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Instructional Design
July 22, 2025
The Role of an Instructional Designer: What You Need to Know
Instructional design is the foundation of effective learning and development programs across ...
Instructional Design
July 01, 2024
Exploring 4 Models of Instructional Design
If you’re reading this, you know that online course design is tricky. While there are ...
Creative Training Techniques®
September 09, 2021
How to Keep Your Training Plans Flexible (In-Person or Online)
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®
August 09, 2021
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
August 30, 2019
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
September 27, 2016
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, ...
Instructional Design
September 15, 2016
CIO is the Cornerstone of Social Learning for Your Training Design
Another core concept of building an Instructor-Led, Participant-Centered Workshop is CIO. ...
Instructional Design
September 13, 2016
Does Your Training Design Need CPR?
One of the core concepts of building an Instructor-Led, Participant-Centered Workshop is ...
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