Learning and Development Guides and Resources
Welcome to our Resources for L&D page, where we offer a curated collection of eBooks and guides designed to support learning and development professionals. Whether you’re a consultant looking to refine your approach, a teacher exploring corporate L&D, or an instructional designer seeking fresh ideas, you’ll find practical tools and insights to elevate your training initiatives. Dive into expert-driven content that helps you stay ahead in today’s evolving L&D landscape and empowers you to deliver impactful results.
Past and Future Trends in Learning and Development
Download our most recent eBook on the past and future trends in learning and development. We regularly interview learning leaders across industries to get their latest thoughts on what L&D is facing in the future. We regularly update this report, acknowledging past reports and adding new data. Come back every year to download our eBook.
Elements of a Learning Journey for Instructional Designers
Learning Experience Designers and Instructional Designers that want to work on the really large, impactful projects need to understand learning journeys. Our guide includes good information on how many designers create learning journeys, including an example. Download the guide today.
5 Tips for a Knockout Consultant Resume
A consultant resume shouldn’t be formatted the same way a resume for a job is formatted. How do learning and development consultants know how to create a resume that lands projects? Download our guide created by our Talent Ambassador with input from our industry-experienced relationship managers.
How to Get Your Resume Past the AI Bots
Searching for a job today is harder than it was five years ago, thanks to artificial intelligence. Recruiting platforms used by corporate recruiters now have AI routines implemented to filter out resumes. Your learning and development resume may never be seen by a recruiter at all. Using this guide, many of our clients have been able to secure initial interviews. We hope this guide designed by our Talent Ambassador helps you secure the interview for your dream job.
Four Things That Will Burn Up Your eLearning Budget
When you have a large eLearning development project to manage, it’s important to plan contingencies for the things that can derail your project and burn up your budget. Download our guide for the four things that can burn up your eLearning budget.
6 Great Reasons to Outsource a Large eLearning Project
Do you have large eLearning projects to plan for in the coming year? Do you need to decide whether to hire full time employees, contractors, or hire an eLearning company to do the work? Our guide gives you six great reasons to consider when making this decision.
Converting ILT to eLearning: 6 Common Mistakes
Are you faced with a project to quickly convert several hours or days of instructor-led training to eLearning? Our guide will provide you with some things to put into your project plan to help ensure your success. Download our guide today.
How Building an eLearning Prototype Saves Time and Money
Creating eLearning prototypes might seem like an extra step that eats up time and budget, but it’s a smart investment that can save both in the long run. eLearning developers agree that a prototype is necessary for step for any large-scale curriculum project. Prototypes can streamline your development process, reduce costly rework, and ensure consistency across your courses.
Top 9 Things to Consider When Hiring an eLearning Developer
When it comes to hiring eLearning developers, corporate learning leaders must adopt a strategic approach to ensure they find the right fit for their projects. The impact of a well-chosen developer on the effectiveness and success of eLearning initiatives cannot be overstated. Our guide contains nine things you should consider when hiring an eLearning Developer.
5 Reasons to Hire an Instructional Design Consultant
Instructional Design Consultants bring a variety of benefits to speed productivity and enhance learning programs. Whether your department was just given a surprise project, you have lost a team member, or you need a specific skillset you don’t have on your team, an instructional design consultant is a great option. Our guide provides several reasons you should consider when deciding between delaying the project, hiring a full-time employee, or bringing in an instructional design contractor.
10 Interview Questions to Ask an Instructional Design Consultant
Learning and Development teams often rely on consultants to take on specialized projects or to fill short-term staffing needs efficiently. Utilizing instructional design contractors can help L&D teams handle seasonal demands or specific initiatives, such as onboarding new hires or implementing a new software system. While managers typically have solid interview techniques for hiring full-time team members, hiring instructional design or eLearning development contractors requires a tailored approach. Our guide has ten unique questions to ask an instructional design consultant in an interview.
Streamline Your SME Review Process
Managing the subject matter expert (SME) review process can be a significant challenge in eLearning development, often leading to project delays. Instructional design consultants and learning leaders need practical strategies to streamline this critical phase, ensuring smoother and more efficient reviews. From clearly defining sign-off responsibilities at the project kickoff to establishing structured review cycles with official sign-off sheets, developing specific strategies will help keep your project on track. Our guide provides time-tested techniques to manage the SME review process.
Why Blended Learning Makes Business Sense
As the shift towards online learning continues to grow, blended learning emerges as a powerful solution that combines the strengths of both traditional Instructor-Led Training (ILT) and modern eLearning methods. This approach offers substantial benefits for both organizations and learners, making it a strategic choice for businesses looking to enhance their training programs. Our guide provides information you can use when presenting your blended learning proposal to decision makers.
9 Interview Questions to Ask a Contract Trainer or Facilitator
Hiring a contract trainer is distinctly different from hiring a full-time employee. While permanent employees are assessed for their long-term potential, career aspirations, cultural fit, and alignment with company values, contract roles are typically short-term and tailored to specific needs. To modify your interviewing techniques, download our guide with nine interview questions to ask a contract trainer.
Six Reasons You Need a Virtual Classroom Producer
The virtual classroom is here to stay, and transitioning your programs to a virtual setting requires significant investment in time and resources. While your facilitators are adapting to virtual classroom skills, they can struggle with managing technology and participant needs while maintaining excellent facilitation. To safeguard your investment and ensure smooth virtual sessions, consider adding a virtual classroom producer, also known as a virtual training producer or a virtual classroom host. Our guide will help you provide the reasoning for hiring this role.
Creating the Future of Leadership Development: 5 Critical Areas
The pressure to build strong leadership and maintain a robust talent pipeline is a priority for high-performing organizations. Our guide provides the five critical areas to ensure you have strong leadership development in your organization.
5 Ways Change Management Consultants Drive Effective New Initiatives
Implementing new initiatives can be challenging without the right guidance and support. Our guide outlines how change management consultants help organizations successfully navigate change.
Put Your Best (Virtual) Foot Forward During Interviews
Creating a Future State Description
Looking to kick off your training needs analysis with confidence? Our Creating a Future State Description Guide provides the framework you need to define a clear future state on which to base your training initiatives. Complete with guiding questions and a sample fictional future state description, this resource will help you align training initiatives with your business’s success. Download it now and set the stage for impactful learning solutions!
Sample Needs Analysis Report
Discover how to conduct a thorough Training Needs Analysis with our step-by-step sample report. Perfect for instructional designers, educators transitioning to corporate training, and managers, this 11-page guide provides a detailed framework to identify performance gaps and create actionable recommendations. Use it as a template or inspiration to structure your own analysis plan and deliver impactful training solutions.
