Professional Development Training
How many truisms can you come up with about employees being the most valuable resource of any organization? We can think of more than a few ourselves. And there are so many because it’s true: the quality of your workforce makes or breaks the company. This reality means a company’s real driver of long-term success lies in its people. As Robert E. Kelley observes, “An organization’s ability to attract, develop, and retain the best talent is the single greatest determinant of its success.”
What is Professional Development Training?
Professional Development Training provides the tools and opportunities for employees to grow personally and in their careers, turning the emotional investment Mr. Sinek references into measurable contributions that move your organization forward. A good working definition of Professional Development Training goes something like this:
“Instead of role-specific training, Professional Development Training equips employees with widely applicable skills they can use across the organization in management and leadership roles. The objective is to grow the capabilities of your employees and prepare them to assume greater responsibility within the organization.”
When you provide employees with Professional Development Training, good things happen—good things like increased confidence, enhanced job satisfaction, greater engagement and motivation, and reduced stress and anxiety about having the right tools to do their current and future jobs.
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Nexstar Case Study
Closing Technician Skills Gaps with Interactive eLearning
Nexstar needed to build competency and skills for residential service technicians across three trade fields – plumbing, electrical, and HVAC.
Together, Allen Interactions and Nexstar identified skill gaps in the plumbing, electrical, and HVAC trades. Nexstar’s distributed technician audience needed eLearning and skill reinforcement through on-the-job training and assessments by training leaders in the field. The custom eLearning solution is engaging, realistic, filled with real-life situations and environments to prepare technicians for their trade, regardless of experience.
After trusting Allen Interactions with their training needs, the company experienced the following solution highlights:
Plumbing, electrical, and HVAC residential home service providers reported overall time to complete was reduced.
The value of learning was immediate and measurable for each learner, with motivation and completion rates towards licensure increasing significantly.
The eLearning solution closed skill gaps by focusing on areas of common mistakes, rare contexts, and application of critical knowledge.
Nexstar Revolutionizes Residential Technician Training
As a member-owned organization, Nexstar Network provides business networking opportunities through training classes and leadership events for the residential home services industry through NexTech Academy. Member dues stay in the organization to build and enhance education, training, and business solutions.
Click the video above to see a brief demo of the eLearning solution that helped plumbing, electrical, and HVAC residential home service providers close skill gaps, and significantly increase completion rates towards licensure.
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Allen Professional Development Training Expertise
Our SAVVY approach to program development is a significant differentiator of an Allen Interactions Professional Development Training solution. Rather than applying an off-the-shelf development template, we typically spend two days listening to you describe and define everything pertinent to our program development efforts, such as:
- Training outcomes in terms of increased employee satisfaction, improved job performance, and higher retention rates among trained employees
- Training objectives like participation and completion rates
- Infrastructure resources supporting how we can reach your employees
- How you will measure, demonstrate, and report success
At Allen Interactions, we design Professional Development Training solutions not just to teach but also to transform and help you build the employee base to drive future successes. Our multidisciplinary team customizes each program to match your unique needs, blending technology with tailored content for maximum impact.
We harness the power of immersive technologies like Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and gamification to create engaging, interactive learning experiences. Combined with our proven methodologies, these innovative tools ensure your workforce learns, retains, and applies new skills in real-world scenarios.
Is a Professional Development Training Solution Right for You?
Aside from the positive benefits employees enjoy from Professional Development Training, what can your organization expect as its return on its training investment? Common benefits include:
- Higher employee satisfaction, engagement, and motivation
- Increased productivity
- A strong pipeline of qualified management and leadership candidates
- Improved employee retention
- Increased ability to attract top talent
The combined benefits to your organization and employees make implementing the best Professional Development Training program a strategic advantage. Allen Interactions is ready to help you achieve these results and more.
How can Allen Interactions help my organization with Professional Development Training?
Allen Interactions has led the interactive online training field for decades, developing new technologies and training methodologies along the way. Over that time, we’ve helped hundreds of organizations like yours use training to create workforces that excel in their roles, from front-line customer service to exceptional sales performance to mastery of industry-specific fundamentals.
As part of our growth as a customer-focused company, we have developed, refined, and proven a comprehensive process that ensures we understand your needs, develop needs-based and goal-driven learning solutions, and then implement them inside your organization, training staff so they can confidently and fearlessly manage the solution.
Customer Testimonials
Allen Interactions created an extremely engaging, interactive sales process course, with complex interactions between sales associates and customers. This pilot resulted in some incredible results!
Kenneth Gregson
Director Variable Operations Learning & Performance, AutoNation
Customer Testimonials
Adults are looking for untraditional learning experiences. Coupled with innovations in core business strategies within, we had the perfect moment to create a seamless experience for the independent sales force with Allen Interactions.
Kathryn Hunt-Siwald
Manager, Sales Education Materials & Strategic Education, Mary Kay
Customer Testimonials
By incorporating fun, engaging content into the Penn Foster online learning experience offered by schools like Penn Foster, we belive our students will be better able to retain the information, not only for their exams, but to apply in the workforce and entirety of their careers as medical professionals.
Dara Warn
Chief Operating Officer, Penn Foster Education Group
How can Allen Interactions help implement Professional Development Training?
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Years of Innovation
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Clients Served
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Custom Interactions
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Awards Received
Why Work with Allen Interactions?
Our clients often say that we understand training development better than any other company they’ve met. We take that as high praise, indeed. But, we know that choosing a partner you’ll entrust to develop your mission-critical training solution requires us to demonstrate, to you and your team’s satisfaction, that an Allen Interactions eLearning Program will meet or exceed your expectations.
We encourage you to ask us (and everyone on your radar) to demonstrate capabilities in these critical areas:
Lead with listening
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Proven track record
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Ability to customize a program
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Technology agnostic
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Scalable solutions
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Provide robust analytics
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Exceptional user interfaces
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Integration with your existing
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Support and training
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Quality, current, accurate, and
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Cost-effective with proven ROI
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