Find the best options for successful technical implementation & maintenance of your learning programs. SALT LAKE CITY (July 6, 2010) — Allen is once, twice, five times a winner. Allen …
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 …
The Value of Online Discussion in Custom Training Design
I teach a senior seminar once a year up at the U. A few weeks ago, the associate director for the department in which I teach attended the class with …
Ideas on Pharma Training
One of the most interesting experiences of my career at Allen has been the chance I had a few years ago to tour a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility. I got to …
ASTD 2010, AllenComm, and Amway Global
Last week, we were honored to accept the Excellence in Practice Citation for Workplace Learning and Development with Amway Global. The awards ceremony, held at the McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois, was …
Allen Communication Learning Services Takes Two Top International Creative Awards – The 2010 Summit Creative Awards
SALT LAKE CITY(May 05,2010) — Allen Communication Learning Services is a silver and bronze winner in the 2010 Summit Creative Award® competition for its creative work for its custom training …
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 …
Learning to Learn: How Parenting Parallels Training and Development
As an instructional design consultant turned-project-manager, I usually have no problem with confronting unfamiliar scenarios to analyze, piece together, and solve. But recently I faced a series of challenges that …
Turning Off the Instructional Designer Consultant in My Head
I should just add turning off the instructional design consultant in my head to my list of other things I can’t seem to turn off … grammar errors, style comments …