By Nathan E. Chambers, M.S. · 2026
A Practitioner’s Guide to Instructional Design
How do you design learning that actually changes performance, not just learning that gets delivered?
“Does your training produce results, or just completion?”
Instructional design is often taught as a set of steps to follow. This book treats it as a discipline aimed at a result: measurable performance. The difference shows up in everything from how you analyze a need to how you judge whether it worked.
A Practitioner’s Guide to Instructional Design is a working designer’s guide across the full ADDIE lifecycle, from performance analysis through measurable results, grounded in the Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning tradition.
Rather than treating instructional design as content production, the book keeps the focus on outcomes: what performance is supposed to change, and how you would know it did. It is practical and lifecycle-based, built for people who design and deliver learning and are accountable for whether it works.
What it covers
The full design lifecycle. Analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation, treated as a connected discipline rather than discrete tasks.
From analysis to measurable results. Beginning with a real performance analysis and ending with evidence that performance changed.
About the author
Nathan E. Chambers, M.S., leads the organizational performance and learning pillar at Drengr Consulting and holds a Master of Science in Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning. This is his second book; his first, The Relationship Factor, applies Leader-Member Exchange theory and Human Performance Improvement to retention and performance.
2026.