What is adult-learning?    

Engagement By Design uses methods related to what is often called performance-based, learner-centric experiential learning.  By creating a smartly designed "playground" for adult learners to explore, simulate, and test important relevant concepts, learners have a means to engage, improving task and job performance. 

Adults in the workplace learn differently than in other settings!

What’s the best way to get results from training?  

Based on decades of research, it comes down to this: if the intent of the training is to change or improve the performance/actions/skills of your target group, then your training must be learner-centric, performance-based.

Training events should have built-in to its fundamental design and delivery, the fundamental adult-learning principles that are known to work or be effective. Readiness, Experience, Autonomy, Action...find out what this means in action!

Note: If improving OJT actions/skills/performance is not your intent, an information-based session may be what is needed!   You can provide well-produced and smartly formatted information in many ways that are likely to be a more efficient and effective method of achieving your goals, when simple presentation of concepts alone is your goal. 

How do you impart procedural knowledge?

When you think of the term workshop, as opposed to "training", what comes to mind?   A workshop-type learning environment simply means that learners are going to roll up their mental sleeves and get to work. It may be in the form of guided discovery/realization, peer to peer learning, or scenario and problem-based challenges.  These will stimulate the same mental decision-making processes they’ll use on the job. 

Engaged learning means a 'minds-on' experience!.

Generally, the specific means and methods needed to design, develop, and facilitate these rich experiences do not come naturally to trainers.  Let EBD create or coach your training program to incorporate those wonderful, effective, and often fun! approaches to instructional design and delivery.