Beyond Theory: How to be More Effective in Your Instructional Design

SAN ANTONIO ATD

MONTHLY LEARNING MEETING

How to be More Effective in Your Instructional Design

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 Too often, instructional design can fall short, resulting in disengaged, begrudged, theoretical, outdated training.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, alter activities to be engaging and practical, and strategically build learning design in a proven 5 step process for a richer learning experience.

What to expect: 

We’ll move beyond theory into hands-on application—covering how to:

• Set the stage for better learning with purposeful warm-ups and key preparation techniques.
• Establish baseline knowledge while fostering individual growth and collaborative learning.
• Lead more powerful retrospectives and debriefs for concrete takeaways.
• Build accountability into your training to drive lasting results.

Key Outcomes:

• How to create an engaging environment (virtual and in person) for better learning
• How to design activities with a purpose for more application focussed learning
• How to improve transitions and flow within the design of your sessions
• Framework to identify specific courses of action and accountability. 

Great training doesn’t happen by accident—it’s the result of intentional, strategic instructional design. If you’re ready to transform your training programs into high-impact learning experiences, join me! 

About the Speaker:

Amber Vanderburg:

Amber Vanderburg is a multi-award-winning businessperson, keynote speaker, author, and founder of the international learning development company, The Pathwayz Group, which has led 800,000+ learners in more than 75 countries in action-focused learning pathways. Amber's history in talent development includes authoring top-reviewed and awarded online learning courses for platforms such as LinkedIn Learning, Lecturio, and PluralSight, acting as HR Director of a national education leadership company, and coaching with professional sports academies in Asia. She is the host of global enterprise executive events across Europe and Asia. In 2022, she published the business adventure book "Uniquely Better" about building higher team performance and has an upcoming book called “HR Guidelines Every Manager Should Know.”