Author Archives: Brent Verhaaren

 

Allen Attending SITE Conference

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Allen Directors of Learning Solutions, Lynn Miller and Richard Harmon, will be at this year’s Society of Insurance Trainers and Educators Conference, starting June 28th. Stop by our booth and say hi!

 
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 Comment
 

Allen Wins Five More OMNI Awards

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Just received notification that we won several OMNI Intermedia awards. Silver – Government Category: RFMH, Treatment of Persons with Co-Occurring Disorders Silver – Internal Communication Category: RFMH, Treatment of Persons with Co-Occurring Disorders Bronze – Internal Communication Category: PETCO, Building … Continue reading →

 
Monday, June 14th, 2010 Comment
 

Get Immediate Value from Your New Hire

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Amy Gallo at the Harvard Business Review makes some great points about onboarding best practices.

 
Thursday, June 10th, 2010 Comment
 

Big Training Challenge: Finding High Pay-Off Training Projects

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Great article from Human Resources IQ about the power corporate learning can have when helping transfer knowledge and best practices.

 
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 Comment
 
 
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 Comment
 

Google’s First Foray into Learning Managment?

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http://code.google.com/p/cloudcourse/ “CloudCourse is a course scheduling system.”

 
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 Comment
 

Pricing, Value and the Commoditization of Outsourced Courseware Development

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In the world of custom developed and designed courseware, fuzziness around pricing has become a given. Like many aspects surrounding the realm of workforce learning and development, standardization for outsourced learning project pricing is non-existent. Certainly, each vendor has a … Continue reading →

 
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 Comment
 

A Familiar Phrase: “Content is (fill in the blank)”

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Today in the mail, I got a flier from an organization advertising an upcoming conference. In the headline was a reference to a phrase that I feel intimately familiar with: Content is King. I remember the first time I heard … Continue reading →

 
Thursday, April 29th, 2010 Comment
 

Learning Linkage Mishmash

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Just a few quick links worth checking out: Working/Learning carnival: the latest session, a blog carnival from “Daves Whiteboard.” Whats a “blog carnival,” you ask? Forget the explanation, just go experience it yourself. Design Under Constraint: How Limits Boost Creativity, … Continue reading →

 
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 1 Comment
 

Learning and Development Recessionary Sensibility

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Oh boy. I just took a look at the stock market returns. I need to stop doing that. I need to treat it the same way as my retirement accounts: ignore. I even heard the dreaded economic “d” word tossed … Continue reading →

 
Thursday, March 5th, 2009 Comment