A One-Tool-Fits-All approach can work but it can also constrain your rate of profitable growth. So, language, branding, integration with your other processes, and the training approach can all be customized to improve & sustain impact. Once any customizing is completed, AS' repeatable deployment approach will enable a common process and language across your company.

Based on AS' experience, a DO-IT-YOURSELF APPROACH TAKES 13-22 MONTHS (depending on the commercial skill category) to identify skill gaps, benchmark best-in class processes & tools to fill the skill gap, then package the training materials & tools, beta test, and train employees. With AS's already proven best-practices, you can BEGIN TRAINING PROMPTLY and optimize effectiveness while minimizing your development costs and resource commitment.

• Trainer Selection Guide - Provides guidance to help you identify your most effective trainer candidate.
• Trainer Support Guide - Your trainer's role can be in addition to their full-time role if you provide some basic support to them as outlined in this guide.
• Train-The-Trainer Process - For each of your designated trainers, AS will provide a trainer workshop, instructor's guide, objective trainer certification, observation & coaching of the trainer's first workshop(s), and blind trainer evaluations from their students. The Instructor's Guide includes the Instructor's Role, Workshop Logistics (e.g., Materials, Communications, Location & Meeting Room Set-Up, etc.), and Workshop Presentations with Speaker Notes and an Agenda with Timetable.

Over 75% of each workshop is applying the best-practices of the core skill being taught to each PARTICIPANT'S REAL OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE that they bring to the workshop. There is NO DEATH BY POWERPOINT!

Each workshop participant receives a digital Toolkit containing user-friendly best practices & examples for each process step of the Core Skill being taught. They use the toolkit during and after the workshop. For each core skill there is a separate toolkit that enables a common language & process across your company. THE TOOLKITS ENHANCE IMPACT & ENCOURAGE SUSTAINED USE BECAUSE THEY ARE:

• Effective - Toolkits are based on proven best practices and allow the user to share, archive, and mine data.
• Efficient - The Toolkit's navigation is intuitive. Everything is in one place, there are no website constraints, and access is by desktop or handheld device. It is Excel-based for broadest compatibility and to enable automated features.
• Flexible - Users can customize the Toolkit to their own language & needs, and the core skill's processes are adaptable to various situations, which prevents it from becoming a form-filling exercise.

These toolkits are included with AS' Workshops, or may be purchased separately in some circumstances.

Some "Toolkit" examples are available in the SERVICES section of this website, or contact AS directly for a toolkit demonstration.

Post-workshop coaching and progress audits are available from AS to help sustain skill excellence.

AS provides you with Leadership Guides for each core skill to enhance leadership engagement and encourage sustained & effective skill implementation. It includes key points about the core skill's processes, tools, certification, and implementation. It also provides guidance for assigning internal champions and communicating expectations about the core skill.

Knowledge + Incentives will drive profitable growth. So, AS provides guidance for how to incentivize sustained skill implementation such as Skill Certification being a job expectation, recognition, and specific annual performance objectives that influence promotion & compensation.

Of course, how you measure progress toward Skill Gap closure will either drive the right behavior or the wrong behavior. So, based on AS' experience, you will be provided with 6 proven METRIC OPTIONS FOR INITIAL SKILL GAP CLOSURE and 11 proven METRIC OPTIONS FOR SUSTAINED SKILL GAP CLOSURE that will help you to drive the right behavior.