A planning framework
Richness and Reach
Map cognitive demand and participation. Classify the actual experience, not its delivery format.
Explore Richness and Reach →Frameworks & tools
Learning should ask for more than the answer
Use these ideas to design practice for higher cognitive skills. Then try a decision or plan what evidence would help someone grow and help a team judge readiness.
01 / Frameworks for learning designBrowse all framework definitions →
Start with the question you need to answer
These frameworks help you decide what to teach, what people need to practice, and what a learning experience makes possible.
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The Thinking Effect
Examine an assumption, make a decision, learn from what happens, and try again.
What-to-think vs. how-to-think
Knowledge supports judgment. Practice gives people opportunities to use it when the answer is not already supplied.
Core Abilities
Three ways of working through a decision: test the explanation, consider alternatives, and trace consequences.
The knowing-doing gap
The distance between explaining an approach and using it when the task becomes difficult.
The Value Worker
How learning and adaptation contribute to useful work as responsibilities change.
02 / Practice and evidenceShort exercises · No sign-up
Put the thinking to work
Try a decision before you see more information. Or plan what you would observe when someone takes on a real responsibility.
01 / Decision practice
The launch decision
Choose what to do with mixed pilot results. Explain the assumption behind your choice, then reconsider when an omitted customer group changes the picture.
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Try the decision →02 / Evidence planning
Build an evidence plan
Name a responsibility, the situation that would call for the skill, what you would record, and what the evidence still could not establish.
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Build an evidence plan →Bring a real problem
What does your learning need to change?
A role people are struggling with. A decision that keeps going wrong. A capability you need to see before giving someone more responsibility. Start there.