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Rapid Instructional Design

How to design training within budgets and schedules in today's workplace

Who should attend this workshop?

New Instructional Designers who find that the theory they learned is irrelevant to corporate realities
Experienced Training Designers who want to add more short-cut techniques to their toolkits
Subject-Matter Experts who want to convert their lectures into interactive training that motivates learners
Instructors who want to reduce their lesson preparation time
Training Directors who need to speedily coordinate the production of instructional packages

Objectives
(Benefits for individuals)

Eliminate or combine ID steps without sacrificing effectiveness
Use templates and shells to speed up production of instructional materials
Use electronic recording devices to speed up ID
Use computer software to speed up different phases of ID
Identify instructional resources in unexpected places
Use coaching and team learning techniques to reduce development time
Reduce interpersonal problems that slow down ID teams

Benefits for the organization

Reduce the training budget
Reduce training development time
Deliver quality instruction during tough economic times
Avoid waste of training dollars
Retrain instructional designers to cope with corporate realities

Workshop Content

Rapid ID: Basic concepts

Use an ID model without stifling creativity
Integrate principles of adult learning, behavioral psychology, accelerated learning, and cognitive science into training design

How to do rapid analysis

Select type of analysis to improve instruction and avoid bogging down
Assess whether training is the right solution
Analyze jobs, tasks, processes, and goals to derive instructional objectives
Match instructional design to corporate strategies, resources, and constraints

How to do rapid design

Prepare a blueprint for the instruction
Design instruction for different objectives
Design instruction for different trainees
Design instruction for different media and methods
Prepare a prototype version of the instruction

How to do rapid evaluation

Evaluate to ensure training quality and continuous improvement
Select the appropriate type of evaluation
Use expert review to improve training
Use field testing to improve training
Use informal cost-benefit analysis to assure bottom-line impact

How to get beyond the basics

Plan implementation before you begin ID
Use project management to increase ID return on investment
Use team-building techniques to reduce conflicts during ID
Use a rapid approach to reduce cycle time for ID

Thiagi's expertise in training design

When the professor of the graduate course in Instructional Development asked him what he wanted to do for the semester assignment, Thiagi answered, "I'd like to redesign and repackage this course!" The professor was an open-minded sort so he humored the promising foreign student in his first semester in the U.S.. The following semester, the professor used Thiagi's ID package as the basis for this course.

Since his graduate school days, Thiagi has published dozens of ID articles and developed dozens of training programs. He has designed training all over the world for a wide range of target populations, on a wide range of media. For the past five years, Thiagi has focused on training design in total quality management, customer focus, and technical sales for such corporations as IBM, Intel, Arthur Andersen, Chevron, AT&T, and Harris Bank.

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