Give your people the knowledge and skills they need to do their best work with customized training designed around your organization, challenges, and goals.
The Center for Professional Development creates customized professional workforce training for businesses and organizations of all sizes, industries, and sectors. Whether you need to strengthen professional skills, onboard employees, communicate important procedures, prepare your team for real-world situations, or address a unique workforce challenge, we’ll help you build training around what your people and organization need.
Flexibility with Your Organization in Mind
Workforce Size
An entire workforce or a small group.
We work with your organization of any size to understand the scope of the need and develop an approach that makes sense for your workforce, goals, and environment.
Large
One effective training has the power to transform thousands of employees. With our extensive resources and capabilities, we are ready to discuss how we can bring a solution to your challenge and propel your sizable workforce forward!
Medium
Being a medium-sized organization can feel like you are missing out on the flexibility of being small and the economies of scale of being larger, but we can suit you right where you are. You know the challenges, the plan, and the vision, and we want to help you get where you are going!
Small
Whether you are a growing business with fewer employees or a large institution needing training for only a small segment of your workforce or management, the purpose and content of the training we provide revolves around you. Ready-to-go training is available for individual employees, as well.
Engagement Length
Adjusting and growing to meet exactly what you need.
We are ready whether you need one video that lasts half an hour to automate your welcome communication with new clients or you need a full day training with several modules and materials to upskil your employees. You tell us!
Short
We get it. Time matters. We can create concise content within your framework with maximum “learning return” on engagement.
Mid
You need significant training that can be utilized immediately, long-term, or both, and we can help you determine exactly what that looks like across presentation methods based on the number and nature of your team.
Intensive
We operate out of education experience and an understanding of the psychology of learning and teaching so an extensive or all-day training or workshop sounds great to us. Let’s talk about what you have, what you need, how we can be the best solution for your needs and people.
Presentation Methods
Training for the way your organization works.
Do you need the convenience and time-saving benefit of full video training or is in-person teaching needed? Maybe a combination of video and facilitator are preferred for a consistent but more personable experience. Let’s do it!
DIgital
Online training certainly has its convenient, planning, automated advantages. Strong content combined with professional videos that incorporate your organization’s branding, terminology, and voice are hard to beat, while creating consistency across multiple locations and people.
In-Person
The nature of your organization or the solution you are needing may lean toward the importance of in-person presentation and instruction. Let us help by building your training content and materials, so your people can experience high-quality, consistent, and accurate training now and into the future.
Blended
Training blended between online/video and in-person is a combination that may be attractive to your organization. It offers the flexibility to present the training either way or to present parts of it digitally and parts of it as a facilitator.
Features
Long-term Updatability
Updating and maintenance to protect your investment and carry your training smoothly into the future without an overhaul.
Assessment Options
Checks learner understanding and provides opportunities to reinforce important concepts with optional scoring.
Branded to be Yours
Incorporates your organization's branding, terminology, personality, and style so the learning experience feels connected to your workplace.
Scenario Practice
Provides a low-risk environment to apply learning by practicing conversations, decisions, customer interactions, and other workplace scenarios.
Resource Materials
Supports learning beyond the training experience with reference materials, guides, job aids, and other resources employees can use on the job.
Learning Quality
Combined educational expertise, professional experience, and modern technology to develop training designed for the workplace.
Imagine Training That Suits and Reflects Your Organization
Start With What You Have
You don’t need to have the training figured out before you come to us.
Maybe you already have the information but need a better way to teach it. Maybe your subject matter experts know exactly what employees need to know, but you need help turning that expertise into effective training. Or maybe you simply know there’s a problem.
Bring us the content, the goal, the challenge, or even the beginning of an idea.
We can work with your existing materials or develop training content based on the needs and goals we identify together. Your knowledge of your organization, combined with our educational expertise, can become training built specifically for your workforce.
What could we do for your organization?
Training isn’t just about sharing information. Done well, it can help your organization create consistency, strengthen performance, prepare employees for challenging situations, and give your people greater confidence in their work.
Imagine tailored, high-quality video pathways built around YOUR company’s unique culture, operational language, and precise client-handling standards. And imagine it with your branding and voice. Sounds pretty great, doesn’t it? Contact us to share your needs so we can help you find the most effective solution!