Date: 11 July 2025
Presentor: Lieutenant Bryant R Giorgi
Advancing the Watch
Instructional Design and Evaluation Solutions for the U.S. Coast Guard
Greetings
My name is Bryant Giorgi
I am a Training Manager in the USCG.
Training experience on:
Navy Submarines
National Security Cutters
Icebreakers
Goals & Objectives
Instructional Design: Escorting a merchant in a tight turn
Client: US Coast Guard District Nine The Great Lakes Region
Need: Remedy for mild winters
Audience: Certified Shipdrivers
Instructors: Experienced icebreaking officers
Tools: ADDIE & Gagne’s Nine Events
Evaluation: Coxswain Core Course
Client: US Coast Guard Boat Forces
Need: Summative evaluation of a new course
Stakeholders: students, instructors, course managers, operational unit personnel, waterborne American citizens
Tools: 10-Step Evaluation Method, Success Case Method
Working Systemically
Working to address performance issues by understanding and intervening in the entire system—not just isolated parts or symptoms.
Working Systemically�Coxswain Core Course Evaluation
Chyung’s 10-Step Methodology: Systems Thinking
Stakeholder Analysis
Identify Org. Goals and Program Purpose
Data Sources:
Critical Multiplism
Data Sources:
Triangulation
Program Logic Model
Working Systematically
Following a structured, step-by-step process grounded in evidence and guided by established models and methods to diagnose performance problems.
Working Systematically�Icebreaking Instructional Design
Using AI to Accelerate ID
Jerry Sullivan
President, Dynacom
Apply structured process to AI integration in ID
Evidence Based Practice and Professional Theories
Coxswain Core Course Eval
Icebreaking Instr. Design
Lessons Learned
Follow the process
Planning phases are really valuable
The Data exists:
find it
Systems thinking
Nothing exists in a vacuum
Questions?