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Pushing Beyond 101

Innovative Learning Group

Teaching the Experienced Workforce Why do most organizations put 80 percent of their learning resources into supporting less than 20 percent of the workforce? Look at your organization’s budget for learning and development and try to justify why almost every program is geared to new hires and those with less than a year of experience. That’s an 80/20 phenomenon that doesn’t make a lot of sense.

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Let’s Talk Video, Take 2

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Instructional Reasons for Using Video in E-Learning Recently my peer, Eris Noren, wrote a blog about best practices for using video in e-learning where he described video styles, software, and the process used to create a video. In this “Take 2,” I’m going to expand on his ideas by addressing the instructional reasons for using videos. Like Eris mentioned, there are many reasons to use video in your training: it’s a quick way to deliver content, sound, and motion to engage learners; it can be us

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The SME: An ISD’s Best Content Friend

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How to Effectively Work With Subject Matter Experts. In my many years as an instructional systems designer (ISD), I’ve learned about a lot of other jobs in a number of different industries. I started out at a company that focused on government defense and have gone on to projects in automotive , utilities, medical technology , healthcare , insurance , financial services , and retail.

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It’s All About the Journey

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Don’t Just Train, Give Learners an Adventure! Consider this training request scenario: Learning need: A new business process, along with new software, is to be rolled out to employees within a company division. Challenge: The employees must transition to the process at software go-live, three months from now. The software is currently being customized to meet the organization’s requirements.

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Compliance Training – Just Do It Already

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Best Practices for Doing Compliance Training Right. I know what you’re thinking, “Not another blog about compliance. What more is there to say? Compliance training must be done, so just do it!”. But pause a minute… this idea of “just do it” is why compliance training often ends up being so unpalatable. Because it typically must be created — or recreated — and taken on a yearly basis, compliance training may be given short shrift when it comes to rigorous and thoughtful design and development.

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Who, Me – Biased?

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Seek Many Voices When Designing Solutions. Imagine you’re an instructional designer (ID) charged with creating e-learning to teach a work process. Which one of the following is the best way to determine the course content? Obtain relevant information from the subject matter expert (SME) Imagine what you would want to know yourself Observe an exemplary performer Rely on your expertise as a learning professional.

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The Rights and Wrongs of Feedback

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Feedback: An Essential Element for Performance Improvement. Feedback: Love it or leave it? Do you like receiving it, do you like giving it, or are you okay without it? Do you know which types of feedback improve performance? I think we can agree that feedback is critical in attempts to improve employee job performance. Whether you sit across from someone and have a candid discussion about his or her work performance or you email an employee about a performance deficiency, the point is that you n

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