Your learning business, whether a consultancy, coaching business, or association, is tasked with providing professional development opportunities that interest and engage your target audience. But how often do you prioritize your own professional development, as a leader of that organization?

Investing in yourself as a leader and improving your learning business knowledge is key when it comes to the continued advancement of your organization. Luckily, there are a plethora of resources available to help you do so!

In this guide, we’ll focus on educational podcasts that can help you elevate your skills as a learning business professional. From learning consultants to software providers, there are a variety of groups that are creating eLearning thought leadership in the form of podcasts. This guide covers four stand-out podcasts in the leadership and eLearning spheres, including:

• Concord Leaders Podcast
• Managing eLearning Podcast by Web Courseworks
• The Leading Learning Podcast
• The eLearning Coach

Hearing a variety of leadership, eLearning, and learning business management best practices from experts in the field can help you refine your organizational leadership style. The following four podcasts will expose you to a variety of experts on each topic, so let’s dive in!

Concord Leaders Podcast

The Concord Leaders Podcast was created by Marc A. Pitman, the founder of the Concord Leadership Group.

The Concord Leadership Group is a leadership consulting and coaching firm, primarily focused on leadership development, coach certification, and overall sustainable organizational management. Aligning with that focus, each episode of Concord Leaders highlights a stand-out individual who is guiding their organization to success, interviewing that individual on a leadership-specific topic. The first two seasons were interviews of CEOs. The third season expands the interviews to experts and thought leaders who can help leaders.

While listening to Concord Leaders, you can explore topics such as:

• Dealing with failures as a leader
• Developing employees to take on future leadership roles
• Managing organizational relationships both internally and externally
• Turning strong ideas into actionable plans

And much, much more! And, whether you’re an association, nonprofit, or for-profit leader yourself, you’re sure to find expertise relatable to your field in CLG’s wide-ranging variety of featured guests.

How Concord Leaders Can Elevate Your Organization

You may be wondering how a leadership podcast can play a role in your organization’s eLearning offerings. But, just like you need to be a strong leader to provide effective coaching to members or employees, the same holds true for providing eLearning courses!

Your leadership skills directly influence the decisions you make when running your business. Concord Leaders can give you the tools to more confidently make those decisions on a day-to-day basis.

Astron Solutions’ comprehensive guide to recruitment and retention notes that the key to keeping top talent (or, retaining members) is to “Build loyalty, commitment, and trust.” This only happens when your organization’s members trust that you, their leader, are guiding them in a clear direction.

Managing eLearning Podcast by Web Courseworks

The Managing eLearning Podcast was created by Web Courseworks, a company that specializes in learning management systems and consulting for professional, trade, and healthcare associations. In the podcast, Dr. Jon Aleckson, CEO of Web Courseworks, and Matt Harpold, the company’s Client Engagement Manager, cover key topics in learning business management.

In each episode, the Web Courseworks team interviews a leader in the eLearning space— whether eLearning consultants, association leaders, or even top eLearning technology providers. They cover topics such as:

• eLearning pricing models and creating a profitable learning business
• Learning business management and transitioning teams to remote work
• Robust association technology such as Salesforce and learning management systems
• The future of online learning and digital transformation

Many eLearning podcasts focus primarily on content creation— as in, making courses that learners view as valuable. The Managing eLearning Podcast looks at eLearning from a different, but certainly equally crucial perspective— how you can create a learning business that’s not only profitable, but sustainable, innovative, and valuable for learners over time.

How the Managing eLearning Podcast Can Elevate Your Organization

The Managing eLearning Podcast explores hot topics in learning business management from a variety of perspectives. You can hear from experts researching these topics firsthand, association management professionals putting this research into practice, and the tech companies creating software to elevate your operations.

The world of eLearning is rapidly evolving, from the emergence of learning experience platforms (LXPs) to the transition to digital and hybrid-first learning. The in-depth conversations held on the Managing eLearning Podcast will allow you to hear experts discuss these developments before you make any major changes to your learning business format.

The Leading Learning Podcast

The Leading Learning Podcast was created for learning business professionals who specifically specialize in ongoing, personal professional development. Aligning with that, this podcast is best suited for association learning professionals, consultants, and coaches rather than corporate trainers or formal academic professionals.

Created by the two co-founders of Tagoras, Jeff Cobb and Celisa Steele, the Leading Learning Podcast is backed by more than 20 years of expertise in the professional development sector. That’s bolstered by the podcast’s many guests, as each episode features a learning business professional speaking on topics aligning with their expertise. Some of the stand-out topics include:

• Trends disrupting the market for eLearning
• Formulas for selling eLearning courses
• Understanding educational data and analytics
• Unconscious bias in eLearning
• Creating eLearning courses that individuals want to complete

The Leading Learning podcast has been in motion since 2017, so you’re sure to find an episode pertaining to your main learning business concerns.

How the Leading Learning Podcast Can Elevate Your Organization

The Leading Learning Podcast understands the unique challenges that learning businesses face. Unlike universities or corporations, learning businesses need to not only create effective courses, but also have a strong marketing and sales strategy to entice learners to invest in those courses. For trade and professional associations and learning consultants, the Tagoras team can provide invaluable insight tailored to your unique perspective.

Additionally, the Leading Learning Podcast is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to insights from the Tagoras team. You can also review the team’s regular Leading Learning webinars, newsletter, and blog posts to stay up-to-date on the latest and greatest information.

The eLearning Coach

The eLearning Coach is a podcast created by Connie Malamed, a learning experience design consultant who has written two books on eLearning design and a free course on the topic, among other accolades. The podcast itself has been in production since 2013 and highlights interviews with eLearning course authors and other experts in the field.

Unlike the others in this list, The eLearning Coach focuses principally on how to design and author eLearning courses that are both engaging and useful for learners. Whether practical tips or product reviews, the goal of The eLearning Coach is to elevate your organization’s approach to creating learning content.

Through The eLearning Coach, you can explore topics such as:

• Applying social learning concepts to instructional design
• Effectively training new instructional designers
• Writing compelling stories in eLearning courses
• Working with subject matter experts in a productive manner
• The evolution and future of eLearning content design

And much, much more! With nearly 70 episodes in the lineup, you can explore the ins and outs of course creation using The eLearning Coach podcast.

How the eLearning Coach Can Elevate Your Organization

Even if you’ve laid a fortified learning business foundation, it’ll be challenging to truly be successful if your eLearning courses themselves are sub-par.

Whether you’re a course authoring expert or more comfortable with the business side of your organization, you’ll walk away from The eLearning Coach with valuable insights to elevate your learning content. From foundational best practices to the latest trends in instructional design, The eLearning Coach has it all.

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Listening to the opinions of a variety of experts can help elevate your organization during times of triumph, steady it during times of change, and help you adapt to the changing trends in the field of eLearning.

Whether leadership skills, learning business management, or instructional design best practices, these podcasts run the gamut of concerns your organization may encounter.