Invest In Yourself: Women in L&D 2024 Recording
How do you take time to invest in yourself as an L&D professional? What skills should you prioritize, and what resources are helpful?
It’s easy to get caught up in an endless stream of day-to-day projects and tasks. But what about taking time to invest in yourself and your own learning? Many people, especially women, don’t prioritize their own continuous learning. In my presentation, I shared resources for improving your skills as an L&D professional as well as strategies for making time to invest in yourself.
Watch the recording
If the video isn’t embedded below, you can watch it on YouTube.
What to learn
Instructional design is an interdisciplinary field, and it’s not possible to learn everything. Therefore, you have to prioritize and pick the areas where you want to grow your skills. I categorized these areas in three big building blocks:
- Instructional design and learning science
- Development and technology
- Business and communication
Those categories aren’t perfect, of course, and we could quibble about what goes where. I’m mostly trying to provide a framework for planning your self-development.
Check out the rest of the recordings
This session was part of the TLDC Women in L&D Conference 2024, which had a great lineup of speakers and topics. If you missed the event or want to catch up on specific sessions, check out the link above or the YouTube playlist. While this event featured women as speakers, plenty of the information and resources shared is valuable to men and nonbinary folks too.
Upcoming events
Morning Buzz: Designing and Developing Scenarios. Tuesday, April 23, 7:30-8:15 EDT. I will be facilitating an open-ended discussion about designing and developing scenarios at the Learning & HR Tech Solutions Conference.
Generating Plausible Choices and Consequences for Scenarios Using AI Tools. Thursday, April 25, 10:00 EDT. This is a hands-on session to learn to use AI tools to generate draft scenario questions, choices, and consequences. Practice refining prompts, recognize the limitations of AI tools, and know when to rely on AI versus manual content creation. Part of the Learning & HR Tech Solutions Conference, April 23-25 in Orlando. Save $500 your registration with my exclusive promo code SPEAKER129.
