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Explore "adulteducation" with insightful episodes like "The President's Desk Episode 47", "Cross-Cultural Facilitation Skills with IAF", "Executive Function’s Critical Role in Adult Learning with LaDonna Pavetti", "#103 Turning your Expertise into a Business with Courses - Dr. Carrie Graham" and "Fertile Ground – Facilitation + Leadership with Andres Marquez-Lara" from podcasts like ""The President's Desk", "Shift the Power", "Shift the Power", "The Driven Female Entrepreneur podcast" and "Shift the Power"" and more!
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Cross-Cultural Facilitation Skills with IAF
Professional facilitators bring people together to discover creative solutions and resolve differences in ways that value inclusion while saving time, money and morale. The International Association of Facilitators (IAF) believe that there are some core competencies that hold true no matter where in the world (or on the web) you are. On this episode, we’re joined by Shalu Bhuchar, based in India, and Gerardo de Luzenberger, based in Italy, from IAF to dig into IAF’s Six Core Competencies for Facilitators. They share insights on why these competencies are key for facilitators and how they put them into practice.
Read the transcript for this episode on our website.
Follow us on Twitter @GLPconsultants for the latest updates about the show and resources available for businesses and individuals alike. You can also find us on Instagram @GlobalLearningPartners, Facebook, and LinkedIn!
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This show is produced by Global Learning Partners and Greg Tilton JR. Our theme music is titled ‘Pretty Face’ by singer/songwriter Una Walkenhorst.
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Executive Function’s Critical Role in Adult Learning with LaDonna Pavetti
In adult learning settings, we’ve seen that “sit and get” rarely works to help adults gain the knowledge they need to succeed. To understand what the latest in brain science tells us about why a traditional approach often fails adults, we talk to LaDonna Pavetti, Vice President for Family Income Support Policy at Center on Budget & Policy Priorities (CBPP). LaDonna shares the critical role that Executive Function skills play in how we learn. She explains how, as designers of learning experiences, we often underestimate what it takes for our learners to absorb and be able to use new information. Listen to this episode for insights on how to apply the latest in brain science to your approach to learning and teaching.
#103 Turning your Expertise into a Business with Courses - Dr. Carrie Graham
Welcome the Driven Female Entrepreneurs Podcast!
The weekly show that helps you dream bigger and achieve more in your business, by learning what works from successful female entrepreneurs.
In this episode
In this episode of the Driven Female Entrepreneur Podcast, I speak with Dr. Carrie Graham the owner of Carrie O. Graham Learning & Solutions.
Dr. Carrie began her career in sports medicine by attending annual credentialing and continuing education units, which she thought were excellent at the time. However, as she advanced in the profession, she realised that much of the training was ineffective, and it only got worse over time. After that, she went into teaching and again came across too many teaching environments that failed to deliver what adult learners need.
Recognising that when it comes to teaching adults, the stakes are high, Dr. Carrie decided to use her knowledge to help companies and organisations developing and deliver successful training for adult learners. So she quit her teaching position and dove straight in.
Now, Dr. Carrie assists businesses in implementing adult learning best practices to increase learning outcomes. She has a reputation for listening to people's concerns, both stated and unstated, and asking the right questions to help them find clear and insightful answers. She tailors her services to meet the specific needs of each of her customers, both personally and professionally.
Don't miss this episode to discover Dr. Carrie’s advice on exactly how you can deliver exceptional learning experiences for your clients.
"Regardless of what topic you are teaching, you should always start with foundational information. That’s how you build a learning experience." -Dr. Carrie Graham
Highlights
In this value-packed episode you'll learn:
- How adults learn differently.
- Why it's vital to create a positive learning environment.
- The significance of understanding who your clients are as learners.
- How to create an effective teaching approach that is tailored to the clients’ needs.
- A strategy on how to present or teach a concept without feeling overwhelmed.
- How to deliver exceptional courses and learning even as an introvert.
