LEARNING WITHOUT SCARS and FSSG — Blog by Ron Slee (Managing Director, LWS)
We are extremely pleased to be affiliated with Dan Kinsman and Dan Shipley and their desire to provide learning tools for the people in the Flatbed businesses. We will be including several academic class qualified classes from the “two Dan’s.” in September. They have provided us with over twenty hours of training materials and quizzes to allow us to include them in our accredited learning programs.
Our training programs are designed to help people achieve their personal and professional potential. We offer a wide range of courses that cover various aspects of product support, including technical skills, customer service skills, management skills, and sales skills. These courses are designed to be practical, relevant, and effective in helping employees to improve their performance and to increase their value to their organization.
Learning Without Scars has transitioned to an internet-based self-study school environment. Our classes have over the years delivered education in a variety of formats. We started in the front of a classroom as teachers, moved to instructor-led webinars, and in-person workshops.
Early on we identified that education is aimed at the traditional school. Students typically attending school full time. Normally this is a student body with an upper age of twenty-five years old.
Over the past twenty years we have positioned ourselves to be working in what is called workforce development. The adult education area. These are people who are in the workforce. They are busy. Typically, they have families and children. Their companies need them on the job during their work shift. By the end of the day, they are normally too tired to go to school at night. Having done that myself I understand how hard that can be on anyone.
Our workforce development classes are split up into short segments. They have lectures and homework. They all have audio tracks so that the content can be listened to in your vehicle or when you are exercising or doing other chores. We finally have found what we wanted to be able to provide. We needed to offer our students’ academic credits for their continuing education. To do this we went to IACET. International Accreditation of Continuing Education and Training.
Following their protocols we submitted our application, and we have received their accreditation. This allows us to provide CEUs, Continuing Education Credits, for all of our classes and lectures. Continuing Education Units represent Academic Credits at Community Colleges, Junior Colleges, Technical and Vocational Schools as well as Public and Private Universities.
We cover a broad range of industries and applications. Most, although not all, are within the capital goods market segment. Automotive, Construction Equipment, Mining, Agriculture, Material Handling, On-Highway Vehicles, Marine as examples. This will soon include the Flatbed materials that the “two Dan’s” have provided us as a foundation.
We normally like to start with our Skills and Knowledge Assessments. These assessments apply to twenty different job functions today. We plan to add many more in the months to come. The scores achieved from these assessments allow us to design a specific learning path for the students. These learning parts cover several areas within the industries noted above. Customer Service, Electrical, Flat-Beds, Marketing, Parts, Selling and Service. We offer within these categories more than two hundred different subject specific classes. In the workforce development area one academic credit is earned with every two classes. We also offer twenty-four general education credit classes. Rounding out our Learning Products we have Guest Professor Lecture Series.
As a school we have to be able to provide students and their employers a learning portal that allows everyone to be able to track their progress, to access their courses at any time and from any location, and to receive feedback and support from our team of experienced trainers. In addition to the courses, we also provide a range of resources and tools that can help employees to implement what they learn and to continue their development after the training is completed. These include job aids, checklists, templates, and guides.
We believe that our approach to training and development can help employees to increase their competence, confidence, and success in their jobs. We invite you to explore our website: www.learningwithoutscars.com - and to contact us for more information about our programs and how they can benefit you and your organization.