Turning Training Content into Human Centred Learning

How can instructional designers create learning experiences that feel human, memorable, and rooted in real performance challenges? In this session, Rance Greene will introduce Instructional Story Design, a practical process for turning the information IDs already gather into meaningful stories for training.

He’ll explore how to move beyond transactional knowledge-sharing and build learning experiences with relatable characters, strong conflict, and performance-based activities. You’ll learn how to humanize discovery conversations with stakeholders, uncover observable actions, and design story-driven activities that help learners observe, think critically, and solve problems.

And if you’re thinking, “I’m not a storyteller,” this session is designed for you. Instructional Story Design is a repeatable method that meets instructional designers where they are and gives them a practical way to create training that connects.

• Humanize discovery conversations with stakeholders and drill down to observable actions.

• Create relevant, sound instructional stories using the raw data you're already collecting.

• Design activities, based on the story, that give learners opportunities to observe, critically think and solve problems.

Rance Greene formed the School of Story Design (schoolofstorydesign.com) for instructional designers who struggle to humanize training. His methodology—Instructional Story Design—equips IDs with a systematic and creative way for discovering, designing and delivering story-based training. Rance is the author of Instructional Story Design, a practical guide for developing stories that train. He coaches, teaches, speaks and writes often on the benefits of stories to connect people to one another.