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The Impact-Energy Matrix for Training
The Impact-Energy Matrix is a practical tool that helps you prioritize training tasks and initiatives by balancing their potential impact...

Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Aug 11, 20244 min read
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2 Questions You Need to Ask Before You Apply Social Learning to Your Training
If you're intending to implement social learning into your training, there are two questions you absolutely need to be asking throughout the

Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Jun 24, 20243 min read
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Audience Analysis for Engaging Social Learning: Part 3
Let’s talk about connections you can make between the trends in your audience analysis data and the ways you’ll design your social learning

Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Jun 14, 20236 min read
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Audience Analysis for Engaging Social Learning Experiences: Part 2
It's time to get into the weeds with practical strategies for interviewing audience members effectively.

Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
May 31, 20235 min read
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Audience Analysis for Engaging Social Learning Experiences: Part 1
We're going to walk you through more effective audience analysis and help you leverage what you learn to create social learning experiences.

Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
May 10, 20233 min read
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Flexy Solutions: Connect with Collaborative Learning Even When Your Team is on Different Time Zones
It's important we don't remove the social element just because we've gone remote and we're working at different times.

Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Feb 15, 20235 min read
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Stop Thinking Like an Educator! Start Thinking Like a Journalist
Steal these habits from journalism to build a strong approach to needs analysis.

Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Sep 7, 20223 min read
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3 Mistakes People Make When Conducting Needs Analysis
Not all needs analysis is conducted equally. Let's talk about the big pitfalls you want to avoid. Mistake # 1: You approach needs...

Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Aug 31, 20223 min read
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What Video Data Tells Us About Learning-- And What It Doesn't
I'm going to break down for you some of the useful data points you can gather with these types of sophisticated video hosting systems.

Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Aug 10, 20223 min read
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How to Make the Case for Non-Traditional Learning Solutions
In this post, we're going to talk about how to get buy in for non-traditional learning solutions.

Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Jul 13, 20224 min read
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Why We're Doubling Down on Knowledge Sharing Over Training
We should be replacing training with knowledge sharing opportunities: peer to peer, to-down, formally documented, off the cuff, serious, fun

Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Jun 29, 20224 min read
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What Happens on a Discovery Call?
I'm going to share the strategies that have been most effective for Your ID when it comes to Discovery Calls.

Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Jun 21, 20224 min read
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Make It Easy for Them: 4 Ways to Get the Yes
Making decisions is hard work. Reviewing data takes time. Imagining something you can't see can take a lot of brain power. These are all...

Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
May 19, 20223 min read
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Why You Need to Take a Consultative Approach to L&D and Common Pitfalls to Avoid
Taking a consultative approach to learning and development has changed my process, my clientele and my ability to make learning that matters

Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
May 5, 20224 min read
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The Grey Area: Designing Learning When There's No Clear Answer
It's about the wading through the grey area and making the best choice possible at that moment in time with the information you have in the

Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Apr 27, 20223 min read
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Leveraging Learner Personas in ID Writing
This is about how to leverage those personas to create engaging written content.

Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Apr 14, 20224 min read
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If Not a Course... What Do I Build?
Today, I want to share some of that toolkit with you by walking through some of the tools you might use in four different common use cases.

Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Dec 22, 20212 min read
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Why Aren't There More Meaningful Learning Experiences for Professionals?
Last night, we had the last meeting of From Data to Design - Cohort 3, and as always, it was bittersweet seeing how much growth there had...

Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Dec 10, 20212 min read
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Novice vs Expert Instructional Designer: Defining the Learning Problem
At the heart of what makes a great ID is their ability to define the rhetorical problem, or rather the learning problem

Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Sep 8, 20214 min read
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Making Assessments Meaningful: Developing Assessments, Pt 2
Assessments are amazing learning tools. They provide an opportunity to check in on progress and get feedback.

Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
Mar 16, 20215 min read
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