Peter Diederich

Learning & Development | Instructional designer | LXD | Ed Tech | Solver of problems, builder of things. Once skied with a moose.

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I’m amazed how turning my phone to grayscale has impacted my desire to use it.

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Publishing your teams event is not training.

Example:

Me: How do we currently support people learning complicated thing 1?

Them: we have a training on that. (Sends link to Teams meeting saved on OneDrive)

Me: groans. Waits days to get access to find out it is 5yrs old.

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Yes, in person has benefits.

You work for a global org, how do you propose getting everyone in person for the price of a Microsoft license?

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Paid application: we provide benchmark data to compare your smile sheets against

Me: how hard is it to view my results?

PA: very hard. You’ll probably spend 30 minutes trying to figure it out then have to get a coworker to show you.

Me: ummm.

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A curse on all you app and web developers that create tools that don’t enable users to open windows in new tabs.

A heinous vile hex to you all.

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Sometimes proving what it isn’t is as important as what it is

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How it looks is ego enhancing, how it works is user enhancing.

Design for what works

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I think part of Spotify’s subscription strategy is repetitive ads. Let’s go new ads!

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Life will always be hard as long as you think it should be easy.

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I am struggling writing a power automate flow that writes a calendar to a sharepoint list. I wish it was a little more GUI and a little less codey.

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@jackdied crabs?

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Clarity comes from confusion

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Onboarding isn’t two weeks, it’s a journey from hire to performing.

How do you sustain that performance growth over 3, 6, 12 months?

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Old org, default camera on.

New org, default camera off.

The perceived physical distance shrinks with connection. If you can, camera on people.

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Would you be more likely to attend a 30 minute 6am wake up yoga class on:

#earlybird #yoga

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Paging graduate faculty.

Your group work does not simulate working in the real world.

Except the stress and frustration part. That’s on point.

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SOP isn’t enough, it helps, but it rarely has the context everyone needs.

Think about it this way, if you have a recipe that looks like SOP, can you make the dish?

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Printers… why is this still so hard on a PC

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Every time I take an early Teams meeting from my phone I’m paranoid that every one is going to hear me say something like “Yes, I see your butt.”

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It’s not about what you do, it’s about what your users need