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  What Seven Weeks of Blogging (and a Little HPI Thinking) Taught Me About Writing That Actually Connects After seven weeks of writing blog posts and reading dozens more from classmates, professionals, and the wider learning and development world I’ve started to notice a pattern. Some posts pull you in immediately, make you think, and leave you with something useful other don’t. As someone who teaches Human Performance Improvement (HPI) and Procedure Professional Association (PPA) courses, I couldn’t help but view these blogs through an HPI lens: What behaviors make a blog effective? What environmental factors support or hinder engagement? And what can I do to improve my own performance as a writer? The most engaging blogs I read this semester had one thing in common: they respected the reader’s time while still delivering value. They didn’t ramble, they didn’t posture, and they didn’t try to sound like a textbook. Instead, they offered clarity, personality, and purpose. The leas...

  The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' Part 1 on Vimeo If you’re stepping into the world of Human Performance, there’s no better place to begin than Sydney Dekker’s The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error . This video lays the groundwork for understanding why people make mistakes not from a place of blame, but from a place of curiosity, context, and compassion. Dekker has a rare ability to take a complex topic and make it feel both intuitive and deeply human. Dekker opens by challenging one of the most persistent myths in safety: the idea that human error is the root cause of accidents. Instead of treating mistakes as the end of the story, he reframes them as the starting point for learning. This shift alone is transformative. It encourages organizations to look beyond the individual and examine the system, the environment, and the pressures that shape behavior. For anyone new to Human Performance, this is a refreshing and empowering perspective. It moves us a...

 Good Afternoon, This blog will be a first for me, I have instructed many classes but never did a screen cast before.  This assignment was hard at first because I had to learn the program and then decide what I wanted to record.  The other part is talking to people in a class room is a lot different than talking to a computer.  The best part about this is I was able to present something that I am highly passionate about and that not many people think about in their day to day lives.   I hope you enjoy and that the information was not to high level.  I tried to explain the concepts that were needed without bogging down the message in the details.  Please let me know what you think. Thanks, Screen Cast School