About me
Hey yall. I’m Liz Radzicki.
For more than 20 years, I have been designing and leading professional learning experiences across a wide variety of fields-- working with everyone from classroom teachers to echocardiographers. Regardless of the content or the context, my approach remains the same: start with people and purpose, focus on a limited number of measurable objectives, and design activities that actual humans might enjoy. I pull from my experiences as a teacher, a crafter, an improv comedian, and a Girl Scout troop leader to guide teams to work through challenges, co-create something new, or have tough– but necessary– conversations.
Why “Three Things”
I believe that a good training does three things:
It builds knowledge and skills.
It invites us to connect and learn from each other.
It gives us room to get stuff done.
A great training not only does these three things, but it integrates them seamlessly. We’re getting new ideas from each other and using them to work toward a shared purpose— all at the same time.
Too often, I see trainings (or meetings or retreats or onboardings) that only do one thing: present information. Maybe they’ll do an ice breaker (you know, for engagement) but the vast majority of time, people are silently listening to someone deliver an endless powerpoint. This should have been an email.
On the other end of the spectrum, I see trainings that try to do ALL! THE! THINGS! The agenda looks like a Cheesecake Factory menu, but it’s unclear at the end if anything at all was actually accomplished because there were too many objectives to track.
But three things is just about right. With three things, there can be nuance and simplicity. Human brains can easily remember and make sense of three things. Three things can be feasibly measured. Stories have three parts, triangles are the strongest shape, three is a magic number…
When we design a training to integrate learning, connection, and action, we create an experience that is more than the sum of its three parts.