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Professional Development Training Center

Improving performance through training and development.

Instructional Design

Do you need help identifying the effectiveness of your current training procedures? Do your current training manuals comply with your organization’s projected goals and standards?
Our instructional design team will work with you to identify problems and create solutions.

Leadership Training

The John Maxwell Leadership Training program provides your leaders the skills they need to be effective agents of change and performance enhancing gurus!

We develop Leaders!
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Technology Training

Just not sure where to begin? Not sure if you need an Excel Spreadsheet or an Access Database to track or link data from other Microsoft Applications? We’ll show you how…

Custom Training

We can develop training for any course you have. We work with your Subject Matter Experts (SME). We can customize training to meet your specific areas of need and focus. Get in touch and we'll help build custom solutions to fit your training needs.

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Whether you need our standard training or would like to design something custom to meet your business's specific needs, we can help you find the right solution.

Tel: 240.671.2106
Fax: 240.451.8211

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Instructional Design

Our instructional design team is ready to help you tackle all of your training needs!
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Course Development

When it comes to developing curriculum, we focus on the needs of the learner. PDTC will work with you to help identify the specific problem or need of your workforce. We realize that no two people learn the same. Therefore, we would conduct a Training Needs Analysis (TNA) to reveal and identify the specific areas of focus for your organization to reach its desired goal and outcome.

ADDIE Model Design

As Instructional Systems Developers (ISD) we use a multi-step process to provide you with training that is customized just for your workforce and for your organization.Our courses are designed using the principles of the adult learning theory, and the Instructional System Development (ISD) approach and applying the ADDIE model (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation).These steps are critically important because it helps to determine the content and the objectives that are needed for our developers to tailor creative interactive learning that is designed to strategically fit your workforce needs.Instructor-led training would engage the learner through repetitious drills and PDTC applies different content reinforcement methods such as: The Application Feedback method, Peer-to-Peer and discussion methods to list a few.The tools PDTC applies to motivate and promote self-directed learning are specifically developed for the adult learner. With that in mind, we believe learning should be relevant, fun, engaging and promote a learner centered environment for the adult learner to be successful.

What are YOUR needs?

Training is so especially important to any industry. Developing your workforce to improve their knowledge base as well as their skill sets are critical for any organization to thrive. Despite the cost for training, the return on your investment (ROI) is massive, if it is done properly and consistently. Investing in your workforce and seeing an increase in performance and productivity will far outweigh the cost of training.

Training Needs Analysis (TNA)

Let us join forces and work with you to gain insight and knowledge of your projected organization’s goals and needs. We will conduct a Training Needs Analysis (TNA). This TNA will help identify the current skill levels of your workforce and reveal areas of lack or “gaps”.Gaps show a lack of skills, knowledge and abilities which ultimately effects job performance. This report will help to determine what will be needed for your workforce to reach optimum job performance. With these results you will be able to determine who needs training and the specific areas of training that is needed so that your organization can take a proactive approach to meet your training needs.The results of the TNA will reveal one of two possibilities. Either your organization has a training need, or you have a non-training need.If you have a:Training Need – it reveals a gap in performance and this gap can be met through training. The gap may be a lack of skills, knowledge or attitude.Non-Training Need – this reveals another problem that cannot be resolved through training. This can be anything such as: workflow, recruitment, management or other.

Take Your Training With You

Your training needs to evolve and adapt with your team. When your team is on the go, they should be able to access job-aids, training sessions and just-in-time modules to help them grow wherever they are. Our mobile-first e-learning design puts your training in their pocket and makes it available 24/7 to all of your staff.

E-Learning Solutions

Have you ever gone to a “work training and development seminar” and wondered if “TRAINING” was really worth the investment? Does implementation really increase productivity of your workforce after one training seminar?Our solution for this problem is to develop customize training for your workforce through the use of Multi-media devices which will provide interactive learner reinforcement. E-learning is training delivered on a digital device such as a computer, smartphone or tablet that is designed to support individual learning or organizational improvement goals.E-Learning provides flexibility in learning, its customized to meet the need of the intended audience because we complete a training needs analysis for your targeted learners. Through the use of effective technology, each learning module provides skill building exercises and drills for learner reinforcement. Your benefit is improved workforce retention and overall growth in the organization’s productivity.Our team of developers will sit down with your team to understand your needs and concerns. We will work with you and your Subject Matter Experts (SME) until we find the best possible solution that will benefit your workforce.Our E-learning team are experts in their field. We are experienced in designing and developing training to meet the needs of the adult learner through best practice strategies and proven methods.

