Imagine educators participating in professional development throughout the year that supported school and their individual goals. Would that make a difference for instructional practice? Would that make a difference in student achievement?

What about professional development for your company? Many companies get caught up in the notion that training and professional development are hit or miss classroom sessions. “Bob isn’t able to….better get him trained as quickly as possible.” If that is how your organization is validating training, then you’re in for high investments and little return. Training is not about providing content you believe employees need, but rather filling the gap of knowledge and skills that your employees, your learners are telling you they require to be better individuals who can contribute to the overall well-being of the organization. Different approach? Yes.

Duckworth Design prides itself in providing professional development planning beyond “one-time” delivery sessions. With a comprehensive professional development plan, educators participate in learning experiences throughout the entire school year. Through meaningful learning interactions and review, educators explore new ideas while building on their current skill and knowledge base.

Duckworth Design helps both corporate and education clients enhance productivity skills by utilizing technology in their daily practice. Even today, with our increased knowledge and use of technology, its existence many times is viewed as “additional,” “extra,” or an “add-on” in organizations. Duckworth Design develops and delivers training that allows individuals to seamlessly integrate the use of technology into their daily practice with the focus on improving performance.

Through a variety of established training programs and customized training packages, Duckworth Design will work with you to determine a training plan that meets your learners’ needs. Training can be developed for face-to-face or online delivery or a combination of both.

We use business “smarts” when utilizing effective graphic design & interactive and appropriate technologies to create an effective online market solution for our clients. Utilizing a team of experts, including graphic design, website development, social networking and SEO, all of our sites are built in with the idea of supporting your business as it grows, changes and expands.

If you have questions about creating an online presence utilizing the latest social networking technology for your business or enhancing the one your currently have in place, contact us. We can provide a custom quote around your specific online marketing needs, including but not limited to branding, development, ghost blogging and tweeting.

Duckworth Design is focused on instructional design that will lead to the end product supporting the learners in your organization. After all, aren’t the people in your company the resource that truly makes it great? Instructional design and effective training should be focused on two very important things…learner-centered, performance-based. Before any training is designed, before any session delivered, Duckworth Design provides needs assessment services to determine exactly what is needed to support both of those central components.

Online training does not include publishing content to read online. If that’s what you’ve been doing or what other online/e-learning consultants have provided you in the past…then, let Duckworth Design work with you.

Duckworth Design creates and delivers its own customized online training. Our developers use Adobe products, such as Dreamweaver, Captivate, Fireworks, Flash, Photoshop, and Illustrator (just to name a few) to create dynamic and interactive learning environments for your learning needs. Additionally, we work with professional videographers to supplement your content with real life/on the job vignettes.