Matt Gjertsen is the founder and Chief Learning Officer of Better Every Day Studios, a firm specializing in instructional design for aerospace and defense companies. With a background as an Instructor Pilot in the U.S. Air Force and a Manager of Training and Development at SpaceX, Matt brings a wealth of experience in training and development.

In this episode, we spoke about how Matt's background and development as an Air Force Training Pilot have helped him to craft no-nonsense training programs for his clients.

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Chapters

00:00 - Matt's Intro and Failing into Training

04:42 - How do increase the rigor of your training?

11:58 - Surround your participants with your training topic

17:05 - Focus on Behavior vs. Knowledge for Effective Training

22:16 - Example: How to uncover key behaviors for training

27:55 - What cognitive load actually looks like

37:54 - Relationships are key to giving good feedback

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🖐🏽 Key Takeaways:

1. To focus on performance, you need to identify the behavior that you will need to see to know the training was successful.

2. Immerse your participants in your training experience, not just in the time you have with them. Send out resources with different formats, give them primers for your next workshop, and help them to fall in love with the problems you're trying to solve.

3. Don't give feedback unless you can say that you care about the other person's development.

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📚 Resources:

Connect with Matt on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewgjertsen/

Better Every Day Studios: https://www.bettereverydaystudios.com/

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🤔 About the Host

Kevin Alster leads the learning team at Synthesia focusing primarily on product education and client services.

With over a decade of experience in education and learning, he has moved from the classroom and into tech to help people create and communicate better through video.

He has been developing enterprise and branded learning solutions in organizations such as General Assembly, The School of The New York Times, and Sotheby’s Institute of Art.

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🧑🏽‍🏫 Check out the ⁠Synthesia Academy⁠ ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠:

⁠https://www.synthesia.io/academy⁠ 🗣

Or get in touch with me on ⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠

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