Using the ADDIE method and carefully crafted instructional design questions, I will start by closely collaborating with all key stakeholders to perform a thorough training needs assessment. We will determine the most effective training solution for your specific project and business needs. This depends on the type of training (whether we are teaching a software program, technical function, or concept), the target audience, when stable content will be available from your subject matter experts, expected turnaround time, and other considerations. 

I am available to facilitate instructor-led training sessions locally within a 20-mile radius of Towson, MD. I can travel, at client expense, to other locations across the U.S. as needed. I quickly adapt my style to the audience and subject matter being taught to ensure each learner acquires and retains the knowledge taught. I apply Adult Learning Theory best practices and often refer to the Socratic teaching method to prompt dialog and foster an environment of collaboration and peer-to-peer learning. As permitted and practical, I incorporate fun activities and games to solidify learner understanding. 

Many organizations - especially smaller ones- cannot afford full-time training staff, and those who can are often hard-pressed to have a full-time LMS Administrator. Content quickly becomes outdated, user management can easily fall by the wayside, and individual learner progress can easily be unaccounted for. I can perform all LMS administration functions from user management to data-clean-up to updating learner transcripts, publishing new learning content, and more!

Quality e-learning modules are often one of the best training solutions because they can engage all learning styles (visual, auditory, and tactile) and allow employees to learn the information promptly, at their pace, in their workspace, and be referenced later. Utilizing programs like Articulate 360 & Camtasia, I create interactive e-learning modules to help your employees learn and retain new concepts. Modules can be designed to be 'straight to the point' or contain interactive games, quizzes, video tutorials, and much more to engage the learner further. I'll make recommendations, but you'll make the ultimate call on design and development during key milestones. 

Do you want someone to read pages of technical jargon or a PowerPoint slide at you, or do you need training? Using software like Zoom, Go2Training, or similar, I can provide your learners with an interactive, quality, live remote training experience on any number of topics. Employees will be engaged with the content presented every step of the way with adequate activities and safeguards to ensure knowledge acquisition and retention. More than one session is needed for some topics or group sizes, but most training can be recorded and stored for future reference.  

I can create stand-alone training videos. A video tutorial can be embedded into an e-learning module, but, by itself, even with the best of call-outs, it is informative but technically not 'training'. That is because there are typically no activities, no interaction, and generally little in the way of objectives being displayed and concepts being summarized. It is showing and telling with fewer mechanisms for feedback and evaluation. Still, sometimes that is all you may need to have an employee reference back to how to complete a common software function, or navigate the new company intranet.