
Why choose The Trainer's Friend (raise their
awareness of our existence and our quality)?
We are well-known, and well-regarded, by the technical community
Although we do not cover all areas someone might want training in (so we are not "one-stop shopping"), what we do cover we are the best at:
No one keeps their materials more current and more useable than The Trainer's Friend - this is an added value feature
We are flexible and creative when it comes to
content tailoring, course development, and training scheduling
We give back to the business / technical
community:
We provide free technical materials on our
website: our z/OS Unix paper has been downloaded over 50,000
times
We publish practical articles in the trade
press
We help solve problems in the techincal
community by responding to posts in technical newsgroups such as
ibm-main and MVS Open Edition
You can help us by:
Being an inside sales person: tell
your manager about us, tell your training people about us
Point to our website (http://www.trainersfriend.com, of course)
Give them our email address: kitty@trainersfriend.com or steve@trainersfriend.com
Give them our phone number (in
Colorado or from outside the US: 303-393-8716; in the US,
toll free: 800-993-8716)
Help us to reach the right people:
give us names and email addresses or phone numbers
What is the need for training at all (make the
business case)?
Although you hire people already technical, the
industry is constantly changing and your people need to learn the new
technologies properly to use in your installation
This is so your IT capabilities and practices can
more rapidly use the technologies appropriate to your business, to
provide new services at lower cost, with increasing reliability and
security
New techniques or capabilities in existing
products and technologies can often make developers more productive and
effective with already familiar tools (e.g.: COBOL and PL/I can
now handle Unicode and XML natively)
New products and technologies are not impossible
to learn, but it takes time and managment committment
Although your people are capable of learning this
on their own, they are often over-worked, under-staffed, or not given
incentives to learn the new techniques
Our course developers find learning curves from
two months to three years; but they put the results into courses lasting
1-5 days
If your staff go to learn product updates or new technologies, they get the benefit of condensing the learning curve dramatically - and each student gets that benefit, instead of each student doing self-study on their own and each having to go through the learning curve on their own
This page last updated: 19 April, 2008
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