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Faster, Cheaper, Better:
How to design performance-based training within tight budgets and hectic schedules

Who should attend this workshop?

New Instructional Designers who want to apply best practices for rapid instructional design
Experienced Instructional Designers who want to expand and enhance their toolkits and cope with modern corporate realities
Performance consultants who want to use training to support other interventions
Subject-Matter Experts who want to convert their lectures and handouts into interactive training
Instructors who want to reduce their lesson preparation time
Training Directors who want to reduce the cost, increase the speed, and improve the quality of training packages

Objectives
(Benefits for individuals)

Identify limitations of traditional training design models in dealing with new types of content, new technologies, new generation of learners, and new corporate realities. Identify alternative principles that offer faster, cheaper, and better training design.
Apply the CCCC (Concurrent Continuous Creative Co-design) model for rapidly designing training packages with greater motivational and instructional impact.
Apply seven proven principles to the design of high-quality performance-based training materials and methods.
Rapidly design training packages by ignoring, combining, re-sequencing, and accelerating steps the process.
Reduce self-doubt, guilt, and anguish by positively associating faster and cheaper instructional design with more cost-effective learning outcomes.

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

An Innovative Alternative to Training Design

Foundations of the traditional instructional design model from behaviorism and engineering.
Features of traditional instructional design model that make them unsuited for current realities.
Foundations of the alternative training design model from creativity, improvisation, and complexity theory.
Features of the training model that are aligned with current realities.

Details of the new training design model

Concurrent implementation of analysis, design, evaluation, and design
Continuous process of treating all delivery as an opportunity to improve the training design
Creative application of principles from innovation, improvisation, and self-organizing social systems
Co-design approaches that transform learners into teachers and teachers into learners.

Applying proven principles of training design

Stop designing content; start designing activities.
Use a dose of reality as the final performance test.
Open minds with open questions.
Blend everything: online with nonline, active with passive, independent with collaborative, and learning with life.
Let the inmates run the asylum. Let learners teach and test each other.
Drive the locomotive while laying the track. Design while delivering the training.

Strategies for speeding up the design process

Eliminate or combine design steps without sacrificing effectiveness
Use electronic recording devices and computer software to speed up the design process.
Discover training resources in unexpected places.
Use powerful templates for creating activities and structuring content.

Thiagi's expertise in training design

When the professor of the graduate course in Instructional Development asked him what he wanted to do for his 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 package as the basis for the course. Two semesters later, Thiagi renounced the model that he had been using in a much-cited article, "Help! I Am Trapped Inside an ID Model!"

Since his graduate school days, Thiagi has developed hundreds of training programs all around the world for a wide range of target populations using a wide range of technologies. For the past 10 years, Thiagi has defined, refined, and applied his CCCC model for design a variety of training for his corporate clients.

Matt's expertise in training design

Having learned from the best, Matt has been applying the CCCC model for several years, designing programming workshops for high-tech companies, product training for retail organizations, management training for financial institutions, operations training for the government, and communications training for manufacturing businesses.

Raja's Expertise In Training Design

Educated to be an astrophysicist and computer scientist, Raja is skeptical about all exaggerated claims for "scientific" training design approaches. In recent years, however, he has been applying the CCCC model to the design of eLearning programs in a faster, cheaper, and better fashion.

5 Things That Make Thiagi's Workshops Unique

Faster, Cheaper, Better: How to design performance-based training within tight budgets and hectic schedules