"Before you educate people on a topic, get clear about the outcome you want. What do you want people to know or be able to do? Then give them small pieces of that." -Dr. Carrie Graham
About Dr. Carrie
Owner of Carrie O. Graham Learning & Solutions, Dr. Graham helps businesses create improved learning outcomes by strategically integrating adult learning best practices. A published author, researcher and conference presenter with 25+ years experience in learning, instructional design and leadership development across healthcare, higher education, and management.
Dr. Graham has a reputation of understanding problems that are stated and what is not stated, then asking critical questions to help people uncover clear and insightful solutions. Not believing in the “one-size-fits-all” approach she customizes solutions to support unique individual and organizational needs.
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About Your Host, Melitta Campbell
Since 1997, Melitta has been using her ability to spot gaps between a company’s goals and its strategy and positioning to help businesses become profitable and achieve growth - in as little as three months.
By combining the insights gained from working directly with senior leaders for more than 20 years, her unique blend of art-school and business-school training, and her restless curiosity, Melitta has helped her clients identify new opportunities and develop creative solutions that add value in profitable and purposeful ways, that are straight-forward to implement and result in a clear competitive edge.
After witnessing too many talented and passionate women fall short of their vision to make a profit and a difference, more recently, Melitta has brought her business, leadership and marketing expertise together with her personal experiences, to become a trusted advisor and coach for female-led businesses.
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Fertile Ground – Facilitation + Leadership with Andres Marquez-Lara
As a long-time facilitator, improv actor, therapist and social entrepreneur, Andres Marquez-Lara, is in the business of healing. He channels this passion as Founder and CEO of UFacilitate where he helps purpose-driven leaders create spaces for deep connection, collaboration and transformation. In this episode, Andres and Tyler explore some of the key points of effective facilitation and how those translate to critical leadership skills. Andres shares the story of how one of his greatest failures as a facilitator led to some of his deepest learning: that when we can recognize our own actions and reactions, keep curiosity at the center and step out of our own way, we leave room for deep insights to emerge.
Download the 8 Points of Effective Facilitation guide at UFacilitate.com.
Andres highlights a few other key resources you won’t want to miss: East Side Institute’s Social Therapeutics, Liberating Structures, and Books by Peter Block.
Read the transcript for this episode on our website.
Follow us on Twitter @GLPconsultants for the latest updates about the show and resources available for businesses and individuals alike. You can also find us on Instagram @GlobalLearningPartners, Facebook, and LinkedIn!
Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or virtually anywhere podcasts are found!
This show is produced by Global Learning Partners and Greg Tilton JR. Our theme music is titled ‘Pretty Face’ by singer/songwriter Una Walkenhorst.
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The Circle of Trust with Parker J. Palmer
Parker J. Palmer is a celebrated author, activist, and Founder of the Center for Courage & Renewal. Parker created the Circle of Trust® approach after a decade of living and learning at Pendle Hill, a Quaker community and retreat center. The approach is a social technology of time-tested principles and practices to create a safe space to nurture personal and professional integrity. In this episode, Tyler and Parker examine the critical role that building trust and modeling vulnerability play in driving us to our best outcomes, as individuals and organizations.
Read the transcript for the episode here.
For more insights and explorations, check out Parker Palmer and Carrie Newcomer’s podcast: The Growing Edge.
Follow us on Twitter @GLPconsultants for the latest updates about the show and resources available for businesses and individuals alike. You can also find us on Instagram @GlobalLearningPartners, Facebook, and LinkedIn!
Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or virtually anywhere podcasts are found!
This show is produced by Global Learning Partners and Greg Tilton JR. Our theme music is titled ‘Pretty Face’ by singer/songwriter Una Walkenhorst.
Like what you hear? Consider leaving us a rating on your podcast platform of choice!
Building Equity through Restorative Approaches with Troi Bechet
Troi Bechet founded the Center for Restorative Approaches in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. For Troi, a restorative approach offered an alternative to the culture of punitive justice systems – a way to resolve conflict and build equity through dialogue. Through their creativity, innovation, and a vision of peace at the center, restorative circles and learning-centered approaches have much in common. Listen to this revealing podcast episode to hear more.
