Welcome to the Training Design Studio
Are you dissatisfied with your harassment and discrimination prevention training?
I have been delivering harassment and discrimination prevention training for 12 years. I frequently encounter clients who are dissatisfied with the training services they have received. I have found a variety of reasons for their dissatisfaction. Effective training has two parts: sound course design and effective course delivery. You may recognize some of the problems encountered by my clients:
Your training may be:
- Too boring
- Too legalistic
- Too simplistic for managers, officers and executives
Your training may rely on:
- Incomplete content that does not provide a sound legal defense
- The use of fear to (attempt to) motivate and change behavior
For more detailed information about these and other issues, see my book, "Case Dismissed: Taking Your Harassment Training to Trial," published by the American Bar Association.
The three requirements for successful training
Good training initiatives need three pillars of support:
- Real Adult Learning Principles: The training must be designed with adult learners in mind. It must be interactive, delivered with high energy, and with practical examples for participants.
- A Reliable Legal Foundation: The training must be designed to maximize your legal defenses. It must focus on your policy, using examples from your industry.
- A Completely Credible Trainer: The trainer must be sufficiently sophisticated, credible and in command of the content to gain the respect of your managers, officers and executives, as well as your rank and file employees.
Who I work with
I work only with clients who have a high stake in the outcome of their training; they may be facing a legal claim or a class action lawsuit; they may have had some problems arise in the workplace; or they may simply want the highest quality training they can get.
I have worked with clients with as few as 1000 employees, and I have worked with clients in the Fortune 5. I have worked in a wide variety of industries - manufacturing, retail, financial services, high tech, law firms, and pharmaceuticals, to name a few. When a client works with me to make sure the course content is relevant to the industry and the workplace, and the client is able to deliver participants to the classroom, we always get positive results.
