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Aug 19 2014

Five Grand – If You Can Meet the Learning Styles Challenge

The Learning Styles Challenge The Learning Styles Challenge payout has recently been increased from $1000 to $5000! That is, if any person or group creates a real-world learning intervention that takes learning styles into account–and proves that such an intervention produces … Continue reading →

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Aug 8 2014

Uppin’ the Ante: The Learning Styles Challenge for $5,000

Who Do VooDoo?  The following content was literally lifted from Will Thalheimer’s site – here. Help us stamp out this particular set of VooDoo Foo Foo… Learning Styles Challenge — Year Eight — Now at $5,000 As of today (August … Continue reading →

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Sep 3 2013

Why Is the Research on Learning Styles Still Being Dismissed by Some Learning Leaders and Practitioners?

Why Oh Why Won’t This Myth Die? Read the full eLearn Magazine article from November 2011 – here. Learning Styles? From my PLN: Harold Stolovitch says, “more than 25 years of research on this and related themes have not provided … Continue reading →

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Apr 1 2013

Designing Instruction for Learning Styles Preferences Works!!!

 April Fools!!! It does not. BEST PRACTICES/TIPS Why Is the Research on Learning Styles Still Being Dismissed by Some Learning Leaders and Practitioners? By Guy W. Wallace / November 22, 2011 A learning style is supposedly a mode of learning … Continue reading →

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Mar 6 2013

Noooooooooooooooooo! Not More Drivel on Learning Styles!!!

Hmm. Or is that: “Sigh”   From ASTD ASTD Launches a Revised Competency Model for the Profession Which includes… leveraging the learning styles and preferences of new generations entering the workforce and capturing the knowledge of those leaving it – … Continue reading →

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Jul 10 2012

Voodoo and Foo Foo in L&D and PI About Learning Styles

My Google Reader brought this to me: Accommodating different learning styles in Learning Management Systems (LMSs) represents an important step towards providing a wholesome learning experience to the learners. Gag Me with an LMS They – the authors of that … Continue reading →

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Guy W. Wallace


Performance Analyst & Instructional Architect - Since 1979

External Consultant - Since 1982.

EPPIC Inc. -
Enterprise Process Performance Improvement Consultancy Inc.

Morganton NC 28655 USA

Email: guy.wallace@eppic.biz

Mobile: 704 746 5126

Web: www.eppic.biz

"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 39 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 develops and coaches client staff in his ISD and Performance Improvement methods, processes, and use of his tools and techniques - both formally and informally.

Guy’s Clients – Since 1982

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Abbott Laboratories (3)
ALCOA (2)
ALCOA Labs (2)
Alyeska Pipeline Services Company (2)
American Management Systems (1)

Ameritech (1)
Amoco Corporation (13)
Apotex (1)
Arthur Andersen (1)
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AT&T (4)
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AT&T Network Systems (24)
AT&T Network Systems International (5)

Bandag (7)
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Baxter (1)
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British Petroleum-America (1)
Burroughs (1)

Chamberlin Edmonds – Emdeon (1)
Channel Gas Industries/Tenneco (1)
Commerce Clearing House (1)

Data General (1)
Detroit Ball Bearing (1)
Digital Equipment Corporation (2)
Discover Card (1)
Dow Chemical (3)

EDS (1)
Eli Lilly (7)
Exxon Exploration (2)

Federal Express (1)
Fireman’s Fund Insurance (1)
Ford Design Institute (1)
Ford Motor Company (1)

General Dynamics (10)
General Motors (25)
GP Strategies (1)
GTE (1)

H&R Block (1)
Hewlett Packard (5)

Illinois Bell (3)
Imperial Bondware (1)
Imperial Oil (1)

J.K. Somers & Associates (2)
Johnson Controls (1)

Kodak (1)

Lockheed (1)
Lucent (1)

MCC Powers (16)
Motorola (1)
Multigraphics (1)

NASA (1)
NASCO (1)
NAVAIR (1)
NAVSEA (2)

