What is a Contract Trainer?

Many companies outsource their trainers to reduce the operating costs of having a full-time trainer onsite, as well as to the ease and convenience of finding a trainer that helps meet their specific need at any given time.

Contract trainers are training specialists who provide contingent support to organizations. Our team of experienced contracts trainers thoroughly understand the training content in order to enable change, they assess training effectiveness and can interact with all levels within an organization.  Are you looking to be a independent trainer? If so, you will find the tips below helpful.

How to Use Adobe Connect for your Virtual Instructor Led Training ViLT 

Adobe Connect is a web conferencing and virtual classroom platform used by thousands of companies and universities worldwide. Using Adobe's software, companies can create online training materials and learning modules, conduct webinars, and participate in online meetings complete with desktop sharing. 

Improving Efficiency: 9 Top Management Training Topics

There's an art to selecting the right management training topics that help businesses increase their productivity and efficiency. What's more, it may become a lost art in the world of management training and professional development. There are companies today that under appreciate just how important it is to find management training topic combinations that contribute to a company's overall efficiency levels.

Training Programs for Top Management

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Global Training Company Receives BBB A+ Award

TrainingFolks’ is happy to announce we are accredited with an A+ rating by the Better Business Bureau.

TrainingFolks is a leading global corporate training and development company committed to providing learning solutions, consulting and contingent workforce services to help clients address key business challenges.

For 8 consecutive years, TrainingFolks has achieved the highest possible rating A+ for its expected interaction with customers.  The overall evaluation is based on reaching a number of standards set by the BBB.

What is the Purpose of a Leadership Development Program?

In today’s workplace with diverse employees and new challenges, leadership can come from many different walks of life. They may hold varying experiences in the professional and post-secondary world. This diverse background can be a great asset to the executive team, but it may mean your leadership team needs the training to serve your overall business effectively. The workplace is constantly changing with technology bringing us new solutions and young workers entering the workforce. With training, you can help your leadership team prepare for these changes effectively and assist your company to thrive.

What is Sales Enablement—Why It’s So Important Today

Sales enablement is what aligns your sales team to your sales strategy. You can empower your sales force, as long as you properly equip them. To achieve true enablement, you can equip sales reps with training. Doing so calls for you to have a training model in place. Teaching the key points of your sales strategy is an in-depth process. Training and education are required if you want everyone on track.

Best Way to Hire a Contract Instructional Designer

In the fast-paced corporate world, businesses are under pressure to adapt to constant changes in technology, work process, and industry standards. The best way to meet those challenges is to use advanced training techniques to create a high-performing workforce. The question arises, how will you meet the training demands of your organization?

Many enterprises turn to external training solutions. There are countless companies that offer general teaching experiences, but these present problems of their own. Many courses are designed for wide application; they typically aren't well-suited to meet your company’s individual needs or requirements. This disconnect causes workers to be disengaged, wasting the time and money spent on training.

Instructional Designer Common Mistakes Using Training Handouts

A good Instructional Designer will use best practices when creating training handouts. Here are common mistakes you should avoid.

They know that training handouts are very powerful training tools. Not only do they provide reinforcement to participants of content learned, but they also stay with the participants for a long time after the training. However, many trainers are so focused on creating their presentations that they wait until the last minute to create their handouts and often they don't align to the learning objectives. Handouts are a critical part of your training and having the proper content on your handouts is an important part of the total training experience.

Here are a few mistakes you want to avoid when trying to create a successful handout:

How to Find the Right Instructional Design Consultant

Tips to Hiring the Ideal Candidate For Your Learning Department

It’s bound to happen. You’re finally at the point where you can manage your training initiatives and everyone on the team, while stretched thin, can continue to manage day to day operations while also taking on a few new projects as needed.

Then it happens.