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How would you design learning with an unlimited budget?

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Recently I was given what many instructional designers would consider the best brief ever: there’s unlimited budget, there’s no major urgency, just come up with something innovative and interesting. After the shock had worn off, I felt a mix of elation and fear.

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Spot the difference? Corporate L&D versus Office Canteen

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There are lots of similarities, here are 5 to start you off: Funding: Do we choose to subsidise the canteen, outsource it to a catering company, or shut it so that people to spend their own budget externally (or bring in their own packed lunches)?

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Don’t waste your budget on a magic bullet

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In a time of rapid change and economic uncertainty it can be more difficult to make the holistic/ process approach work, but the rewards for doing so are that L&D budgets can potentially go much further.

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12 performance consulting questions for L&D

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What is the budget? What do you see as the main barriers to success? Other than a learning intervention, what else needs to happen to achieve success? What would happen if we did nothing? Which stakeholders need to be involved? What do the stakeholders and target audience care about? What is driving the timelines?

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Chain of fools

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So they give a budget to L&D. So they think “let’s make this into e-learning” They give the budget to an e-learning company.

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Learning objectives are like metadata – useful but best left unseen

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Where possible, rephrase the learning objectives in more attention-grabbing ways e.g. “5 challenges with XYZ that the ABC process helps you solve” “How to FGH without blowing your budget” “3 key questions about JKL to answer” If you feel the need to show the learning objectives as a series of bullet points that Bloom (..)

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Let’s focus on the learning (with a little help from Cynefin)

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The way that the budget and approvals process works in most organisations is that a learning designer is typically presented with a fait accompli e.g. “We’ve got 45 minutes of learner time to get our learners from A to B.”

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