5 Jun 2011

Gymnastics….

I was listening to an interview with Circus Soleil about their production “Cirque Éloize iD” – I noticed quite a similarity with being a Learning Designer…

http://info.channelnewsasia.com/videoplayer/cnaplayer/videoplayer.php?skin=player108.swf&bgskin=playerbackground08.swf&filename=110602_ptm_circusact.flv&videoTitle=PTM%20Cirque%20Eloize%20ID&playerName=specialreport&adfilebefore=&adfileafter=&playmode=S

There is choreography, storyline, poise, artistic, form, structure, logic, creative, etc…

One of the things said [paraphrased] ‘We must know when to jump in and jump out because we work as a team and have to do our part…’

It has been a real challenge to get those in the field to find the balance of self vs team, task vs outcome, time vs quality, logic vs creativity, freedom to excel vs compliance to requirement, independent critical thinking vs proactive expectation management, etc….

Far too many people think it is a piece of cake to be a successful Learning Designer.

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