What is your response when company executives ask your training and development team questions like, “How can we get new employees productive in 30 days or less?”, or “What is …
Training Course Development for Instructional Design? There’s an app for that!
It’s been a month since we released DesignJot, the first iPad app for instructional design. And we couldn’t be more pleased with the response it’s received from the training and …
Playing the Budget Showdown
Here’s the typical scenario. You’re the client, you’ve got a training project, and you’re looking for the right training development vendor. The last thing you want to do is tip …
Introducing DesignJot, The First iPad App for Training Professionals
If you’ve seen me speak or read my blogs recently, you know I’ve whole-heartedly joined the tablet revolution and I consider myself somewhat of an iPad power-user. I’ve spent a …
AllenComm Asks “Can Corporations Do More Corporate Training With Less?”
With post-recession unemployment still at a high 8.9%, many corporations are finding it necessary to retool their operations to account for fewer employees. Consequentially, employees are requiring a broader set …
Systematic Creativity in Training Development?
Can you take a systems approach to creativity in training development? Many would argue you can’t. At AllenComm, we’ve created an environment that nurtures and promotes creativity. This environment relies …
Kindred Spirits in Manufacturing Training
Both rely on a systematic approach to performance and production. I spent last week with one of our manufacturing clients, and it struck me (yet again) that manufacturing and ISD …
In Defense of Level 1 for Instructional Design Professionals
Sometimes I think that we’re too quick to dismiss level-one feedback as we target the upper realms of Donald Kirkpatrick’s levels of evaluation or even Jack Phillips’s ROI. Although such lofty …
Pricing, Value and the Commoditization of Outsourced Courseware Development
In the world of custom training companies and designed courseware, fuzziness around pricing has become a given. Like many aspects surrounding the realm of workforce learning and development, standardization for …