Strategic Planning for the Instructional Designer

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Bruno Neal

Help forecast challenges and provide solutions by getting involved early in decisions related to the scope of design projects. Today you woke up with your mind full of ideas, almost mentally rehearsing your speech for the big event. After months going through instructio... More »

Setting the Stage for Effective Role Plays

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Swati Karve

Successful role plays require meaningful and relevant characters, skillful facilitators, the participants ability to play the roles, observer involvement, and an effective debriefing process. Role plays can be prewritten, part of a video clip, impromptu, or created spec... More »

Emotional Intelligence: Can It Be Taught?

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Golnaz Sadri

Emotional intelligence (EI) has generated a great deal of attention in recent years. Many researchers and practitioners feel that EI supersedes other forms of intelligence in determining success or failure in jobs requiring high levels of interaction with others (manage... More »

A Leadership Tool for Smart Thinking

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Pierre Dube

Paula is a shift supervisor for a high-tech industry. Prior to her daily brief with her crew, she must sift through data on industry updates, changes in the work schedule, current plant performance, and a host of other documents to determine what to provide her crew so ... More »

Moving Into the Live Virtual Classroom

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Martyn Lewis

With increasing pressure on learning organizations to deliver greater results and with ever-decreasing resources and time, there is an understandable race away from the physical to the virtual classroom. The catch-22 is that virtual training is seen by many as a poor an... More »