Performance & Value Focused Instructional Designer

I'm a technical instructional designer who works collaboratively with subject matter experts, business partners, and stakeholders in corporate environments.

I enjoy creating high-quality, engaging, and valuable digital training for a diverse audience meant to improve performance or solve performance problems in less time.

I'm available evenings and weekends for freelance instructional design and contract eLearning developer roles with Articulate Rise and Storyline

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My specialties

  • Translate technical & IT into digestible content for non-techies.
  • Redesigning instructor-led training for effective and shorter online delivery
  • Creating software training to be realistic and scenario-rich.
  • Analyzing complex needs to learn if training is a fit and how to best approach a project to improve performance.
  • Using digital adoption platforms (DAPs) to help employees use software in the flow of their work.

Projects I've Worked On

Quick Reference Guide

Common Windows Shortcuts Quick Reference Guide

Video

Course Animated Video

Instructor-Led

Personality Isn’t Permanent

eLearning

Digital Teammate Files

The Blog

07 Oct

Touchscreen Toddler

By Nick Leffler
If you haven't been to the front of my web site, you haven't seen my daughter using my cell phone at 18 months, and better than my parents use theirs....
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30 Sep

Is Instructional Design Like Choreography?

By Nick Leffler
I often find myself glancing at the TV while Sesame Street is on for my daughter, and admittedly I watch it more than she does, so on many occasions I've...
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28 Sep

My Personal Portfolio Hashtag – #nickleffportfolio

By Nick Leffler
About a month ago I ran across this great post about using a personal hashtag to promote your portfolio. It took me some time to start using my new hashtag...
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16 Sep

How do you get people talking on an enterprise social network?

By Nick Leffler
I presented this question, and an overly simplified answer last week on Twitter. I say it's an overly simplified answer but really it's not, it's so perfectly expressed in as...
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09 Sep

What I Learned Today

By Nick Leffler
Tweet what you've learned today, use the #LrnToday hashtag to share what you've learned and learn something new. We live in a social learning era, share and be shared with. Please...
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05 Sep

What’s My Development Process?

By Nick Leffler
A few weeks ago there was a bit of restructuring in my company within my greater department. Several teams had been re-organized into an easier structure. This also meant a new...
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02 Sep

Command and Control

By Nick Leffler
Many things have gone through my head lately about how safety of private information can be balanced with freedom of information exchange in the enterprise. It wasn’t until I read...
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19 Aug

Learning Experience As a User Experience

By Nick Leffler
Update: Would this be Training Experience As a User Experience? I read an article a while ago about user experience design likened to an experience at a restaurant, unfortunately I...
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12 Aug

Smartwearables (vs?) Smartphone

By Nick Leffler
Everywhere I look these days there's news about wearable computing. Wearable computers are those mini computers that attach to you somehow. In the current form that includes Google Glass and...
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