In an ever-changing world of hiring, promoting, re-skilling, and the like, learning and development (L&D) leaders are found more often than ever asking themselves about the foundation upon which their …
How to Facilitate Hybrid and Blended Learning Courses
Hybrid and blended learning environments are now highly commonplace—and often necessary—due to public health concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. In other words, the option to facilitate or instruct a course …
How to Prepare Your Training Content for a Learning Vendor
So, you want to work with a training vendor? Before you approach one for a proposal, here’s how you should prepare your training content.
Engagement Weekly: Why Efforts Need to be Made From Both Employer and Employee
Learn about the latest in employee engagement within various industries. This week’s influential authors look into how social and individual motivation influences engagement, the importance of organizational feedback and how …
Great Gamification Examples in Training
So you want gamification—points, badges, competition, and fun can all be good additions to your solution—but just knowing that doesn’t mean you know where to start. Without having gamification examples …
You Need an Employee Engagement Strategy
When it comes to supporting and retaining employees, many employers think of financial benefits, collaborative offices or more paid time off. But a good employee engagement strategy is built to …
Episode 2: Marketing Meets Training
In the second episode of AllenComm’s Building Better Training podcast, we talk to Jeri Larsen and Bridget Fowers from Allen’s consulting and marketing teams. This episode covers the intersection of …
Why is Marketing Only for Customers?
The lines between marketing and training are blurred and stretched and somewhat nebulous these days. It’s time that we stop reserving marketing just for our consumers and start educating and …
Allen’s Highlights from ATD 2015
As a newcomer to the training industry, going to the 2015 Association for Talent Development (ATD) Conference and Expo was a fun look into a world I’m still getting to …