Performance-First Learning: A Day as an Instructional Designer
About This Course
Workforce development and lifelong learning in Singapore are increasingly focused on skills-based, performance-driven training solutions, as highlighted in the Jobs and Skills Report launched by SSG in early 2025.
Employers are looking for learning experiences that produce measurable improvements in productivity and capability. This course responds to that need by training instructional designers to use an agile, business-aligned model to build learning that closes performance gaps. It moves beyond academic or compliance-based training toward results-oriented learning design, essential in fast-paced, high-change industries. With AI transforming instructional workflows, the course also offers participants guided exposure to tools that enhance speed and productivity without compromising instructional rigour.
What You'll Learn
Knowledge-based Learning Outcome;
- Describe the six stages of the introduced performance-first instructional design model.
- Explain how each stage contributes to building training that improves performance.
Skills-based Learning Outcome;
- 1. Apply the performance-first instructional design model to analyse a performance gap.
- Create an aligned instructional prototype, using AI tools to support design and development tasks.
Entry Requirements
- Training and Adult Educators: Adult trainers, learning and development personnel, programme managers, ACLP graduates and anyone aspiring to become instructional designers or wondering what instructional designers’ work looks like
- Learning Leaders and HR Talent management Professionals: Individuals tasked with onboarding, training, and upskilling their teams or those responsible for employee development and learning initiatives within organisations to optimise performance through learning
- Ultimately, anyone interested in exposure to a systematic and responsive approach to deliver engaging learning experiences that improve performance in the workplace