Instructional Design

Challenge

The collective experience of Covid19 has highlighted how little we know about trauma. Companies are recognizing a need to build and nurture a trauma-informed culture. A workplace that is not trauma-informed suffers.

Employees navigating trauma without support may experience

Increased absenteeism
Health problems
Impaired judgement
Mood swings
Low motivation
Poor work quality
Greater staff friction

All this can affect the workplace in higher turnover rates, increased training costs, poor client outcomes, stressed work culture, and loss of productivity. It’s in a company’s best interest to cultivate trauma-informed leaders and culture.

Tools of Development

Storyline 360
Google Slides & Docs

Two business-attire dressed individuals sit across from each other at a table, talking. They are smiling. The text reads "Trauma-informed Management: How trauma-informed is your style? Talk to Daniel to find out."

Solution

I created this eLearning storytelling, gamification training to teach managers how to navigate trauma among their employees. Talk to David, choose your responses, and find out how trauma-informed you are!

Results

A pre and post training survey of company culture would make for good result measurements here, though I also believe you could compare the rates of absenteeism, turnover, and workplace disagreements to measure the effect of this training.

Challenge

Due to Covid19, my herbalist teacher has been unable to take on students since her instruction is entirely in-person. Some herbalists cannot lead classes because they are increasingly taking care of the sick in their community. The herbalists who are teaching are sending pamphlets and packaged herbs to their students. However, many learners are struggling to learn the content through this means and dropping out.

Solution

I created this eLearning lesson to teach herbalism students two basic concepts. When a student enrolls in this coursework, they could start learning the material immediately while waiting for a package of herbs to come in the mail. Once received, students could experience the tastes and energetics of the plants themselves.

Results

Ultimately, success for this lesson would be measured in a student-herbalist's ability to match their constitution and needs with the energetics and tastes of various herbs. Success in the online course as a whole could be measured with retained enrollment numbers.

Tools of Development

Storyline 360
Audacity
Canva
Google Slides & Docs