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Once designers know who their audience is and what really drives them, they can move on to the second stage in the design thinking process: define.
Recently, our training department of two was given a limited and budget tasked with creating a leadership training program for front- to mid-line managers in a nearly 90-year-old organization with a 450-person, predominantly contract-based workforce.
At WCCO Belting, a decade of exponential growth pushed employee training to the bottom of the priority list.
When you start to think about designing a new training program, is your first thought something like this? “We have this knowledge about X. Our job is to try to find a way to cram all of it into people’s heads as quickly as possible.”
There’s a problem with the way education designers talk about blended learning. It is commonly considered a mix of “traditional” classroom learning with some online learning elements.
You may be tempted to just jump right in with content development. But before making that leap, consider these six easy steps that you can take to ensure success.
After spending more than 40,000 hours “in the trenches” with teams and their leaders, I have discovered the most vital element to learning assimilation is understanding the “why” behind the request for training.
Throughout the training development process, the goal is the development and implementation of a course that facilitates learning. Since that process is built on humans, we know that it can never be perfect.