Use these 5 phases to create effective professional development materials for your team

Good team building is all about good team learning... learn in this series of posts how to turn team building into a learning event.

It’s important for your organization to have effective instructional materials on hand. Whether it’s an onboarding packet or a training course, these materials need to be tailored to meet the needs of adult learners.

In short, they need to be well-designed, intelligent, and effective. While that may seem like a bit to ask, there are five components to implement while creating your instructional materials that will help ensure they pack the punch you are looking for.

The 5 tactics for designing effective instructional materials for adults are:

• Analyse

• Design

• Develop

• Conduct

• Evaluate

Altogether, these 5 practices will help you to:

• determine what training is needed and who the training is for

• determine the objectives for the materials

• create a learning path

• effectively deliver that path

• re-evaluate any weaknesses to be improved

In upcoming posts, I’ll cover these 5 tactics in more detail so that you can effectively apply them to your team’s needs.

First up: analyse.

See you then!

PS: Interested in the unique learning styles of your team members? Check out my previous posts on learning styles and how knowing the different types can help you increase team engagement.