Developing the Required Talent, Part 2: Training Your Audience

In my previous column in January, I described recent research on how to master any set of skills, such as the communication skills an information designer needs. In this column, I'll reframe that discussion to reveal how you can help your audience achieve comparable mastery in whatever skills you're teaching them to use. Let's start with a recap of the key points from that previous article. To excel at any skill requires deliberate practice, which has several key characteristics that distinguish it from mindless repetition. Deliberate practice must be designed to:

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