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In this episode, I interviewed Steve Karam, ex-VP Global Customer Enablement at Ellucian. Before that, Steve was VP Global Experience and Enablement at Delphix. He currently runs a scholarship fund and he teaches financial literacy courses to at-risk and disadvantaged youth in his area.
📖 What you’ll learn
Steve’s learn, sharpen, scale framework
Best practices in learning and enablement
Hacks for improving learning engagement
How to structure learning teams
👨💻 Contacts
Where to find Steve Karam
Email: stevekaram@gmail.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevekaram/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/YaySteveK
Where to find Akis Laopodis
Website: https://www.qurioos.com/
Newsletter: https://insights.qurioos.com/
🔥 Key moments from the interview
(04:22) Steve’s learning framework: Learn → Sharpen → Achieve
(05:25) What learning could use from the gaming world: Achievements
(07:05) ChatGPT’s new feature: Share bot conversations for co-learning
(08:33) What milestones matter when we learn
(10:30) Why the status quo is the greatest bottleneck
(12:20) Why attaching outcomes to learning objectives is key
(13:42) We don’t need more learning content, we need a librarian
(15:10) How to challenge perception around “how learning should be done”
(16:04) Why people take pride in what they do and forget the other side
(19:55) How to build learning teams for ensuring we understand the learning impact
(26:53) Use online communities as communities of practice
(29:53) How a learning “Hunger Games” session worked for them
(33:30) How learning experience designers and instructional designers need to work together
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See you at the next one,
Akis 👋
