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Performance-First Learning: A Day as an Instructional Designer with Handshaw's Model
Lee Kang Yam (Dr)
7 hours
*The fee is inclusive of prevailing GST and subject to changes.
Course Dates
For groups of at least 15 people, customised run dates are available, contact us for more details.
2026 Scheduled Runs
Registrations open 2 months before each class start date.
• 12 Aug 2026
• 16 Nov 2026
• 07 Dec 2026
Training hours: 9am - 4pm
Assessment hours: 4pm - 5pm
No Schedules Available.
Notice:
This session will be conducted face-to-face at IAL. More details will be sent to the confirmed registrants.
What Is This Session About?
This one-day immersive course equips adult educators and training professionals with Handshaw’s six-stage instructional design model to align learning with performance improvement. Through practical activities and real-world cases, participants learn to design learning solutions that address workplace problems and drive measurable outcomes. Generative AI tools will be introduced as optional aids for faster ideation and prototyping. By day’s end, participants will create an instructional prototype aligned to business needs, learner gaps, and performance metrics.
What Does The Session Cover?
Knowledge-based learning objectives: what participants will know at the end of the workshop:
1. Describe the six stages of Handshaw’s Instructional Design Model.
2. Explain how each stage contributes to building training that improves performance.
Skills-based learning objectives: what participants will be able to do at the end of the workshop:
1. Apply Handshaw’s model to analyse a performance gap.
2. Create an aligned instructional prototype, using AI tools to support design and development tasks.
^ Assessment: Formative Assessment(s) (Assignments/Presentations/Practical Performances)
^ Completion: Upon 100% attendance and meeting Assessment requirement, learners will receive a Certificate of Participation from IAL (& other partners where applicable)
Who Is It Suitable For?
- Training and Adult Educators: Adult trainers, learning and development personnel, programme managers, ACLP graduates and anyone aspiring to become instructional designers or wondering what instructional designers’ work looks like
- Learning Leaders and HR Talent management Professionals: Individuals tasked with onboarding, training, and upskilling their teams or those responsible for employee development and learning initiatives within organisations to optimise performance through learning
- Ultimately, anyone interested in exposure to a systematic and responsive approach to deliver engaging learning experiences that improve performance in the workplace
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About the Speaker
Lee Kang Yam (Dr)
Chief Learning Curator | The Flame Centre
Dr Lee Kang Yam is a seasoned Adult Educator, learning strategist, and workplace learning consultant with over 28 years of experience across public service, private sector, and SME contexts. He is the Chief Learning Curator at The Flame Centre and has been actively involved with the Institute for Adult Learning (IAL) as a Specialist Adult Educator (Curriculum Design), facilitator, assessor, and pathway advisor.
Dr Lee has designed and developed multiple nationally recognised programmes and modules for IAL, including the Advanced Certificate in Learning and Performance (ACLP), Diploma in Design and Development of Learning for Performance (DDDLP), and the Graduate Diploma in Workplace Learning (GDWPL). His work spans learning strategy, performance management, workplace learning, assessment design, mentoring, and organisational change.
He holds a Doctor of Education from NIE/NTU and an MBA (Strategy), and is a Registered Management Consultant, Certified Workplace Learning Specialist, and Mentor for NUS Uplift Programme and NTUC Mentoring Programme. Dr Lee brings a strong practitioner–academic perspective, combining rigorous thinking with practical application.
