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Not even the best designed training in the world will compensate for a poorly designed team of employees and managers. And this is why Andy Powell thinks team design is so important. When I came across an interview that esteemed Team Coach Andy Powell participated in with Ioana Jongsma, his words on the topic of team design really intrigued me. As an Instructional Designer, I am trained to assess whether there is a need for training first prior to analyzing the learners for w

I was first introduced to the concept of Systems Thinking during the pandemic of 2020 through a close friend who would soon pass away the following year. We consumed and discussed Systems Thinking blogs and podcasts during our long-distance romance through phone conversations, texts, email, & Facetime video calls. It was a scary time in the world, but the ground seemed fertile for an overhaul across many global industries. The ideas and concepts put forth by many leading voic

2018 was a big year for my interpersonal and intrapersonal development as I sought to best understand how my behavior and my closest friends' behavior was informed by innate personality traits; at 30 years old, I took the Myers Briggs Personality test to discover my MBTI Personality Type and had all my closest friends take it too. According to Myers Briggs enthusiasts and other Personality Trait psychology fans, it is because of my brain's auxiliary cognitive function of Intr

At one point, me and Self-Directed Learning (SDL) enthusiasts were at odds. My hesitance to the Self-Directed Learning Theory is rooted in my grief about the changing tide in education, which is driven by the strong currents of internet and technological advancements. These currents began churning during the Industrial Age where the Industrial Model of education caused the first inferences of 'teaching machines' to emerge as a solution for a more consistent learning outcome f