Instructional Design Perspectives: Recent Episodes
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In the 90’s, while I was in the semiconductor industry I learned through training the relationship between performance improvement and business successes. The better qualified an individual was on his/her team the better a team could react to any change during the business process.What I want to say is that the training that these high … Continue reading →
A definition for off-season is a time of suspended or reduced activity; especially : the time during which an athlete is not training or competing. Do you consider your training staff as athletes or your training audiences as competitors? I believe this all depends on your business needs and your learning/development programs. For example, football teams will dismiss … Continue reading →
Strategic Objectives Definition: Macro-level metrics are the overall organization or cross-functional metrics used to drive strategy; and micro-level metrics are those measures that support the improvement and management of a particular project, program or initiative. Strategic Objectives-The term “strategic objectives” refers to an organization’s articulated aims or responses to address major change or improvement, competitiveness or … Continue reading →
I believe that all employees at all levels of the organization should plan some type of training, extended education, or attend conferences to enhance their professional careers. While some managers will attend almost anything to get out of the office most will consider the development of their teams before using up all the training dollars. … Continue reading →
I have an extensive sports background beginning with Little League Baseball and ending with two-years of college football. I always hated the end of football season for obvious reasons and the long lull in between seasons. But, mainly our team goal wasn’t met and almost always coaches never gave feedback on what prevented us from … Continue reading →
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Most of the time when we see the words feedback or evaluation we think of survey. Because most of the time after we complete a class or some type of training we are giving a “Lickert-type survey” to fill out for the instructor. I for one do not support this type of feedback because all … Continue reading →
I recently started attending a large community church (Sagebrush Community Church) close to my neighborhood and the last couple of weeks the design folks have astounded me with their presentations. As the pastor gives his teaching he refers the congregation to the big screens and this is what is shown. As a narrator reads some … Continue reading →
In 1982, after I dropped out of college I started working for an oilfield company in West Texas. I had no previous knowledge of what type of work I would be doing but I was young, dumb, and strong. What I want to share about this story is that it was the first real-job that … Continue reading →
If we all had a crystal ball we would all be able to forecast treacherous planning like this. Or could we? Does the US government actually look at cost for training budgets for all of these departments being impacted by it. How does the government measure its return on investment within departments with budgets in … Continue reading →