Shownotes
Summary:
Megan Torrance is CEO and founder of TorranceLearning - helping organizations connect learning strategy to design, development, data and ultimately performance. Megan has over 25 years of experience in learning design, deployment and consulting. Megan and the TorranceLearning team are passionate about sharing what works in learning, offering professional development programs in instructional design, learning technologies, racial equity and Agile methods. She is the author of Agile for Instructional Designers (2019), The Quick Guide to LLAMA (2012), two ATD TD at Work publications: Agile and LLAMA® for ISD Project Management (2014) and Making Sense of xAPI (2017) and she is a frequent speaker at conferences nationwide.
Many people don't realize that the skills that an instructional designer use are no different than what makes a great salesperson. It's all about facilitating a behavior change. Megan helps L&D professionals connect to learners on a personal level and ultimately help them apply what they learn on the job. We chat about how she thinks about creating a compelling reason to change, how she got into this work, great questions she likes to ask to get to the heart of her clients problems, why she teaches her kids hockey, and so much more!
Key Moments:
09:20 - The reasons and motivations for becoming a teacher. Passing knowledge
14:48 - The differences between teaching and learning in person and online
20:54 - A story of how she helps a manufacturing client show their learners a compelling reason to change and balance the workers need to get it right with the organizations need to be right.
28:28 - Questions Megan likes to ask her L&D clients to get to the heart of their problems.
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