TiER1's Brad Knueven was awarded the Cincinnati Leadership Award by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Brad is one of the select few to receive this honor out of over 200 submissions. The Cincinnati Leadership Awards are presented to those who have made significant contributions, both professionally and in their communities toward the fight against MS. Check out Friday's Business Courier (March 26th) or visit www.nationalmssociety.org to learn more! Congratulations, Brad!

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TiER1 is among the 55 fastest growing private companies in Greater Cincinnati! We will be featured in the June 10th edition of the Business Courier, so be sure to look for our profile! Here are the other Fast 55 companies:        2trg                             Ascendum Solutions LLC            BioRx                     BlueStar Inc.                          BSI Engineering Inc.                CarePoint Partners LLC        Caruso Inc.                         ...

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TiER1  recently expanded their capabilities and ventured into the realm of video production. Equipped with green screen, soft box lighting rig, teleprompter, and audio setup, it truly is a full-fledge production environment.   We recently wrapped on our first in-house shoot. Check out the before and after shot!

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Is the instructional system design (ISD) model too slow to meet today’s business challenges? Is ADDIE Dead?  Is there a better way to design performance interventions? These are some of the questions that we occasionally wrestle with at TiER1.  There is a healthy amount of research on this topic (a quick list of resources is listed at the bottom of the blog).  But these are not merely academic debates.  We are attempting to find better and faster ways to help our customers improve performance within their organizations. I summarize the two sides of the debate in the first of four installments...

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For a small consulting firm of 60 people (and growing), we are pretty unique in that we have a Research and Innovation team within our company. How many can say that? Most of our research is conducted in the area of learning and training performance. Through our Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR grants) for the Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, and other government agencies, we are able to dedicate our resources to adding value to the research community. Recently, a team of us went to Colorado Springs to conduct an experiment examining the differences between our accelerated...

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