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"What truly motivates this audience is competition...."
"We need a mobile app - our learners are the
perfect demographic...."
"When I was in this role 15 years ago,
I'd have loved a simulation!"

When designing new learning solutions,
how often do you hear these kinds of
assumptions about your learners from
stakeholders, subject matter experts
(SMEs), learning and development (L&D)
colleagues, and/or vendor partners? For
most of us, the answer is "all the time."
These well-meaning professionals may
have learners' interests at heart, but do
they really know what learners want -
and need?
These assumptions make sense.
After all, today's fast-paced business
environment demands the rapid
development of learning, leaving little
time for robust audience analyses.
Interviews, focus groups and surveys
are seen as time- and cost-prohibitive
- except in the case of high-profile
programs. Later in the process, learners
might review a course or participate
in a pilot, but by that point, there often
isn't the time or budget to make any
significant changes.
And what happens when a solution
isn't on target for learners? It results in

decreased motivation and engagement
and, ultimately, a less effective solution
-which is a missed opportunity for L&D.
Practitioners need a way to validate
ideas proposed by non-learners and to
invent something new that hits the mark.
Enter a new, powerful tool in the L&D
toolbox: design thinking.
You've likely heard of design thinking as
a methodology for business innovation.
Now, it's being used in L&D to create
learner-centric solutions - and it's a
process you can use to vastly accelerate
your learning design.
The five stages of design thinking
(empathize, define, ideate, prototype
and test) bring L&D professionals,
stakeholders, SMEs and, most importantly,
learners together through a creative,
collaborative and engaging design
experience. The result: an effective
learning solution aligned with both the
business' and the learners' needs.

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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019

Preparing for the Future of L&D
Table of Contents
Do You Have this Key Leadership Skill?
How Learning Leaders Can Implement Brain-based Trends, Strategies and Solutions to Transform Corporate L&D
Cliché or Clarity? 3 Expressions That Can Enhance Your Learning Efforts 
Leadership Trends for L&D to Consider
Building a Workforce for the Future
The Engagement Continuum
Design Thinking: Creating Authentically Learner-Centric Solutions
Trends 2020: The Broadening Role of L&D
The Future of Learning is Experiential
Clinging to 20th-century Learning Architecture Inhibits Your Ability to Deliver a 21st-century Learning Experience
Choosing Talent Over Tech
Go Grow Them: Using Crowdsourcing to Spur Employee Development
AbbVie: Engage Employees in Development, And Leave Them Wanting More
The Adaptation of Cross-Cultural Competence
How Technology is Shaping the Future of Workplace Learning
Using Technology to Support the Learner and Learning Professional Experience
Company News
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - Cover1
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 2
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - Preparing for the Future of L&D
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 4
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - Table of Contents
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 6
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 7
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 8
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - Do You Have this Key Leadership Skill?
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 10
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - How Learning Leaders Can Implement Brain-based Trends, Strategies and Solutions to Transform Corporate L&D
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 12
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - Cliché or Clarity? 3 Expressions That Can Enhance Your Learning Efforts 
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 14
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - Leadership Trends for L&D to Consider
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - Building a Workforce for the Future
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 17
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 18
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 19
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 20
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - The Engagement Continuum
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 22
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 23
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - Design Thinking: Creating Authentically Learner-Centric Solutions
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 25
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 26
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 27
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - Trends 2020: The Broadening Role of L&D
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 29
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 30
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 31
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 32
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 33
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - The Future of Learning is Experiential
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 35
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 36
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 37
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - Clinging to 20th-century Learning Architecture Inhibits Your Ability to Deliver a 21st-century Learning Experience
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 39
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 40
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 41
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - Choosing Talent Over Tech
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 43
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 44
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 45
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - Go Grow Them: Using Crowdsourcing to Spur Employee Development
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 47
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 48
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 49
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - AbbVie: Engage Employees in Development, And Leave Them Wanting More
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 51
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - The Adaptation of Cross-Cultural Competence
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 53
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 54
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 55
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - 56
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - How Technology is Shaping the Future of Workplace Learning
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - Using Technology to Support the Learner and Learning Professional Experience
Training Industry Magazine - November/December 2019 - Company News
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