Outside Seminars

Outside seminars can be great sources of training if you don’t have a training department or a good supplement to the training department. There are companies that offer seminars to the public on certain dates and times, and open up enrollment to the public. Local community colleges also often offer seminars for noncredit. Contact your local Chamber of Commerce also, because such non-profits often sponsor training seminars of two hours or even full days as a service to their members.

One word of caution for all outside seminars: Watch for the dreaded “pitch training.” This is when a company offers training packaged as training, but it is really a disguised sales pitch for their longer, more-expensive training programs. This practice ...

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