On-site Instructional Design Training

With our on-site instructional design training, you can simply decide which areas of instructional design that you need help with & we deliver custom training to help you with your identified areas for improvement.

The Building Blocks of Instructional Design is the pioneering Australian program from which we select the modules most relevant to your needs to create a custom tailored training program to boost your instructional design skills.

How to get started

First we will ask you to paint us a picture of your instructional design needs. We can then introduce you to the most qualified instructional designer recommended by an Aus Top 500 Company. 

Optional Training Modules

Team Building Skills

Often overlooked and often the reason for team dysfunction. It is important that your Instructional Design team operates as a team and not a group of individuals. Building synergy into your design team

• Identifying strengths and weaknesses of the team.
• Agreeing targets and behaviours of the team
• Developing interpersonal skills
• Giving and receiving feedback techniques

Project Management Skills

Surprisingly, almost 30% of instructional designers have had no project management skills training. Help your team learn the essential instructional design project management skills.

• Understanding how to scope the project
• Delivering the project on time and on budget
• Communicating the progress of the project
• Ending the project and building in feedback loops
• Avoiding touch ups and completing the project 

Starting your Instructional Design Project

Start at the beginning instead of in the middle. You’ll save so much time and resources.

• Understanding the project objectives
• Getting consensus at the beginning
• Agreeing and committing to an action plan
• Contingency planning

Designing a Trainer Guide

Decide which type of trainer guide will be the best fit for your organisation’s needs. It is vital that the trainer and/or has the right amount of information to be credible.

• Critique a step by step proven approach to create a trainer guide
• Deciding the correct amount of information the trainer needs
• Determining the skills of the trainer(s) – What can you do?
• Cheat sheets, short cuts and templates

Utilising Games, Puzzles, and Break outs

How do you get people to become more involved and open to new experiences? Using clever activities keeps the training session fresh and ensures that participants are surprised when the day is over.

• Introduce creative exercises into the learning process
• Understand which tools work with which audiences
• Set up challenges to achieve group unity

Unearthing Critical Information from Stakeholders

How do you get the information you need from other people. Stakeholders who are ‘too busy’ or just won’t respond to your calls & emails can set you back weeks. Don’t miss these strategies to break down any communication bottlenecks.

• How to unearth the information you need
• Using laddering techniques when interviewing stakeholders
• Positioning yourself tips
• Disseminating data and into smaller bitesized chunks 

Graphic Design

Graphic design is an important piece of the instructional design jigsaw. Your people will be surprised at how quickly information can be assembled and ready to go.

• Understanding the different functions of your software
• Shortcuts the professionals use
• Paginating, formatting and editing tips
• Using a template
• Professional presentation techniques

Designing your Workbook

Learn the tips and shortcuts the experts use. Your team will be given some templates and your instructional designer trainer will work with one of your current workbook design projects.

• Planning your workbook at the beginning
• Fitting the type of workbook with audience expectations
• Arranging the information logically
• Shortcuts and templates the professionals use

Making PowerPoint Slides clear

Too many presentations have too much data in the PowerPoint slides. The audience can easily get confused and distracted. This module helps participants to apply the KISS principle to all PowerPoint presentations.

• Understanding the purpose of every slide
• Reducing the amount of information on your slides
• Reducing the amount of information you read from the slides
• 5 quick tips to engage your audience

Adult Learning Styles and Influencing Techniques

Learn the psychology of adult learning. It’s essential to understand thinking styles and preferred learning styles.

• Understanding adult cognitive styles
• How to change behaviours by altering perceptions
• Assessing preferred learning styles
• Understanding the psychology of influencing adults
• Understanding adult group learning dynamics

Editing Techniques

All it takes is a few spelling mistakes and errors and your credibility is ruined.

• The top 20 grammar mistakes
• Spell check is merely a tool and cannot be relied on
• Proof reading techniques
• Short cuts the professional use

Designing a Competency Based Assessment

How do you know that your intended message has been received, understood and retained? A competency-based assessment is often a useful tool and can be very easy to assemble.

• Prioritising and weighting competencies
• Deciding which measurement tool to use
• Assessing how long the information will be retained
• Using a competency assessment template

Measurement

It is critical to know if the instructional design project is achieving its objectives. This module helps participants seek statistically significant evidence of the success/ failure of the project.

• Building in a statistically significant feedback loop to your design project
• Differentiating lone remarks from statistically significant feedback
• Using your data to improve the project
• Reporting instructional design measurement metrics 

Writing Techniques

Your information needs to be clear and concise. You need to write with the end user in mind. Essentially Instructional Design is a collection of words and graphics. It is critical to write the right way.

• Removing bloatage from your instructional design
• Removing too many passive verbs
• Grammatical mistakes that confuse the message
• Constructing easy to understand sentences
• Using, but not overusing, capitals, bolds, italics, etc

Contact us today if you would like more information on 1300 323 752 or email Melinda Kavanagh at mkavanagh@preftrain.com.au