Follow us on Twitter @GLPconsultants for the latest updates about the show and resources available for businesses and individuals alike. You can also find us on Instagram @GlobalLearningPartners, Facebook, and LinkedIn!
Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or virtually anywhere podcasts are found!
This show is produced by Global Learning Partners and Greg Tilton JR. Our theme music is titled ‘Pretty Face’ by singer/songwriter Una Walkenhorst.
Like what you hear? Consider leaving us a rating on your podcast platform of choice!
The Power of Strategic Storytelling with Bill Baker
Bill Baker, Founder and Principal of BB&Co Strategic Storytelling, knows the value of a good story. Whether you’re garnering support in your organization for a new strategic plan or teaching parents about child healthcare, stories help people make meaning that sticks. In this episode, Bill shares key insights on how to pick and tell the right stories, for the right moments to build rich connections and inspire deep learning.
Read the transcript for the episode here. Sign up for a Storytelling Workshop with BB&Co.
Follow us on Twitter @GLPconsultants for the latest updates about the show and resources available for businesses and individuals alike. You can also find us on Instagram @GlobalLearningPartners, Facebook, and LinkedIn!
Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or virtually anywhere podcasts are found!
This show is produced by Global Learning Partners and Greg Tilton JR. Our theme music is titled ‘Pretty Face’ by singer/songwriter Una Walkenhorst.
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#236 - Why Adult Education is Broken and How We Fix It
What's in this episode?
Welcome back listeners...here's to 2022!
In this episode, it's James Plunkett, Author of End State: 9 Ways Society is Broken and How We Will Fix It. James is also Executive Director, Design, Data and Technology at Citizens Advice and has held various roles across the Resolution Foundation, Young Foundation and the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation. We chat about:
- The challenges of upskilling in an atomised gig economy
- Bold approaches to adult education
- Why sustaining change management puts you in a long line of social reformers. Keep going!
This episode is part of our VocTech Podcast series produced in collaboration with Ufi VocTech Trust.
You can follow James @jamestplunkett
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BONUS: Revolutionizing Learning at a Medical University in Chile
At the end of the violent dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in 1990, Chileans united for a newfound democracy. The short interview you are about to hear picks up at this historic time, when primary care doctors at Chile’s leading medical school called for a revolutionary approach to their own learning, and that of the communities they served. Stay tuned for a conversation with a leader of that movement, Dr. Joaquín Montero.
This short exchange with Dr. Jane Vella and Dr. Joaquín Montero offers a glimpse of the bold history of dialogue-based learning at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Please visit our website for a transcript of the episode and a timeline of the revolutionary approach that’s taken hold at the medical school. This story is a beautiful illustration of GLP’s tagline: “revolutionize your learning, transform your world.”
Follow us on Twitter @GLPconsultants for the latest updates about the show and resources available for businesses and individuals alike. You can also find us on Instagram @GlobalLearningPartners, Facebook, and LinkedIn!
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This show is produced by Global Learning Partners and Greg Tilton JR. Our theme music is titled ‘Pretty Face’ by singer/songwriter Una Walkenhorst.
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Learning is in the Doing and Deciding
On this final episode of Simply True, Jane is joined by all her co-hosts – Rebecca, Val, and Peter – to reflect on the axiom, “Learning is in the doing and deciding.” Val and Peter share similar stories – they met Jane over two decades ago, early on in their careers working in international development. After experiencing the incongruence of coming into a community as outsiders and finding themselves telling, they both were eager for another way to facilitate learning. Whether learning Portuguese by singing along to the music, or leading long-term organizational change processes, sometimes the deepest learning happens when learners can do and decide for themselves.
Read the transcripts for the episode on our website.
