Design Thinking for Training and Development: Creating Learning Journeys That Get Results

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Sharon Boller Laura Fletcher

Design Thinking for Training and Development

Creating Learning Journeys That Get Results

Sharon Boller, Laura Fletcher

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ATD Press
15 September 2020

Project management; Personnel & human resources management

Series: None

Better Learning Solutions Through Better Learning Experiences

When training and development initiatives treat learning as something that occurs as a one-time event, the learner and the business suffer. Using design thinking can help talent development professionals ensure learning sticks to drive improved performance.

offers a primer on design thinking, a human-centered process and problem-solving methodology that focuses on involving users of a solution in its design. For effective design thinking, talent development professionals need to go beyond the UX, the user experience, and incorporate the LX, the learner experience.

In this how-to guide for applying design thinking tools and techniques, Sharon Boller and Laura Fletcher share how they adapted the traditional design thinking process for training and development projects. Their process involves steps to:

Implement. Design thinking is about balancing the three forces on training and development programs: learner wants and needs, business needs, and constraints. Learn how to get buy-in from skeptical stakeholders. Discover why taking requests for training, gathering the perspective of stakeholders and learners, and crafting problem statements will uncover the true issue at hand.

Two in-depth case studies show how the authors made design thinking work. Job aids and tools featured in this book include:

an experience map to better understand how the learner performs. With its hands-on, use-it-today approach, this book will get you started on your own journey to applying design thinking.

By: Sharon Boller, Laura Fletcher
Imprint: ATD Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781950496181
ISBN 10: 195049618X
Series: None
Pages: 274
Publication Date: 15 September 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Sharon Boller is a managing director at TiER1 Performance where she focuses on helping clients figure out how to activate their business strategies through their people. She partners with her colleagues at Tier1 to bring together the disciplines of learning, change, communication, technology, and creativity to create blended solutions that enable people to do their best work. was published in 2017 with co-author Karl Kapp. Her company is the recipient of more than 30 awards from organizations such as Brandon Hall, Horizon Interactive Awards, and Life Science Trainers and Educators Network. Her industry interests are wide-ranging and include storytelling, emerging technologies, business strategy, leadership, learning, and experience design. is a seasoned learning consultant with 15 years' experience in learning and development. She served the clients of Bottom-Line Performance for over seven years, where she designed and developed award-winning solutions ranging from instructor-led workshops to mobile apps. It was during her tenure as manager of Instructional Design at Bottom-Line Performance that her ID team became something of a design-thinking ""incubation lab,"" experimenting with design thinking techniques and integrating them into the design process. Today she works for a global technology company where she applies the same principles of design thinking to develop future leaders in the tech industry. She has a master's degree in Human Resource Development from the University of Illinois, and lives in Indianapolis with her husband and two children."