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The Three-E Triangle – Training Tradeoffs
Reza Jalaeian discusses common challenges instructional designers face when creating effective, efficient, and engaging instruction and how the ShadowBox method can aid in attaining all three.
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Handling Training Requirements When Expertise Becomes Outdated
Gary Klein reflects on several necessary organizational changes in response to emerging events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. He suggests ways expertise and training can evolve from these emerging, fast-paced situations.
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Re-thinking training: Just-in-Time (JIT) Training
In part three of this four-part series, Gary Klein considers the sustainability and efficacy of traditional training approaches during events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, where conditions are rapidly changing and information is shared in unconventional ways.
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Re-thinking expertise: The Skill Portfolio account of experts
In part two of this four-part series, we revisit Gary Klein’s discussion of emerging and rapidly changing phenomena, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and how these patterns have provided new insights about the nature of expertise.
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Business as Unusual: How to train when expertise becomes outdated
What do we do when rapidly changing conditions push the boundaries of expertise and traditional training approaches?
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The Next Frontier for Naturalistic Decision Making: A Call to Action
John Schmitt suggests a new frontier for applying NDM principles and provides a landscape of current NDM tools that may be relevant to this emerging area. We are actively seeking input from the community about tools for addressing wicked problems!
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Focusing on the Problem – Part Two
John Schmitt shares his thoughts on formulating a complex problem -- continuing his series of essays on problem solving.
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Focusing on the Problem – Part One
In Part One of John Schmitt's exploration of problem solving, he discusses the importance of adequately understanding a problem before coming up with a solution.
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Why Do We Call It ShadowBox?
This blog answers one of our clients' most frequently asked questions -- the origin of the name "ShadowBox."
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Observations on Nine Months of Decision-Making Training
Instead of pursuing a typical quarantine hobby (like baking homemade sourdough), John Schmitt spent his lockdown helping ROTC cadets further their military training. He describes the process of leading Tactical Decision Games remotely and the outcomes he observed.