Retail is the last big training boomtown. While there are a number of challenges, it also presents a huge opportunity for change.
Six Dimensions of Learner Experience Design
In LxD, the learner’s perception of their learning experience is just as important as content and learning objectives. Learner experience design (LxD) is an approach to designing for learning (especially …
Connecting Your Audience to the Brand: Immerse Your Audience
Immersing your audience, both internal and external, with engaging learning activities, world-class media, and performance-based training will add value to your brand. “That will be $615 please.” I immediately thought …
Training WON’T Change Behavior Unless You Engage – 4 Steps to Ensure Learner Engagement
After 15 years working in the training industry I’ve come to realize that the best way to test training theory is to raise teenagers! The desired outcome of any good …
Making a Spectacle of Yourself: Engaging Corporate Training
My daughter and her friends enjoy making those annoying YouTube-style videos that feature improvisations, movie parodies, and music videos. I hate them—not my daughter (or even her friends) but the …
Engaging a Diverse Audience: Movie Trailer Approach to Corporate Training
We were recently approached with a challenge from our client, eBay: To create a custom training program that their audience would opt in to taking. Now, unlike the majority of …
Motivating Learners and Coaches—is Delivering Happiness the Secret Sauce?
When you think about motivating learners to take charge of their own development and learning, what questions have you asked yourself that can help achieve results like a wildly successful …
A Tale of Two Flights
“To create value, training needs to be more than a presentation of information; instead, it should help learners perform the real-world behaviors that will allow your organization to meet its business needs.”
Turning Off the Instructional Designer Consultant in My Head
I should just add turning off the instructional design consultant in my head to my list of other things I can’t seem to turn off … grammar errors, style comments …