Tag: instructional design
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Your Best Training Tool Might Already Be Free
Managers think that workplace training needs expensive software with dramatic animations and enough buttons to launch a satellite. Somebody mentions Articulate 360 or Adobe Captivate and suddenly a small business is pricing software that costs more than the break room fridge. Most employees do not care what platform the training was built in. They care…
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Your Company Broadcast is Not the Super Bowl
Somewhere along the way, people started acting like a company live stream needs a control room, six producers, a countdown clock, and someone named Brad yelling, “Take Camera Two!” It does not. You can start with a laptop, a camera, a decent internet connection, and something useful to say. That is all. A company broadcast…
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Your Slide Is Not a Document. Please Stop Treating It Like One.
There is a special kind of panic that happens when someone opens a slide deck and the first slide has twelve bullet points, three paragraphs, two screenshots, a footnote, and a quote in 9 point font. That is not a slide. That is a cry for help with a title. Text on slides can be…
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Could This Meeting Have Been a Lunch Date?
Before you schedule a meeting, pause for a second and ask yourself a deeply important professional question: Does this need to be a meeting, or am I just nervous about sending a clear, concise email? Meetings are not evil. Some meetings are useful. Some meetings solve problems, build trust, clear up confusion, and stop everyone…