Kick the Canned Approach!
Many customers tell us that other “canned” training/coaching programs often fall short of being interesting and or useful to their teams or organizations. Ultimately, the canned approach just doesn’t seem to stick to the ribs for them.
It makes us wonder — then what did they pay for and what was their R.O.I.? At Training for Winners, we take our responsibility seriously. After all, you’ve entrusted us with your your team members. That’s a big deal to us. There is a lot riding on the reskilling, upskilling and sharpening of peoples’ skills, thanks to today’s ultra-competitive business landscape.
Effective and customized training/coaching accomplishes many things. It enriches your life, energizes you, makes you wonder, challenges you and ideally increases loyalty to the organization. The most useful training offers practical skills critical to the current stage of your organization’s (or team’s) development. We present learning in direct, easy-to-understand ways. It should be essential to the job you have to perform in the next 6-12 months, for a start.
Here is why our coaching programs actually “stick”
Forget the generic, canned training programs. You know, the ones that make big promises to fix all of your problems and challenges. Let’s keep it real.
Through our extensive due diligence, we will customize our extremely interactive programs for you and your team because that’s the best way to do it. Our clients tell us so. We will offer help and inspire your people with real tools that they can put into immediate practice so they can begin creating quantifiable results right away.
We use a combination of learning methods, such as: Individual and group exercises, team challenges, presentations and fun contests that make the learning fun and experiential. We’ll build your program around the theme you want to drive home.
We will also stay with the process if you choose, individually coaching people beyond the initial workshops. We know that people learn at different speeds, and our clients have seen terrific results in the one-on-one coaching aspects of our work.
Our Associates Team can be your go-to experts, especially during our economic recovery
For owners and entrepreneurs starting up or running your own businesses, Gary and his Associates Team provide solid small-business coaching and consulting, too. After all, it can be overwhelming, right? Do you often feel like you are on a treadmill, running faster but getting no further ahead? Do you feel like you are making decisions in a vacuum? Do you tell yourself the issue will get better when you find more time to address it?
Add onto all of that the extra pressure of getting back to full-on business and re-claiming your customers as we re-awaken from the fallout of the pandemic. It’s a lot to handle, and our talented Associates Team can offer lifelines and valuable help built on decades of solid business experience. Our work is available via virtual, hybrid and in-person deliveries.
So, when is that “right time” to enlist training & coaching help for your team?
“It’s too busy.” It’s too slow.” “Doesn’t it cost a lot?” We’ve heard all these excuses and more from owners and managers about when is the right time to invest in the reskilling, upskilling and coaching of one’s team. Is there ever a wrong time to build on peoples’ skills and abilities? Is it ever the wrong time to sharpen peoples’ tools in order to take on your competition? This is an INVESTMENT in your people that will pay off in big dividends for them and your business, too. There is no wrong time to do this. Indeed, education will never be as expensive as ignorance.
Gary’s been there. He started his own business in 1995 and faced these same uphill challenges. He and his team can work shoulder-to-shoulder with entrepreneurs and owners on the things you don’t have the time (or bandwidth) to do. These areas could include: Social media make-overs, branding, working with 1099 contractors, marketing plans, public relations, SEO, P & Ls, prospecting, team training, sales, etc.
We can do as deep a dive as you wish, or as your time and resources allow. Our strategic and tactical solutions have been helping teams and organizations achieve better RESULTS in sales, service, leadership, and personal growth since 1995. Don’t ask us, ask our clients — we’ll gladly put you in touch.
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Here are some of our most-requested training topics:
PLEASE NOTE: These training components are some of our most popular topics, but due to space and brevity, not all programs are listed. Consider this a “Greatest Hits” approach as suggested by our clients, and please understand that every program is fully customized. We are creating new material all the time, so if you don’t see your particular focus area here, please ask!
The Art of Storytelling: How to make sales presentations, product proposals and leadership addresses more compelling through the use of storytelling that resonates with people emotionally and helps move them to action.
Personal branding: Creating, nurturing, & utilizing your brand for success; How to utilize your brand to get results and influence others
Communication skills for individuals and teams: Keys to verbal and written skills with internal AND external customers; Setting up communication protocols; Focusing on 3-way communication — up-line, side-line and down-line
Using social media for greater sales and network-building results
Accountability and trust: Building and sustaining these ultra-important attributes across team boundaries
Writing skills for effective emails, proposals, RFPs — It’s the forgotten art that can set you apart from the crowd
Think like an owner: Taking an entrepreneurial approach to improving workplace performance, from front-line teams to upper management
Sales/Service mystery shopping services designed to uncover need areas in your company’s approach to its customers
Building seamlessness and tearing down silos in your organization — and providing key elements to keep those silos down
Understanding the dynamics of personality styles (yours and others), how they influence one another, their effects on buying and selling; How to help different styles understand each other, respect each other and work together better
Time and priority management: How to use the clock instead of blaming it; Handling multiple priorities successfully; Recognizing time-drainers and how to avoid or minimize them
One-on-one career, job transition or performance coaching tailored to help individuals with specific goals and ambitions. Whether it is making or preparing for a career move, improving one’s personal branding or learning new skills and gaining new insights, Gary will deliver for you. For group training, we also offer phone and email coaching sessions to help drive home the lessons from the workshops
Facilitation of executive leadership retreats: Developing strategies, culture-building, goal-setting, action-planning and sales campaigns; Bringing your organization’s departmental or team leaders together to “congeal” them as an authentic, cohesive leadership team in important areas such as communication, trust, protocols, supporting each other and delivering the goods through better synergy
Customer service excellence: Making everyone a salesperson; Examining those critical Moments of Truth that impact your customers and teams
PLEASE NOTE: Consulting services are also available, and can be designed to accomplish your project goals in any of the areas above, plus: public relations, data analytics, website development and maximizing the power of social media for your organization. Ask us about contract assignments and longer-term consultancy projects
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