Our Blogosphere Kickoff

Hello All! I want to welcome you to our very first blog posting. We sure hope you return to peruse our thoughts on everything eLearning and training related. ASK International has been progressing with the industry since 1983, so we have been through all the changes and we hope to share our years of experience.

One item I want to start with, is the overlooked value that training consultants provide. The temptation, is once hired, to immediately sign on to the client's vision and plan for the training. What consulting companies need to bring to the table, is to always provide our straightforward advice, in other words, we need to "consult." This means telling the client something other than what they think they already know. So many times at a start of a project, the client tells us that X course needs to cover Y tasks and will be Z hours in length. However, to make a long story short, if we do our job right, more times than not, we can document that the course should in fact cover A tasks and will be about B hours in length.

This may seem like a no brainer...of course this is the consultants job! However, at the beginning of many projects the client has a pretty good idea of how the course should "look" and how big it should be. It is all too easy to sometimes go along with their initial assessment and not do any of the hard work or ask the tough questions that need asking.