In these particularly stressful times, when many people are stretched between virtual work and monitoring virtual schooling, it's a good time to be as efficient with work as possible. These working … [Read more...]
Choose One Professional Goal This Year
Reflect on this. What would happen if you chose only one professional goal to focus on this year? Just one. If you spent a few hours a week working on your goal, how would you be transformed by the … [Read more...]
10 Ways to Work Smarter Next Year
Learning professionals often wear many hats, from client interface and management to design and development. It can make you feel like you're drowning in work. Working smarter not harder is an elusive … [Read more...]
5 Smart Questions Instructional Designers Should Ask
As a learning experience designer, it pays to keep your eye on the big picture. No one wants the headaches associated with going down the wrong path. Getting a birds-eye view of the situation can … [Read more...]
Best Online Productivity Tools For Learning Professionals
Do you find yourself rushing out the door in the morning and then running to meetings throughout the day? Productivity tools should make your life easier, more efficient, and organized—allowing you to … [Read more...]
Persuading Clients To Accept Your Course Design
I received an email from an experienced instructional designer who had a common problem. She was finding it difficult to persuade a client to accept her course design. She wondered if there were any … [Read more...]
10 Ways To Work Smarter This Year
Are you looking for ways to be more effective at work? Would you like to improve your focus and get more done in less time? I think that striving to become more productive has its benefits if your … [Read more...]
Justifying eLearning
If your organization does not have sufficient funds for a training program, eLearning and other technology-based interventions, can be a viable substitute for instructor-led training. In many … [Read more...]
How Your Workplace Can Support Learning Transfer
Training that fails to transfer to the workplace is all around us. According to one survey of learning and development professionals, only 34% of trainees apply what they've learned to the workplace … [Read more...]
10 Ways To Protect Yourself From Client Issues
Whether you're dealing with stakeholders, internal clients or external customers, some issues are bound to arise during the design and development of eLearning products. … [Read more...]
Joining The eLearning Tribe
I frequently get emails seeking advice on how to enter the field of eLearning or Instructional Design. The advice seekers are often well educated in this or another field, but they just don't see many … [Read more...]
How To Avoid Project Failure
I recently saw an excellent presentation by Robyn Defelice explaining how instructional designers can practice individual leadership to help a project succeed and to develop personal and career … [Read more...]