Subject Matter Experts are an essential part of the Learning & Development world. How do you engage them to build the best training?
Working with SMEs can be a blessing and a curse. They bring tremendous knowledge and experience, but sometimes it’s difficult to get them to narrow things down for a 1- or 2-hour training program. Today’s podcast goes into some questions that might help keep the conversation focused.
When we think of the lack of instructional design skills of an SME, it’s tempting to make them sit through a train the trainer or presentation skills program to improve their presentations. Maybe there’s a better, less intrusive way to help SMEs design presentations.
Darlene Brady Christopher has been working hard to make sure SMEs at the World Bank can be as effective as possible when they present. One major ingredient has been a community of practice.
What’s possible when a Subject Matter Expert maps out what they want to say and how they want to engage their audience through a lesson plan, instead of immediately opening up PowerPoint when they have to put a presentation together?
Embarking on a new project is always exciting. The kickoff meeting with a new client brings a sense of new challenges and opportunities to flex
Unfortunately, this doesn’t always go as expected. Luckily, when training goes poorly, my friends ALWAYS tell me. Instead of a great training experience, the majority of the class time was spent with the participants correcting the facilitator’s out-of-date or misinformation
I have been expanding my project management skills for learning projects and I find it staggering the number of people it takes to put out
As I was waiting for my luggage to appear at the baggage claim in Delhi last week, a colleague pointed this sign out to me:
What would you do if you were in a technical training being led by SMEs and suddenly, out the window, you spy a monkey being
A week and a half ago, I was very excited to head to Las Vegas for the eLearning Guild’s 10th annual DevLearn conference. I wrote
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