LOOKING TO THE FUTURE #2: How Can High Touch Build a Business? In my last post, I shared the first of three segments on Looking to the Future, focusing on Embracing the Times. Today, I’d like to focus on the value of high touch, or maintaining close relationships with clients and colleagues, and what makes [...]
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE #1: Embracing the Times Oh, if only I had a crystal ball! But seriously, where’s the challenge in that? As so many do, I thrive on the opportunity to grow and learn. While I don’t like ambiguity, I also wouldn’t give it up. In my final series of posts celebrating EnVision’s [...]
WHAT I WISH I KNEW #3: Putting Myself Out There This is the third of 3 things I Wish I Knew when I first started out. I am writing this series in celebration of EnVision’s 27 years. I wish I had embraced speaking and writing about instructional design much sooner than I did. Now I [...]
WHAT I WISH I KNEW #2: Examine Others’ Intentions Last month I shared three examples about What I Wish I Knew #1: Don’t Confuse Activity with Progress. In this post, I reflect on situations when my optimism outpaced my due diligence. I wish I had known to pause and explore others’ intentions before agreeing to [...]
WHAT I WISH I KNEW #1: Don’t Confuse Activity with Progress In honor of EnVision’s 27th birthday this past November 2025, I’m sharing my reflections on success, what I wish I knew, and what’s next. In previous posts, I shared 3 examples each of 3 keys to EnVision’s success. In this next series, I will [...]
SUCCESS FACTOR #3: Keeping Up with Changing Technology This is the third of 3 success factors I’m writing about in celebration of EnVision’s 27 years! (Up next will be a series on what I wish I’d known!) Tech seems to be changing, improving, or throwing us for a loop almost every day. It’s hard to [...]
EnVision turned 27 in November 2025. In celebration, over a series of posts, I am sharing 3 examples for each of 3 factors in each of 3 areas (3 x 3 x 3 = 27!). The areas are: what led to success, what I wish I’d known, and what’s next. Last month, I shared three [...]
EnVision turns 27 this month. I can’t believe it’s been that many years. How fortunate I am to work with such an incredible team. Together, we’ve had, and continue to have, the opportunity to partner with so many amazing clients. We are proud of our contributions to our clients and ultimately those they impact in [...]
Recently, clients and others in my network have been asking if EnVision uses AI—particularly ChatGPT-style tools—and in what way. AI, in some form, has been around for a while. If you access your device using facial recognition or you’ve taken Netflix’s suggestion for your next video, you’ve experienced AI. In the L&D world, AI can [...]
How My Housecleaner Demonstrated that We Can’t Deliver the Same Amount of Training Content in Less Time Have you ever hired a housecleaner? I am lucky enough to have one, and I’ve been very pleased with her work for many years now. I was recently thinking about how I got started with her when a client [...]
While our consultants at EnVision often work independently, we enjoy brainstorming together and sharing knowledge to achieve the best project outcome. For one recent engagement, we were asked by our client to create a series of templated tools for use in building out custom leadership training courses. Since this project required both big-picture thinking and [...]
As a Learning & Development partner, do you have a “seat at the table”? This is a question we were asking and struggling with [ahem, ahem] decades ago, when I was coming up as an L&D manager. It’s as pertinent a question as ever. After all, if we don’t have that proverbial seat, how can [...]
I recently purchased a new coffee maker. I’d be embarrassed to describe my old one, so I'll not go there. The new one isn’t high-end, but it does have a lot of features that work well for my husband’s and my varied preferences: it brews different strength coffees and various size cups and pots, and [...]
If you have ever gone apple picking, have you had the following experience, as I have? You start to fill your basket with beautiful red apples, then suddenly, too suddenly, your basket is overflowing? When working with a subject matter expert (SME), instructional designers are often handed an overflowing basket of “apples,” the core content, [...]
By Kris Normandin, guest blogger Have you ever felt stuck? At some point in our lives, we all have. The larger question is, how do you get “unstuck?” This is what we set out to answer at Velocity Quest for Women. We provide a series of virtual, real-time programs for women who want to increase [...]
Last month, Sheree Galpert, an Applied Improv practitioner and trainer, shared fundamentals of improvisation in EnVision’s blog. Sheree introduced three principles of improvisation: Be in the moment Use “Yes, and” Make your partner look good Sheree illustrated how instructional designers can leverage these techniques to be more effective in their work. After reading Sheree’s post, [...]
By Sheree Galpert, guest blogger “Begin with the end in mind.” That’s one of the key habits laid out by Stephen R. Covey in his best-selling book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. For instructional designers and trainers, that’s kind of a no-brainer: You have to know what you want your learners to get [...]
I scan the room, looking for people I know and for people I can meet for the first time. I walk up to the coffee urn, where someone I don’t know just filled her cup. After extending a hand, I introduce myself and ask her what brought her here today. Soon, I excuse myself to [...]
Leaves are on the verge of turning beautiful colors here in the Northeast. The evening air is crispening, and I can smell logs burning in firepits as my neighbors try to squeeze in some more cool-night outdoor time. You know what that means...2022 is around the corner, and, for many of us, it is also [...]
Have you ever taken a learning assessment—aka test—that was frustratingly difficult or fabulously easy? Did you get distracted taking the test, wondering, “What were they thinking?” as you tried to regurgitate trite facts or parse out a complex question and series of responses? Early in my consulting career, I was asked to review a learning [...]
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