Alan Landers
President
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FirstStep Training
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About
Alan Landers
My true loves, other than family, are instructional design and organizational development. I've been an instructional designer since 1978! I became an OD consultant in 1985 and worked with a wide variety of clients across the country and abroad.I started my own OD and Training company in 1989. I specialized in designing training programs that truly improved performance and changed organizations. That was possible because the up front needs assessments I did were a combination of OD assessments and Training needs analyses.Strong front end analyses allowed me to create meaningful KPIs, detailed implementation plans, and that led to determining Level 4 and even Level 5 results. Success allowed me to work closely with executive management making training an important strategic partner.I'm back to consulting now, but this time I'm focusing on training, more specifically instructional design for eLearning/mLearning, ILT. and experiential learning.I've always loved training technology and that led to Articulate and Storyline. I've known Dave Anderson for years and got to know Tom Khulmann this past year. I've been using a variety of authoring tools since 2003. I'm excited to learn from all of you and offer whatever help I can. -
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"Thanks Donna, that's what I'm going to do. I tried importing an Excel file with the questions and scoring, but all the formulas and form..."
- 11 years ago01/22/13 at 3:25 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Likert screen
"never mind... found it "
- 11 years ago01/22/13 at 2:41 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion Likert screen
"Is there a way to limit the number of responses to a Likert scale, so you could have 2, 3, 4, 5 or 7 choices?
Can I change the Likert def..."
- 11 years ago01/22/13 at 2:40 pm (UTC)
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"Okay, I didn't preview the slide so that's why the answer showed. I still don't know how to get multiple TF questions on one slide. Any..."
- 11 years ago01/22/13 at 2:29 pm (UTC)
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"Hi Donna, Here's what I want to do: create a 5 question TF test that appears on a white board on a slide. I've tried creating a TF ? an..."
- 11 years ago01/22/13 at 2:23 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion Quizzes
"How do I fit a T/F, MC quiz into a predefined space?"
- 11 years ago01/22/13 at 2:11 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion shadowed text
"Thanks for getting back to me Christine. This is weird. I selected a thought bubble caption. I use Caligraphic font. I've used that f..."
- 11 years ago01/21/13 at 2:29 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers started a new discussion shadowed text
"I want to get rid of the shadowed text that seems to automatically appear in text boxes. I'm using caligraphic text and the text box has..."
- 11 years ago01/21/13 at 10:23 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Business Case for e-Learning Upgrade
"Hi Kimberly,
I was VP of Training for a Fortune 250 and several others along the way. I've also consulted to the Fortune 500 for over 20 ..."
- over 11 years ago01/08/13 at 12:34 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Ideas on getting rid of bullet points to state course objectives
"Hmmm, you got me thinking. First, I'm assuming that we're writing about some sort of computer/desktop/mobile device-based, learner-direc..."
- over 11 years ago01/08/13 at 11:53 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Sharing some Icons :D
"Cool!
Tks "
- over 11 years ago01/08/13 at 11:21 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Interview Tip
"Hi Natalia,
I'm glad you asked that question about captivate and storyline. I've used authorware, captivate, articulate, smartbuilder, se..."
- over 11 years ago01/08/13 at 11:19 am (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Need to Build a New Computer
"Hi Jerry,
Thank you for your kind comments. Hope I was helpful.
I am independent now, been a consultant for over 15 years in total speci..."
- over 11 years ago12/31/12 at 5:40 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Need to Build a New Computer
"Jerry,
Funny you should ask about the sound card. I never worried too much about it. My concern was for the quality of speakers and the..."
- over 11 years ago12/28/12 at 5:30 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Interview Tip
"Hi Amanda, First congratulations on getting the interview. That is an accomplishment in itself.
Don't put too much into your presentati..."
- over 11 years ago12/28/12 at 2:56 pm (UTC)
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Alan Landers replied to the discussion Need to Build a New Computer
"Hi Jerry,
I do all my stuff at home. I have a i5 quad core processor with 16 gigs of RAM and a high end-graphics card with 2 gigs of RAM..."
- over 11 years ago12/28/12 at 2:22 pm (UTC)