Accredited Program Directors (APD)

Interview

If you would like to discuss this opportunity personally over the telephone with a registered Appleton Greene representative who is responsible for the Accredited Program Director (APD) service, then you are of course welcome to do so.

However, due to the quantity of applications that we receive, we cannot understandably arrange a telephone interview for you, until you have completed your Application Form. If your Application Form meets with the required standard at Appleton Greene, then we will gladly arrange a mutually convenient time for a telephone interview if you would like to have one. If you would like to request a telephone interview, please indicate this within the appropriate section of your Application Form. If you have any preliminary questions, you are also welcome to contact us by forwarding an email and we will help you as much as we can.

Requirements

Anyone with a recognized MBA or business-related Masters Degree is automatically eligible to apply. Anyone with a BBA or business-related Degree is also welcome to apply, if they have at least 10 years executive management, consulting, or training experience.

All candidates should have a clear understanding about the subject matter of the corporate training programs which they would ideally like to provide through Appleton Greene and these programs should each incorporate a strong Unique Program Proposition (UPP). This does not mean that your programs are expected to be better than other programs, it just means that they need to be sufficiently different. Appleton Greene does not expect that you will already have developed these programs, but we do expect you to have a clear idea about the program, or programs, that you would like to provide. Ideally, your corporate training programs should be based upon your own core skills and interests and should reflect any service methodologies where you have had experience.

Accredited Program Directors (APD) can usually be considered to be in one or both of the following categories:

Corporate Program Managers
A good Corporate Program Manager, is not necessarily good at developing programs themselves. They prefer to focus upon the management or direction of their Appleton Greene corporate training practice. They tend to be good at coming up with ideas for new corporate training programs, which would match the Key Corporate Objectives (KCO) of their chosen market sector. Indeed they tend to have the knack of always knowing what their prospective clients will want or need. They become proficient at writing a variety of Corporate Program Guides (CPG) and identifying client needs and then publish these through Appleton Greene in order to create awareness and to establish client interest. They prefer to outsource the development of their programs either to their own employees, to other Appleton Greene Certified Learning Providers (CLP), Associate Learning Providers (ALP), or Accredited Associate, Executive, or Senior Consultants. This enables them to focus upon expanding their own independent Appleton Greene corporate training practice, by providing more programs, servicing more clients and by outsourcing the program development and implementation to others. Corporate Program Managers operate as Directors and are entrepreneurial by nature. Candidates with executive experience at board level, or established senior consultants, are likely to fall into this category.

Corporate Program Developers
A good Corporate Program Developer, tends to be innovative and creative. Satisfaction is achieved by being responsible for creating something new or different and these candidates tend to want to focus their time, almost exclusively towards developing new programs. They usually see business development, management and implementation as peripheral activities, which can be outsourced to Appleton Greene Associate Learning Providers (ALP), Accredited Associate, Executive and Senior Consultants and they do not usually want to employ the services of internal employees themselves, in order to spend less time managing and more time developing. These candidates are intuitive by nature and like a good Author, they want to focus upon writing as many corporate training programs as they can and leave the business development and management to others. These candidates will usually progress towards becoming a qualified Appleton Greene Certified Learning Provider (CLP) at some stage.

This is not to say that candidates cannot be considered as being both a Corporate Program Manager and a Corporate Program Developer and indeed many are.

If you are people orientated by nature and you achieve things through facilitation, or by enabling others to be more proactive, then your consultancy products should really reflect this. In other words, your products should constitute corporate training programs. This opportunity will therefore be of interest to anyone who is either consulting or training already or who plans to consult or train independently at some point in the future and who cares about providing their clients with value-added products and services. If you are independent by nature and are looking to achieve financial independence and to be in control of your own business planning, development, implementation and management and consider yourself to be someone who can empower and facilitate others, then you will need to consider developing your own skills and experience into a tangible and recognizable product, such as a corporate training program, at some stage in your career. If this is the case then the Accredited Program Director (APD) opportunity should be like a light coming on for you. If you do not feel this way yourself, then you can probably assume that this opportunity is not right for you.

