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Instructional Design
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Flexibility. It’s something most employees want in their careers, and it’s becoming ...
Creative Training Techniques®
August 24, 2021
5 Tips for a Better Presentation In Person or Online
Presentations are a form of public speaking. For many trainers, that means one thing: fear. ...
Creative Training Techniques®
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What is Hybrid Training?
The events of 2020 caused nearly all professional trainers to embrace virtual and online ...
Instructional Design
May 19, 2020
5 Key Instructional Design Tips for E-Learning
Whether you were prepared or not, making the move to virtual training wasn’t much of a ...
Instructional Design
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7 Tips to More Effective Instructional Design
If you’ve been in the corporate world a while, chances are you’ve been subjected to ...
Instructional Design
July 10, 2019
Improve Your Training Engagement with the EAT Principle
Be sure to include EAT in your Instructor-Led, Participant-Centered training session. I’ll ...
Instructional Design
November 01, 2016
The Annual Conference Helped This Attendee Take Control of Her Training
In continuation of the insider’s view series, I had the chance to talk with Ava Varelas from ...
Instructional Design
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Time to Create Your Own Results Based Training Design
If you’ve been reading the previous posts about the core principles in an Instructor-Led, ...
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