Training Consultants Guide: How to Facilitate Effective Meetings

Posted by Lora Boiago on Apr 26, 2013 4:08:00 PM

Training Consultants Guide to Facilitating Effective Meetings

Training Consultants: Despite the majority of our day spent dealing with e-mails, phone calls and memos, meetings are still one of the most effective methods for us to share and exchange information, get feedback, plan and collaborate on important decisions.

With all these benefits, why do some of us have a hard time accepting meetings?  It seems that meetings are starting to gain a reputation for getting longer, becoming more frequent and generating fewer results.  As your employees are being taken away from their primary responsibilities, they become frustrated when no clear results were achieved from the meeting.  

The truth is that many of us must accept that a significant portion of our working day will be spent in the meeting room. With the tools and knowledge to properly facilitate an effective meeting, you can significantly enhance employee productivity and engagement.  As a training developer consulting firm, we adhere to a guide used by our top training consultants on how to organize and facilitate effective meetings.  Among the numerous corporate training programs vailable, learning the key elements to facilitating effective meetings has become one of the most valuable.   

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Topics: training consultant, training consultants, training developer, training developers

Why Outsource Training Consultants?

Posted by Lora Boiago on Apr 22, 2013 11:36:00 AM

Training Consultants - The complexity of locating, hiring, and managing a team of qualified training consultants, especially on short notice and with a need to cover multiple locations, can be daunting.

If any of the following scenarios seem familiar, then you are probably also wrestling with the associated stresses of coordinating large-scale training programs:

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Topics: training consultant, training consultants, merger integration, compliance training program, outsourcing training, outsourcing training and development

TrainingFolks Speaks Out!

Posted by Lora Boiago on Apr 15, 2013 9:42:00 AM

Building a Cost Effective Succession Strategy with Leadership Training

Presenter: Gail McGuire, VP Professional Services

Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013

Location: Raleigh, NC

Details: The Electrical Safety Authority, in partnership with TrainingFolks, developed and established a Senior Leadership Academy (SLA).  SLA provides an incentive for Inspectors who are interested in developing their skills to support a well planned, consistent and cost effective succession strategy for leadership positions at ESA.
The Academy provides interested Inspectors with training that prepares them to move into Senior Inspector positions and front line supervision roles, which play a critical role in the successful implementation of ESA’s Harm Reduction Strategy. The SLA provides participants with the skills and full formal mentoring, designed to support these priorities and the organization.

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Topics: training consultant, training consultants, learning and development tradeshow, management training, learning and development tradeshows, training program, succession planning, leadership development

How To Know When You Need Sales Consulting?

Posted by Lora Boiago on Apr 12, 2013 11:16:00 AM

How To Know When You Need Sales Consulting


Organizations of all shapes, sizes and industries need guidance and training in generating and closing sales.  Sales consultants promote and sell products or services to clients and customers.  Ensuring adequate training of these consultants is imperative to an organizations success, as they are the liaison between that organization and clients.  Excellent sales consultants maintain contacts and build lasting relationships based on trust and integrity. 

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Topics: training consultant, training consultants, sales consultant, sales consultants, sales training consultant, sales training consultants

Grow Your Learning Consultant Team without Hiring New Employees

Posted by Lora Boiago on Apr 4, 2013 10:02:00 AM

Grow Your Learning Consultant Team without Hiring New Employees

Today's business environment calls for employers of all sizes to remain flexible. Among other things, this means the ability to increase or decrease the number of team members quickly and efficiently.

According to TrainingIndustry.com, scalability refers to an organization’s ability to handle a large increase or decrease in users, workload or transactions without undue stress. Many companies are able to enjoy the flexibility inherent in the scalability of engaging contract learning consultants. This is especially true for functional areas, such as learning, training and development, which often operate in a project-based environment and may be structured as a separate cost- or profit-center.

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Topics: training consultant, training consultants, change management, learning consultants, learning consultant, merger integration, compliance training, hiring contracts trainers, hiring learning consultants

Developing Leadership Skills to Your Manage Remote Workforce

Posted by Nisha Amin on Apr 1, 2013 10:48:00 AM

Managing Remote Workforce

Organizations that invest in their people are already ahead of the game.  Those that can see the future of the workforce know that generational differences, flex time and remote work are all realities that effective leaders must be able to deal with.  Yet, how much time goes into training your managers to effectively lead a changing workforce?

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Topics: training consultant, training consultants, virtual training, virtual training tips, virtual training team, virtual training teams, leadership development training, leadership development

13 Leadership Tips for an Optimal Organizational Development Program

Posted by Lora Boiago on Feb 25, 2013 3:23:00 PM

Learning Consultants Guide: 13 Leadership Tips for an Optimal Organizational Development Program 

In today’s business environment, learning consultants or training consultants are constantly challenged with the reality that organizational development and change is inevitable.   Over the past couple of years, almost every company has been pulled into a massive vortex of chaotic change and lean times. 

The companies that survive will be the ones that have realized that instead of fighting the force of the vortex, it’s far better to get up to speed with it and learn how to implement change at a light speed pace.   

Two essential ingredients are absolutely necessary in creating the type of nimble organization with the agility to navigate these tumultuous times:

1. Leadership….that is strong, positive and focused.

2. People…at all levels who are not only motivated and committed, but also skilled and competent in the areas needed to execute new business strategies from the ground up.

Just what does it take to ensure that these two essentials are in place so your company is ready to face the challenges ahead?

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Topics: training consultant, training consultants, contract trainers, corporate training, corporate training program, corporate consulting, business consulting, corporate training consultants, corporate training trends, change management, corporate training tips, organizational change, learning consultants, organizational development, how to hire corporate training consultants

Tips for Creating a Onboarding Training Program with Blended Learning

Posted by Matthew Davis on Feb 15, 2013 3:58:00 PM

Creating a Blended Learning Onboarding Training Program.

Blended learning corporate training programs are invaluable in assisting you when you have a new employee joining your team. As they begin, they seem like a great fit and you are excited about getting them up and running as soon as possible. How will they integrate into your work culture without disrupting the business or frustrating the rest of your team? How much time and energy do you spend with them, and how do you avoid the blind risk associated with throwing them right into the job?

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Topics: training consultant, training consultants, corporate training, corporate training program, corporate training trends, corporate training tips, blended learning orientation program, corporate onboarding process, new employee orientation, blended learning onboarding program for new employ, onboarding

The Value of Management Training Consultants: Mergers & Acquisitions

Posted by Jody Raines on Dec 12, 2012 1:56:00 PM

The Value of Management Training Consultants: Mergers & Acquisitions

Management training is an ongoing and complex challenge. Especially during a merger or acquisition, there can be battle lines that arise based upon the pre-existing entities.  For any company or organization, if not handled appropriately this can be deadly. Regardless of industry or size, all companies have something in common - they survive by maintaining satisfied customers through their employees and managers. The importance of developing, training and rewarding a company's people through management training cannot be over estimated, and having a third party management training consultant who can be impartial and objective can provide much needed expertise and guidance through choppy and difficult times. 

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Topics: training consultant, training consultants, Instructional design, contract trainers, corporate training, change management, managing change, merger integration

Tips For Maintaining An eLearning Program

Posted by Jody Raines on Nov 8, 2012 2:44:00 PM

Tips For Maintaining An eLearning Program

Corporate training programs include eLearning initiatives as a valuable tool to share information among remote workers.  Using technology has made creating the program much easier than it had been in the past, yet there are opportunities to reduce the expense of change when it comes to maintaining the eLearning program.

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Topics: training consultant, training consultants, Instructional design, corporate training, eLearning program, eLearning change management

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