design the training you imagine with
We need training that builds skills. We need effective, interactive experiences that motivate and actively engage our people in the learning process.
Schools, office buildings and other worksites are filled with people who have never known a world without videogames, cell phones, and the internet. In the four coming years, those who retire will be replaced by 18-40 year-olds who grew up with videogames.
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IMAGINE THIS PLACE
in which learning new skills and habits is interesting, fun,
challenging, and makes every minute worth it.
It is safe. It has positive energy.
A place of change and growth.
SEE YOURSELF
CREATING IT
WHY SHOULD YOU TAKE THE LEAP
CREATING CUTTING EDGE
CORPORATE COURSES
is a 2-days hands-on workshop where trainers, consultants, instructional designers and HR professionals like you, learn and experience the framework that integrates brain-based learning, story-telling, gamification, enrichment and visual thinking into one course design.
UNDERSTANDING HOW PEOPLE NATURALLY LEARN
With a learner-centered perspective we will empower you by helping you develop a deeper understanding of how people learn. The principles covered in this section are distilled from research from a variety of disciplines like neuroscience, bio-chemistry or cognitive psychology and narrowed to an easy to use pattern.MAPPING THE LEARNING JOURNEY
Business-directed learning design is what will position you as a powerful business partner. You will learn and practice how to design learning paths that build skills and habits and drive business results.STRUCTURING AND DESIGNING COURSES
How to choose the right instructional strategies (e.g., case studies, labs, discussions, tests, papers, problem sets) and where in the flow you should place them. You will learn how to create those activities and how to effectively integrate them in your face-to-face workshop or virtual class.ENHANCING LEARNING WITH ENRICHED ENVIRONMENTS
Learning is enhanced by environmental enrichment. Research finds that the environments in which people participate in more challenging cognitively stimulating activities, results in greater cognitive reserve. In this section you will learn how to easily produce tools that stimulate the brain within physical and social surroundings.CREATING ENGAGEMENT WITH GAMES
When training feels dull, people are not being engaged and motivated. Research supports the effectiveness of game-based learning and practicians give us the tools to use them. You will learn and test how the main game principles work and how those can be integrated into your learning designs in the simple way.PILOTING, REFINING, LAUNCHING
The success of a course very often depends on how well course creators conduct a formative evaluation and how they launch it. Getting client buy-in is crucial for the success of your training. This section is about strategies and tools for starting smart.
COURSE CREATION BOARD GAME ARENA
In Day 2 of the workshop you’ll be testing the learnings from each section of day 1 and course creating the new way, while playing board games.
YOUR HOST
OLIMPIA MESA
Creating courses is not only about producing learning activities, it means you can bring into existence new ways of living, working, and connecting. Picasso did not just produce paintings, he created Cubism. After spending more than a decade developing courses and certifying other instructional designers for corporate organizations all over the world, Olimpia felt prepared to share her way of creating learning and she is now helping corporate trainers and independent consultants like you, to go to the next level. She’s also the Founder of Book To Courses Online School, featured in Business Magazine, known for helping book authors transform their books into powerful online courses, and during this workshop she’ll help you create cutting edge corporate courses.
It took me a few years of research and investments to figure-out this framework. It doesn’t have to be the same for you.
INSTANT ACCESS BONUS:
6 OF MY LEARNING DESIGN TEMPLATES
Once you’re in the workshop, you’ll also receive instant access to Electronic and Editable Templates, Training Design Flow Charts and Forms I use every day to create courses.
Working with experts like you, trusted by brands like these:
Isabelle Bégin
Manager, Identification and Talent Development Québec, Canada.
Collaborating with Olimpia made me realize that two competencies are of the utmost importance for anyone who aspires to improve. First, self-awareness, which means having an accurate sense of my own strengths, limits, motivations and reactions and for me to be able to use this information effectively. Second, the importance for me to trigger engagement into any change management process I want to bring in.
Natalia Abrosimova
Learning and Development Manager, Russia.
