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Training and Professional Development

Training Needs Assessment / Curriculum Design / Training Delivery

Offering training to your people improves motivation, increases productivity, reduces turnover and enhances job satisfaction whether they get paid for their work or volunteer their time.

Providing opportunities for people to learn and practice new skills increases the bottom line. That’s true whether you’re a nonprofit organization or a Fortune 500 company. Executives, employees, board members and volunteers can all benefit from continued learning, which ultimately means better overall organizational performance.

We pride ourselves on customizing our training to meet our clients’ needs. We will meet with you to understand what you want training to address. Through an assessment, we are able to determine if that need is best met with training or perhaps some other approach.

If the assessment indicates that training is the way to go, we’ll work with you to design a training program around what you want to accomplish.

We are skilled at providing nonprofit board training. We understand the operational and funding constraints under which nonprofits function. This expertise is based on our many years of working with nonprofit organizations in various capacities either as staff or as consultants.

No matter what the topic is, we provide training that is interactive and highly participatory. We present situations that could occur in your work or service environment and coach participants to apply the skills they are learning to those situations.

Our Training Topics:

Grant Writing Train-the-Trainer Conflict Resolution Gaining Media Access

Effective Workplace Communication Creative Problem Solving Successful TV Interviewing Nonprofit Board Development and Operations

Want to offer an insightful and fun workshop at your next professional association meeting? Consider Creative Thinking for Problem Solving.

Our Training and Professional Development clients include:

• City or Portland
• Epson
• Healthy Beginnings
• Hewlett Packard
• Milwaukie Police Department
• North American Simulation and Gaming Association
• Oregon Association of Water Utilities
• Oregon Public Property Managers Association
• Portland Community College
• Precision Interconnect (now Tyco Electronics)
• Rexam Graphics
• State of Oregon, Services to Children and Families
• United Way of the Columbia Willamette
• Washington State University: Western Regional Institute for Community Oriented Public Safety