Here again, as promised, are the free weekly vignettes, and still absolutely free for you to use. These short but straight-to-the point presentations depict real-life scenarios. Vignettes are effective additions to your learning programs – adding a deeper contextual dimension…
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“I Paid More!” – Dealing with Preferential Treatment
This weekly goal to create short, captivating and provocative vignettes is our answer to the challenge of providing you with a focused and effective learning approach and experience shared between learning professionals and learners, alike. Better still – it’s free…
Context is King
Imagine this:• 288,355 books published in 2009 in the US alone, as compared to 51,000 books 25 years ago.• 3-8 years is the average length of time a person stays on the job.• 320 million Google searches are done each…
“Do You Booze in eLearning?” – Taste this Complimentary Presentation
Our weekly thought –provoking vignettes are high-impact , revolutionary , and totally engaging real-life scenarios that highly enhance your learning programs. Moreover, these vignettes are available for your use, for free. Find out how you can use them. This week’s…
“Your Product is Under Recall” – Help learners handle disappointing calls
We continue with our weekly serving of vignettes which offer short but precise and provocative micro-scenarios that ignite interaction and enhance learning. This is a tool you can use for free. These real-life scenarios elevate learning to a higher level…
“Is Age a Problem?” A Provocative Vignette About Age Discrimination
The Vignettes series shows you a brief, concise, yet provocative and reflective learning approach. Your learners are taken through the “relate-interpret-apply process” within real-life scenarios to fire up reflection and interaction that generates deeper learning through experience sharing. This week,…
The Battle of Stories – Instructional Design Approach
SynthesisFor stories to really be effective and serve their purposes, of imparting lessons that the learners need to learn, we also need to identify the strongest ideas or stories that we want to change or “battle” with. Finding the impact…
BP Gulf Oil Spills – a case of “be a manager, go to jail”
The news suggest that there has been early signs of the oil spill disaster. Oil rig contractors have detected earlier problems but failed to take the needed steps to avert the catastrophe. Many years ago in my one of my…
Why 3MinuteWorlds.com?
Why 3MinuteWorlds.com? I continue to believe that the road to more productive learning and applying of ideas revolve around our ability to think of small things – micro things. Here lies the kernel of anything small that we can act…
DIYEL #17 Can workers use lessons to solve day-to-day problems?
Introduction Table of Posts Today’s learners are not like the learners of 10 or 20 years ago. Learners today do not have the luxury of attending seminars or eLearning programs and then storing their knowledge for future use. Knowledge is…
DIYEL #9 Be a gold prospector. Separate nuggets from the tons of dirt. This will serve your learners well.
IntroductionTable of PostsMost trainers and eLearning designers would go bankrupt if they were gold prospectors. Prospectors spend their efforts screening the few gold nuggets from the tons of dirt, pebbles and rock. On the other hand, typical trainers and eLearning…
DIYEL #8 Idea applied, idea learned = results.
IntroductionTable of Posts Somewhere in the history of the training profession we forgot that training and learning are about results. We got fuzzy from thinking too much about tracking and ROI, multimedia, games, interactivity, and other stuff that does not…
DIYEL #7 Use a straight-line micro-incision on content to instantly apply ideas. All else wastes precious time.
IntroductionTable of PostsPicture this: a surgeon uses a scalpel to create a straight-line incision to begin an operation: sharp, quick and instant. This is how our training and learning designs should be. Instead, most of them are dull, prolonged and…
DIYEL # 4 – Adopt a tech kid from your local community college. He knows more than your IT person.
IntroductionTable of Posts Seriously, the typical IT person in your company is not the guy you run to for eLearning advice, especially if you don’t know squat. You must think of your self-preservation. Think of your job security. And if…
The Arts Elevate Knowledge and Learning – More Visualization Tools
Thanks to Tweets from @russeltarr, I saw work of Jonathan Harris is phenomenal in helping us visualize the world, massive, bit, world around us. These two tools merge art with rapid access to learning. I call this mapping and visualization…