There are so many benefits of learning. Starting from building new capabilities for the next career step and financial wellness to improving your health. But learning is also a great joy. This is where Olimpia’s biggest strength is: she is a professional who will ensure receiving the desired outcome and result, but she is also an expert in human nature: you’ll get a lot of fun and pleasure via this journey. This is a rare combination in life: good and pleasant together.
Iuliana Stan
Author of “Organisational Common Sense”, Managing Partner of Human Sysnergistics Romania.
I had the chance to transform my book in a very practical and insightful workshop with Olimpia’s great understanding of my concepts and with her outstanding design abilities. Working with her is a learning experience and I would recommend everything she creates: only remarkable and life changing approaches.
Peter Iff
Head of Purchasing Excellence, Switzerland
Olimpia Mesa knows how to take her audience on an exciting journey, her course design and delivery are truly remarkable. Olimpia has both inspired and gave us tools to teach, motivate, and encourage audiences not just to listen but to change and to act.
Roxana Cunninggham
Director at JustinCunnighamOnline, Results Coach and Facilitator, New Zealand
Olimpia showed me how to think differently about my content and gave me tools to teach, motivate and get my audience to create change. This is the best investment I have made for my business moving forward.
Etem Alnigenis
General Manager, Turkey
An exceptional course with outstanding performance - she impressed all of the participants with her inspiring instantly made hand drawn visuals. She kept whole groups attention at the highest possible level throughout the whole course. It was probably the most effective
learning experience I have ever attended, I wholeheartedly recommend working with Olimpia to anyone interested.
Diana Rosetka
Managing Partner at Equatorial, Romania
Olimpia’s Book To Courses (TM) Online School is jam packed with information and her work background allows you to get to the core of things quickly and easily. She knows the expert secrets to make our learners coming back for more and more learning experiences. She helped me shift into a new mode of creating work. I’ve learned how to take the content that I have and expand it to the point where I’m able to reach more people in a more deeper level.
Dattatraya Kamatkar
Senior General Manager, India
Insightfully and thoroughly, Olimpia showed us the need to enhance creativity and innovation by thinking differently about our content. With a little investment of time and creativity, you can make courses that engage people’s minds and eyes. After a class with her I just wanted to quietly pick up each of the ideas she crafted and figure out how to bring the practice to my own work. Her system is a timely, winning, and approachable proposition for anyone who wants to create courses that have an impact and sell!
Roxana Mitu
Learning Coordinator, Romania
I virtually travelled with Olimpia on three different continents because of the three reasons I appreciate her the most. When on the Old Continent Olimpia brings new approach to old themes. Our over-used communication trainings become interesting journeys, hip-language translates into interesting and catchy games and collaboration goes to a new level because of her fresh approach. Olimpia transforms old fashioned content into value for new learners. When on the Continent of Spices I called Olimpia for help as she is one of the most seasoned and adaptable consultants I know, analyzing and adapting to many cultures and markets. And in the New World in thought of her and recommended her to a friend because, as I told Olimpia herself, when she brings the design to a course, you feel like a kid on Christmas day, excited to open the box and see what is inside.
Kimberli Pitts Calhoun
CPLP Principal at KPC Consulting, LLC, USA
Olimpia is a very talented and skilled facilitator, who does an excellent job connecting with and meeting the needs of her audience… Her in depth knowledge of instructional design and facilitation skills are complemented nicely by her pleasant, professional demeanor. It was a real treat to work with her. I’ve already been able to successfully integrate things I learned from her in my designs and delivery with very effective results. I look forward to collaborating with her again on future endeavors.
John W. Howard
President of Performance Resources, Inc, Blog Author, USA
For conference talks or small courses, Olimpia can teach you how to transform any content into engaging, intentional, and meaningful experiences.
Terri Altschul
PCC, Founder Women Connected, USA.
Olimipia helped me to see the possibilities, met me right at my level, and made this so easy. She is a wonderful course-creator who gets YOUR work!!