Income

Earn up to USD$300,000.00 annually with just one established Appleton Greene standard corporate training program. You can then increase your income by adding additional corporate training programs.

Appleton Greene charges clients USD$30,000.00 for each part, which is for a period of 12 months, incorporating 12 monthly workshops, together with online support via email or the Appleton Greene cloud servers. The time allocated for each monthly workshop is 8 hours and the time allocated for online support is also 8 hours per month. Once clients have completed Part 1, they can then continue onto Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 respectively, as and when they are ready to do so. This equates to USD$2,500.00 per month for each client, or USD$25,000.00 per month for a combined portfolio of 10 clients, or USD$300,000.00 annually. Appleton Greene charges a service fee, amounting to 10% of the total invoice value of any and all business that is undertaken through Appleton Greene. This covers the cost of Appleton Greene’s customer service, quality management, e-business, financial accounting, global operations, human resources, technology development, legal operations, business management, marketing and program production. An introductory fee of 10% is also payable to Appleton Greene Accredited Learning Providers, or Accredited Associate, Executive, or Senior Consultants who have personally been responsible for introducing the new client companies that have placed program orders with you.

When a program application form has been completed by a client, it is evaluated and assessed by Appleton Greene for authenticity. It is then forwarded onto the Accredited Program Director (APD) for their consideration. It is the Accredited Program Director’s prerogative to elect whether to accept of decline the program order, depending upon their current resource availability. If the program application is accepted by the Accredited Program Director (APD), then it is forwarded onto Appleton Greene’s legal department for approval. Once approved, our accounts department issues the client with an invoice, which is payable monthly in advance of service provision to Appleton Greene by international bank wire transfer throughout the duration of the contractual agreement. Upon receipt of funds, Appleton Greene then pays the Accredited Program Director (APD), less the 10% service and 10% introduction fees, by international bank wire transfer, within 30 days. An established Accredited Program Director (APD) therefore has a projected net annual income of USD$240,000.00 after the appropriate service fees have been deducted, based upon an established portfolio of 10 clients with just one corporate training program. Accredited Program Directors are responsible for managing their own tax affairs, depending upon the individual tax jurisdictions where they may be classed as resident for tax purposes. Your local tax specialist or accountant will be able to advise you accordingly at the appropriate time. Accredited Program Directors are also responsible for their own corporate, professional indemnity and health insurance requirements and any other ordinary disbursements relating to their independent corporate training practice.

Accredited Program Directors can go onto earn much more than this by employing professional trainers internally, or by outsourcing to Appleton Greene Accredited Associate, Executive, or Senior Consultants. Appleton Greene has Accredited Consultants located within most major cities worldwide. Accredited Program Directors (APD) should see themselves as Program Directors, as the title suggests. In other words, they should ultimately be responsible for managing their programs, not implementing them. This enables them to scale-up the activities of their own Appleton Greene corporate training practice by engaging more clients, developing more programs and/or servicing additional industry sectors and geographical locations. Success will ultimately be dependent upon willing clients and the interest generated by the corporate training programs that are developed and managed by individual Accredited Program Directors (APD), but the cost of registering as an Appleton Greene Accredited Program Director (APD) is only USD$1,500.00 annually and the other service charges levied would only be applicable as and when program orders have been placed by clients and when funds for these service orders have been received by Appleton Greene. This business opportunity is therefore entirely self-financing with the exception of the annual service fee of USD$1,500.00, which merely covers the administrative costs of developing and updating the Accredited Program Director Profile (PDP), Corporate Program Guide (CPG) and the ongoing promotion and distribution of this information to learning providers, consultants and client contacts within the Appleton Greene global client network.

Expansion

Expand your Appleton Greene Corporate Training Practice by adding new standard and bespoke programs to your portfolio and by re-developing established programs for new markets and industry sectors. By developing a suite of 10 programs, the Accredited Program Director (APD) could potentially increase their annual income by 10 times to USD$3m.

