You’re a training professional in a SMB and you have few resources to achieve high expectations. The product team needs you to help train the sales channel, and the customer service team needs regular training sessions as well. There is new hire orientation to manage and annual compliance training requirements... more
Everyone is looking to solve this problem. The ultimate solution rests in a partnership between designers/developers and technology product providers. Design alone can only be effective to a certain point. At some point designers must rely on technology to scale up their designs. But technology can also only do so... more
I guess technology is moving more quickly than I thought. So quickly, in fact, that vertical video has already jumped the shark. Okay, maybe not yet. But it’s further along in the main stream than I thought. Vertical video is already being embraced by mobile journalists. News departments and digital... more
I recently reviewed an online course on instructional design. And it had many of the things you’d expect: overview of pedagogies, starting with good objectives, interactions, design processes, storyboarding, project management, etc. But what it didn’t do was go very deep on learning design, and I think this is a... more
ADDIE, Agile, SAM, LLAMA, Aaahhh! It’s enough to make your head spin. Let it go. Training is not complicated. Simple solutions add business value, complicated solutions add… well… complications. Instructional Design Legacy After 20 years in the eLearning industry, I’ve experienced a lot. I can tell you with confidence that it’s... more
What guides or influences the decisions you make in your role as a corporate training professional? Is it one particular instructional design model? Is it the demands of corporate leadership? Is it the customer? Maybe it’s all of these. Or maybe it’s your own past personal experiences, and the tools... more
Informal learning is wonderful, right? You get stuck on a spreadsheet. You stand up. You look over the cubical wall. And you ask your colleague for help. They shout out the answer and you’re back on your way to being productive. Boom! Informal learning! When people know you have a significant... more
Many recent technology trends are putting the power of developing learning content into the hands of all employees. Traditionally when training was required the only solution was to engage the training department. But more and more companies are implementing enterprise social networks (ESN) and discovering how creative internal subject matter... more
Training content is the most critical ingredient in any training project. And finding existing content is the key to quickly understanding what your learners need to know. You may have a very cooperative subject matter expert, and you may plan to observe your learners, however your time with them will... more
Have you ever asked your target audience of learners how they prefer to learn? Given the choice, would they prefer a day long training session or a self-paced online experience? You can probably guess how most would answer. It depends! And yes, I’m one of those people. There are a... more
