Make training engaging
How to make training and learning programmes engaging without resorting to gimmicks
The Training Design Festival June 2023
A full day event for busy L&D practitioners to learn, collaborate, be inspired and get stuff done!
Lunch n Learn – Mindmapping and Sketchnoting
Mindmaps are an excellent way to capture information quickly during a meeting. they’re also a great way to brainstorm and organise information, whether you’re planning a session or project, doing some research, or creating ‘at a glance’ notes for delivery. Sketchnotes are also a great way to make notes visually appealing, which makes them more…
Technology in Training Design
There is so much tech available to learning designers and training professionals, how do you know what’s out there and choose what to use? Start by discovering what your peers find useful.
Lunch n Learn – Demystifying elearning
We all recognise the importance of offering a blended solution to maximise flexibility and include as many people as possible. However, those who create elearning and those who deliver live learning tend to operate in parallel worlds. Becoming a GOOD elearning designer takes time and dedication but if you want to expand your offering beyond…
Explore – Using the Transform Deck
We know that engaging people in learning and making it an active experience leads to better results. We need to encourage both divergent and convergent thinking to enable learning, and following MASTER is always recommended! In this session we explored how the Transform Deck can be used to encourage different types of thinking and what…
Using Canva
Canva is a fantastic tool for training designers. It allows you to create professional looking workbooks, handouts and slides as well being a brilliant way to generate images for your social media and marketing. The Magic Write function even uses artificial intelligence to create content for you. Even the free version has great functionality, although…
Building a SuperTeam with RESPECT
We know that what takes a team from a group of people to a well functioning team can be explained by Kirkpatrick’s Forming, Storming, Norming Performing Model AND the GRPI Model. What make a good team a high performing team can be explained by examining the 5 dysfunctions of teams (amongst other things). But what…
Dear Training Designer’s Club: What should I do if I don’t have time to do a proper learning needs analysis?
We all know how important it is to conduct a learning needs analysis before beginning training design. But conducting that analysis can take a long time, and sometimes timescales simply don’t allow it.
There are still lots of useful things you can do – that don’t take a lot of time – that will help you to get it mostly right, most of the time. In this video I explain what they are.
Dear Training Designer’s Club: How do you actually start designing a training workshop?
We all know that including activities in training encourages engagement and makes learning easier. but how do you decide what type of exercise to include when?
In this video I outline some of the things that you need to consider to make the right choices and include appropriate exercises that will enhance your training workshop.
AI in Training Design: A first look
So, Artificial Intelligence can now write training for us. Allegedly. Are we all going to be out of a job in the next few years or are we safe? Can AI really save us loads of time, or does it create as much work as it saves? The technology is still relatively new, and I’ve…
Lunch n Learn – Designing for diversity, difference and variety
We know that we need to make our session varied for them to be effective, but what specifically should we take into account? Using social-neuroscience and understanding our diverse ways of thinking and behaviour is an excellent starting point. In this session we had a whistle-stop tour of 7 attributes to understand diverse ways of…
Strategy Box
An exercise that can be used for individuals when coaching, but could also be used in small groups, to explore problem-solving, learning and overcoming obstacles. You could spend as little as 15 minutes on it, or up to an hour, depending on whether you use it as an idea sparker, or do more reflection and…
Using AI in Learning and Development
What artificial intelligence can do for learning and development, and what it can’t.