Podcast: Best Practices for Partnering With SMEs

Juana Llorens

When working on instructional design projects with subject matter experts (SMEs), there are numerous moving parts to take into consideration—for launching a project, defining roles, bringing key players into the fold, and solving common critical issues with these... More »

Learners of Time Management Need to Be Taught Metacognitive Skills

Francis Wade

As trainers, when we conduct training in time management, we need to provide our audience with more than laundry lists of optimal behaviors. Instead, we need to show learners how to use the simplest principles of metacognitive learning—the science of teaching ours... More »

Overcoming the Obstacles to Social Media Adoption

Luis Estrada

My first article on the obstacles to the adoption of social media by corporate learning generated a series of requests for guidance on how to overcome those hurdles. In this post, I’d like to present a few guiding principles and key considerations that have proven... More »

Boring to Brilliant: 5 Tips to Convert Your E-Learning to a Story-based Approach

Diane Senffner

When consulting, I try to explain that simply exporting a PowerPoint presentation and calling it “e-learning” doesn't necessarily qualify it as e-learning. It’s not instructionally sound; it’s simply words, some large, some small, and often irrel... More »

From Training to Performance—A Necessary Evolution

Mike Taylor

Shifting our perspective from training to performance leads us to a more holistic approach. By taking a systemic view of all factors that impact performance (and by recognizing the benefits and limitations of training), we can become more efficient and more effective. More »