Make Your Thinking Visible with a One-Page Training Plan
A one-page training plan makes your thinking visible. Use AI to pressure-test the request, bring options, and show stakeholders what training can’t fix.
My SME Sent a 40-Page Brain Dump. Here’s My First Hour.
Organize SME content without drowning in it. My first hour with a 40-page brain dump: one behavior question, an AI sort, and a rough Canva storyboard.
Six Virtual Halloween Party Ideas that Double as Facilitation Practice
Your team gets a party. You get a sneaky rehearsal for your next virtual session. Somewhere in your organization, someone just said, "We should do something fun for Halloween." And because you know how the virtual platform works, guess who's planning it? Let's be...
Look, Feel, Respond: Three Questions That Tell You What’s Wrong with a Course
You know a course is off before you can explain why. Here’s how to name it. You’re clicking through a course someone handed you. Maybe you built it two years ago. Maybe a vendor built it, or a well-meaning SME built it in PowerPoint and called it eLearning. Nothing is...
What In-House L&D Pros Are Discovering in Their Training Audits (FAQ)
Since I announced LOOK/FEEL/RESPOND, I've heard a lot of the same questions come through email and DMs. I wanted to answer the most common ones here, in case you've been thinking about joining but haven't quite decided yet. "I'm the only person doing L&D at my...
Join Me for LOOK/FEEL/RESPOND: A Live 3-Day Training Design Audit
Over the past few weeks, I've walked through why so much training blends in, even when the content is genuinely good, and given you the three-question audit I use to figure out exactly where a piece of training is falling short. Why Your Training Blends In (And What...
The Look/Feel/Respond Audit: A 3-Question Test for Any Training
Two weeks ago, I talked about why so much training blends in, even when the content itself is solid. This week, I want to give you the actual tool I use to figure out what's going on with a specific piece of training, fast. I call it the Look/Feel/Respond audit. It's...
Your AI-Generated Training Video Might Need a Label Now
A plain language look at what the EU AI Act and California's AI Transparency Act actually require of the courses, avatars, and voiceovers you're building this year, and what they don't. A member in the #IgniteLearning community sent me a message in our community...
Why Your Training Blends In (And What To Do About It)
You built the module. You got the approvals. You hit publish. And then... nothing. No one mentions it. No one notices the extra hours you put into making it good. It just becomes one more thing sitting in the LMS. If that sounds familiar, you are not alone. I have...
Your Organization Doesn’t Need More Training, It Needs Strategy
Here is what I think, and here is the specific thing you can do about it, whether it applies to you or someone you know. We have spent this month naming a pattern. The meeting where careful work gets called “just slides.” The gap between holding the L&D title and...
What a Training Roadmap Actually Reveals
Not a sales page. A look at what surfaces when someone finally maps the whole picture. A few months ago, I sat down with a new client I, to chat about some onboarding they thought they needed. I see this kind of request a lot. A mid-size company, a few hundred...
You’re the Leader. You’re Just Not in the Room.
Some of you already carry the title. Here is the gap nobody names for you. In my last post, I talked about the meeting where months of design work gets called “just slides.” I heard back from a few of you, and one theme kept showing up. Some version of, “I am not even...