An Accredited Program Director (APD) is considered to have an established corporate training practice when they have developed one standard corporate training program, servicing a portfolio of 10 clients, incorporating a minimum annual income of USD$300,000.00. If the (APD) is working in isolation, then this is likely to constitute a full-time occupation, requiring 10 days per month for client training workshops and another 10 days per month for the provision of online support via email or the Appleton Greene cloud servers. However, once established, the growth potential from this point on is considerable. An established Accredited Program Director (APD) can then either consider employing internal trainers within their own corporate training practice, or they can outsource the training workshops and/or the online support to Appleton Greene Accredited Associate, Executive, or Senior Consultants, who they can personally select, based upon their core service skills, industry experience and geographical locations. They can also outsource the development of additional standard and bespoke programs. This enables the Accredited Program Director (APD) to release themselves from operational obligations and to create valuable time for business expansion.

There are several directions that an Accredited Program Director (APD) can go in from this position. They can consider re-developing the program, which they have already developed and established, for new geographical markets or industry sectors. This will enable them to manage more clients and manage more resources with the same program. Alternatively, they may prefer to be able to offer their clients a suite of related programs, in order to achieve more business from their existing client base. For example, a Marketing expert, who has developed and established a standard corporate training program based upon Business Development, may also want to consider developing other Marketing-related programs specializing in the following examples: Product Development; Brand Re-positioning; Sales Channels; Contact Management; Market Entry; Market Research; Performance Improvement; Market Communications; E-Marketing; and/or Advertising Campaigns. By developing just one additional program, an Accredited Program Director (APD) would effectively be doubling their annual income. Eventually, by developing a suite of 10 Marketing-related programs, the Accredited Program Director (APD) could potentially increase their annual income by 10 times to USD$3m. The same would apply to Accredited Program Directors (APD) who choose to specialize within either: Customer Service; E-business; Finance; Globalization; Human Resources; Information Technology; Legal; Management; or Production. This is why the title includes the word Director. The more proficient Accredited Program Directors (APD) become at directing, managing and facilitating, then the more business expansion opportunities will be available to them. It is entirely up to each individual Accredited Program Director (APD) to determine how far they would like to expand their business, while retaining a healthy work-life balance. They can scale-up or scale-down their activities as and when they deem it to be appropriate, in order to accommodate the required quality of life.

Other corporate training program examples are available within the following categories: Customer Service; E-business; Finance; Globalization; Human Resources; Technology; Legal; Management; Marketing and Production. Please CLICK HERE for further information.

Appleton Greene corporate training programs are split into two categories: Standard Programs and Bespoke Programs.

The preference for most clients is always to purchase standard programs, if they are available. The reason for this is that nobody wants to incur the time, expense and risk of reinventing the wheel, if it has in fact already been developed and successfully used. Clients will always prefer to buy something that is already established, particularly if the purpose of the program is to implement a business process within their organization. The risk is always much lower if the business process has already been tried and tested. We appreciate this at Appleton Greene, but standard programs still need to be specific, in terms of subject matter, industry sector and geographical location. This enables clients to ensure that their program of choice is a good fit in relation to their corporate objectives. The objective here is to provide clients with as much choice as possible.

For further information about Appleton Greene Standard Programs, please CLICK HERE for further information.

At Appleton Greene, we understand that no matter how many standard programs we develop, there will always be some specific client objectives, which have not yet been considered. It is also important that our corporate training programs are subject-specific, industry-specific and location-specific. In addition to these requirements, while most business processes are generic and are easily transferable across different service subjects, industries and geographical locations, some are not. Some clients may also have concerns about confidentiality if the business process incorporates knowledge which may be sensitive or could compromise their competitive advantage. Appleton Greene recognizes the importance of providing individual clients with bespoke programs as and when necessary, which will be unique to their organizations and which will be provided exclusively and in strict confidentiality.

