Custom Curriculum Creations™
Learning designed for the work your people do.
Build education and training around real business situations. Connect your objectives, work context, learning experiences, practice, and measurement so participants can apply what they learn.
Training shaped around your business.
Start with what your people need to understand and do. Connect the curriculum with your business objectives, everyday work, and the evidence that will show whether the learning makes a difference.
Clear outcomes
Define the work, skills, and behaviors the learning is intended to support before designing the curriculum.
Practical application
Use discovery, scenarios, exercises, and real business situations to connect understanding with on-the-job practice.
Designed for your context
Reflect your organization’s language, culture, people, and operating conditions, with feedback to refine the experience.
From business challenge to practical application.
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Analyze & Discover
Clarify your objectives, current skills, operating context, and the gaps the curriculum can address.
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Design with Purpose
Connect learning objectives, relevant content, realistic practice, and evaluation in a tailored design.
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Implement & Engage
Use scenarios, role-plays, discussions, and guided discovery to help participants apply the learning.
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Measure & Refine
Review agreed measures of learning, application, and performance, then refine the approach.
What a tailored curriculum can cover.
Leadership & Management Training
Leadership and management learning shaped around a relevant context, such as “Lead Like You Ride” for a large motorcycle association.
Industry-Specific Skill Programs
Role-specific programs such as Intentional Recovery, designed for clinical staff, counselors, and support teams.
Sales & Customer Service Mastery
Connect sales and service practices with communication, people skills, process improvement, and customer experience.
Cross-Functional Team Building
Strengthen communication and collaboration across functions, with clearer agreements and ways of working together.
40+ years of training and coaching experience
Experience grounded in real business situations.
Draw on Joseph M. Price’s experience across Dale Carnegie Training®, independent consulting, and Intentional Achievements.
His work includes AT&T, Wal-Mart Distribution, Intel, Volvo Cars of North America, Godiva Chocolatier, and organizations of different sizes.
140%
Major Training Company Franchise
- Developed and implemented breakthrough plans for sales staff, instructors, and leadership teams.
- Drove a dramatic turnaround in employee retention, boosted customer satisfaction, and delivered a 140% increase in gross revenue.
$475,000
Manufacturing Shop Floor Workers
- Trained workers in quality improvement, process reengineering, and people skills.
- Resulted in improved morale, on-time delivery, and $475,000 cost savings in just six months.
Learning designed for your organization and circumstances.
Small Businesses
Build a curriculum around the skills and operating challenges that matter to your business, with support where in-house design capacity is limited.
Larger organizations
Bring an outside perspective to your learning priorities and connect the design with the realities of your people and operations.
Public agencies and change initiatives
Support culture changes, relocations, and strategic initiatives with training relevant to the responsibilities and work of your teams.
How the approach works
See the approach in practice.
See how discovery, relevant learning experiences, and practical application connect curriculum design with real work.
More about this service.
Read the full service background, additional examples, and delivery information.
Training design, discovery, and learning principles
Why Custom Curriculum Creations?
Off-the-shelf training often fails to address the specific growth barriers unique to your business. Custom Curriculum Creations goes beyond generic programs and academic theory, leveraging decades of hands-on experience in designing training that brings measurable improvements in performance—for organizations of any size.
Outcome-Focused Design
We don’t just develop “lessons”—we craft interactive, “discovery-based” experiences that transform your team’s on-the-job behavior.
Rooted in Real-World Business
With expertise drawn from roles like Director of Instruction at Dale Carnegie Training®, Joe Price ensures every program tackles real business challenges and transfers into practical, usable skills.
Deep-Dive Discovery
We’ll learn your company’s language, culture, and needs, then create a relevant and tailored curriculum your people will truly enjoy, relate to, and use.
The Problem with One-Size-Fits-All Training
Missed Skill Gaps
Standard seminars often skip the specific competencies your organization actually needs—slowing growth and wasting time.
Lack of Employee Buy-In
Employees can sense when a program doesn’t truly address their daily reality, leading to poor engagement and negligible improvement.
Hidden Corporate Paradigms
Internal teams can be too close to the action, influenced by office politics or legacy mindsets, preventing objective, innovative training solutions.
Low Retention & Transfer
Theory-heavy classes often fail to transform daily work habits, leaving participants energized but unchanged.
The Custom Curriculum Creations Process
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Analyze & Discover
We immerse ourselves in your business—assessing current skills, culture, and market challenges to pinpoint exact training gaps.
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Design with Purpose
We create interactive, scenario-based modules, ensuring every piece aligns with your language and operational needs.
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Implement & Engage
We deliver the program using highly participative techniques—role-plays, group discussions, real-life case studies—so learning sticks.
