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...
3 Tips for Creating Graphics for your next Learning Project
Instructional design is a field that ties together the worlds of instructional design, graphic design, and user experience (UX). With an eye on both the look and feel of a learning experience as well as its effectiveness, instructional designers can help make...
Learning Trends to Explore Post COVID
COVID-19 completely transformed the learning blueprint in 2020. Organizations had to adopt remote work model with little notice, causing them to focus heavily on simply maintaining typical operations. As a result, training was an afterthought, as there were more...
What is e-Learning and When is it Applicable?
It is no secret that 2020 shined a bright light on many dark holes. One of which was remote workers and how to manage them. Businesses of all sizes quickly realized the importance of ensuring training and education content was accessible to their now “remote”...
What to Do When Your Subject Matter Expert (SME) Needs to Make a Change to Your eLearning Course
The course creation process can be extensive, and working with so many stakeholders and subject matter experts (SMEs) can mean multiple rounds of revisions. As you create your e-Learning course, the SMEs will need to review the course and provide any edits to the...
The Gotchas: What Will Impact Your Course Development Time and Budget
During the eLearning course development process, there are many different factors in play that will impact your timeline and budget. Unfortunately, issues with the timeline or budget can completely derail the process and lead to bad results all around. Let’s dive into...
Streamlining the eLearning Review Process
Before your eLearning course can go live and you can start the training process, you need to make sure that as you develop the training, you take the time to review it, and involve all of the stakeholders. Rushing the review process, or not involving the right people,...