Be a better learning business partner

As L&D professionals working in a variety of business support roles, following the pain can actually help us be better business partners.

  • Shine a spotlight on nagging pain points you hear from people in different functions contributing in different ways to a critical business process.
  • Propose performance support resources tailored to specific roles that help alleviate or lessen the pain.
  • Avoid masking the pain by administering temporary fixes that only address the symptoms. Look at the process from different perspectives to expose the root cause of the pain.
Be a better learning business partner

The Challenge: Get out of your own way

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Common Stumbling Blocks

Increasing vs. decreasing cognitive overload

Providing too much information (TMI) at the wrong time to the wrong people

Developing learning support vs. performance support resources

Resources should be targeted to specific tasks, roles, functions and contexts.

Solving the wrong problems

Are you prioritizing the problems causing the most pain across your organization?

The Solution: DesignXperiences

DesignXperiences will help you avoid stumbling over yourself and others as you implement your organizational learning strategy.

The approach enables you and your colleagues to be more intentional about each and every step you take as you define, design, develop, implement, and evaluate learning and performance support resources.

A foundational requirement of DesignXperiences is to establish and document clear steps for successfully completing key tasks in critical business processes. This is not to enable people to think, act, and respond the same in every situation. Just the opposite.

The ultimate goal of DesignXperiences is to free up energy for each of us, regardless of our role in the organization, to be more mindful and intentional about how the things we do are designed to help alleviate pain experienced by our customers and our colleagues.

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Debra J. Scott

Learning Experience Designer

As a Learning Experience Designer with over 20 years of experience in secondary education, higher education, and business learning, I am not immune to getting in my own way. Several times a day, I have to make myself snap out of doing things in automatic pilot to avoid falling into the trap of creating obstacles to learning, despite having the best of intentions.

As L&D professionals, we have to be diligent to hold each other accountable so that we avoid building a learning infrastructure rooted in good intentions rather than clearly defined business processes.

Depending on the size of your organization, you may not have a team of accountability partners to lean on as your organization's learning strategy evolves. DesignXperiences provides a consistent approach to help you design effective learning experiences, regardless of the size of your L&D team.

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What makes this approach different?

A DesignXperiences approach helps L&D teams leverage untapped learning opportunities by more intentionally operationalizing L&D processes in 3 focus areas:
  • The blueprint: Blueprint your framework by identifying critical business processes to form the foundation of a comprehensive organizational learning strategy.
  • The infrastructure: Build a sustainable learning infrastructure rooted in critical business processes by developing essential building blocks of learning and performance resources designed for targeted knowledge and skill building.
  • The experiences: Mix and match the core building blocks to design a variety of learning experiences that matter to different people for different reasons in different contexts.
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