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  In my Procedure Professional Association (PPA) Certification class, I am required to use the online test‑taking platform called Envision, this went into effect during COVID and eliminated written exams. Like most digital tools in the training world, it comes with a mix of real advantages and one very notable drawback that’s worth talking about especially for anyone who cares about building strong procedural habits and genuine critical thinking. Efficiency and Clean Record Keeping One thing Envision absolutely nails is efficiency. The days of flipping through paper packets, manually grading, or trying to decipher handwriting are long gone. Tests are easy to administer Scoring is instant Every attempt, every score, every timestamp—captured and stored.  A Shortcut Through Critical Thinking But here’s the part that gives me pause. When we talk about procedure step rewrites, the whole point is to think deeply about the intent of the step, the hazards, the controls, and th...

 How impactful can an image be? In training it can make the difference between someone understanding the information and someone not understanding.  Let us talk about Human Performance Improvement?  Depending on your understanding of the topic you can be excited about that question or a big sigh.  I have to teach some sort of HPI information to people daily and how it is presented matters.  There are people that learn through talking and explaining others are much more visual.  Let us look at the image below. This is a basic photo pulled from a copyright free site.  It is an amazing photo, but how do you incorporate the information that you want to convey into this?  Well, that is where photo editing comes in.  Many different programs will allow you to edit images, paint is a well-known one and while it has its benefits there is also not a lot that it can do.  Microsoft photo editor is another that has a lot more tools but also takes a l...

https://www.humanperformancetools.com/human-performance-tools/should-we-consider-computer-based-training-as-an-impactful-solution   will include the link to the article that I read prior to this blog post.   Computer based training (CBT) has become a huge concept that has been utilized for a while and became mainstream during COVID era. It is efficient, quick, cost effective, and I believe a complete waste of resources. Humanperformancetools.com website had an amazing article on this subject. It is something that I am truly passionate about because I am currently the Human Performance (HPI) Lead at the worlds most unique test nuclear reactor. This article states a lot of good reasons why we should not use CBT as an impactful training and I think it is worth the read. Now let me tell you a little bit about my own experience. We do a CBT on the basics of human performance but as we move into the more advanced courses people do not know the basics even though the took the cla...