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 …
When a Top Down Approach to Training Is Not the Answer
As it happens for most of our clients, training development groups are asked by internal business units to address this or that need: “We need training for XXXX on YYYY …
How Corporate Training Companies Are Reacting in the Recession
We mentioned last time how a lack of or less training will impact learners because they will have fewer resources if companies choose to cut back on training. While many …
How Is the Recession Impacting Your Corporate Training?
In our last post, we talked in general how the people at the top of corporations are affected by the economy; but perhaps the most dramatic effect has been on …
Corporate Training Companies During a Recession
In any hard economy, there will be impact on the training companies corporate learning environment. We often talk about the current impact of the recessions we have been in since …