Category Capabilities

Instructional Design & Development

In addition to training delivery, The Columbia Group also designs and develops courses. We create step-by-step blueprints for instructor-led courses as well as self-guided interactive multimedia courses for multiple customers across the Department of Defense and other Government agencies.

Instructional Design

The Columbia Group has developed training packages and course materials for technology-based delivery methods including mobile platforms (iOS, Windows Mobile, Android), 3-Dimensional Interactive Multimedia Instruction, CD-ROM, internet, private intranet, and video. We specialize in computer- or web-based interactive multimedia instruction developed with the ISD model. We have developed technology-based training at all four levels of interactivity. Additionally, we have developed training using Authorware; Macromedia Flash MX; Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premier; iKe Integrated Knowledge Elements; and HTML, Action Script, and Java Script.

Instructional Development

The Columbia Group has established and proven best-practice procedures for developing training using instructor-led, field, interactive multimedia, simulation, and Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) methodologies that conform to training industry standards such as the Sharable Courseware Object Reference Module (SCORM) and Section 508. We have used the above methods to develop courses for the Consolidated CONUS Replacement Center (CRC), Warrior Transition Battalion (WTB), and Mobilization Unit Processing Center (MUPC) areas.

Training Analysis and Assessment

The Columbia Group analyzes and assesses projects in development as well as currently existing courses and programs. We incorporate lessons learned and our proven best practices into each course development or revision. Highlights of our analysis and assessment experience include:

• Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL)  Lessons Learned Integration (L2I) Support at TRADOC Schools and Centers
• Post-Combat Survey Support at Maneuver Center of Excellence
• Ranger Instructor Certification Program at Maneuver Center of Excellence
• Mobilization Readiness Training at Fort Benning, GA
• Theater Specific Individual Readiness Training at Fort McCoy, WI
• Aviation Safety Inspector Training at Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center, OKC, OK
• FEMA Search and Rescue Training at multiple locations across the US
• Digital WarFighting Experiment at Fort Leavenworth, KS

Training

From Analysis to Delivery and Management, The Columbia Group offers a variety of training solutions to meet objectives in all learning domains. Offering support to multiple customers across the DOD as well as the Federal Aviation Administration for more than 25 years, The Columbia Group provides training delivery solutions from producing e-learning courseware, to instructing live-fire range training, to developing apps for the Warfighter.

Our training capabilities include:

• Instructional Design and Development
• Training Mission Analysis and Assessment
• Training Delivery and Instructor Support
• Training Management and Support Services

What Our Clients Say About Us

Strategic Communications Support

Concise, Creative, Timely, and Targeted.

Critical to the success of any organization and its initiatives is strategic communications. In today’s world with unlimited information at everyone’s fingertips – 24×7 – it’s easy for no information or misinformation to confuse audiences, create misperceptions and derail progress. The Columbia Group helps to ensure strategic planning, development and execution of cost-effective communications to deliver powerful results for an organization, its leadership, projects and programs. From face-to-face, to traditional print and broadcast, to web-enabled and social media communication vehicles, we have the professional resources to drive your communications success.

Communications capabilities include:

• Strategic communications planning
• Senior officer/executive speech and presentation support
• Program/Project/Change management communications for business initiatives
• Media/Public Relations – press management, press releases, articles for publication
• Social media strategies and execution – Facebook, Twitter, blogs
• Website conceptualization, development and content management
• Print collateral – brochures, posters, advertisements,  signage, meeting/seminar support
• Outreach Events – trade shows/conferences/reward and recognition
• Graphic and visual/video design and production management
• Rescue/emergency communications – for crisis situations, reverse declining image or perception

The Columbia Group brings talent whose expertise was gained in the public and private sectors and from engagements across the Department of Defense. Whether you need support for a single speech, a short-term project, or a multi-year, multi-faceted global program requiring every aspect of communications for strategic, operational and tactical support, The Columbia Group can tailor efforts to meet your timeline and budget, exceed expectations and deliver powerful results.