This show is produced by Global Learning Partners and Greg Tilton JR, with theme music by Kyle Donald. Follow us on Twitter (@GLPconsultants), Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn (@GlobalLearningPartners) for the latest updates about the show. Find out more about GLP at www.globallearningpartners.com.
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Foster "Ah-Ha" Moments
Dr. Jane Vella and Val Uccellani are joined by Tonjala Eaton, Career Coach and GLP Partner, to reflect on the axiom “foster ‘ah-ha’ moments, not ‘gotcha’ moments”. Tonjala was inspired by Jane’s writing many years ago and set her sights on becoming a learning-centered practitioner. In 2019, Tonjala joined the GLP team as a Partner and she finally got to meet her mentor! In this episode, Tonjala and Jane reflect on the importance of giving learners the space and time to build their own connections to content – leading to empowering “ah-ha” moments.
Read the transcripts for the episode on our website.
This show is produced by Global Learning Partners and Greg Tilton JR, with theme music by Kyle Donald. Follow us on Twitter (@GLPconsultants), Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn (@GlobalLearningPartners) for the latest updates about the show. Find out more about GLP at www.globallearningpartners.com.
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Hold / Fold the Opposites
Dr. Jane Vella and Rebecca Hutchins talk with Dan Haase, Associate Lecturer at Wheaton College, about the axiom “Hold the opposites” (aka “Fold the opposites”). Dan first learned about Jane’s work years ago when his book group decided to read “Taking Learning to Task”. He became a quick convert to the principles and practices of Dialogue Education and is now a valued member of GLP’s international Certified Network. Jane and Dan share stories of deep learning from both their personal and professional lives on living in the tension between the opposites.
In this episode, Jane credits the alternative form of this axiom, “Fold the Opposites” to Karen Ridout – a past owner and beloved colleague for many years. Karen passed away in February of 2018. We will continue to appreciate and reflect on the important contributions Karen made for years to come.
Read the transcript on our website.
This show is produced by Global Learning Partners and Greg Tilton JR, with theme music by Kyle Donald. Follow us on Twitter (@GLPconsultants), Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn (@GlobalLearningPartners) for the latest updates about the show. Find out more about GLP at www.globallearningpartners.com.
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Begin with the End in Mind
Dr. Jane Vella and Peter Noteboom are joined by Marian Darlington-Hope, community organizer and former co-owner of GLP, to discuss the axiom, “Begin with the end in mind.” In 1986, Marian read about a workshop at Tufts University and was immediately drawn to its focus on how to avoid all the things she was trying not to do as a professor. The workshop was led by none other than Jane, and within a few years Marian became one of the first owners of Global Learning Partners. In this episode, Marian and Jane reflect on how critical it is to have a clear vision. As Marian’s mother used to say, “if you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there”.
Read the transcripts for the episode on our website.
This show is produced by Global Learning Partners and Greg Tilton JR, with theme music by Kyle Donald. Follow us on Twitter (@GLPconsultants), Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn (@GlobalLearningPartners) for the latest updates about the show. Find out more about GLP at www.globallearningpartners.com.
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No Laughing, No Learning
Dr. Jane Vella and Rebecca Hutchins talk with Dr. Paula Berardinelli about one of Jane’s personal favorite axioms: “No laughing, no learning!” Jane and Paula have known each other since the last century at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. They co-authored a book on evaluating adult learning called “How Do They Know They Know” and remain close friends and neighbors to this day. In this episode, Paula introduces a new indicator of engagement – the number of teeth you can see in the room – and shares insights on how to turn those teeth from fangs to smiles.
Read the transcripts on our website.
This show is produced by Global Learning Partners and Greg Tilton JR, with theme music by Kyle Donald. Follow us on Twitter (@GLPconsultants), Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn (@GlobalLearningPartners) for the latest updates about the show. Find out more about GLP at www.globallearningpartners.com.
