Passion, intelligence, and creativity are the most powerful tools on Earth. To deliver profound outcomes in a world of accelerating change, we must cultivate the beliefs, behaviors, and expertise necessary to solve long-standing and novel problems.
Learning Design in a Nutshell
Most professionals spend most of their waking hours at work. Juris Developer’s massive transformative purpose is to work across disciplines to help at least one million of those professionals build on their motivation, critical thinking, and innovation. If you think we might be able to help you and your people, request a free consult or read on.
People
Professionals’ drives, passions, and challenges are the heart of great learning. You need world-class people development to bring your firm or agency to the next level. We turn development dreams into agile, empowering experiences.
5 Ss for Learner-Centric Media
Skills
Start with the skills or behaviors you’re going to teach the learner. “Today we’re going to [do a thing]…” If you can’t phrase your content this way, it’s probably not going to make for great learning. Learners must know how success is shown or measured in order to learn.
Short
Five minutes per unit maximum. When was the last time you paid perfect attention to an hour-long educational video? Never, that’s when. If you’ve got too much material for five minutes then you’ve got more than one piece of content to make.
Simple
Don’t add elements like decorative graphics, music, or anything else just to “make the learning fun.”
DO use graphics, animation, or sounds when they:
- Provide a clarifying example
- Show the steps in a process
- Demonstrate a relationship (especially charts)
- Show a transformation
DON’T use graphics, animations, or sounds:
- For decoration
- For simple illustration (random picture of a tree when you say “tree”)
This doesn’t mean you can’t use humor or have fun with your content. The goal is for everything you add to be both educational and interesting, not just one or the other.
Singular
Address your learners in the second-person singular (“you” not “you guys”). Remember that you’re speaking to one person at a time on the other side of that screen, not to a crowd. If you’re makinga. video, make “eye contact” with the camera as much as possible.
Summarize
At the conclusion of your content, quickly summarize the steps in the process, concepts to consider, important things to remember, measures of success, etc. to leave the learner with a cohesive picture of what you’re trying to teach. For bonus points, send them to great resources to continue their learning journey on their own.
Simple Guide to Build a Great Workshop
Systems
No single provider, product, or approach is going to meet a modern professional’s diverse and ever-expanding needs.
Learning leaders know how to weave diverse systems to produce seamless user experience and integrated reporting. This requires a unique combination of competence in programming, data, administration, design thinking, and negotiation. We can help align each element with your strategic goals.
Choosing your L&D Systems/Approaches
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Culture
Learning and Development is a leadership game in the truest sense – all authority is soft. To succeed, you need to incorporate continuous learning into your firm’s culture.
In most cases, this means building vision, mission, and values directly into learning experiences. This is an opportunity to advance professionals, clients, and your impact on the world at large.