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Managing eLearningThe Admin Chronicles: Monica Watkins InterviewMonica Watkins is currently working as a fellowship administrator in Mississippi. She explains how students move from medical school, to residency to potentially a fellowship. Monica stresses the importance of staying up with emails and communicating with the various divisions and other programs. She also speaks to educating oneself on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Monica concludes this interview with addressing the topic of work life balance.2023-01-2531 min
Managing eLearningThe Admin Chronicles: Julie Byington InterviewJulie Byington is a senior residency coordinator of a large program. She has particularly good wisdom for new administrators on how to work with a program director or supervisor. Managing the recruitment process of new residents is one of her specialties and she shares tips on what is sometimes a consuming three month period from recruitment to the final rankings ending with the spring “Match Day”. Julie emphasizes that the ACGME website is not just about the guidelines but about the many resources available to administrators on topics from how to conduct a meeting to how to do a spec...2023-01-2528 min
Managing eLearningThe Admin Chronicles: Brittany Davis InterviewBrittany Davis is a medical education coordinator. She emphasizes the importance of understanding the cyclical nature of the job. She explains that what you do in January of this year you are doing next January. Brittany also discusses how she recommends managing the process of mastering ACGME/LCME guidelines.2023-01-2522 min
Managing eLearningThe Admin Chronicles: Douglas Ruiz Carbajal InterviewDouglas Ruiz is a program coordinator for a residency program and works with a team of eleven coordinators. Douglas has been involved in the Alliance of Internal Academic Medicine for several years and talks about the importance of finding a mentor and getting involved. He shares tips on communicating with the program director/supervisor, managing the consumption of ACGME guidelines, and managing well being. Tune in to listen to his advice on being mindful of DEI.2023-01-2015 min
Managing eLearningThe Admin Chronicles: Stefanie Cordoue InterviewStephanie Cordoue, a fellowship coordinator, talks about the importance of getting involved as a member of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine. She describes how she volunteered and the value it has brought to her career. Stephanie also explains what the most rewarding part of the job is. She discusses how she mastered the ACGME guidelines by printing out relevant web pages and placing a tab on relevant guidelines. She also comments on the administrator's role in the evaluation process and assisting students with the Visa process but stresses the importance of avoiding burnout.2023-01-2020 min
Managing eLearningThe Admin Chronicles: Whitney Harper InterviewWhitney Harper, an experienced undergraduate and graduate medical school administrator, provides advice for incoming administrators. Some of the topics covered are the administrator's role with recruiting new trainees, scheduling responsibilities, protecting your well-being, and managing ACGME/LCME guidelines.2023-01-2024 min
Managing eLearningThe Impact of the Pandemic on Corporate Learning & DevelopmentDavid Kelly, Executive Director of a community of practice called The Learning Guild, speaks about the impact of the pandemic on corporate learning and development. He also addresses how the association has coped with not being able to hold in-person meetings. The November DevLearn conference was held in-person in Las Vegas and he highlights how it was done safely. He discusses the headline events like the Demo Fest where practitioners are able to show off their eLearning projects. Other important topics were discussed at Dev Learn such as the growing use of Virtual Reality and workshops on authoring systems...2021-12-1325 min
Managing eLearningThe Impact the Pandemic had on Associations and their Approach to Online LearningThis podcast interview with Kevin Ordonez celebrates the upcoming November 10th Solutions Day in Chicago. Solutions Day provides association executives an opportunity to network and learn. With his partner Sherry Budziak they have created three organizations: .OrgSource, .OrgCommunity and .OrgFreelancer. In this interview Kevin discusses why he felt the Chicago community needed a organization that was committed to networking and education for association executives. Kevin addresses the impact on the association tech stack of consolidation. He also discusses the impact of the pandemic on associations and on their approach to online learning. He addresses the ubiquitous nature of webcams...2021-10-2636 min
