Application: Try this idea in a learning session. Ask a group of learners/workers to identify and solve a problem. Once the list is created, ask them to separate the solutions that are driven by reason and logic from solutions that…
Category: Workshop Tips
Cultivating Curiosity and an Exploring Lab Mindset – Workshop Tip #239
Application: Try this small lab experiment. View the video above and get to discover that when learners touch, manipulate, huddle, document, discuss, argue, and cooperate to find solutions, their experiments lead to better results. A lab mindset is a depiction…
Why Your Work Matters – Workshop Tip #238
Application: Test and observe two approaches when you start a learning session. For the first approach, provide a problem to a group and let them discuss it and offer solutions. For the second approach, ask the group to select one…
A Paradigm Shift in Leadership in Workflow Learning – Workshop Tip #237
Application: Try this idea. In your training session or conversations, present a work problem that has multiple confusing facts surrounding it. For example: a policy with different interpretations, an equipment that needs a new part but the manufacturer has stopped…
The Only Story Structure You’ll Need in Designing Story-based eLearning – Workshop Tip #236
Roger Schank couldn’t have said it any better, “Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.” As instructional designers and trainers, knowing how to best present lessons with complex, data-driven information,…
How to Reinvent Compliance and Technical Training to Impact Performance – Workshop Tip #235
Compliance and technical training have become “paper certification” training programs. Workers and learners only take it to make sure they check the boxes for compliance and technical training or just to cover their “just-in-case-they-need-it” groundwork. This practice reduces the returns…
Augmented Reality Is Lighter, Fancier, Easier, and Oozing with Sex Appeal – Workshop Tip #233
Victor Tsimpinos is a good friend of mine. We used to work together with Volvo in the Chesapeake Bay Area. He shared this amazing tech video on LinkedIn and I’m thankful to have seen it. It is a VR/AR laptop…
How Do We Think What We Think? – Workshop Tip #232
Application: Try this. In implementing your Workflow Learning projects, have a conversation with workers and learners. Ask them to do abstraction of how they understand the issue, problem, or the work they do. It can be a simple chart, drawing,…
Microlearning Tip: “Let Your Fingers Do the Talking” – Workshop Tip #216
“The only thing that has remained constant is change.” In a time where there seems to be no end to technological advances, surviving it means to adapt. So how can this be applied in microlearning? Millenials or Gen Z may…
Importance of Collaboration in the Workplace – Tip #215
In a recent article by Josh Bersin, he acknowledged that we are indeed living in a skills-based community in which people, especially workers, want to learn everything quickly. The volume of online content is huge, and companies are spending more…
Enhancing Observational Skills Is Crucial in Workflow Learning – Tip #213
How many times have we seen workers in situations where they focus too much on following the process we trained them on, instead of using the power of observation and critical thinking? The Broken Screw Story A technician, who was…
AI Bots Gaining Ground- What Does It Mean for Us As Virtual Trainers? – Tip #212
Last year, China’s Xin Hua news agency introduced Qui Hao, the world’s first AI male news anchor. Just three months after, they unveiled Xin Xiaomeng, the world’s first AI female news presenter. While critics were quick to say that those…
5 Big Don’ts for Successful Webinar Presentations – Tip #211
Over the years, I have done a lot of seminars, workshops, and talks – both virtually and in-person. The main challenge in virtual presentations is that your audience can’t see you and vice versa. It can be tricky to capture…
7 Reasons Stories Work for the Modern Learner – Tip #210
Storytelling has been a very effective learning tool since time immemorial. But even with the changing learning landscape, big shifts in work environments and tech disruption, why do stories in eLearning designs still work? Simple. Everybody is a sucker for…
STOP, THINK, FOCUS: 4 Ways to Design Time-Saving Lessons – Tip #208
Who hasn’t been stuck in debilitating traffic or spent hours waiting in line? Have you ever taken a very long training course and wished you were someplace else? So much precious time wasted when you could’ve spent it doing other…
