SONATAnotes – General
Insights on learning best practices and trends.
Sonata Notes: Organizations Can’t Create Mentorships, but They Can Train Mentors
There are many good reasons to start a formal mentoring program, so long as you accept that it's about the individual, not the organization.
Creating Learner-Centered Training Evaluation Surveys
Why you are probably asking learners the wrong questions... People in the learning industry love training evaluation surveys. Just as you can’t have a birthday party without cake, it seems you can’t end a training session or e-learning module without a lengthy training evaluation form...
Subject Matter Experts vs. Learning Experts
When organizations post RFPs for instructional design or e-learning consultants, they will often list "PhD or Master's Degree" among the requirements. The reasoning behind such requirements seems common sense, however it misses some basic points about the relationship between subject matter experts, instructional designers and learners...
Good News for “Boring” Trainers: You Don’t Have to be Entertaining to be Effective
Most people working for large organizations have suffered through some brutally boring classroom experiences facilitated by less-than-engaging instructors. Combined with a general aversion to public speaking, this leaves most people reluctant to assume the mantle of training facilitator, themselves, even within their area of expertise...