How Often Do You Attend Business Training You Love?
Corporate training is often both boring and ineffective. Many corporate trainers are just expert users, and know nothing about instructional design. Many new hires quit because of poorly run training. What a waste of time, money, and talent.
It does not have to be this way. Whether you need someone to manage your technical training or you need some help improving your own training classes, you can count of Jeff’s innovative approach to bring results.
Technical Training Consultant
As a Technical Training Manager for the largest private IT company in Arizona, Jeff developed a two-week new staff training program that was so successful the company began offering it to their clients as an additional revenue stream.
After two IT staff left one of Jeff’s clients, they were in danger of losing their Microsoft Partner status. Jeff developed a training program that doubled the previous MS partner points in just 3 weeks and spread them across four times as many staff members.
One of the highlights of Jeff’s career was presenting at the Smarter Services Executive Symposium. His presentation included having attendees play a game he invented to help make complex logistics ideas more easily grasped. The executives in attendance admitted their logistics software fell short of their goals and were impressed how Jeff’s game convinced management to try a different approach.
If you need help turning your company’s training around, give Jeff a call and see what he can do for your company.
Management Coach & Mentor
Management is a lonely business. While there are hundreds of management books in circulation, they don’t offer the quick advice when it is most needed. What managers really need is somebody with experience to confide in. Somebody to bounce ideas off of. Somebody to offer approaches that have worked in the past. What they need is a mentor.
Management is often harder for those in IT. There are fewer role models and few IT department understand the importance of managing people instead of work. The Peter Principle, the tendency to promote individuals to a level of incompetence, is alive and well in many IT shops.
New Managers are afraid to admit they are in over their heads and just hope nobody will notice. It makes for a very stressful existence for them and their direct reports. It is no wonder technical people do not want the responsibility of becoming a manager, but it is often the only way to higher pay.
Jeff is an excellent coach and mentor. Contact him to find out how he can help your organization.
New Manager Training
There are hundreds of self-help books for managers to make them better across single dimensions. How to be a better salesman. How to articulate goals. How to be more motivational. Often there are very simple concepts, but most of them speak to you as though you have a pretty good understanding of management to begin with. What if you need a better understanding of the basics of management?
Jeff has been developing a quick course for new managers that combines some of the best concepts across many topics, but in a condensed format that can immediately be put to work. Some of these topics he has successfully presented at companies over the years, and some are brand new topics. Now anybody can take advantage of Jeff’s guidance.
Combining this course with some periodic coaching or mentoring will help give any manager a strong foundation for truly becoming comfortable managing people.
Stay tuned for more information on Jeff’s new management classes.