Instructional Design Portfolio

MICROLEARNING COURSES

Project Title: The First Five Minutes: How Great Leaders Start Difficult Conversations

Project Overview:

The First Five Minutes: How Great Leaders Start Difficult Conversations
Research-Informed Microlearning | Rise 360 | AI-Powered Conversation Simulation

Have you ever needed to address a performance concern but weren't sure how to begin the conversation?

This research-informed microlearning experience helps leaders navigate the critical first five minutes of a difficult workplace conversation. Learners are introduced to the CALM Framework, an original framework grounded in principles from psychological safety, coaching conversations, and research on effective workplace communication.

The experience combines interactive learning in Articulate Rise 360 with a custom AI-powered conversation simulator, allowing learners to practice a realistic workplace conversation, receive adaptive responses from a virtual employee, and reflect on personalized coaching aligned to the CALM Framework.

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  • The First Five Minutes: How Great Leaders Start Difficult Conversations
    Research-Informed Microlearning | Rise 360 | AI-Powered Conversation Simulation

    Have you ever needed to address a performance concern but weren't sure how to begin the conversation?

    This research-informed microlearning experience helps leaders navigate the critical first five minutes of a difficult workplace conversation. Learners are introduced to the CALM Framework, an original framework grounded in principles from psychological safety, coaching conversations, and research on effective workplace communication.

    The experience combines interactive learning in Articulate Rise 360 with a custom AI-powered conversation simulator, allowing learners to practice a realistic workplace conversation, receive adaptive responses from a virtual employee, and reflect on personalized coaching aligned to the CALM Framework.

  • Rather than using a traditional multiple-choice branching scenario, I intentionally incorporated a generative AI conversation simulator to provide authentic practice. This approach allows learners to respond in their own words, experience realistic conversational consequences, and receive personalized coaching based on the CALM Framework. The design reflects my interest in combining evidence-informed instructional design with emerging AI technologies to create meaningful performance practice.

    • Articulate Rise 360

    • Custom GPT Conversation Simulator

    • ChatGPT

    • Instructional Design

    • Learning Experience Design (LXD)

    • Scenario Writing

    • AI Prompt Design

    • Adaptive Learning Design

    • Adult Learning Principles

    • Leadership Development

    • Performance Consulting

Project Title: From Feedback to Forward Motion: Turning Feedback Into Growth

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This interactive microlearning course helps learners transform feedback into an opportunity for professional growth. Through a practical four-step framework: Pause, Clarify, Reflect, and Act, learners build the confidence and skills to respond to feedback with intention and create actionable next steps for continuous improvement.

Designed in Rise 360, this project showcases learner-centered instructional design, scenario-based learning, reflective practice, and actionable performance support.

COMPRENSIVE COURSE

Project Title: Being a Great Boss: Moving from Management to Supportive Leadership

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Project Overview:

Being a Great Boss: Moving from Management to Supportive Leadership
Interactive Rise 360 course

An interactive professional development course designed to help managers recognize everyday leadership behaviors, compare task-focused management with supportive leadership, analyze realistic workplace scenarios, and create a supportive leadership action plan. This project demonstrates course planning, objective alignment, scenario-based learning, interaction design, and Rise 360 development.

  • Being a Great Boss: Moving from Management to Supportive Leadership
    Interactive Rise 360 course

    An interactive professional development course designed to help managers recognize everyday leadership behaviors, compare task-focused management with supportive leadership, analyze realistic workplace scenarios, and create a supportive leadership action plan. This project demonstrates course planning, objective alignment, scenario-based learning, interaction design, and Rise 360 development.

  • For this project, I designed:

    • A four-part learning sequence aligned to course objectives

    • A mini-lesson defining management behaviors and why they matter

    • A click-to-reveal interaction on supportive leadership behaviors

    • A sorting activity where learners classify management behaviors by impact

    • A scenario-based interaction where learners identify task-focused, supportive, and balanced leadership responses

    • A workplace scenario analysis activity using a “Name It, Notice It, Shift It” framework

    • A supportive leadership practice bank and action plan reflection

  • Articulate Rise 360, Articulate Review 360, Canva, AI image generation, planning map/backward design process.

  • Instructional design, adult learning, objective alignment, scenario-based learning, interaction design, e-learning development, Rise 360 course building, reflection-based assessment, leadership development, and learner-centered course design.