Category: Personal
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Learning Leaps Part 4: Using empathy to uncover the needs of your learners
Welcome to another edition of Learning Leaps, where I’ll be sharing lessons learned from my first 16 months as a product manager at Pluralsight. While transitioning into a Product Manager role, one of the biggest responsibilities of my role became leading my team through a human-centered design process in order to deliver meaningful learning experiences…
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Learning Leaps Part 3: Using data to make informed training decisions
Welcome to another edition of Learning Leaps, where I’ll be sharing lessons learned from my first 16 months as a product manager at Pluralsight. Since transitioning into Product Management, one of the biggest lessons I’ve had to learn was about how to use data to make decisions related to learning products. Thats why for this…
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Learning Leaps Part 1: Tips for creating a culture of learning in the workplace
16 months ago, I made the decision to make a huge leap in my learning career and move into Product Management. With the transition, I’ve discovered that one of my favorite parts of the role is speaking directly with technology and learning leaders, in addition to learners themselves. I’ve conducted hundreds of research interviews over…
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Introducing Learning Leaps: Lessons learned while creating learning products
A little over a year ago, I decided to take a huge leap in my career. After spending nearly 7 years in the learning industry, I decided to make the transition into a formal Product Management role. The decision to move into Product Management was strategic on my part. I had spent the past 8…
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Lessons Learned from DevLearn 2019
Last week I attended The eLearning Guild’s DevLearn conference in Las Vegas, NV. It was my second time attending the event (my previous visit was in 2016). For those who haven’t attended a DevLearn conference before, it is a 3 day event where practitioners in the industry gather to discuss industry trends, best practices, and…
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The Introvert’s Guide to Creating Learning Products: The First 60 days
I say it all the time, but I cannot believe how fast time flies! I started my new role as Product Manager of Pluralsight’s newest product, Role IQ, over 60 days ago! The move to product management was a very meticulous decision on my part. It took over 6 months of research, networking, interviewing, and…
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Overcoming my inner critic: My journey with imposter syndrome
I do not feel knowledgeable enough to do my job, like I’m not moving fast enough. I think I might be overanalyzing everything. – Roberta Dombrowski, 5/13/18 Chances are if you did a simple search for imposter syndrome, the computer would spit out something similar to the statement above. Reality is, I wrote this in…