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Is It Time to Bring in an
Instructional Design Consultant?

When your learning and development team is juggling competing priorities, tight timelines, and growing demands, it’s easy to wonder if calling in backup is the right move. That’s where this quick diagnostic tool comes in. It’s designed to help you assess your current situation and determine whether a seasoned instructional design consultant could bring immediate value to your next initiative.

You’ll answer a series of yes-or-no questions across four key areas: capacity and timelines, expertise and skills, impact and visibility, and project challenges. Whether you’re facing a looming deadline, need specialized support, or are building training for a high-stakes rollout, this tool will give you clarity on when it makes sense to bring in an outside expert.

No long assessments, no guesswork—just a quick gut check to help you make smart resourcing decisions. Download it, take five minutes to answer, and see where you land. Even if you’re not ready to bring in a consultant now, you’ll walk away with a clearer picture of what your team can handle—and where a little extra help might go a long way.

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Why Companies Bring in Instructional Design Consultants:

  • To quickly scale up for high-priority projects. 
  • To access specialized skills or tools their internal team doesn’t use regularly. 
  • To meet tight deadlines without overloading internal staff. 
  • To bring a fresh, outside perspective to course design.
  • To support large rollouts, system implementations, or business transformations.
  • To revamp outdated training with modern approaches.
  • To build engaging, adult learner-friendly content from the ground up.
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Why Work with TrainingPros? 

We are a certified woman-owned, award-winning contract staffing company specializing in learning and development consultants.  We are a Top 20 Staffing provider named by Training Industry. We are a SmartChoice Preferred Provider named by Brandon Hall Group for 2024-2025. We have been named a “Champion of Learning” by the international organization – Association for Talent Development. Our differentiators include: 

    • We are practitioners. You will never have to speak to a salesperson. 
    • We plant a tree for every consultant we put to work. We’ve planted thousands of trees to date. 
    • We are nationwide. We can help your internal clients anywhere in the US.  
    • We are highly specialized in training and eLearning consultants. We work with these consultants every day.  
    • We will do the vetting for you. You won’t receive a stack of resumes to sort through.  
    • Our Relationship Managers have real-world experience leading instructional design projects. We can help you navigate large instructional design projects more easily. 
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Does your L&D team have more projects than people?

Many organizations in this position turn to contract instructional designers to scale training without overloading internal teams. If you’re exploring options or comparing eLearning development companies, you should learn more about how organizations design and scale these solutions. 

TrainingPros is a learning and development company that connects organizations with experienced instructional designers, eLearning developers, and performance consultants. We’ve been named a Top 20 Staffing Company by Training Industry and a Champion of Learning by the Association for Talent Development (ATD), recognition that reflects our commitment to delivering high-quality, tailored learning solutions. To hear ongoing conversations with senior learning leaders, listen to our Learning Leader Spotlight podcast: Apple | Spotify | YouTube 

If your learning initiatives require additional support, whether for a single project or a large-scale rollout, our relationship managers can help you find the right expertise quickly and confidently.

When you have more projects than people™ , TrainingPros can provide the right L&D consultants to ensure your projects are a success.

TrainingPros is able to fill the gaps with someone who is professional and someone who has worked with us before.
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One of the things that I like about TrainingPros is the "one stop shop" aspect. I would describe you as a company that can help you meet your Learning & Development with a variety of different options.
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Julie ThomasSAP - Senior Director of Instructional Design
"Working with TracyDee Lufkin at TrainingPros was an absolute pleasure. We had an urgent need to fill two instructional designer roles, and TracyDee immediately demonstrated her remarkable ability to understand our requirements. "
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I appreciate so much the support received from the IDs by TrainingPros and for all the great support and flexibility that Chenier continues to provide.
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A personal and professional goal of mine was to be recognized in some way for the great programs we’ve put together. In partnering with Chenier and TrainingPros, we were globally recognized and earned our first L&D award and achieved gold.
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