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Alison Roberts is a senior L&D partner, trainer, coach, consultant, entrepreneur, and mentoring expert; linkedin.com/in/robertsalison.

Alison Roberts

September 2024 - TD Magazine

In-house programs can be a means to upskill staff.

Connect Mentors and Mentees for Low-Cost Development

User-design provides an alternative to top-down expert-driven design processes. Grounded in systems theory, user-design empowers frontline stakeholders to design and create their own innovations. As a result, users of innovations are transformed into co-designers of innovations, rather than passive recipients of designs that are imposed upon them by an expert, which in turn may lead to greater adoption and diffusion of those innovations.
During this webcast, we will also discuss the role of instructional designers, specifically how they provide resources and facilitate the work of the design team rather than impose their expertise upon the team members. We will discuss a range of user-design tools, including ethnography, cooperative design, design-based research, action research, and scenario-based design.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently launched a curriculum for its mission critical occupation—economists. Robert Jordan, an instructional designer, led an agency-wide team of economists and successfully incorporated user-design tools in creating the new curriculum. Joining Robert is Alison A. Carr-Chellman, a professor of Instructional Systems and an author on the topic of user-design. During this webcast, you will learn how the user-design process unfolded at BLS and the critical lessons learned as a result.

 

Putting Instructional Design in the Hands of End Users

Spring 2014 - The Public Manager

Do-It-Yourself Design

January 2014 - TD Magazine

DIY Design

Like many companies, BAE Systems was challenged with consistency in how it assimilated new people managers in a large, geographically decentralized environment, which created gaps around providing necessary training on compliance issues and communicating the company's expectations of its leaders. In some situations, these managers were new to the company, and in others they were new to management. To address this, BAE leveraged its LMS’s dynamic audience feature to automatically identify new people managers across all business units and geographies. Then, it aligned the LMS and one of the content providers to deliver just-in-time, relevant learning opportunities to these managers through custom notifications with links to BAE Systems programs and content offerings. This approach has expanded their reach to managers even in the remotest locations accessing their world-class leadership readiness resources. It brought efficiency through automation with significant time and cost savings around new manager training, decreased new manager time to performance, and increased engagement levels for new managers and their teams.
During this webcast, you’ll learn:

the power of positioning learning as a benefit
how to onboard new people managers with consistency, regardless of their location
how to identify the metrics that matter when measuring the success of your onboarding programs.

  

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