Efficiency for L&D professionals
Do you work for a long time in the L&D field, but you always think that your role and your activities could be done better and more efficiently? Based on my experience and what I noticed, I created some solutions that could improve your work efficiency or give you some suggestions for your current projects. The solutions given in this article to increase the efficiency of L&D are mainly linked to educational design, project management and technical writing activities. Let's start!
Increase the efficiency of L&D thanks to the educational design
The educational conception requires organization, creativity and efficiency. Here are some solutions to increase work efficiency:
Off voice
You can easily use new voiceover features or additional voice -over and vocal text tools. So far, other voice tools have been included after the creation tool. Now, the new feature offers better quality than before and makes your life easier because you can work with a single tool.
Videos
In terms of videos, if you need to create a professional video course or learning equipment, there could be a solution to improve your work efficiency by developing video lessons. There are tools that provide you with almost everything you need to create professional video learning equipment.
Quick development tools / solutions in Elearning
- Shortcut
The educational designers work a lot with creation tools and have access to a few shortcuts that can simplify work can be a breath of fresh air that helps finish tasks at least 10 to 20% earlier. - Legends
Usually, Elearning courses require legends each time and there are tools to help you import them directly into your creation tool. - Transitions
If you need some transition ideas or a model, you can find online ideas to help you avoid creating the main slides and transition slides each time manually
Project management: organization of workflows
Project management requires structure, organization, clarity, communication and efficiency. Here are some solutions to increase their work efficiency:
Touraux of the project
A learning project manager works mainly with educational designers, SMEs, perhaps facilitators / trainers, according to the project. Some of the best -known methodologies used are Addie and Sam. Both can help you create and organize your deadlines. The Addie methodology has four phases: analyzing with 15% completion according to the depth of the analysis, the design comprising another end of 30%, develops with another end of 35% and the implementation, including 20% of completion. The SAM methodology has three phases: preparation, iterative design and iterative development.
Planning
Planning is also important, once the calendar has been created and all known activities and owners. This helps to increase the effectiveness of the work according to all the activities of the project and there are very useful tools for having a good follow -up of the tasks as well as your team which receives reminders on their tasks to ensure that everything is done in time.
Back
Educational designers and project managers must provide comments on various materials and learning lessons. Sometimes it can be difficult to find the appropriate words and keep your objectivity. Having a model on how to provide rapid and diplomatic comments can increase your feedback efficiency, for example: “One thing that may require a little refinement is (mentioning the improvement area), as this could improve (explain why it is important). A suggestion can be (suggest possible improvement). Let me know if you have any questions.”
Learning objectives
These can be provided either by the expert in the matter, by the project manager, or by the educational designer. Bloom's taxonomy, with its six levels of creation, synthesis, analysis, application, understanding and memory, can help you create correct and faster learning objectives.
Needs analysis
Here are some questions that can be used before starting a project. It is important to identify the needs of the prices / project and to be aware of deliverables, scope and resources. If you already have any questions, you can identify them more quickly:
- What is the desired result?
- What is the deadline to complete the project?
- What are the key people involved and what roles have they each?
- What communication channels will we use for updates and questions?
- Are there dedicated platforms where we can follow progress?
- How often will we organize exam meetings?
- What are the main deliverables?
- Is there a desired control list to complete the deliverables? Some compulsory steps to follow?
- Do you provide certification or identification information?
- What tools and technology do you have in place to support the delivery of learning programs?
- How do you measure learning results?
Technical writing and increasing efficiency for L&D
Technical writing requires precision, clarity and efficiency. Here are some solutions to increase work efficiency:
Task planning
This can help the technical writer create a content calendar, planning content deliverables in advance to avoid the last -minute tasks.
Rereading
Check grammar, spelling and style and make all the corrections required to improve your content.
Standardization
This will improve consistency between documents and help you write modular and reusable content in standard formatting.
I hope this article could be useful, and I also hope you liked to read it!
