Zenith Performance Solutions

Expectations vs. reality of adding motion to your eLearning:

Expectation: spinning transitions, confetti, and a learner who feels like they're on a game show.

Reality: a well-timed reveal. A transition that follows the logic of what you're teaching. Pacing that slows down when the content gets heavy.

Motion isn't decoration. It tells the learner where to lean in.

Here's a quick test. Watch someone go through your training. Can you spot the important moments just by watching their screen?

If it all looks the same from start to finish, that's your "Feel" gap. And it's fixable without a full rebuild. ✨

Save this for your next design review.

The easiest way to improve your training: cover the logo. 👀

Seriously. Try it on one slide.

If someone couldn't tell the training came from your organization, that's your first clue. Stock templates, default layouts, and clip art all tell a learner's brain the same thing: "I've seen this before."

That's the "Look" part of my three-question training audit. It's not about brand colors. It's about whether your instructional design looks chosen or looks default.

Cover the logo on one slide this week and tell me what you find. 👇

Quick question for anyone building courses with AI right now 👇

Does your training need an "AI made this" label?

Two laws went live this year (EU AI Act + California's SB 942) that actually answer this.

The short version: it's not about whether you used AI. It's about whether your learner could mistake what they're seeing for something real.

✅ Facilitator guide you built with AI, then genuinely edited? Safe.
⚠️ Photorealistic AI avatar delivering your training? Needs a label, and it's on you to add it.
✅ Stylized cartoon avatar? Nobody's confused, you're fine.

One honest sentence in your course intro handles most of it. Save this for the next time you're building with an avatar or a cloned voice.

It is conference season and I am grateful to Training Magazine to be back. This is one of my favorite conferences. I have several sessions and I would love to see you!! Let’s connect! Who will I see there?

Myth: forgettable training needs more content.

Reality: forgettable training usually needs less content and more intention. ✨

Most L&D pros I talk to assume the fix for training that is not landing is to add: another section, more detail, one more slide covering something nobody asked about.

But that just makes it longer. Not more memorable.

What actually makes training stick almost always comes down to one of three things: how it looks, how it feels, or whether it asks the learner to do anything at all.

I call it Look, Feel, Respond. And here is the good news: most training is not failing at all three. It is usually just one. Which means you do not need a redesign, you need a much smaller, much more targeted fix.

Save this for the next time you are staring at a course wondering why it is not landing. 📌