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Jan 26 2020

Video: Excerpt from: Meetings Bloody Meetings

John Cleese in this Classic from 1976

“Meetings, Bloody Meetings is a 1976 British comedy training film that stars John Cleese as a bumbling middle manager. The film was written by John Cleese and Antony Jay, and was produced by Cleese’s production company Video Arts.” Wikipedia

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Guy W. Wallace – Performance Analyst & Instructional Architect – ISD Consultant Since 1982

Instruction includes 1) Standalone Job Aids, 2) Job Aids Embedded in Training, 3) Training for Memorization and/or Honing Skills. Performance-Based Instruction via Self-Paced, or Coached, or Group-Paced Modes using various Media appropriate to the Performance Contexts of the learners/Performers.

Guy W. Wallace

Performance Analyst & Instructional Architect - Since 1979

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EPPIC Inc. -
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"Focus on the Performance Requirements - and Enable Them"

Guy has served 80+ clients including over 45 F500 firms since November 1982.

Recipient of the ISPI - the International Society for Performance Improvement - Honorary Life Member Award - 2010 - for contributions to the Society and to the Technology for Performance Improvement (PI).

Founding member of ASQ’s Influential Voices Initiative - 2010. Served through 2015.

Guy W. Wallace collaborates with his Clients using predictable, visible, proven processes on time and on budget.

Client work won awards for AT&T, General Motors, HP and Siemens Building Technologies.

Guy's 40 years in the performance improvement/ training/ learning business have been focused in 2 key areas:

1- analysis of the organization and its business processes to derive the "Learning Requirements" from the "Performance Requirements" and...

2- design/architecting the configuration of instructional and informational content.

Guy conducts Performance Improvement projects, Curriculum Architecture Design projects, Instructional Design/Development projects, and he both formally and informally develops and coaches client staff in his ISD and Performance Improvement methods, processes, and in the use of his tools and techniques.

Guy’s Consulting Clients – Since 1982

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Arthur Andersen (1)
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AT&T Network Systems International (5)

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Burroughs (1)

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Data General (1)
Detroit Ball Bearing (1)
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Clarifying HPT – Human Performance Technology

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Performance Improvement Is A Collaborative Effort via ISD and/or PI

Establishing On-the-Job Performance Competence As the End Goal

A 1987 On-Boarding Story – Ramping Up a New Product Manager’s Performance Competence – Quickly

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Performance Improvement Isn’t So Easy

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What Would the ROI Be If You Could Leverage Performance By Leveraging Your Current State Master Performers and Bring Total Performance Up?

My 14 Books

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Published November 2011 by Guy W. Wallace at eLearn Magazine:

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For Performance Competence – 3 Instructional Options

What Learners/ Performers Need

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I Prefer the Facilitated Group Process for Speed and Accuracy

The PACT Processes for performance-based T&D, L&D and Knowledge Management

lean-ISD : Effective and Efficient and Focused on the Performance Competence Requirements

PACT builds Awareness – Knowledge – Skills to increase ReUse for multiple Target Audiences – for Performance Competence

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Paths-Menus-Guides-Maps for Training and Learning and Knowledge Management

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CAD – Curriculum Architecture Design – For Mapping Development Paths – Since 1982

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MCD/IAD – Builds/Buys/ReUses Content to Improve Targeted Performance Competence

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Project Planning & Management -- Analysis -- CAD -- MCD -- IAD.

Performance Based Instruction – Focuses on Performance

Help your client determine their own internal Best Practices in order to share with others in the Enterprise as appropriate.

The Results of a 2002-2004 Effort at “Clarifying HPT”

Clarifying HPT in 2004

Performance Competence via Performance-based T&D Paths & Individual T&D Planning Guides

80+ HPT Videos: Guy’s Practitioner & Legacy Series

EPPIC’s YouTube Channel #1 – Videos Mostly from 1981 to 2017

EPPIC’s YouTube Channel #2 – Videos Mostly from 2018 And On

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First Posted in 2014 – First Noticed in the Early 1980s

First posted in 2014

It’s Not As Simple As The Customer Is King

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Lessons in Making Lemonade : Guy W. Wallace’s Online Cartoon Strip series of 1151 Strips From 2010-2013

Buzz is the Manager of the on campus Lemonade Stand. He and his coworker and their customers are students in the Instructional & Performance Technology College of Rivercity University.