Articulate Storyline

Guardians of Immunity
The objectives were to introduce students to innate immunity. Students play the module before class and then apply their knowledge during class with in-class activities. First students test their knowledge with a quiz question and get immediate feedback. Then students participate in an interactive gamified demonstration of each step of the innate immunity process.
Accommodations Memo
Due to feedback from instructors mentioning that they were not sure what to do with this memo which is given to instructors when a student with a documented disability enrolls in their class, this module was created to give instructors a just-in-time training that they could refer back to when a student handed them a memo.

Adobe Captivate

Welcome to Falmouth Institute
This module was created to help orient faculty at Falmouth Institute to the standard practices of the organization. This module was created because the coordinator noticed that adjunct faculty were rarely reading the manual that contained important information about their responsibilities. Since its creation, the number of questions and panicked phone calls has decreased.
Investigated!
'Investigated!' is a module which was used in conjunction with other learning content on the CBA online workbook in order to present and practice the simple past and past continuous verb tenses in the context of a murder investigation. Learners play the role of an investigator and must use the simple past and past continuous tenses in order to solve the crime and accuse the right suspect. This module was created using Adobe Captivate, Audacity, and Photoshop.

Books & Training Materials

If you need training materials, PDTC can help! On this page you'll find materials to download as well as purchase online for Microsoft 2013 and 2016.If you need training materials for other versions of Microsoft Office, please contact info@pdtconline.com

Office 2013: Improving Skills for the Workforce serves as a printed tutorial on Microsoft Office 2013. The author gives step by step, detailed instructions on how to master Microsoft Office 2013 click by click. This tutorial will help readers improve computer skills, knowledge, and abilities with the Microsoft Word application. Lessons are designed to guide readers through essentials of Microsoft Office and also explain advanced concepts relevant to today's workforce.

Office 2016: Word, Excel & Access serves as a printed tutorial on Microsoft Office 2016. The author gives step by step, detailed instructions on how to master Microsoft Office 2016 click by click. This tutorial will help readers improve computer skills, knowledge, and abilities with the Microsoft Word application. Lessons are designed to guide readers through essentials of Microsoft Office and also explain advanced concepts relevant to today's workforce.

Technology Training

Let's face it, technology can be scary. It's intimidating when you are asked to do something you don't know how to do when everyone else seems to make it look easy.At PDTC, we understand that every learner has their own pace and path to achieving their objective. We walk our clients through each task, step-by-step, and make sure everyone is able to follow along without being left behind.Our tech experts are experienced teachers, but we haven't forgotten what it's like not to know the basics. We meet our learners where they are, wherever that may be, and help them get to where they need to be.Here are some of the courses we provide:

Microsoft Office Training

We offer online and face-to-face training for the following Microsoft Office applications:

  • Microsoft Word

  • Microsoft PowerPoint

  • Microsoft Excel

  • Microsoft Access

  • Microsoft Outlook

  • Windows 10 Essentials

Google App Suite Training

We offer online and face-to-face training for the following Google applications:

  • Google Drive

  • Google Meet

  • Google Chrome

  • Google Docs

  • Google Slides

  • Google Sheets

  • Google Forms

  • Google Sites

  • Jamboard

  • YouTube

Web Conferencing Training

We offer online and face-to-face training for the following web conferencing applications:

  • Zoom

  • Google Meet

  • Microsoft Teams

  • Cisco WebEx


Take a look at our upcoming events!

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March 2022

Grow & Learn Valuables
Invaluable Laws of Growth
Wednesdays @ 7:30pmMarch 9 - Intentionality
March 30 - The Mirror
Deadline to register is
24 hours prior to beginning of class

May 2022

5-Week Mastermind Group (MMG)
Developing the Leader Within You
Saturdays 11:00am - 12:00pmMay 7
May 14
May 21
May 28
Deadline to register for MMG is
May 5, 2022

All Events are Complimentary

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