive, but hopefully they will be enough to prompt some …

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