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Quit Discussing Tools

Quit Discussing Tools

Richard Sites

Imagine this. You hire a handyman to fix a few things around your house. You explain what’s broken—leaky faucet, busted cabinet hinge, a light fixture that needs swapping. But instead...

Quit Discussing Tools

Richard Sites

Imagine this. You hire a handyman to fix a few things around your house. You explain what’s broken—leaky faucet, busted cabinet hinge, a light fixture that needs swapping. But instead...

No One Has Written Your Instructional Design Manual

No One Has Written Your Instructional Design Ma...

Richard Sites

If you are looking for a book, a study, or a blog post to tell you exactly how to design your next project, you are going to be disappointed. I...

No One Has Written Your Instructional Design Ma...

Richard Sites

If you are looking for a book, a study, or a blog post to tell you exactly how to design your next project, you are going to be disappointed. I...

Why Do We Need L&D?

Why Do We Need L&D?

Richard Sites

Let’s go back to the beginning. L&D didn’t appear because someone thought corporate training was a great idea. It showed up because managers couldn’t do it all. Employees needed help...

Why Do We Need L&D?

Richard Sites

Let’s go back to the beginning. L&D didn’t appear because someone thought corporate training was a great idea. It showed up because managers couldn’t do it all. Employees needed help...

Instructional Operation Principles: Speed, Sanity, and Getting Things Done

Instructional Operation Principles: Speed, Sani...

Richard Sites

Most instructional design work takes too long, costs too much, and ends up being overbuilt for a problem that already changed three times during development. That’s not a failure of...

Instructional Operation Principles: Speed, Sani...

Richard Sites

Most instructional design work takes too long, costs too much, and ends up being overbuilt for a problem that already changed three times during development. That’s not a failure of...

We Outsourced Performance. That’s the Problem.

We Outsourced Performance. That’s the Problem.

Richard Sites

Somewhere along the way, we started outsourcing performance. Not to consultants. Not to software. But to departments. The responsibility for how people show up, learn, and perform at work has...

We Outsourced Performance. That’s the Problem.

Richard Sites

Somewhere along the way, we started outsourcing performance. Not to consultants. Not to software. But to departments. The responsibility for how people show up, learn, and perform at work has...

Design Like You Have Nothing

Design Like You Have Nothing

Richard Sites

L&D loves its tools. Instructional models. Learning theories. Engagement strategies. Tech stacks. Authoring software. Measurement frameworks. We’ve built a whole industry around designing instruction—without ever asking what happens if you strip...

Design Like You Have Nothing

Richard Sites

L&D loves its tools. Instructional models. Learning theories. Engagement strategies. Tech stacks. Authoring software. Measurement frameworks. We’ve built a whole industry around designing instruction—without ever asking what happens if you strip...