NCR (2)
Norfolk Naval Shipyard (4)
Northern Telecom (1)
Northern Trust Bank (1)
NOVA (2)
Novacor (1)
NSA (1)

Occidental Petroleum Labs (1)
Opel (1)

Pacific Gas & Electric (1)
Performance Design Lab (1)

Quaker (1)
Qualitest (1)

Siemens Building Technologies (1)
Spartan Stores (1)
Sphinx Pharmaceuticals (1)
Square D Company (2)
SunTrust Banks (2)

Valuemetrics (1)
Verizon (3)
Verizon Information Services (1)

Wells Fargo Advisors (1)
Westinghouse Defense Electronics (1)

ZS Associates (1)

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5 PACT Self-Development Paths Using Free Resources

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

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12 Process Performance Variables in the EPPI Model

Guy W. Wallace – Consulting Since 1982

Curriculum Architecture Design – Since 1982

Performance Competence Development Paths vs Learning Paths - the difference is in the Analysis.

Recipient of ISPI’s 2010 Honorary Life Member Award

The top ISPI award, was awarded for contributions to both the technology of performance improvement and to the Society - as unanimously approved by two consecutive boards of the Society. Awarded in 2010.

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

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3 Levels of Instructional Design: Path Design, Product Design, Activity Design

The 5 Methodology-Sets of the PACT Processes for T&D, Learning and Knowledge Management.

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

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

CAD Architects and MCD/IAD Builds/Buys the Content for a more seamless approach to OnBoarding and OnGoing T&D/L&D.

CAD – Curriculum Architecture Design – of the Performance Competence Development Path

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

In PACT – Even the APPOs – Application Exercises are Architected

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T&D: There are life cycle costs beyond the first costs of acquisition.

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ISPI – My Professional Home Since 1979

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Get Ahead of the Learning Curve with Performance-based Formal Learning

That's Why Formal and Coaching By Master Performers Should Precede Informal Learning. Less to Unlearn for Ultimate Success: Performance Competence

The Top 50 All Time Most Popular Posts and Pages – So Far

Here are the Top 50 Most Popular Posts and Pages

My Top 50 Posts 2007-2018 – And Links to the Top 10
1.       The Big 5 in Human Personality Assessments: CANOE
2.       What Guidance for Approaching Learning Is There From Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?
3.       Capturing Ideal Performance and Gap Analysis On One Page – The Performance Model Chart
4.       The 4 P’s of Marketing Applied to T&D/ Learning/ Knowledge Management
5.       MCD – Modular Curriculum Development
6.       The Detailed Project Plan
7.       Tackling the Blocking of Building a Project Plan
8.       Resources
9.       A Quality Moment From My Past
10.   A Real Ratio To Pay Attention To: 70:30
11.   Either Hire Totally Maze-Bright Individuals – or Provide The Right Curriculum Architecture Guidance at the Right Time
12.   Book Review: Cracking The Sales Management Code
13.   Establishing an HR Platform
14.   Kaoru Ishikawa and The Ishikawa Diagram
15.   Presentations
16.   The PACT Interview Guide – For Conducting the Initial Client & Stakeholder Interviews in Preparation for Detailed Project Planning
17.   For Your Informal Learning – Smokey (the) Bear – Happy 63rd Birthday this Thursday!
18.   Free Book PDF: lean-ISD
19.   Sometimes You Need To: “Go Slow To Go Fast”,2377
The Soft Side of Six Sigma – by Joe Kilbride”
20.   Lessons in Making Lemonade on the 5 Whys. Why?
21.   EPPIC Inc.
22.   If your ISD/ADDIE Processes Were Lean – What Would That Mean?
23.   Performance-based “Personal and Interpersonal Knowledge and Skills Examples”
24.   Publications
25.   Foo Foo About: The Myers Briggs Type Indicator – MBTI
26.   Sometimes MashUps Are Misleading: Dale’s Cone and Retention Data
27.   Product & Process Specs for a Damn Good Job Aid
28.   Free Book PDFs
29.   Foo Foo About: Designing Instruction for Learning Styles Differences
30.   Debriefing the Analysis Team in the PACT Processes
31.   Performance-based Curriculum Architecture Design via a Group Process – What Was True in 1984 is Still True Today
32.   Services
33.   Achieving Role Clarity via Performance Modeling and E-S-I-R-A
34.   You Can Never Really Communicate – You Can Only Mis-Communicate More or Less
35.   Systematically Deriving the Enabling Knowledge/Skills From the Performance Model Data
36.   What Does a Curriculum Manager Do? Performance-Wise?
37.   3 Example Stakeholder Hierarchies – One Size Does Not Fit All – Which Fits You?
38.   You Go Down The Learning Path to Go Up The Learning Curve
39.   Debunking the Myth – There Is No Such Thing As “Learning Styles”
40.   Training/ Learning/ Knowledge Management Functional Audits and Improvement Targeting
41.   5 O’Clock – Product & Service Line Design System
42.   My 1st Friday Favorite Guru Series: Joseph M. Juran
43.   EPPIC PI Tool Series: New Product Development (NPD) Models
44.   The Unconscious Competence of Subject Matter Experts – SMEs
45.   Balancing Laissez-faire Management & Micro-Management Approaches
46.   Free Book PDF: Management Areas of Performance
47.   My 1st Friday Favorite Guru Series: W. Edwards Deming
48.   PACT Practitioner Self-Development Paths
49.   Is Your T&D/ L&D/ KMS Function Process-Centric?
50.   Modeling Mastery Performance and Systematically Deriving the Enablers

