Tip #1138: How to Select a Management Training Company
Here are ten common questions that organizations might ask when searching for and selecting a management training company: What experience does your company have in
July 13, 2026
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Laurel and Associates, Ltd.’s Management and Team Development programs strengthen your leadership skills in areas like communication, delegation, motivation, and team building. We provide training that equips your managers to lead more effectively, fostering a productive and engaged workforce.
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Introduction: A state agency sought to develop a more cohesive management team.
Challenge: Preliminary survey results and individual interviews indicated that there was a low level of trust and a lack of open communication both within the team and outside it.
Strategies: Facilitate a full day in-person retreat with highly interactive skill-building learning activities that enabled the team members to get to know each other better, develop team operating principles, and collaborate in a problem-solving activities.
Results: Participant evaluations indicated a positive response to the retreat. A survey conducted two months after the retreat indicated that the levels of trust and open communication had increased dramatically.
Impact: The team members felt that the management team now fostered a culture of collaboration and cooperation.
Introduction: An international nonprofit organization needed to help its managers become more comfortable with coaching poor performers.
Challenge: The managers tended to avoid handling issues of poor performance.
Strategies: Facilitate a full-day in-person workshop with highly interactive skill-building learning activities that enabled the managers to learn how to give coaching feedback to poor performers and then practice their new skills to build a level of confidence.
Results: Participant evaluations indicated a positive response to the workshop. The effectiveness of the program convinced the nonprofit to provide the same skill-building training program to additional managers from around the world. They, also, learned how to give coaching feedback and then practiced their new skills.
Impact: Both groups of managers became more comfortable with coaching poor performers.
The Learning Advantage: From Insight to Impact is your weekly LinkedIn Live spotlight on how smart learning fuels real business results. Join us Tuesdays at 10:00 am CT as we interview movers and shakers in management and learning & development. Each episode delivers actionable strategies, evidence-based design tips, and real-world case studies showing how learning strengthens organizational health, advances sustainability, and drives profitability. Bring your questions, gather practical frameworks you can apply immediately, and turn insight into impact—every Tuesday at 10 am CT, beginning January 6, 2026. Contact Deb Laurel if you would like to be a guest.
Managing Meetings – Beginning the Meeting Week 1:
Meetings can be a huge waste of time if they’re not facilitated well. If you’re a manager, you will be holding and attending lots and lots of meetings. This week you will assess how your most recent meeting (or one that you attended) began, beginning with whether there was a written agenda and the right people were in the meeting. If you are a manager and want to make sure your meeting participants feel their time was well spent, please join us on our LinkedIn Live series titled What Managers Need to Know on November 25th at 10 am CST on YouTube.
Managing Meetings -Managing Participants Week 2:
Meetings are often stalled because the facilitator doesn’t know how to maintain a safe environment that encourages participants to speak up. If you are a manager and you don’t know how to avoid having one or two people dominate the meeting, join us on our LinkedIn Live series What Managers Need to Know on December 2nd at 10 am CST on YouTube.
Managing Meetings – Facilitator Role: Part 1 Week 3:
If you’re facilitating a meeting, it can often be a challenge to keep the group on track and resolve any conflict that occurs between participants. If you are a manager and want to know how to effectively accomplish those desired goals, please join us on our LinkedIn Live series titled What Managers Need to Know on December 9th at 10 am CST on YouTube.
Managing Meetings – Facilitator Role: Part 2 Week 4:
You’re conducting a meeting. How do you maintain participant interest and enthusiasm? How do you move the group toward closure on agenda items so you can end the meeting on time? If you’re a manager and you would like answers to those questions, please join us on our LinkedIn Live series titled What Managers Need to Know on December 16th at 10 am CST on YouTube.
Managing Meetings – Concluding the Meeting Week 5:
You had a timed agenda for your meeting and the right people involved. You kept everyone engaged by making sure no one dominated the conversation. That’s an important start. But the real question is, did you achieve the meeting objective? If you are a manager who wants to make sure your meeting accomplishes its objective and any decisions made will be implemented- join us on our LinkedIn Live series What Managers Need to Know on December 23rd at 10 am CST on YouTube.
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