Launch of LearnersLive.com in 2025 – Now the Plan for 2026 – A Passion for Learning by Bill Attardi
WELL, WE DID IT! We are now live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BillAttardi
And also on e-Learning Showcase: https://learnerslive.com/education-showcase/
As promised we posted a virtual learning session every month in 2025:
- Effective Sales Presentation Skills – Learning Session #1, #2, #3
- Selling in the Executive Suite
- SWOT Analysis and Generative AI(Sponsored by SATCO)
- Customer-Centric in the Digital Age(Sponsored by Amerlux)
- Innovation in the Digital Age (Sponsored by naturaLED)
- STP is Customer-Centric Marketing(Sponsored by FSG)
- You Write it / AI Fine-Tunes it! (Sponsored by Amerlux)
- Competent Individual to Inspirational Leader
- The Value Exchange – LearnersLive
- Leadership – Transactional vs. Transformational by Thomas Farrell
- Guerrilla Marketing When You Want High Impact at Low Cost
- Just Three Things to Remember for a Dynamic Presentation
Make a contribution, send me a video of yours, and we will post on both sites…
In every environment, in every company, in every department, in every office, in every classroom, on every team, there are inequities. Men and women come in all sizes, all levels of acumen, all degrees of competency and talent. In management, many times, not of your choosing, you get a diversity of high achievers, good performers, weak contributors, and those that do not contribute a dime to the performance of the team. I call them the deadbeats!
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi
Learn as if you were to live forever… Learners possess certain attributes that distinguish them from the Learned. They anticipate rather than react to change. Some call that vision. They become essential facilitators of change within their altered environment. They can skillfully communicate the new and technically esoteric with a clarity that leads to understanding and advocacy. Organizations that don’t value learning and the change that springs from learning will struggle to stay relevant in this fast-paced ever-changing marketplace.
Learners are just highly competent individuals that influence change in an organization and, in turn, as leaders, allow others to adapt to that change. As an Educator, my ambition here is to express my view that education, the learning process, is not a one-time event but rather, something you do right all the time. Sounds a lot like Vince Lombardi when he talked about doing things right, not once in a while but all the time……remember that? I believe learning is something you do all the time!
Most educators agree that the most effective learning process in business is the case study method. In my undergraduate classes and certainly in my graduate classes in Marketing and Management at Monmouth University, my work in developing and analyzing actual business case studies lessons is the core learning process for my students. My hope always is that they learn something from the actual experiences of both successful and unsuccessful companies.
Time to share……….with you. The plan for 2026 is to post a business case study every month for your pleasure and learning experience. I promise you that the case studies I plan to cover will make you smarter. You will learn from decisions made by the most successful businesses we all know and, in some cases, why they eventually failed. In January we will start with the one that I start every one of my classes: Montgomery Ward. Why did they succeed and why did they fail…great learning lessons that could apply to your business today.
What do you think? Need your help with any suggestions you may have to make this effort meaningful as an ongoing contributor to your personal learning activities.