Introducing a New Way of Training: idXready
January 26, 2007
 It’s Friday afternoon and your boss asks you to fill a last-minute request for a workshop on Tuesday. You certainly don’t want to upset the powers that be and you definitely don’t want to spend your weekend slaving over content development. So what are your choices? You could say “sorry, try someone else” or you could spend the weekend throwing together a presentation that may not measure up to your standards. Now, there’s another choice - idXready.
idXready, “instructional design Xcelerated and ready-to-go,” is a new type of off-the-shelf training program that will give you  a professional program without spending a weekend putting it together! idXready programs are “ready-to-go.” All of the programs include a facilitator kit, speaker notes and a PowerPoint video. Best of all, idXready programs incorporate your learner’s responses into personalized workbooks with online assessments including DiSC, Team Dimensions and the Personal Listening Profile. Each course uses one of the three online assessments to measure behavioral tendencies.
Your participants print their individual personalized workbooks based on the online assessments they complete prior to coming to class. For adult learners, that means the information has immediate interest because it addresses their specific needs. During the presentation, the activities combined with integrated PowerPoint and video engage your learners and make for extremely effective presentations. The often humorous video vignettes present various business situations that reinforce the content and remain with the learner long after the class.
idXready programs also make it easy for you as the facilitator. All of your facilitator notes are included in the “Notes” view of the PowerPoint slides. You can present courses using the notes or customize them to your style. It’s all right in front of you. To keep it really simple, the facilitator notes, the PowerPoint presentation and the participant workbooks are all numbered the same. When you are on Slide 3, your learners should be on page 3 of their workbook – allowing everyone to focus on the content instead of looking for their places. The best part is that you will have given a professional presentation without spending your valuable time pulling together content and practicing your delivery.
Right now idXready is available in 6 titles. Each program is designed to offer 4-5 hours of high quality training with significantly reduced preparation time. Add in the increased participant engagement and learning and it’s definitely a win-win situation for all.
About the author:
Don Bowlby is the Vice President, Operations at Corexcel, a company specializing in online continuing education and workplace training. For more information about Corexcel and the training materials they offer, visit
www.corexcel.com
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