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

Instructional Design Company: Working in Partnership with Your SMEs

Posted by Lora Boiago on Apr 7, 2013, 5:03:00 PM

Working in Partnership with Your SMEs


How do instructional design companies build and leverage valuable relationships with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) when designing a new learning program?

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Topics: Instructional design, instructional designers, instructional designer, instructional design companies, instructional design company

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

Top Strategic Benefits to a Custom Retail eLearning Solution

Posted by Lora Boiago on Mar 26, 2013, 10:09:00 AM

Top eLearning companies tips

As a retailer, you are faced with the challenge of continually enhancing the customer satisfaction while ensuring your employees are updated and motivated by the company brand.  What if you could accomplishall this through an eLearning program?  You certainly could, but it would be a tough sell without any references to your organization's name, culture, or values.  What about a custom eLearning solution for your employees?  That could definitely work, but aren't they costly?

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Topics: eLearning, custom eLearning development, custom eLearning, eLearning solutions, eLearning solution, blended learning, custom retail eLearning solution

Course Development Tips – How to Build a Good Design Plan

Posted by Lora Boiago on Mar 22, 2013, 5:19:00 PM

Course Development Tips –How to Build a Good Design Plan

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." - Steve Jobs

It seems like a logical progression - design your corporate training program, then develop it.  But often, a good upfront corporate design plan – if it exists at all - is pushed aside as we rush to develop the course first.  This results in the content being written and forced to fit into the course development schedule as opposed to the course development emerging from a good design plan.

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Topics: Instructional design, corporate training, corporate training program, instructional designers, instructional designer, corporate training consultants, corporate training programs, course development, course design, how to hire instructional designer

Top 5 Custom eLearning Development Programs / Authoring Tools

Posted by Lora Boiago on Mar 22, 2013, 12:33:00 PM

Top 5 Custom eLearning Development Programs / Authoring Tools

Custom eLearning developments, along with their counterpart software, have undergone rapid growth in recent years.  With so many software options today, shouldn’t your custom eLearning development life be easier too?  As eLearning continues to gain popularity, it seems impossible to remain updated on the many different authoring tools available today. As eLearning developers are in search of the latest authoring tool to help engage their learners, they become inundated with product details.  With so much information available, how do you begin sorting through it all?  Can you come to a decision and be sure of it without losing a full-day of work?

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Topics: eLearning program, instructional designers, instructional designer, custom eLearning development, custom eLearning, Articulate Studio, Articulate, Adobe Captivate, Adobe, Trivantis Lectora, Trivantis, Lectora, Adobe Flash, eLearning authoring tools, elearning provider, e learning provider, how to hire e learning provider

Top 6 Compliance Training Considerations for Your Organization

Posted by Lora Boiago on Mar 15, 2013, 5:37:00 PM

Compliance Training Considerations for Your Organization


Compliance training should be viewed as a strategic corporate maneuver.  Rather than a necessary evil, think of the creation of a compliance training program as an opportunity for you to further perpetuate your organization's core values and culture. Link customer satisfaction or brand stewardship to the behaviors of compliance training, rather than focusing on the policy clauses and maintaining controls.  

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Topics: corporate training, corporate training program, corporate training consultants, corporate training trends, corporate training tips, organizational change, corporate training programs, compliance training program, compliance training, organizational development, compliance training programs, how to hire training consultant

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