Sitemap - 2026 - Instructional Design Tips
Improving E-Learning: My Reflections on Judging the iSpring CourseCreation Competition.
When Reflection Surfaces Shame
Worked Examples and the Illusion of Competence
Training Was Never About Knowledge
Attribution Theory: Why We Explain Ourselves the Way We Do
Learning Transfer and Your Mentoring Programme
Happy employees, better performance?
Aligning to Objectives Before Values
The Mature AI Conversation Hasn't Started Yet
Passion, Pace, and Pauses: Tools for Stronger Conference Speaking
Using Digital Components In Your In-Person Training
Fear, Goal Setting, MCP Servers, SME Role Definition and Virtual Workshops
ID Update April 2026 - L&D Conferences, CPD or Day Off? and Big EdTech Updates (MCP Server Madness)
A Garden Is Never Finished, and Neither Is Our Work
The Case AI Role Plays in Early-Career Training
Influencing Change You Can’t Own: Handing Off Environmental Findings in Performance Work
We’ve Always Reached Further Than We Were Ready For
The LMS Is Not Dead. Please Stop Saying It Is.
How People Read Your E-Learning
Infographics, Neuroplasticity, and Choosing Events
When Your SME Has No Time, the Answer Is More of Your Time Together
When the CEO Comes Back from a Conference...
Working Asynchronously With SMEs: A Practical Guide
Never Show Up Empty-Handed: How to Prepare for Your First SME Conversation
Tesler’s Law and the Threshold of Useful Simplification
The Joke’s On Us: When Humour Helps Learning and When It Doesn’t
I've Been Wrong About Happy Sheets the Whole Time!
AI Adoption Is Not a Challenge
Prioritisation as a Referral, Not a Refusal
The Soundbite Contract: What Speakers and Audiences Owe Each Other
Culture, Community and Exclusion
AI Chatbots at Work: Knowledge Management, Training, or Both?
The Stage Is Not the Training Room
Prioritisation, Transformation, Behavioural Measurement, AI and Mentoring at Scale
Is “Psychological Safety” Helping Us or Getting In Our Way?
What a Pot of Paint Can Teach Us About Information Design
Are We Measuring the Right Thing, or Just the Things That Make Us Feel Good?
Self-Explanation: The Evidence Behind Asking People to Articulate What They Think They Know
The Same Old Thing, Now With AI
Working With Highly Technical Subject Matter Experts
Are We Moving, or Are We Getting Somewhere?
Proactive Measurement, Cognitivism, AI, Context, and Fear
The Portable Professional: Why Your Skills Should Travel With You
The Cost of Assuming the Worst
The Oldest Knowledge-Sharing Tool in the World, Now With a Microphone
When Fear Became a Performance Conversation
Manager Observations, Cognitive Atrophy, Growth Mindset, App Testing and More...
Reporting to the Right People in the Right Way
The Workforce That Isn’t Being Replaced
Event Segmentation Theory: Why Some Training Feels Clear and Some Feels Like One Continuous Mistake
Your Teammate Is Not a Bot: World of Learning Reflections on AI and the Slow Erosion of Mattering
Complexity Isn't the Enemy; Ignoring It Is
User-Generated Content Has a New Problem
Signal Detection Theory and the Hidden Structure of Workplace Decisions
What Do You Have to Be Afraid Of? Understanding Fear in the Workplace
The Psychological Safety Problem
What If We Taught Leaders How People Work?
Implementation Intentions: The Science of Turning Intention into Performance
Building Your Metric Chain: A Practical Guide
It’s About Accomplishment, Not Behaviour
Fear, Not Resistance: Why Workforce Entrants Are Struggling with Change
Same Stimulus, Different Meaning: Why Your Learners Experience Your Training Differently
The Expertise Reversal Effect: When Good Instruction Goes Wrong
Whole Brain Pseudoscience, Line Manager Relationships, and Behaviourism
Influence: Why Your L&D Practice Depends on Connections as Much as Competence
The Conversational Workshop: When Your Role Is to Focus, Not Inform
When Systems Won’t Sit Still: Rethinking Software Training for a World in Flux
Sunday L&D Myths #13: Modality Drives Engagement
Why You Need to Explain Your Thinking (Even When Nobody’s Asking)
Training by Email: A Practical Guide to Sequenced Learning Delivery
When “Helpful Shorthand” Becomes a Harmful Misconception