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 …
Risk Management Association and Allen Communication Learning Services Win Gold Omni Intermedia Award in Education
SALT LAKE CITY (April 30, 2010 — Media Corp Inc. announced the Risk Management Association (RMA) and Allen Communication Learning Services (Allen) as a gold winner of the coveted Omni …
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 …
Breakthrough Ideas on Learner Motivation? Or Just Looking More Deeply at What You Already Knew?
The January/February issue of Harvard Business Review this year addressed a few “breakthrough ideas” for the year. The first one, “What Really Motivates Workers: Understanding the Power of Progress” by …
Social Media and the Art of Self-Regulation
Training has long been part of the art of internal corporate communication. In the recent past, one of the drivers for elearning was consistent messaging, scaled for both employees and …
Allen Communication Learning Services Rolls Out Tutorial on Custom eLearning Pricing
AllenComm takes a serious look at pricing in a humorous way. SALT LAKE CITY (April 29, 2010) — Why is custom elearning pricing so illusive? Why is it so difficult …