Identify, troubleshoot and experiment with real-life examples from your own department or company.  Receive feedback in real-time – there are no wrong answers!

Role playing in a dynamic free-flowing environment for maximum skills development  Experiment and receive real-time, practical feedback in a  think tank, lab environment. 

No Real Training Methodology

Present a lot of theoretical information via PowerPoint presentations, videos and/or on-line training mechanisms with limited student interaction and real-life practical problem solving exercises. 

Give MBA-style case studies that students must independently interpret, understand and apply to challenges within their own company. 

Few activities to get students interacting and taking ownership of the exercises.  Activities are more illustrative of topics but not useful in building skills. 

Progressive In-Class Labs

Labs initially conducted in small groups, which continuously decrease in size until students are comfortable designing, conducting, interpreting, and presenting their own results and findings.
 

Activities are random.  Some are in groups and others are individual.  No strategy to connect the activities to each other or the students.

Depending on the student’s preferred learning style, learning environments include in-class walkabouts, mentoring sessions, personalized labs and continued coaching and  support post format training sessions.
 

Training tends to be more impersonal so more and more students can be “trained” at the same time.   Instructor involvement is limited as the sessions are set up to serve the needs of many students vs. the needs of the individual
 

Skills-Based Training

“Education” is primarily about obtaining knowledge but “training” is about developing skills,.  Obviously, knowledge is a prerequisite to training but our courses move students  from education to skills-based training as quickly as possible through experiential, interactive learning.
 

Impart a lot of information on the students in a lecture-type format and evaluate using traditional testing methods (e.g., multiple choice exams).  Ability to apply learned knowledge in a practical, real-life setting is not evaluated.  Students are left to apply knowledge in real-life situations as best as possible with no coaching or mentoring along the way.
 

Unique Content

We provide content that is not found in traditional training. Our decision trees and job aides are a passion with us and accelerate your skills development.

Course subject matter is the same, no matter who provides the training. Nothing more than you would find in most books.  There is little emphasis on client intimacy or customization.