design

Highly effective onboarding for call center agents

SummaryActio re-envisioned the learning experience for a global professional services firm, modernizing and improving an old, outdated, and ineffective onboarding program.The ChallengeOutdated training for a critical customer support role created numerous organizational challenges. Here's a snapshot of the issues:Team member ...

An Advanced Program for High-Performing Bankers

SummaryActio created an advanced sales curriculum for private bankers centered on wealth management principles.The Challenge This bank sought to increase fee income, develop a more diverse lending portfolio, add new client relationships and deepen existing ones, and expand its market presence ...

Better Onboarding for Retail Banking

[updated from the original publication of May 18, 2020]Driven by new and improving technology, an evolving regulatory landscape, and shifting marketplace conditions, banking - and retail banking in particular - is changing. Let's leave aside all the possible implications and focus on training ...

Blended Learning For Better Results

[updated from the original publication of February 2019}We find the challenge of designing, and engineering, effective blended learning experiences exciting and compelling. Finding the right design is like solving a multi-dimensional puzzle of business goals, organizational realities, performance context, audience needs, and instructional strategies.What is ...

Training Revitalization: Underwriters Learning the Fundamentals

SummaryActio redesigned a new-hire underwriting training process to emphasize case-based instruction with whole-task practice that mirrored real work.The ChallengeA client in international banking needed to improve their underwriting technical skills training process to deliver better-trained underwriters. There were numerous challenges. New ...

Agile Is the New Normal. Five Lessons Learned to Help L&D Succeed

[updated from the original publication on July 2, 2019]According to research by HP, agile has overtaken Waterfall as the prevailing software development methodology. This shift is something we've experienced first-hand. Several clients have adopted or are in the process of adopting agile as a cultural model and ...

Blended Learning: Five Things to Think About

Designing, building, and deploying blended learning is often like a 3D puzzle: interesting and sometimes challenging. Here are few considerations and design assumptions to keep in mind:Understand the roots and history of blended learning: Blended learning has a deep history ...

Designing Authentic Practice

A recent article explores how learning outcomes can be improved by understanding cognitive science behind learning. One learning practice in particular is critical to achieving performance outcomes, creating meaningful practice.Meaningful practice involves tasks in the training experience that require retrieval ...

Job Shock – Training Didn’t Work

When employees complete training, head back to the job, and are surprised by the velocity, complexity, or volume of work, they’re experiencing job shock. Job shock results when training lacks real world context or inadvertently misleads them about the work ...

Highly effective onboarding for call center agents

An Advanced Program for High-Performing Bankers

Better Onboarding for Retail Banking

Blended Learning For Better Results

Training Revitalization: Underwriters Learning the Fundamentals

Agile Is the New Normal. Five Lessons Learned to Help L&D Succeed

Blended Learning: Five Things to Think About

Designing Authentic Practice

Job Shock – Training Didn’t Work

Subscribe To Our Newsletter

Subscribe To Our Newsletter