Do you ever find yourself listening to a friend or loved one’s story and unable to determine what happened because they forget to tell you important details? Or getting so lost in their details and asides that you lose their point? It’s kind of funny when it’s at home… but when you’re trying to understand how to perform a new task or integrate a concept into your daily routine, poor communication is a problem.
Read MoreA Shining Example of Training that Works
As a company whose business is to develop training solutions that improve employee and organizational performance, we regularly strive to prove that our training is successful and to demonstrate to our clients the return on their investment in training. Change takes time, but sometimes, the effects of training are immediate and stunning.
Read MoreFive Actions Necessary to Create Training that Makes a Difference
I’m often asked how to make training more effective, and I always share the five actions I think are critical to creating training that makes a difference. Read on to find out what five things I think are most important to effective training.
Read MoreHow Practice Helped Me Learn the Pythagorean Theorem and Can Help You Too!
Practice is critical to the development of new skills. It allows learners to apply new skills and receive feedback on the results. The process of practicing increases learning in a way that simply reading about a skill will never do. Once you acknowledge the importance of practice, this post will help you increase the effectiveness of practice.
Read MoreFAQ: How do we develop training when we aren’t experts in the subject?
Instructional designers have a window into many worlds: we tell people how to sell surgical products, feed infants in a NICU, and comply with corporate-wide budgeting processes. Next month, we may provide guidance on preventing sexual harassment, developing new leaders, and retaining customers. How can we develop meaningful and applicable training without being authorities in these areas?
Read MoreHow to Radically Increase Engagement in Your Training Programs
Every developer, HR manager, or other individual responsible for training struggles with a lack of employee engagement in training. “It’s hard enough to get employees to complete required compliance training programs, so forget about getting them to complete anything optional,” is the sentiment we hear often from frustrated HR professionals. Why is it so hard to get employees to engage in training?
Read MoreTraining with the End in Mind
The training manager described multiple interactions between the field reps and the customer. I immediately saw the connection between training engineers in customer relationship building and the business goal of increasing sales. Unfortunately, the training manager did not make that connection.
Read MoreDisengaged Employees Are Dangerous to Your Team Health
Fifty-one percent of the workforce just shows up. Their disengagement from their work suggests they mark time while there, largely neutral toward what they do and the organization’s goals. Wondering what you can do about them?
Read MoreFour Lessons in Good Training Design I Learned from My Kindergartner
Tantrums in corporate classrooms may look a little different than a kindergartner's tantrum, a tantrum is a tantrum and should be avoided at all costs. Here are four lessons that I learned from these five-year-old besties.
Read MoreShow It, Don't Say It! An Interactive Post
A picture is worth a thousand words is true in training, as well. In this post, you get the opportunity to compare a static table with an interactive graphic. Trust me, there's no comparison!
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