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Mike D'Angelo

Thinking FAST is one of five microlearning principles that are proven to change on-the-job behaviors and boost knowledge retention.

Thinking FAST Leads to Learning and Development Success

L&D teams are the bridge between organizational strategy and professional development. Upskilling individual employees is no longer enough. L&D teams are building internal capabilities and creating the best learning environment for large-scale transformation across the organization. During this session, learn about three guiding principles to gain a new lens on how L&D can make a greater impact on employees, customers, and business outcomes shared through real-life client experiences.
You’ll learn new ways to:

Understand what is valuable to your company and what’s invaluable to your employees and customers.
Learn and recognize transformational roadblocks.
Define what quality means for learning and why you need feedback in your work.  


3 Guiding Principles to Align Learning With Business Outcomes

Your Periodic Table of Learning ElementsEngaging, effective training programs are a mixture of science and art, requiring the right balance of adult learning theory, available technology, intuitive tools, proven practices, creativity, and risk. How does a trainer find the right combination and proportion of these elements? How does a trainer know what’s possible?To answer these questions, Brian Washburn offers a simple yet elegant periodic table of learning elements modeled on the original periodic table of chemical properties. Washburn’s elements—which are organized into solids, liquids, gases, radioactive, and interactive categories similar to their chemical cousins—are metaphors for the tools and strategies of the field of learning design; when they’re combined, and under certain conditions, they have the potential to create amazing learning experiences for participants. They are that impactful.From critical gas-like elements like the air we breathe, present in every training room (think instructional design or visual design), to radioactive elements, powerful and dangerous yet commonly used (think PowerPoint), Washburn guides you through the pitfalls and choices you confront in creating engaging learning experiences. A well-designed training program can be world-changing, he argues, and if you believe in your craft as a learning professional, you can do this too. Whether you’re an experienced learning designer or new to the field, this book inspires with new ideas and ways to organize the design of your learning programs. With stories from Washburn’s professional experience, the book includes a hands-on glossary of definitions and descriptions for more than 50 of his elements.