Overcoming Opposition

I've had some a ha! moments during this week's reading. I am now beginning to understand more about the process that Instructional Designers must go through to create a truly useful and effective solution. Not having much exposure to industries that employ or utilize Instructional Designers, I can see how much of a true expert you would need to be in order to remain credible as a designer. I can see that a downfall for a designer would be when a corporate mandate orders that training be developed and delivered without allowing the designer to complete the necessary steps to determine if training is necessary at all. I can see that in a perfect world instructional designers would be able to utilize all aspects of their education, training and expertise to solve a problem from start to finish, utilizing all the necessary tools we have been given. However, the article "Five Views of the Field" helped me to realize that there are some ill conceived notions about Instructional Design that when examined closely, are definitely not the designer's fault. Often times a designer, in order to remain true to his/her craft, needs to fight for what he/she believes to be the best solution in the face of opposition that actually may be coming from a client or management. These are the very individuals requesting a designer's services to begin with. This gives me some things to think about.