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Don’t Do For the Learners
Dr. Jane Vella and Val Uccellani talk with Ellen Turgasen RN about the axiom “Don’t do for the learners what they can do for themselves.” Ellen met Jane in 1985 when she took the Popular Education ‘bootcamp’ prior to flying off to Peru to work as a nurse for Maryknoll. From then on, Ellen was hungry to learn more about how to live the principles and practices of Dialogue Education. This particular axiom gained new meaning for Ellen in her work as a massage therapist – where doing for the learner has tangible consequences.
Read the transcript on our website.
This show is produced by Global Learning Partners and Greg Tilton JR, with theme music by Kyle Donald. Follow us on Twitter (@GLPconsultants), Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn (@GlobalLearningPartners) for the latest updates about the show. Find out more about GLP at www.globallearningpartners.com.
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Classrooms Can Be Radical Spaces of Possibilities
Dr. Jane Vella and Rebecca Hutchins chat with Adriano Pianesi – Founder of ParticipAction Consulting and Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University – about the axiom “classrooms can be radical spaces of possibilities.” Like many others, Adriano read Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach and was inspired to reach out to Jane. Since then, he has incorporated the lessons from Jane’s book into his work as a change management consultant with clients like Microsoft and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Adriano and Jane reflect on the immense potential for growth when you unleash people’s natural curiosity and allow them to co-create a vision for change.
Read the transcripts on our website.
This show is produced by Global Learning Partners and Greg Tilton JR, with theme music by Kyle Donald. Follow us on Twitter (@GLPconsultants), Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn (@GlobalLearningPartners) for the latest updates about the show. Find out more about GLP at www.globallearningpartners.com.
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Affirmation is Like Oxygen
Dr. Jane Vella and Peter Noteboom chat with Christine Little, Certified Dialogue Education Teacher, about the axiom “Affirmation is like oxygen – we all need it to survive.” Christine first met GLP nearly twenty years ago through her work with Habitat for Humanity International – one of the first organizations to broadly apply a learning-centered approach. Chris and Jane reflect on how this axiom builds on one of Jane’s old favorites: lavish affirmations. Genuine affirmation is essential for adult learners, even if they might resist it at first!
Read the transcript for the episode on our website.
This show is produced by Global Learning Partners and Greg Tilton JR, with theme music by Kyle Donald. Follow us on Twitter (@GLPconsultants), Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn (@GlobalLearningPartners) for the latest updates about the show. Find out more about GLP at www.globallearningpartners.com.
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Dialogue is Among Learners
Dr. Jane Vella and Rebecca Hutchins chat with Michael Gibbons – ITEP Scholar in Residence at the School of Education, American University – about the axiom “Dialogue is not among teacher and learner, but among learners, of whom the teacher is one.” We often center experts and expertise in training events. This axiom explains how we can equalize learning spaces with a simple shift – enriching the learning for everyone. Jane and Michael met long, long ago and far, far away during their days with Save the Children. Listen for Michael’s stories about a class with Malcolm Knowles and lifelong learning from his time in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone.
Read the transcripts on our website.
This show is produced by Global Learning Partners and Greg Tilton JR, with theme music by Kyle Donald. Follow us on Twitter (@GLPconsultants), Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn (@GlobalLearningPartners) for the latest updates about the show. Find out more about GLP at www.globallearningpartners.com.
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How do they know they know? They just did it.
Dr. Jane Vella and Peter Noteboom – President of GLP – talk with Dwayne Hodgson, a longtime member of GLP’s Certified Network about the axiom “How do they know they know? They just did it.” Listen as they talk about how designing for accountability in learning helps build capacity in community initiatives. The unique focus on achievement-based objectives helps organizations make critical decisions on investing resources in training and understanding why some projects don’t achieve goals.
This show is produced by Global Learning Partners and Greg Tilton JR, with theme music by Kyle Donald. Follow us on Twitter (@GLPconsultants), Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn (@GlobalLearningPartners) for the latest updates about the show. Find out more about GLP at www.globallearningpartners.com.
Like what you hear? Consider leaving us a review!
Check out our sister series – Shift the Power: A Learning-Centered Podcast.