Once you know your audience, you need to perform a needs analysis. We suggest using at least one of the in-person options to personally get to know your audience on a deeper level. Or conduct online research to discover insights about audience demographics. If you need more information, you can interview individual employees. Getting to know your audience can come in several forms. Start by meeting with your SME (Subject Matter Expert) to gather information on the target audience.
Understanding your audience makes sure your job aid communicates the correct message. To create an effective job aid, try out these tips:Ĭonduct a deep dive to understand your audience preferences.įor example, do you have a target learning audience of C-level executives? Or entry level employees. Now that, my friend, is an invaluable skill. With a few tips on creating job aids, you can save your client hours of work and thousands of dollars. Using a combination of instructional design and user-experience design, the best job aids are simple, straight-forward and visually appealing. And most importantly, they must solve a problem for the learner. To be effective for learning, job aids must be well-organized. Job aids are not just an unconscious stream of text on a print-out or PDF. Well-crafted job aids improve job performance and behavioral change, all while saving your company time and money. Any environment that requires learning, or behavior changes, to occur. Job aids are used across many types of organizations. Even ‘Ikea furniture instructions’ could be considered a job aid.
How can we make sure to use learning time in the most efficient way?Ī job aid is any material that provides simple information about how to perform a task.īasically, a job aid can be any type of material meant to assist in the learning process. Or spent hours reading complicated text to understand a process, feeling more confused than before? Have you ever sat through a tedious presentation and wondered why they didn’t just give you a handout instead? This post was written by Sydney Coultis, eLearning Developer at Water Bear Learning.