Services
DEVELOP THE BEST IN YOUR AUDIENCE WITH ENGAGING LEARNING AND MEASUREABLE RESULTS
The Empty Lot offers a wide variety of learning and development services and support areas.
Contact The Empty Lot to learn more about any of these services and how these can be customized to support your goals.
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Services for Teams & Organizations
Course & material Development
Sometimes, a little extra help is needed to get a project completed and fully ready for learners.
The Empty Lot is ready to provide an expert to develop the training your organization needs. This can be done through an independent project plan where a fully completed project is provided to you ready for review or publication, or in collaborating with your internal or external team.
- Competency-based curriculum
- Compliance
- Elearning development
- Instructor-led training (in-person and virtual)
- Interactive Videos with LMS Reporting
- Metric-driven assessments
- Microlearning (blogs/articles, shortened elearning, infographics, quick reference guides/one-point lessons, short videos, micro-podcasts)
- On-demand training (podcasts, video, interactive videos)
- Scenario-Based Elearning
Base Camp Boot Camp Project-Based COaching
This hands-on, fully customized experience is actually done through one of your team’s own projects. Your team provides the project and The Empty Lot collaborates with you in the area you want to learn. As the project progresses, your team takes more creative control and responsibility of the project to implement the tools, resources, and methodologies being demonstrated until your team has full ownership and mastery.
This tailored workshop is very popular for teams converting in-person training and for learning video-based instructional design.
- Blended learning
- DEI & B (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging)
- Elearning development
- Flipped classroom
- Instructional design
- Instructor-led training and facilitation
- Supplemental materials (podcasts, videos, infographics, quick guides)
- Video-based training (PowToon, Vyond)
- Workshop-to-elearning conversion
Coaching, Open Office Hours, & Workshops
Develop your team or even learn a new tool or area of instructional design through a formal program. This can be scheduled as a workshop over several days, a specific time each week for office hours or lunch-and-learns, or even a regular check-in every few days to review the previous coaching session and then explore the next step within the chosen topic.
The Articulate 360 workshop or coaching followed by several weeks of lunch-and-learns for attendees to share experiences and ask questions are very popular, especially with optimizing Articulate Rise.
- Adobe Captivate
- Articulate 360 (Peek, Replay, Review, Rise, Storyline, Studio)
- Assessment writing
- Course and trainer evaluation
- Learning project management
- Needs assessment and project scope
- On-the-job enablement evaluation
- SME and stakeholder communication
- Trainer/facilitator evaluation
Training/Course Conversion & Repurpose
Course conversion moves the content within an existing course content into a different media without much change to the content, such as a Flash-based course being moved into an HTML-based tool or a live training session converted to simple video with subtitles, adding graphics, optimizing audio, and overlaying enhanced screenshots.
A course that is repurposed focuses on course objectives and success measurement when moving into a different media. This includes workshops converted to short microlearning (videos, podcasts, and infographics) or supplement or even replace sessions, in-person live training into a flipped classroom for virtual live training, or breaking a larger learning program into much smaller pieces into on-demand learning or smaller live learning sessions.
- Flash conversion
- In-person training to virtual
- Instructor-led to on-demand microlearning
- On-demand learning to instructor-led
- Segmented elearning to flipped classroom
- Workshop development and optimization
LMS/LXP Evaluation & Implementation
A learning management system (LMS) and learning experience platform (LXP) are a constantly evolving responsibility. This is the tool used by learners to access training and one of the ways stakeholders, management, and leadership access metrics to determine training needs and successful adaptions.
Sometimes, a new LMS is needed, which involves an extensive process of RFP’s (request for proposal), system evaluation, and eventual selection justification before the actual implementation. During implementation, existing training materials and records also need to be transferred.
An LMS should also be reviewed regularly for optimal use and management.
For organizations with limited budget, “Simplified LMS” optimizes Google Drive, Google Forms, and Articulate Review 360 to organize and track training.
- Current LMS review and needs analysis
- Implementation, including data transfers
- Learner engagement optimization
- Management
- RFP (request for proposal)
- Simplified LMS (Google Drive and Articulate Rise)
The Empty Lot supports
- Absorb
- BlackBoard
- Brightspace
- Canvas
- Convercent
- Cornerstone OnDemand
- Direct2Learn/D2L
- Docebo
- eLogic
- Expertus
- GAN Integrity
- Intrepid
- LogicBay
- MOODLE
- Totara
- Saba
- SuccessFactors
- SumTotal
Professional Consultation Services
Sometimes, it’s clear that something need to change for training to be effective and valued. However, how to implement that–which questions to ask, what goals to set , what tools to use, and which metrics to measure–is not always as obvious.
Fortunately, recognizing something needs to be done is the first step. The next step is finding the right ally to help ask the right questions, who also knows how to verify the best solutions for your organization.
Remember: different organization need different processes to reach success. It is crucial to have an advocate invested in understanding not just the industry but your organization and culture.
- ADA (504, 508, WCAG) compliance
- DEI & B (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging)
- Learner engagement and success
- Learning methodologies (ADDIE, SAM
- Project management and communication (teams and individuals)
- Training development for high-turnover roles
- Training engagement and on-the-job application
- Training metric measurement and success
Services for Individuals
Training Review
Get expert feedback on your own training materials with notes on areas or processes that can be optimized.
- ADA (504, 508, WCAG) compliance
- Assessment measurement
- DEI & B (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging)
- Course simplification
- Interactivity and engagement
- Plain Language Act evaluation
- Portfolio review
- Training facilitation (virtual and in-person)
Personal Coaching & Mentoring
Schedule regular coaching and mentoring in specific areas you want to improve as an instructional designer, course developer, or trainer/facilitator.
- Instructional design
- Elearning development (Adobe Captivate, Articulate 360, Articulate Rise, Articulate Storyline, Lectora, Camtasia)
- Course training and facilitation
- Instructor-led training presentation development (in-person and virtual)
- Course facilitation
one-time consultation
Request a one-time consultation to discuss your questions and receive insights from with an industry expert. Consultations times range between 30 minutes to 3 hours based on your preference.
- Ask learning & development questions
- Learn a specific skillset in learning development software
- Receive tailored career and professional development advice
- Troubleshoot an elearning course
- Troubleshoot an LMS issue
The Empty Lot is proud to be a woman-owned small business.
The Empty Lot provides effective, engaging, outcome-driven training with measurable results. Contact us to learn more about prebuilt or customized materials, project requests, instructional design coaching and certificates, and consultations for organizations, teams, and individuals.
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