Torrance Learning

APRIL 1, 2016

In a training culture, the assumption is that the most important learning happens in events, such as workshops, courses, elearning programs, and conferences. In that kind of culture, employees are expected to seek out the knowledge and skills they need, when and where that knowledge and those skills are needed.

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Torrance Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

At a recent conference session on using Agile project methods for elearning (what we call LLAMA) , an interesting question came up. I’ll paraphrase. Doesn’t the project team think this is just incredibly controlling?”. Uh, no… “Really? I tried to do something very much like this and nobody liked it.

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Torrance Learning

AUGUST 6, 2015

Creating elearning isn’t often associated with a lot of motion. It’s based on Japanese manufacturing processes and its goal is to eliminate waste from production systems. Waste” is anything that doesn’t add value to the customer. There are eight wastes of Lean , one of which is the waste of motion.

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Torrance Learning

MARCH 15, 2018

We’re sharing some of our favorite instructional design techniques here in this toolkit to support new instructional designers or “old” ones who want to sharpen their saw (pun completely intended). Why a toolkit?

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Torrance Learning

AUGUST 28, 2014

There’s a lot of buzz these days about whether we should abandon the training industry’s go-to model, ADDIE, for an Agile approach. The discussion has been rich, with elegant arguments made on both sides. A disclaimer: we’re all about Agile, or rather, LLAMA – the Lot Like Agile Methods Approach – here at TorranceLearning.

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Torrance Learning

AUGUST 19, 2014

It’s about time. Are you ready? The world needs you to be a mentor. Megan’s recent blog post on DBusiness Daily News: It’s Time for You to be The Mentor has gotten more than a bit of traction. We think it’s because people are ready to help others grow and, at the same time, grow their own skills and knowledge.

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Torrance Learning

JUNE 20, 2017

Catch up with Megan at FocusOn 2017! Here’s a look at her schedule. Hope to see you there! Tuesday, June 20. Concurrent Session. Session Link 410: Deconstructing Games: Apples to Apples 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Session Link Wednesday, June 21. Concurrent Session.

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Torrance Learning

JUNE 6, 2016

Guest Post by Stephen Gill. This blog originally posted on The Performance Improvement Blog. As David Grebow explained in his post about The Learning Curve and The Pivot Point , unless formal training (courses, workshops, seminars, webinars, etc.)

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Torrance Learning

JANUARY 27, 2016

As learning professionals, we’ve lived in a SCORM world for a least the past decade; SCORM being the set of standards for sharing and tracking learning content. But the world has started to evolve, and these days, it’s abuzz with talk of xAPI. Not as familiar with xAPI? Click here.). We’re pretty geeked about xAPI ourselves.

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Torrance Learning

JANUARY 22, 2016

I just returned from ATD’s TechKnowledge 2016, where I learned all sorts of groovy stuff: cool tricks for Adobe Connect, the value of microvideo, best practices for MOOCs. However, as is often the case, the most potent lesson didn’t come from any of the fabulous presenters’ direct instruction.

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Torrance Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Does your work stress you out? We’ve all experienced the squeeze of work-related stress from time to time, but too much stress at the office too often can make a huge dent in your quality of life and decrease your productivity. We’re not okay with that, and we’re actively seeking ways to make our office a more peaceful place.

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Torrance Learning

AUGUST 5, 2015

We get asked the proverbial chicken and egg question a lot: which came first our LLAMA (Lot Like Agile Management Approach) project management or our communicative, accommodating culture? Agile is about more than just project management; it’s a way of perceiving success, communicating and prioritizing the most important work.

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Torrance Learning

AUGUST 5, 2015

We recently hosted a group of about 30 clients, friends, and colleagues at an xAPI party (because nothing says “celebration” like verb definitions and data filtering).

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Torrance Learning

JANUARY 5, 2015

One of the biggest cultural shifts that new team members at TorranceLearning face isn’t our casual-every-day dress code or the lack of enclosed offices. It’s not the open book finance or the daily sync up sessions. It’s our fearless estimating.

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Torrance Learning

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

LLAMA is everywhere! And now you can learn our Lot Like Agile Management approach in the November issue of TD at Work. The Association for Talent Development (ATD, formerly known as ASTD) publishes this very practical series every month, with techniques ready to implement. This month, it’s all about Agile.

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Torrance Learning

MAY 15, 2014

“Lean Coffee is a discussion facilitation technique that helps a small group agree on topics and a structure for a discussion that otherwise has no specific agenda.”. As a team of project managers, instructional designers, trainers and leaders, we do like our big box of tools and techniques we can wield at a moment’s notice.

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Torrance Learning

JULY 8, 2013

“It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.”. — Ralph Waldo Emerson. I can imagine the conversation that Ralph Waldo Emerson and Conrad Gottfredson might have if they were to meet. Two big thinkers, tossing around ideas about how we humans experience our lives, our work and our learning.

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