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Aaron Airmet and Ash Roberts join me again, but this time to talk about career development using PM tools and mindsets. Together they host Path into Product, a podcast for college students or professionals considering a career as a product manager but don't know where to start. Both Aaron and Ash are currently working as Product Managers at Weave Communications and have previous experience working with and in learning design environments.

Today we discuss:

• Building your career through curiosity, experimentation, and data collection
• Examples and stories of using product management tools for personal development
• The importance of reflection and giving yourself space to be wrong
• Using product management prioritization principles in career decisions

Resources

• Path into Product Podcast - https://anchor.fm/pathintoproduct
• Design Your Life (Book): https://designingyour.life/the-book/
• Design Your Worklife (Book Review Podcast Episode): https://www.buzzsprout.com/1797613/episodes/8659877
• Aaron’s article, “Want to be a Product Manager in Tech? Study the Humanities”: https://medium.com/@aaron.airmet/want-to-be-a-product-manager-in-tech-study-the-humanities-4ff169d9d0e6
• The Proximity Principle (Book): https://www.ramseysolutions.com/store/books/the-proximity-principle-by-ken-coleman
• Borrowing Brilliance (Book): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/304339/borrowing-brilliance-by-david-kord-murray/
• How Will You Measure Your Life? (Book): https://claytonchristensen.com/books/how-will-you-measure-your-life/
• Measure What Matters (Book): https://www.whatmatters.com/the-book/
• Linchpin (Book): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00354Y9ZU/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i5
• Way of the Peaceful Warrior (Book): https://www.peacefulwarrior.com/way-of-the-peaceful-warrior/

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Today I’m joined with Bryan Tanner, a recent PhD graduate from BYU’s Instructional Psychology and Technology department. He has a professional background in K-12, higher ed, and corporate instruction. Bryan is an avid reader of biographies and business nonfiction and our discussion today is all about this book.

From the book description: "To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners."

In summarizing and reflecting on the book we cover topics such as:

• Learning myths and tactics to overcome them
• 8 principles from the book that will change how you approach learning
• And a bunch of examples from the book and our own lives of these principles in practice

Resources

• Make it Stick book resources: https://www.retrievalpractice.org/make-it-stick
• Bryan’s blog post book summary: https://bryantanner.wordpress.com/2018/04/02/8-techniques-to-encourage-long-term-memory-retention/
• Feynman learning technique: https://fs.blog/2021/02/feynman-learning-technique/
• BYU Idaho learning model - https://www.byui.edu/learning-model

Credits

Introduction music, “For Mimi” by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

Adam is a learning experience designer at Health Catalyst. His mission is to guide a systematic focus on meeting human needs within the employee experience: specifically through talent development, scalable and transparent technology, and empathetic data storytelling.
Today we talk about:

• The three pillars of self-determination theory
• Six forms of motivation
• Implications of these ideas to learning design & talent development

Resources
👉 What HR Forgot - Adam’s LinkedIn Post
👉 Adam’s visualization of Self-Determination Theory concepts (requires LucidChart sign in - you can create a free account)
👉 Literature Review of Self Determination Theory
👉 Edward Deci - Self-Determination Theory (video)
👉 Loads more SDT resources
👉 The Power of Moments (book)

Today’s guest is my father Dr. David Williams. Dr. Williams is an emeritus professor from the Department of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University where he conducted and studied evaluations of teaching and learning in various settings. He currently serves as a missionary with his wife Denise for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints.

Today we discuss:

• Everything Evaluation, what it is, and all of the moving parts associated with it
• The difference between evaluation, measurement, and assessment
• Dr. Williams’ 10 part evaluation model, along with multiple examples

Resources

• Dr. Williams Evaluation Model (image): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VEGkVJMQYoJRX2SP4iSEVd8wqYtaRvRQ/view?usp=sharing
• Seven North American Evaluation Pioneers (Book) https://books.google.com/books/about/Seven_North_American_Evaluation_Pioneers.html?id=8HpTDAAAQBAJ
• Twenty-Nine Evaluation Lives (Book) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ev.20273
• Dr. Williams blog with entries about various individual evaluation lives: https://evaluationlives.blogspot.com/2017/08/introduction-and-invitation.html?m=1
• Dr. Williams Qualitative Inquiry book (open access) mentioned in the end of our conversation - https://edtechbooks.org/qualitativeinquiry
• Interview with Dr. Bonnie Beresford (episode 44) https://www.buzzsprout.com/1797613/8659885
• Interview with Megan Torrence (episode 63) https://www.buzzsprout.com/1797613/8659853
• Interview with Sam Whitney (episode 26) https://www.buzzsprout.com/1797613/8659853
• Interview with Beth Wilkins (episode 49) https://www.buzzsprout.com/1797613/8659879
• Malcolm Gladwell and testing (podcast episode) https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/puzzle-rush/

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