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An Instructional Design Toolkit

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There’s nothing like the right tool for the job. Cathy Moore’s Action Mapping approach is our go-to for aligning instruction and performance supports with business goals and tangible action on the job. Align with business goals. Her book Map It belongs on your shelf. Download an Action Mapping poster.

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The future is bright: corporate learning gets smart

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What’s more, these “event-based” learning models often fail to take into account the on-the-job, in-the-moment needs for training and information: all those little reminders, tips and troubleshooting tricks that we all use to translate what we’ve learned to what we do on the job.

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Guest post: Training Culture vs. Learning Culture

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In a learning culture, it’s assumed that learning happens all the time, at events but also on-the-job, through coaches and mentors, from action-learning, from smartphones and tablets, socially, and from experiments. In a training culture, the training and development function is centralized.

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Agile: An incredibly freeing way to work

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The leader’s job is to facilitate the planning and rituals of the Agile approach, keep track of key details and help navigate roadblocks to progress. These teams were often high-performing, very collaborative, leader-less teams performing well-defined business operations. Very cool stuff. Agile teams have a project leader.

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Let me take a moment…or rather, Eight Moments of Learning Need

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Gottfredson, Bob Mosher and many others are moving the training & learning world past a single event-based training model and really embracing all that we need to consider as we aim to support performance on the job. Hallelujah!