Managing eLearningThe Difference Between a Corporate LMS and an Association LMS with John Poeltler of AMTIn Episode Eight Jon Aleckson and Matt Harpold interview a CourseStage LMS customer, John Poeltler, an Instructional Technologist with the American Medical Technologists association. The American Medical Technologists (AMT) is a nonprofit certification agency and professional membership association representing over 100,000 individuals in allied health care. Established in 1939, AMT has been providing allied health professionals with professional certification services and membership programs to enhance their professional and personal growth. Matt and Jon were most excited to interview John Poeltler because he cut his teeth working in eLearning for corporations like John Deere. This makes John an authority on the difference...2021-10-0627 min
Managing eLearningThe Learning Business Maturity Model With Celisa SteeleJon & Matt sit down with Celisa Steele Co-Founder & Managing Director for Tagoras and discuss the Learning Business Maturity Model, which articulates the characteristics of a mature market-facing learning business or line of business, as well as the stages that typically precede full maturity. Tagoras developed it based on the common problems and opportunities they’ve seen in through years of working with a wide range of learning businesses. The model’s framework helps you assess your organization’s capabilities and problem areas and provides a clear path so you can move from problem to opportunity to innovation by focusing on the...2021-08-0536 min
Managing eLearningThe Process of Selecting a Learning Platform with Hope LiuTune in as Matt Harpold and Jon Aleckson interview Hope Liu, the Senior Director, Organizational Learning for the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities. The Alliance and its strategic action network of thousands of social sector leaders and partners working to achieve a healthy and equitably society that promotes access, opportunity, and prosperity for all people. We know that systemic inequities, especially based on race, are real and significant barriers to people and communities working to reach their full potential.Hope Liu discusses how their merger with Council on Accreditation (Alliance- COA) makes for the perfect combination...2021-07-0734 min
Managing eLearningDigital Transformation at AVMA with Deb StoneDr. Deb Stone, Assistant Director of Continuing Education, sat down with Dr. Jon Aleckson to discuss how working with associations executives takes time and collaboration to build a digital strategy. Deb shares how she worked to understand the essentials of what to implement and how to prioritize her organization's digitalization. 2021-06-0723 min
Managing eLearningTobin Conley, Technology Consultant at Delcor Discusses the Future of Online LearningThere are many technology consultants who know associations. Delcor has remained a leader in the association technology space for decades. What is remarkable is that this “band” of experts has stayed together just as long. Lead guitar player, Tobin Conley, CAE, describes in this podcast how Delcor aligns technology strategy to association mission and goals. Tobin is a major personality and verbal at all ASAE conferences. You can tell he is having face to face withdrawal as he speaks about the importance of in person conferences. Tune in to hear his thoughts on the impact of the pandemic, the futu...2021-05-0427 min
Managing eLearningThe Salesforce Decision for Associations with Mark Patterson of FiontaNon-profits and national associations are moving to the Salesforce ecosystem in large numbers to satisfy customer relationship management and other operational database requirements. The association management system is a non-profits system of record. Matt Harpold and Jon Aleckson interview Mark Patterson of Fionta to get his perspective on choosing branded systems like Nimble and Fonteva (association management systems built on top of Salesforce) compared to tricking out a native Salesforce instance.2021-04-1422 min
Managing eLearningManaging Remote Teammates with Author Jeffrey GortonDr. Jon Aleckson & Matt Harpold sit down with Jeffrey Gorton, author of "The Seven Secrets to Managing Remote Employees." Jeff, Jon and Matt discuss the source of inspiration for the book, highlight some of the major themes, and walk through the seven steps.2021-03-0820 min
Managing eLearningPricing Strategies for Associations with Dr. Michael TatonettiDr. Jon Aleckson & Matt Harpold introduce Dr. Michael Tatonetti. Dr. Michael shares his background and focus for Pricing for Associations. Why is there a struggle for associations pricing products? They discuss the common challenges associations face for pricing products, when to include marketing, when determining product pricing and how to test your pricing.Michael shares his experience working with associations during a pandemic. What have associations learned, and how are they applying those lessons? What do we do about virtual sponsors & exhibitors? Recommendations for discounting, coupons and bundling. Finally, Michael shares his major tip for Associations to...2021-03-0849 min