How to be More Effective in Your Instructional Design
Presenter: Amber Vanderburg
Title: Founder
Organization: The Pathwayz Group
Upskilling your talent is critical within any team today. Training your team effectively impacts
your competitive advantage, retention efforts, and team performance. Too often,
instructional design can fall short resulting in disengaged, begrudged, theoretical, outdated training. In this session, you will learn practical action steps, strategies, and approaches that you can apply today to improve the effectiveness of your training. You’ll learn how to adjust your training to the virtual hybrid and in-person dynamic of teams, how to alter activities to be engaging and practical, and how to strategically build in learning design in a proven 5step process for richer learning experience.
In this session, we’ll move beyond theory into hands- on experience in designing a better
program. We will share how to create an environment for better learning in the beginning of your
training through purposeful warm ups and specific questions to address in your preparations. I’ll
share effective approaches to establish a baseline knowledge and opportunities for individual
learning and growth. I’ll give insight into a series of progressions and building upon baseline
knowledge into collaborative learning. I’ll share approaches you can use to lead more powerful
retrospectives/ debriefs in your sessions for more concrete takeaways and discussions within
different team dynamics.
Lastly, I’ll give you a framework to identify specific courses of action and accountability. Great
training sessions don’t happen by accident - they happen through strategic intentional
instructional design. So, if you are ready to build a training program to transform the performance in your
organization then let’s go!
During this interactive remote event, participants will:
1. How to create an environment (virtual and in person) for better learning
2. How to design activities with a purpose for more application focused learning
3. How to improve transitions and flow within the design of your sessions
4. How to make training more engaging
Speaker Bio:
Amber Vanderburg is a multi-award-winning international businessperson, keynote speaker, author, and founder of The Pathwayz Group. In 2016, she was the only female, only American, and only blonde Academy elite football coach for the Adidas Gameday Academy and Paris Saint Germain Academy in Bangalore, India. Amber founded an international talent development company, The Pathwayz Group, in 2019 which has led 500,000+ learners in action-focused leadership and team development learning journeys and sessions. In 2022, she published her first business adventure book "Uniquely Better" about building higher team performance.
Model Domain:
Build Personal Capability - Communication, Lifelong Learning
Develop Professional Capability - Instructional Design, Learning Sciences
Impact Organizational Capability - Consulting and Business Partnership
Program Time = 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Program Cost = Current Chapter Members Free | Guests $10.00 | Students $5.00
*Registration will close at 5:00pm EST on Thursday 6/15/2023.
*Registrants will receive an e-mail containing the link and login instructions prior to the event.
Smoky Mountain Chapter has been pre-approved by the ATD Certification Institute to offer educational programs that can be used towards initial eligibility and recertification of the Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) and Associate Professional in Talent Development (APTD) credentials. This program qualifies for a maximum of 1 point.
