From Insights to Action: How to Implement What You’ve Learned Post-Conference
Attending a conference can be a fantastic experience, filled with new insights, knowledge, and connections. However, once the conference is over, and the excitement fades, you find yourself struggling to implement the learned strategies into your daily routines. This...
Embracing Freedom with Amy Porterfield’s Course Creation Bootcamp
Hi friends! You know, life has this funny way of presenting turns, not unexpected ones, but just turns that sort of sneak up on you. With Teagan in her junior year and Taylor kickstarting her freshman year, the house, well, it's gotten a tad quieter. While Luna, our...
Leveraging AI to Create Digital Courses
Technology is advancing more and more every day. There is a growing demand for digital learning. With the increasing number of people who prefer online education, organizations are always looking for new ways to improve their e-learning courses. Artificial...
How Creating a Digital Course Can Generate Residual Income for Your Freelance Business
In today's digital age, freelancers are constantly looking for ways to diversify their income streams. One highly effective and potentially lucrative option is creating a digital course. Not only does it allow you to share your expertise and help others, but it can...
Empowered for Success: The Empowering Effect of Amy Porterfield’s Course on My Business
Close your eyes and take yourself back to August 2020. We were about 5 months into the pandemic with not a clear end in sight, and many had transitioned to working from home who had never worked from home, much less led a team from home. As a freelancer, the pandemic...
5 Tips for Conducting a Needs Analysis for Instructional Designers
Instructional designers play a pivotal role in developing effective and impactful learning experiences. However, to create meaningful instructional materials, it is crucial to conduct a thorough needs analysis. This process forms the foundation for designing tailored...
How to Onboard Remote Employees
The world of work has changed. Gone are the days when an employee will spend their entire career with one company, in one location. Today's workforce is more mobile than ever before, with employees traveling for business or working from home. This presents a challenge...
This Season of Change and How I am Coping
How do you deal with change? Is it easier when you know it coming? This spring, our youngest is graduating from high school, a change we knew was coming, a change we have been through previously with our oldest, so while in some ways we know the emotion that will be...
Strategies for Collaborating with Subject Matter Experts
How do rude encounters affect decision-making? This was a short article in the May-June 2023 issue of the Harvard Business Review (HBR) and it got me to thinking how true this is when working with stakeholders, subject matter experts (SME), and other team members on...
Leadership Reflections on a 46-week Leadership Program
As an instructional designer who focuses on adult learning, often I design and develop a customer course, hand it off to the client, they deliver it, I might make some updates after first delivery, but then, I exit the project and either move to a new course with them...
Four Best Practices for eLearning Retention
eLearning is a method of delivering information to employees. It's a great way to share information quickly and easily, but it can be hard for learners to retain that information without any context or human interaction. Here are some strategies you can use to help...
Tips for Creating Engaging Presentations
Presentations are a great way to deliver your content, while building your professional image, highlighting your brand, and showcasing your skills. However, creating an engaging presentation is not as easy as it sounds. How do we know this? We have seen plenty that...