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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Corporate Training For Social Networking Initiatives And Compliance
Corporate training for employees about social networking and how to use social network sites can be tricky. Of course you want to be sure to comply with NLRB guidelines with regards to employee rights, yet you also need to be sure to protect the company.
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Corporate Training: Top 5 Trends For Training Programs
Top Training Tips from Your Corporate Training Company
Corporate training companies continue to evolve and change, incorporating best practices and trends that prove to be effective. In keeping with nationwide trends in corporate training initiatives, most training consultants agree that there are 5 major trends that are best practices for training initiatives.
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