Training and True Learning – They Just Aren’t the Same Thing!
Keeping up in today's market has become more difficult than ever, with competitiveness at it's highest and the pace of market demands at it's fastest. Today's corporations can't afford to fall behind, and corporate training is an essential part of that effort.
Delivering a great product or service is a necessary starting point, but then what? Training must take place. But where and how is training success measured? Remember, your product is only as good as your customer's ability to use it, and that means training must not only take place, but true learning and the application if what was learned must take place.
How good is any product or service (or your company's reputation for that matter) if your customers (whether they be internal or external) fail?
Critical to today's corporate success strategies, is the successful handoff of information to end clients. To guarantee customer success means you have to provide excellent training. But how do you provide it? And how do you know if your methods work? Who trains the trainer? Employees are one of the largest and most potentially lucrative assets of any corporation. Investing in their training them is critical. But how do you measure success in the end?
When it comes to corporate training, Fort Hill Company has asked all the critical questions about how people true learn, and come up with world-class solutions for corporate training and the “learning /applying component” of corporate training. Recognized as leading experts in information dissemination and application, Fort Hill Company has taken the guesswork out of training development. Their research-based techniques are proven methods to ensure participants walk away with the know-how they need.
They provide your trainers proven training development and implementation methodologies. Their consulting know-how, tangible learning tools, and proven learning methodologies provide your trainers the skills and techniques they need to turn knowledge into action and action into success.
Gone are the days of stale classroom learning, where corporate training workshops are little more than paid days off with a free lunch. The 3-ring binders have been replaced by high-tech learning labs. Passive and theoretical learning environments have been replaced by active learning techniques with proven successful results. When the event has ended, the resulting success has only begun.
Their three-part program includes: real-time consultation, in-person workshops, and follow up tools so participants can implement what they learn once they return to their desks. Their consulting know-how is an obvious benefit for any company wanting to maximize the return on investment. Combine this with your existing in-house training teams to create real success. They treat learning as a process rather than a finite event. Through their programs, participants not only gain knowledge but walk away with tangible tools for ongoing success.
Through years of refinement and field research, Fort Hill as identified six critical elements to effective training programs. Termed the Six Disciplines (6Ds), these critical methodologies have become an industry standard by which to design and implement successful training programs. As program participants, your trainers not only learn these critical Six Disciplines, but go away with the skills and tools they need to implement them. Participants are given opportunities to practice and apply what they learn - rather than hold new knowledge in the vacuum of their learning environment. The focus is not just on acquiring the knowledge but equally on the application of these new skills in real-time environments.
In today's fast-paced, action-oriented culture, what you learn must be put into action immediately. There's no time for theoretical learning. Successful and immediate application of new information and training is paramount or it's value is wasted and return on investment is lost.
To this end, Fort Hill's includes in signature product, Friday5, a suite of follow-up tools to ensure participant success even after the learning event has ended. These tools offer an ongoing, easy-to-use and easy-to-access web-based learning system to keep their new skills sharp. Friday5s provides reminders, content collaboration tools, and coaching guaranteeing better results so trainers can turn knowledge into power.
At last, training methods that transfer real skills and techniques that can be implemented immediately, not just knowledge that gets put back on the shelf. With their proven success, Fort Hill Company is an obvious and critical element to raise the bar for today's training needs.
