Project Management
The core skills and methodologies used to move an initiative from ideation to completion, overseeing timelines, resources, and budgets efficiently and effectively.
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Design for Change: Because You Know It’s Coming
By Megan Torrance and Lauren Milstid You’ve been there before. You mapped out the perfect route. The plan was solid, every step carefully laid out. The team was prepared, and the destination was clear. Then, the landscape shifted. A key stakeholder left, priorities changed, a new SME joined the team, or new requirements emerged. Suddenly, your well-planned path no longer works, and you’re forced to reroute. Your project has been waylaid by an onslaught of change. What if, instead of resisting change, you designed for it from the start? That begins with anticipating the shifts ahead—before they disrupt your project.…
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David Kelly’s Curated Content for 1/27/2025
This edition of Curated Content explores strategies for inclusive eLearning, leveraging AI prompts for instructional design, working with greater intention, engaging learners through live video, and balancing performance with deep learning.
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A Practical Framework for Microlearning Success: A Guide for Learning Leaders
Using a microlearning effectiveness framework is a great way to evaluate microlearning strategy and become more effective.
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5-Step Change Management Process for Integrating a New or Acquired Learning Management System
As learning leaders, many of us have faced the challenge ofintegrating a new or acquired Learning Management System (LMS) into ourorganizations. This session offers foresight and best practices to ensure asmooth transition, empowering you to lead your team through this transformativeprocess. In addition to a copy of the slides, the QA and chat are included. Names have been removed.
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Course Mapping Your Way to Success: Navigate the Course Creation Process like a Pro!
As an L&D professional, you know the importance of awell-structured course that engages learners and achieves your desiredoutcomes. In this session, you’ll discover how the powerful Universal CourseMapping Template can be your key to unlocking instructional excellence and optimizingworkflows, giving you a strategic edge in course creation. One of themost difficult things to do when designing a course with Subject Matter Experts(SMEs) is to maintain an understanding of the project’s big picture and preventthe scope creep that usually happens with SMEs. The Universal Course Mappingtemplate can be used to keep SMEs on track during coursekickoff calls. The template can also…
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David Kelly’s Curated Content for 6/17/2024
This edition of Curated Content explores AI’s role in learning, what’s required to turn failure into success, the rejuvenating role of conferences, and more.
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David Kelly’s Curated Content for 5/20/2024
This edition of Curated Content explores how AI enables personalized learning, how to use contrast to improve elearning usability, what support of upskilling looks like in a hybrid era, and more.
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Optimizing L&D in Small Teams: Best Practices for Maximum Impact
Are you the L&D teamlead—and the learning strategist, instructional designer, facilitator,evaluator, learning technologist, project manager, and other-tasks-as-assignedperson? As a team of one—or head of a small and overstretched team—you likelyneed help to develop effective and efficient strategies for achievingorganizational learning goals with limited resources. Join this session for practicalguidance on how to prioritize training initiatives, leverage technology, anddesign effective learning strategies that address the specific needs of yourorganization. Through interactive elements such as polling, case studies, andgroup activities, you will gain a better understanding of how to maximizelimited resources and overcome common challenges faced by small L&D teams with expanding…
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Automate Project Management Tasks Using Zapier
Some parts of project management are just tedious: forms tofill out, status updates, tasks and requests track, people to update. Most ofthese are essential—and can generate many hours of manual updates andprocesses. Join this session to learn how to automate some of thiswork; we’ll use Zapier—a no-code tool that helps you automate processes acrossdifferent tools. Let’s say you have a Survey Monkey form to capture newlearning requests for your team. Using Zapier (or another automation tool), youcan:
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Improve Learning Content Efficiency with Reusable Learning Content
Personalizing learning content to both the learner and thecontext is the best way to achieve optimallearning and performance outcomes. L&D professionals have historically achievedpersonalization by making copies upon copies of learning assets and coursematerials, tweaking each copy to meet the differentiated needs of learners.This approach is labor-intensive and prone to inconsistencies and inaccuracies,including the risk of delivering incorrect or outdated information to learners. In contrast, reusablecontent can be updated in one place, ensuring consistency and accuracy—andimproving content maintenance efficiency. All without sacrificingpersonalization and differentiated instruction. This hands-on micro master class walks you throughcreating a reusable content model. Our model entails…