My husband has been saying for years that his memory is terrible. In his 20s he bought a book about how to improve your memory. Then he lost it! (True story) I want to talk about memory and the implications for learning design. There are three different types of...
An organization wants to change how they support new and existing employees. Currently, they have random approaches to training. Some training is provided centrally by learning and development; other training is created by the business, and still, other courses are...
A teacher verbally explains to a student the math concept of ‘borrowing’ in subtraction. He explains it several times and the student still doesn’t understand. Then the teacher draws a diagram that more explicitly represents that the ‘3’ in...
I had a glorious week at a cottage earlier in July and took a stack of books to read. One of the work-related books I read was Revolutionize Learning & Development: Performance and Innovation Strategy for the Information Age by Clark Quinn. It’s from 2014, so the...
As I talk with colleagues and clients in organizations large and small, our conversations inevitably turn to how people will work after the pandemic. Many are planning a hybrid approach, and it seems remote work and learning will be a lingering effect of the world...
I started sewing when I was about 10 years old. In high school, I learned how to read a pattern, and my mom started buying me any fabric to make myself clothing. There was a great store in Kitchener, Duthler's Textiles, and I must have gone there every week. Looking...
We had ‘Grandma Laura’ over for an outside BBQ this week. We had been waiting for the weather to warm up enough so that we could spend the entire time outside and be as safe as possible. We had a campfire after dinner, and I sat there marvelling at what joy having a...
And how is it different than designing an individual course? My family put together two puzzles over the holidays. The first was a village in France and made me nostalgic about our family trip in 2017. The other puzzle was rows and rows of kittens. I noticed my son...
I’ve been using DiSC with clients for years and am excited about a new program, Everything DiSC® Agile EQ™. There's lots of online chatter and research about the need for agile organizations. But how do organizations meet this rising need? The answer starts...
2019 Award for Training Design At the end of 2019 Performance Matters and Shad Canada received an award from the Institute for Performance and Learning (I4PL) for ‘Designing Learning Experiences.’ The program combined elearning and in-person sessions. The blended...