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How to Ask Better Training Questions

October 9, 2018 By Shannon Tipton 7 Comments

The time has come to once again to discuss the art of, "How to ask better training questions." (This post ran originally on my blog site for Litmos in January 2018. The content here has been updated.) Picture this:  Director of Well-Meaning … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Accidental Trainer, Learning Design, Tips Tagged With: Business results, Instructional Design, training questions

Instructional Design is Not Dead!

March 23, 2017 By Shannon Tipton 13 Comments

Despite rumors to the contrary, Instructional Design is not dead.  You may have noticed the many articles and blog posts stating that instructional design is dead, and by extension, so is the role of Instructional Designer. I even saw this tweet … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Accidental Trainer, Learning Design, Learning Rebel Tagged With: Articulate, Design for how people learn, Giveaway, Instructional Design, ISD, Julie Dirkesen, Personal learning network, Picasso, status-quo, Steve Jobs

Learning Activities that Matter

February 24, 2017 By Shannon Tipton Leave a Comment

It is time to move away from just movement...to learning activities that matter. We have all been there, done that...a well-intentioned trainer has you up playing musical chairs for apparently no other reason than to create movement. They mean well, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Accidental Trainer, Learning Design, Tips Tagged With: 101 More Ways to Make Training Active, Book Giveaway, Elaine Biech, Learning Activites, Scaffold Learning, Training Activities, Vygotsky

5 Reasons I’m Geeky about Learning Design!

March 29, 2016 By Shannon Tipton Leave a Comment

My name is Shannon and I am geeky about Learning Design.    There I said it. Not only is L&D my chosen field, but it's my passion.  It's a disease. I look at websites and I'm either wow'd by the user experience or I'm curious about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Accidental Trainer, Change, Learning Design, Motivation, Status Quo, Tips Tagged With: #ATD2016, ASTD, ATD, Collaboration, Connectivity, Geek, hearts and minds, Positive Deviance

We Can’t Be Everything to Everyone

December 10, 2015 By Shannon Tipton 1 Comment

We can't be everything to everyone

Nor should we try. In a day and age when we are challenged to do more with less, less people, less money, less onsite resources, we have to prioritize on where we focus our efforts. Remember the 80/20 rule - deciding what is worth your time … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Accidental Trainer, Change, Status Quo Tagged With: 80/20, ambiguity effect, consultant, Guy Wallace, performance

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