The Performance-Based Training Design Playbook · Out now on Amazon

Most training is measured by attendance. Yours should be measured by performance.

P-ADDIE does not replace ADDIE. It reorients it. The P stands for Performance, and it commits every phase — analysis through evaluation — to a specific, measurable performance outcome. The difference is not in the phases. It is in the questions those phases are designed to answer.

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The method

P-ADDIE, phase by phase

Instead of asking “what do we need to teach?”, it asks “what do people need to be able to do?”

P

Performance — the lens, not a phase

Observable, measurable behavior that produces a specified result in a defined context.

P-ADDIE does not replace ADDIE. It reorients it. The difference is not in the phases — it is in the questions those phases are designed to answer.

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Phase 1

Analysis

Diagnose before you design

Analysis is not a checkbox. It is a diagnosis: what is currently happening, what should be happening, why the gap exists, and whether training can actually close it.

  • Performance gap diagnosis
  • Root cause analysis
D
Phase 2

Design

Build the blueprint

Design begins with performance objectives in behavioral terms, then criterion-based assessment — before any content exists. You design the test before you design the lesson.

  • Performance objectives
  • Assessment blueprint
D
Phase 3

Development

Build what the blueprint calls for

Storyboarding, content writing, media production, job aids, and technology. Development is constrained by the blueprint: subject experts own accuracy, designers own the learning architecture.

  • Content & media build
  • Job aids & tools
I
Phase 4

Implementation

Activate the transfer system

Implementation extends well beyond delivery — briefing managers on how to support transfer, preparing the environment so the tools and chances to practise exist, and priming learners before session one.

  • Delivery & transfer
  • Manager activation
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Phase 5

Evaluation

Measure what matters

Anchored to Kirkpatrick's four levels — reaction, learning, behavior, results. The evaluation plan is built during Design, not bolted on after delivery, so the right data is collected at the right time.

  • 4-level Kirkpatrick
  • ROI analysis

The library

Books, workbooks, tools, and programmes

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The Performance-Based Training Design Playbook

Design Training That Transfers: A P-ADDIE Framework for Results-Driven Learning

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How the book is built

Fourteen chapters across five parts, moving from why training fails to how you measure the return on it.

Who it's for

Written for people who design training for adults

Training that changes what people can do — not just what they know.

🎓

Faculty & academic trainers

Course design that survives accreditation review and still teaches.

🎖

Veterans in transition

Translating military training discipline into civilian L&D practice.

🤝

Coaches & facilitators

Structure for people who already know the content but not the method.

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Faith-based educators

Curriculum built for formation, not just information.

🏢

Institutional trainers

Compliance and onboarding programmes that can prove their value.

About the author

Who wrote this

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Dr. Alex Uzokwe

Instructional Design Consultant · Founder, Ascender Training Solutions

Dr. Alex Uzokwe is an instructional design consultant and e-learning developer based in Greensboro, North Carolina. He founded Ascender Training Solutions and AlexionTech Group, and leads a North America–based team of instructional designers and L&D specialists.

P-ADDIE came out of consulting practice, not a classroom. Every template in this library was run on a live client project first — cooperative extension programmes, university faculty, and institutional training teams — and kept only if it survived contact with a real deadline.

  • Founder, Ascender Training Solutions & AlexionTech Group
  • P-ADDIE practitioner and curriculum architect
  • Serving cooperative extension and academic clients across the US
  • Mager-format objectives, SCORM/xAPI, scenario-based design

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The Performance-Based Training Design Playbook

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  • The Plan phase in full — the step conventional ADDIE skips
  • Mager-format objectives, with the criteria that test them
  • Evaluation written so a sponsor reads it instead of filing it
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