Please vote for our finalist Pickled! as a People’s Choice winner in the Webby Awards: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/…

Our senior learning designer, Maire Smith (she/her) will be attending the #NZATD2021 Conference this week. We're excited to hear from international speaker, Jane Hart who will talk about Modern Workplace Learning as it resonates with our research based approach.

We won an award at the #2021NZATD conference! Check out our recent blog post on our website for more information about the work we did and the Demystifying Procurement module we developed and built in collaboration with MBIE. synapsys.co.nz/index.php/2021…

What is the best piece of training you have done in the last three years? linkedin.com/posts/mairesmi…

You’re invited! Join us at our learning design lunchtime discussion sessions. Open to any learning designer. Every month at Synapsys, we will be holding a virtual lunch and learn session. Let us know if you’re interested and we’ll send you the link to join the session.

Yay, It's arrived! Again, a huge congratulations to our own Maire Smith, Kirsty Cullen and the team. A great achievement! If you'd like to know more about the work they did for MBIE on the Demystifying procurement module, follow the link below. lnkd.in/eHsSsMy

Our learning design lead, Maire Smith sharing why we do user testing and why we think 2 learners is right to get good qualitative data. linkedin.com/posts/mairesmi…

Practical advice on how to improve when your organisation has no clear approach to incorporating UX into design. nngroup.com/articles/ux-ma…

Whilst we are in level 4 lockdown our Wellington office remains closed but don't worry it's business as usual for us here at Synapsys. Stay safe and be kind, Aotearoa and we'll get through this. Kia Kaha! linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

A full on session for our monthly learning design lunch today. We talked about resilience, teamwork in high-stress situations, issues around developing competencies around Te Tiriti o Waitangi within organisations, and more. Contact us if you would like to join our next session.

Today at Synapsys for Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori, we stopped to take a Māori language moment to celebrate #reoMaori Check out what fun activities we did here: linkedin.com/posts/synapsys…

If you missed our newsletter, check out our blog post where we share a great example of a fantastic organisation providing access to professional development opportunities around the country mapped to capabilities that make sense in a Covid world. synapsys.co.nz/index.php/2021…

Come along to the October National Webinar for NZATD on designing microlearning curriculums. Our Learning Design Lead, Maire Smith will talk about what microlearning is and its pros and cons. nzatd.org.nz/nzatd-events/#…

Our Learning Design Lead Maire Smith was excited last week about this tool she found that let her use online polling inside a PowerPoint presentation. Share a poll during a presentation and display the feedback in real-time within your slideshow. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Are you looking for a free, fun, and interactive platform to bring your teams together? Check out miro.com We’ve been using this tool to deliver our ‘Getting started with small projects’ course for the NZLPP secondees and we’ve received great feedback!