Wonderful Brain

MARCH 15, 2011

Or what we would call improved performance and employee effectiveness. In our world, where tools and assets are more readily available for any type of experience and evaluation, why can’t we go the whole way to meet bigger goals by compelling learning to meet more robust performance markers.

Metrics 48

Metrics Kirkpatrick Virtual World Evalution 48

Wonderful Brain

MARCH 27, 2014

Learning designers strategize how to solve problems to achieve performance improvement applying theory to fact and constructing course elements, flows and production processes. I don’t believe there has been a study conducted on performance improvement or even a Kirkpatrick view of which types of courses yield intended results.

Design 64

Design Courseware Instructional Design Mashups 64

Wonderful Brain

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

And the organization expects each generation, besides tolerance, adapt as necessary to improve performance and solve problems through learning and training experiences. But reasonable learners in all generations can recognize when attempts are made to entice them into a learning experience.

Cognitive 72

Cognitive Courseware Social Media Instructional Design 72

Wonderful Brain

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Aware her intuition is calling to her executive brain, the mentee approaches the supervisor inquiring if there is a problem with her performance of that she should be aware. With her length of time on the job, knowledge of products and the CRM, she fell behind her own trainee in all aspects of performance. The mentee is confused.

Help 40

Help Mentoring Consulting Behavior 40

Wonderful Brain

MARCH 26, 2012

One, company claims and values as they appear in advertising and public relations and the other being the product that should express claims the company makes as the physical manifestation or promise of performance of its values. Most companies spend big telling you who they are and what they believe. Moreover, there is a conundrum.

Apple 54

Apple Cognitive Metrics Attitudes 54

Wonderful Brain

MAY 18, 2012

It’s imperative to establish very specific outcomes and their key performance indicators (KPIs) in the design brief. That leads to performance improvement…and that is the ultimate goal of any learning system. Let’s begin where we always should and that’s with the outcomes we are seeking; not just for the course, but for each scenario.

Instructional Design 61

Instructional Design Movie Voice Stock 61

Wonderful Brain

JANUARY 6, 2011

If you regard making learning ‘products’ that deliver knowledge, skills or behaviors that infuse performance change in others you had better question every decision. For those whose responsibility means creating learning in any of its forms we have an audience we must reach.The inner critic should always be at work.

Voice 44

Voice Storyboard Standards Director 44

Wonderful Brain

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

He taught me how e-learning could work to bring about massive and distributed performance change. This was reinforced when I discovered Cognitive Arts, Roger’s test bed for his philosophy to be played out for real. His 2 page memo I kind of copped from one of his minions laid out a rubric I could get behind. And I did and still do.

Brain 40

Brain Social Networks Cognitive RSS 40

Wonderful Brain

MAY 7, 2012

We can declare non too subtlety that, with some inspiration, even if in the form of—gasp—money, teachers can be moved to higher levels of overall performance. I see it more like a legacy reward for a lifetime of great service recognized by customers… AND an immediate way to shake up the profession by the scholars hood and wake up potential.

Metrics 59

Metrics Teach Portfolio Education 59

Wonderful Brain

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Delaying school start times for adolescents is often proposed as a policy change to address insufficient sleep and potentially improve students’ academic performance, reduce engagement in risk behaviors, and improve health. Poor Academic Performance – Lower GPA. Insufficient sleep in adolescents: Failure to Pay Attention.

Authoring Tools 103

Authoring Tools Cognitive Behavior Education 103

Wonderful Brain

JANUARY 23, 2014

Corporate leaders are skeptical about the costs associated with learning and training believing there is not a high enough dividend in performance change to drive up profits. The problem that begs a solution is how best to design learning for all generations. Organizational Intolerance.

Courseware 62

Courseware Social Networks Attitudes Instant Messaging 62

Wonderful Brain

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Incentivizing workers of any level with rewards, extrinsic or intrinsic seems to work only when there are simple goals to achieve and solid rules to guide performance. However, as Daniel Pink has noted, as soon as performance requires any additional cognitive skill (e.g. reasoning) even a larger reward leads to decreased performance.

Management 48

Management Change Leadership Effectiveness 48

Wonderful Brain

OCTOBER 30, 2012

If your goal is to present information that yields a higher degree of knowledge transfer, what roads are open that will improve learning uptake and therefore performance while enticing engineers to see the learning design as interesting but compelling. That said; as the learning master how can you reconcile these differences.

Engineering 44

Engineering Learner Cognitive Examples 44

Wonderful Brain

JANUARY 11, 2012

Then too, the soundtrack with familiar tunes in some cases—and quite arguably—performed as in the case of Cole Porter just as he might at an evening soiree, that made the movie even more potent. Once we formalize the process of learning and form expectations, objectives, outcomes, KPIs, and other performance measures two things happen.

Learner 56

Learner Moveable Type Movie Music 56

Wonderful Brain

MARCH 11, 2014

Most importantly both Cx and 70:20:10 are performance and productivity focused. These touchpoints will have extraordinary reach and thus value if the sources are trusted and adds to the validity of the single point under review.

Custom 81

Custom Learner Off-shore Kirkpatrick 81

Wonderful Brain

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Use respected key performance indicators from which the formative temperature of the initiative can be viewed against the organizations expectations and, most importantly risk triggers. Assuming all the hard work has been done already and your due diligence is complete then remove the negatives even if unspoken or even unthought….

Portfolio 58

Portfolio Google Ideas Innovation 58

Wonderful Brain

APRIL 3, 2011

With so many form factors from smartphones to oversize touch screen computers – and now the iPad, revolution/revelation how we handle data, text and imagery, plus coherent manipulation of screen objects is becoming of paramount performance. The latest Bond films depict a glance at this next next iteration.

Brain 51

Brain RSS Cognitive Comparison 51

Wonderful Brain

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Roped to the top of our station wagon (no SUVs yet) we trekked home where I proceeded to heft this coniferous beast (an enemy at the time) to the backyard where I could perform surgical machinations supervised by Mrs. Dr DeBakey. The tree had to be shaped just so but still touch the ceiling, always scratching off a coat of paint.

Toys 54

Toys Learning Picture Camera 54

Wonderful Brain

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Beginning with objectives for what learners should take away and then demonstrates in their performance, to the design process and finally the software used to build courseware always determine the instructional yield at the end. Like most subjective or creative ventures, it comes down to choices.

Articulate 51

Articulate Authoring Tools Flash to HTML5 Conversion Cognitive 51

Wonderful Brain

APRIL 11, 2011

Maybe CXOs are holding back to see if the technologies will stick – or the dollar investment has not yet been proven to shoot forth spectacular people performances – those who can reinvent the company, bolster the bottom line and energize the stock price.

Corporate eLearning 77

Corporate eLearning Flash to HTML5 Conversion Pinnacle Courseware 77

Wonderful Brain

MARCH 25, 2011

How many antique philosophical constructs, techniques and methodologies (and include tech here) must we throw into a crevice to melt in the instructional magma before we get the idea that there are many ways to resolve – and improve learning performance. In an effort to be short—these items and ideas are top of mind and food for thought.

Ideas 44

Ideas Education Simulations Courseware 44