A couple of weeks ago I attended a Design Meeting with a client in Dallas, Texas. The night we arrived 12 tornadoes tore through two communities a few miles south …
Training Consultants: Learn By Asking Questions
With my extended family, friends and coworkers I’m often the guy people come to if they want to hear what is going on with anyone else. If you want to …
Training Consultants: Tips for Making Corporate Training Stick
As I was preparing for the beginning of a new project, I considered different ways in which I could make the training successful. I thought back to some of the …
Instructional Design Tips: Measuring Quality
We recently did a quality campaign here at Allen, and it got me thinking about what quality is and how we measure it. In my work as an Instructional Design …
Tips for Instructional Designers- Avoiding Scope Creep
Whether you’re a beginning instructional designer or a seasoned veteran in the business, you are most likely familiar with the term “scope creep.” Like most of us, you have probably …
Instructional Design Tips: Sweeping Away the Clouds
I was recently in a meeting in which I asked some of my more experienced colleagues about how to succeed here at Allen, and as an instructional designer in general. …
How Social Media Should Drive More Authentic Training and eLearning
It goes without saying that social media has drastically changed the way we connect with the world around us. It provides a large open space for all aspects of our …
Gaining Insight into Adult Learning by Traveling to Uncommon Destinations
A common tension in corporate training is the desire to allow adults to learn the way they most like to—self-directed—with the need for employees to know very specific facts, sometimes …
Backwards Planning Model for Performance Analysis
While reading up on performance analysis, I came across an interesting approach that links performance analysis with Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluations. (Phillips & Phillips, 2002). This approach involves planning …
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