It’s day one on your new learning design project, and you’re meeting with the client to discuss desired outcomes for their employee training program. You’re all ready to talk about …
Motion Graphics: Increasing the Effectiveness of Training Through Storytelling
The past few years have brought a crescendo of new technologies, trends, and changes in customers’ needs. Now we will pause to evaluate, polish, and perfect these and other recent …
Link’spiration™ November 11th – Internal Social Networks: Kick Down the Cubical Walls (figuratively, of course)
Link’spiration™ is a summary of what our team is talking about behind the scenes on our internal social network. Since we can’t turn off our designer eyes, this network is …
Training Providers: Peace Through Preparation
A couple of weeks ago I attended a Design Meeting with a client in Dallas, Texas. The night we arrived 12 tornadoes tore through two communities a few miles south …
Deciding Between an LMS & Learning Portal?
Learning Management System (LMS) platforms and LMS portals are both popular methods for training employees —but the learning portal is definitely emerging organically as a preferred choice for engagement, support, …
Training Consultants: Take Advantage of Blurring Lines Between Customer Training and Marketing
Consumer education is becoming a frequent topic of discussion inside and outside of training and development groups. The necessity for customer training to enhance the customer experience, brand loyalty and …
Training Development: 6 Tips for Project Organization
The importance of keeping project documents organized hit home when I was unexpectedly hospitalized a month before the birth of my daughter. I left one day at 5:00 and didn’t …
Instructional Design Tips: Measuring Quality
We recently did a quality campaign here at Allen, and it got me thinking about what quality is and how we measure it. In my work as an Instructional Design …
Mobile Learning for Corporate Training: The Hard Questions That We Are Asking
I want to go mobile, but how much should I budget and where should I start? This is one of the biggest questions we get from clients looking to expand …