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Measure & Refine
We track key metrics—from employee satisfaction to performance KPIs—to document ROI and refine the training if needed.
Key Principles Behind Every Curriculum
Tailored Needs Assessment
We diagnose your organization’s unique challenges, skill deficiencies, and growth goals before designing a single lesson.
Interactive & Practical
Our training sessions emphasize hands-on activities, real-world applications, and guided discovery—no passive lectures or academic fluff.
Measurable Results
We define clear objectives and performance metrics to gauge progress—like cost savings, revenue increases, productivity gains, and more.
Adaptive Midstream
We’re not afraid to pivot if we detect a mismatch. From revamping car dealership training to overhauling a supermarket leadership strategy, adjustment is part of our DNA.
How the approach
worksCustom Curriculum Creations—Beyond Traditional Instructional Design
Pinpoint the right skills your people need, then deliver high-impact, interactive training that truly sticks—backed by 40+ years of practical, outcome-based design expertise.
Programs, audiences, and delivery details
Examples of What We Offer
Leadership & Management Training
E.g., “Lead Like You Ride” for a large motorcycle association—transferring leadership principles to an engaging, real-world framework.
Industry-Specific Skill Programs
E.g., “Intentional Recovery” for a substance abuse health organization—targeting clinical staff, counselors, and support personnel for maximum patient impact.
Sales & Customer Service Mastery
Programs that blend process improvement with soft-skill development, boosting both customer satisfaction and sales performance.
Cross-Functional Team Building
Breaking down communication barriers and departmental silos for smoother operations and better collaboration.
Who We Serve
Small Businesses
When you don’t have the time or in-house expertise to build the right skill-development program, we’ll design a custom curriculum that directly addresses your growth bottlenecks.
Medium to Large Enterprises
If your internal training teams are tied down by corporate politics and legacy assumptions, our outside perspective provides the objective, outcome-based design suited to your goals.
Government Agencies and Organizations Undergoing Major Change
From culture shifts and plant relocations to strategic overhauls, we craft programs that unite and upskill employees for smoother transitions and bigger gains.
Ready for Real Results?
Custom Curriculum Creations bridges the gap between theoretical training and real-world performance. Whether you’re a small business looking to scale or a large enterprise seeking transformative results, our outcome-based approach ensures measurable and sustainable improvements.
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Schedule Your Consultation
Let’s discuss your current challenges, objectives, and what a tailored curriculum might look like.
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Receive a Customized Proposal
We’ll outline a targeted training blueprint, timelines, and clear ROI goals.
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Watch Your Team Transform
From leadership shifts to culture improvements and bottom-line impact, you’ll see tangible changes in performance.
Contact Us for a Customized Training Plan
Don’t settle for a cookie-cutter seminar
Choose Custom Curriculum Creations—where every module, every exercise, and every deliverable is designed to move the needle for your specific business goals. Let’s make sure your employees don’t just learn—they transform.
Background and five engagement examples
Our Approach: Discovery-Based & Outcome-Driven
Joe Price, who leads our team at Custom Curriculum Creations, has:
40+ Years of Experience designing interactive, outcome-based business training programs.
A proven track record with Dale Carnegie Training®, AT&T, Wal-Mart Distribution, Intel, Volvo Cars of North America, Godiva Chocolatier, and more.
A philosophy of “discovery” that ensures participants internalize key concepts and integrate them into everyday behavior.
Success Stories: Real-World Outcomes
Joe Price, who leads our team at Custom Curriculum Creations, has:
Multi-National Chemicals Company
- Designed, implemented, and coordinated multiple training programs across divisions.
- Achieved improvements in employee utilization, substantial cost savings, and increased revenue.
Major Training Company Franchise
- Developed and implemented breakthrough plans for sales staff, instructors, and leadership teams.
- Drove a dramatic turnaround in employee retention, boosted customer satisfaction, and delivered a 140% increase in gross revenue.
Manufacturing Shop Floor Workers
- Trained workers in quality improvement, process reengineering, and people skills.
- Resulted in improved morale, on-time delivery, and $475,000 cost savings in just six months.
Regional Supermarket
- Coached a senior executive team to redefine their leadership style.
- Sparked a major culture change that accelerated regional growth and aligned with a renewed strategic vision.
Recruiting Advertising Company
- Identified root causes of high turnover and morale problems.
- Implemented a comprehensive program that improved company culture, teamwork, client satisfaction, and increased gross revenue.
Your next intentional step
Bring the business challenge to the design conversation.
Share what people need to understand and do, where current learning falls short, and how you will recognize improvement.