What's in My Brand?

Making Learning Fun is more than a nice saying, it is what I do for learners. It is why I got into training and why I am so passionate about learner development and their experiences with growing career skills. I bring a creative flair and non-traditional social knowledge engagement to spark a hunger in learners to become experts. 

Somehow, I imagine skill seeking people speeding down the highway of online learning and the toll road of in-person training seeing my brand as a billboard calling out to them to want to know more. Hopefully, curiosity is entering your mind when I introduce myself when we meet and I say, "Hi, I am Meg. I am on a mission of Making Learning Fun." At the least, I hope you will ask me "Why?" or maybe, "How?".

But it's more than some elevator pitch or cool party introduction. It's a snapshot of who and what I am as a goal in my career. It is a SMART goal applied to my career - you know that Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Timely method that goes into your yearly performance mapping of successful contribution.

I believe it sums it up very nicely and fits into how those who hire me can assess my performance. Making Learning Fun is also based upon the project's due date. It's "Why?" most want to hear. Why bother to worry that training or online materials, let alone eLearning be fun for the learners?

The story is simple. Who wants to go to dreadful, click-next, where did they get graphics that bad online courses? Or worse - that snoozer training presentation where you pray to God that the bullet points were actual bullets that killed the hours of irrelevant stories that share no job-related procedures. When the only critical thinking comes from sneaking your smartphone into videos over the expert teaching by polling questions.

When I sit wide-eyed and focused on learning from any training, I do not expect fun or entertainment, but real ways to find solutions to problems, using job-related skills in exchange for my attention or time spent. My motivation to improve is sparked by engagement to the subject. Any real improvement in my skills should include new critical thinking methods when faced with potential situations.

My desire from any course is to be ignited by the information hopefully lead me creatively discover my own skill at problem-solving new things I face in my job. Once discovered, I hope to transform that knowledge and my experiences into expertise. I want to grow excited from the application of my new adapted to my personalized ways of performance that exceed expectations and pulls me to build on my successes.

But in reality, I often sit in dull, long-winded lectures on improbable case studies or past events that have little relevance to my job or my performance goals. Bored out of my mind, I click through online learning courses, playing it as if a game and not a skill development tool. Given a series of expected training modules and yearly compliance videos, I face the sad state of many learners. For real help to improve my job performance, I turn to coworkers, YouTube, Amazon books, or Google.  

In my goal of making learning fun again for learners, I try to help learners rediscover their passions for curiosity and desire to know how to do something. The learner is encouraged to expand their shared experiences as blended knowledge on the path to exceeding their expectations as experts. It is not an easy task and failures and disappointments occur on the journey by many who think they can slap together a lesson or two. But my personal reward is found in those eyes of seekers, hungry learners who suddenly know a solution to problems not yet faced. I often succeed where others miss because I am always the learner.

What I do does not get cheers or loud applause. Often those who take an online course never know who created it or give a thought that it is a real career like an accountant or sales rep. Most trainers or managers use what I creatively developed as a strategy to lead their staff to that "Ah!" moment never know my name.

For those I do teach, face to face, eyes, and ears upon new skills to gain, they remember the fun of how to recall the skill, not who taught them, as it should be. Making learning fun and highly memorable is my goal in every job as a learning experience strategist. I write content to tell a story, relay information in relatable ways, and hopefully playfully fun enough to remember. And if I haven't introduced myself - well, I'm Meg. Making Learning Fun.

How can I help you discover that fun in learning again? I am available to craft a strategy for you and your staff anytime. Just connect.