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How Do I Choose the Best Training Provider?

Lainie Petersen
Lainie Petersen

If you or your employees are in need of a training provider, it is important to select one who is qualified to give the training that you need. In addition, you also want to find a training provider whom you can afford. To find a good source of job or skills training, you should seek information about providers in professional and trade publications, ask for referrals from industry colleagues, and talk to trainers about their experience and costs. Other considerations include the logistics of obtaining training services and whether the provider is in a position to offer classes at times and in locations convenient to your business.

Once you identify a need for training and education within your business, you will want to seek out a quality training provider. If the training that you need is mandated by government or industry regulations, you will first want to make sure that any education provider is qualified to provide this sort of training. For example, if your staff is required to complete a certain number of continuing education hours each year in order to maintain their professional licenses, you will need to make sure that the licensing agency in your area actually recognizes any of the education companies that you consider. It's generally a good idea to double-check a school's claims of being an approved provider by confirming its approved status with the organization that mandates the education.

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Another consideration when selecting a training provider is cost and accessibility. Some providers may be able to provide your business with a better pricing structure than others. In fact, an educator may be able to offer you a package deal in which you can pay for several training sessions at one time, allowing your employees to complete individual programs at their own pace. You should also ask about when and where training is provided and make sure that employees can actually get to the classes they are going to take. If a training provider offers online education options, this can be a huge convenience for your team.

Finally, ask people within your industry for their recommendations. You may find that some providers get higher ratings than others. Although you should balance recommendations with the issues of cost and logistics while making your decision, if your priority is quality education, going with the training provider who earns the highest praise from your peers may be the best option for the long-term success of your business.

Discussion Comments

croydon

If you are working in retail in New Zealand and you have a chance to take a Lotto training course you should jump at it. I did one while I was working for a bookshop.

Not only do they open up your options for finding other work, they are also really fun and you meet a bunch of great people.

Plus they are supposedly the best training for Lotto services in the world. If you are certified by the New Zealand group you can find work in other countries (although I never tried).

I also did the liquor license training which was good, but not so much fun.

That's another handy one for the CV though, especially when you are a student worker.

umbra21

You should also think outside the box if you are looking for teamwork training for your staff.

My friend has several groups of employees under her and she was dismayed to find out that they had such a large amount of back biting and unhealthy rivalry. She almost lost a couple of people over it who couldn't take the atmosphere anymore.

She was playing miniature golf with her kid one day and happened to talk to the owner of the course, who also had an adventure park out the back with staff group work training resources.

My friend had her staff groups reassigned randomly to take the adventure training and everyone had a ball and were much easier to work with afterwards.

Training can be used as an incentive in more than one way.

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