Category: Subject Matter Experts

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

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.

Setting SMEs up to be more successful presenters

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.

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When SME’s Make You Cry

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

The Hand-Off

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great training experience, the majority of the class time was spent with the participants correcting the facilitator’s out-of-date or misinformation

Training Team Experts

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

Humbled by these SMEs

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

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