Sometimes life is just busy. We have the demands of career and family. We have bills to pay, places to go and people to see. We get so focused on carrying on that we can't see the forest for the trees.
In the training industry, it is easy to be sidetracked by the trees and miss the forest. We get request for training, we fill them. Those are the trees. But what about the forest?

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Here are nine principles, in no particular order, to consider when designing and delivering learning.

Organize learning so it's easy to understand. You can reduce cognitive load by breaking information down into small, digestible chunks and arranging them into patterns that make sense to the learner. Patterns may be familiar processes, stories, or metaphors that draw on prior knowledge. Always start by giving an overview so learners know how all the smaller chunks fit together.

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