Learning and Development Publications

Test Development: Fundamentals for Certification and Evaluation

Learn how to develop tests that accurately measure participants’ skills in the context of credentialing and program evaluation.

More Jolts!

In More Jolts! renowned trainer and game expert Thiagi and Tracy Tagliati offer a specialized type of learning game, specifically designed to help participants reexamine their assumptions and create change.

Leaving Addie for SAM: An Agile Model for Developing the Best Learning Experiences

Discover two new concepts that take instructional design beyond ADDIE and help you produce better, more effective learning products.

Ensuring Learning Transfer (PDF Download)

Learning transfer occurs only when instructional analysis, design, and delivery, follow-through and evaluation all work together to support it. This Infoline will show you how to use a six discipline model to ensure that the training actually teaches the skills  learners need, learners are given opportunities to practice what they’ve learned, managers are engaged, and rewards, consequences, and systems all support new behaviors.

Ensuring Learning Transfer

Learning transfer occurs only when instructional analysis, design, and delivery, follow-through and evaluation all work together to support it. This Infoline will show you how to use a six discipline model to ensure that the training actually teaches the skills  learners need, learners are given opportunities to practice what they’ve learned, managers are engaged, and rewards, consequences, and systems all support new behaviors.

Powerful Storytelling Techniques

Learn how to use your personal and professional stories to energize your presentations and make your training stick. This Infoline will show you  powerful  techniques for using stories to alter perspectives without alienating the audience, deliver difficult feedback or sensitive messages, inspire learner confidence around challenging subject matter, make your training extra-sticky, and more.  

Powerful Storytelling Techniques (PDF Download)

Learn how to use your personal and professional stories to energize your presentations and make your training stick. This Infoline will show you  powerful  techniques for using stories to alter perspectives without alienating the audience, deliver difficult feedback or sensitive messages, inspire learner confidence around challenging subject matter, make your training extra-sticky, and more.  

Informal Learning Basics

Informal Learning Basics will help training and development professionals leverage the power of informal learning in designing meaningful and cost-effective training programs and practices. By identifying informal learning experiences that happen every day on the job and suggesting ways to promote and facilitate those experiences, Informal Learning Basics provides you with the tools to capitalize on the informal learning opportunities which exist in your organization.

Real World Training Design: Navigating Common Constraints for Exceptional Results

As every learning and development professional knows, time, cost, and quality constraints are the obstacles encountered in developing any training project. Based on the ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation) model, Real World Training Design will help you to identify and manage these issues while you create effective, productive training tools for your organization.

Developing Results: Aligning Learning’s Goals and Outcomes With Business Performance Measures

Developing Results is intended to examine the ways in which high- performing organizations approach the evaluation of learning and tie that measurement to overall business performance.