As of June 15, 2018

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There Is Too Much Foo Foo!

Avoid the Foo Foo in Instructional Design and Performance Improvement

You Go Down The Learning Path to Go Up The Learning Curve – to go Up the Performance Competence Curve

Guy has been doing performance-based Training Paths and Planning Guides for clients since 1982. First published on Curriculum Architecture in Training Magazine in September 1984 and on the Analysis methods in NSPI's (now ISPI) PIJ in November 1984.

What Was Innovative in Curriculum or Learning Architectures in 1984 – Would Still Seem To Be Innovative Today – Why?

Celebrating – 30 Year Anniversary of this Publication – September 2014

How to Build a Training Structure That Won’t Keep Burning Down - Training Magazine - September 1984

Celebrating – 30 Year Anniversary of this Publication – November 2014

Using a Group Process to Create Models and Matrices - NSPI Performance & Instruction Journal - November 1984

Performance Development Paths

a.k.a.: Learning Paths focused on Performance Competence

Walk the Talk – of Processes Maturity

Walk the Talk – of Processes Alignment

Walk the Talk – of Processes Centricity

Myth Busting in L&D

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In the Resource Tab…

3 Levers in EPPI – Enterprise Process Performance Improvement

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The EPPI View of Processes and their Enablers and Enabling Systems

And the Enabling/ Provisioning Systems and Processes that enable the Enablers. Note that "Awareness/ Knowledge/ Skills" are just 1 of 12 categories of enabling Process Performance variables - when you include the design of the Process itself, first and foremost.

I Offer Over 150 Free Videos On This Site On the Topics of ISD and PI!

ISD - Instructional Systems Design -- PI - Performance Improvement. See the Site's Resource Tab or Click On the Graphic

Lessons in Making Lemonade : an online cartoon strip series of 1151 strips.

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.

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

Click on Graphic to see: Why Is the Research on Learning Styles Still Being Dismissed by Some Learning Leaders and Practitioners?

$5000 Reward in the Learning Styles Challenge – No Challenge Winners Since August 2006 – Award Increased from $1000 to $5000 August 2014

Debunking this Myth. Putting Our Money Where The Research Is.

EPPIC Inc. Is a Veteran Owned Business. Guy W. Wallace was a DINFOS trained USN Journalist 1972-1975.

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