Category: Program design
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Being Creative
A short video on one person’s view of how to be creative. Interesting. You want to write better programs? Then keep writing. Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.
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Teaching intuition – is it possible?
The great challenge of training is not training skills or knowledge but behaviours, attitudes and personal attributes such as integrity, professionalism, creativity and intuition. Some of these examples can be approached from a skill and knowledge platform for example training participants in creativity techniques or exposing participants to theory and research on ethics and integrity…
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Viral Training, is it possible?
I just liked this video (see below). I am puzzled by the whole viral thing though. Why does one video gets more hits than another? Some of my own training videos have had a lot of hits (nothing really compared to a viral video) while others have had very little and I can’t work out…
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Cutting through the darkness
Watch the video below, it is only short but spectacular. Not because I ski like that (I wish) but it reminds me of how I often feel as a trainer. A bright light cutting through the darkness, confusion and murk and hopefully bringing some light to others. A student last night during one of my…
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Practice – but good practice.
Want to be a better, more effective trainer or for that matter a better anything? Well you are going to have to do a lot of practice. According to some experts 10,000 hours of practice. Where did that figure come from? What sort of practice works best? How much practice per day or session? These…
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Do you want to be an instructional designer?
The title is a question but really the first question should be what is an instructional designer. How about we cut through the usual professional BS and just state that an instructional designer writes training material and resources. It doesn’t matter if it is print based, ebook, online or powerpoint it is all training material.…
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Project Management for Instructional Designers
I have taught many project management courses to many different types of people and for many different end purposes. I believe it is an essential requirement for all employees, business owners and people who want to manage a set of tasks effectively within a time frame, within a set budget and to an established standard.…
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Writing Training Programs
A lot of people ask me how do you get into writing training programs for other organisations. I don’t actually have a good answer to that questions. One day someone asked if I could do it and I said yes and I have been doing it ever since. I think that I do a pretty…
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Problem Solving
One of the greatest training methods is problem solving. I have been using this particular approach a great deal for the last year as it specifically fits project management. The best way to learn how to manage a project is to manage a project, even if it is simulated. As the trainer I provide just…
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Program Design – it’s easy?
Here is a quick little article with heaps of good points about learning design. It is about elearning design but the key points are essentially the same for good learning design of any description. I have been designing a lot of programs lately and here are my key points. 1. Know the target audience –…