For further information about Appleton Greene Bespoke Programs, please CLICK HERE for further information.

Appleton Greene has clients within most major industry sectors and within most major cities worldwide. They range from small to medium sized businesses to fortune 500 companies, although in the majority of cases our clients are invariably operating on a national, international, or global scale. It does not matter whether clients have a local or international team, Appleton Greene can still bring that team together to achieve a common and collective goal and facilitate the process. Business sustainability is achieved through client retention and program orders being achieved from our existing client base. We therefore understand the importance of client relationship management, continuous service improvement and the necessity to provide our clients with the widest possible choice when considering Appleton Greene standard and bespoke programs. Our clients tend to be proactive organizations that consider their most important asset to be their human resources. Business processes drive companies forward, but it is a company’s human resources which ultimately drive business processes. Executive Officers and Directors understand that shared knowledge is imperative. Knowledge transfer into tangible business processes is what really makes the difference at Appleton Greene.

Client information relating to client profiles, lists, industries and testimonials, is available online. Please CLICK HERE for further information.

Support

Benefit from our exclusive (APD) mentoring and support service, provided by our established professional team of Professors, Learning Providers, Consultants and Program Managers, located worldwide.

Appleton Greene provides Accredited Program Directors (APD) with a detailed information guide and a step-by-step process enabling them to develop a professional Corporate Program Guide (CPG). This is then promoted by Appleton Greene on the Accredited Program Director’s behalf. Once a market has been identified and established for the corporate training program, the Accredited Program Director (APD) can then either develop their corporate training program independently, or apply for a position as an Appleton Greene Certified Learning Provider (CLP) if they require assistance and support with the development and implementation of their program. If an Accredited Program Director (APD) aims to focus their activities upon developing new corporate programs themselves, then we would recommend that they enrol upon the Appleton Greene Certified Learning Provider (CLP) program, which will enable them to obtain the required professional learning and development skills. However, if the Accredited Program Director (APD) sees themselves purely as a Business Developer and they intend to outsource the development of their programs to other Learning Providers, then they would not need to do this. The key is for individual Accredited Program Directors (APD) to focus upon their core strengths and to outsource and activities which they consider to be peripheral.

It is understandably as much in our interests, as it is in yours, for us to ensure that your Corporate Program Guide (CPG) is developed and maintained to the highest possible standard. Your Corporate Program Guide (CPG) will not only constitute a reflection upon your abilities as a professional corporate trainer, but upon our international corporate brand. We employ the services of a professional Accredited Program Director Support Team, who will be happy to help you, to ensure that your Corporate Program Guide (CPG) meets with the required standard. We have developed a time-effective process for you to do this efficiently yourself. You can forward your Corporate Program Guide (CPG) content to us simply by completing the relevant application form. This will then be evaluated and assessed by our Accredited Program Director Support Team and if it does not meet with the required standard at Appleton Greene, then you will be provided with detailed recommendations for improvement. You can then have as many opportunities as you need to revise the contents of Corporate Program Guide (CPG) until such a time as it does meet with the required Appleton Greene standard. You can also take as long as you need to in order to achieve this, there are no deadlines for completion. You can therefore develop and improve your Corporate Program Guide (CPG), as you gain more experience, over a sustainable period of time, until you develop and establish a formidable marketing tool for your corporate training business.

Promotion

Direct marketing promotions through Appleton Greene to over 750+ learning providers and 500,000+ designated client contacts within the Appleton Greene global client network. Client program orders are processed by Appleton Greene.

If you have taken the time to review the Appleton Greene web site, then you will have determined that the company is primarily a corporate training provider, specializing in the provision of standard and bespoke programs to client companies, which all focus upon business process improvement.

We have an extensive portfolio of corporate programs available to clients, which are developed and implemented by hundreds of Appleton Greene Certified Learning Providers and are managed by Accredited Program Directors (APD). The common denominator with all of these programs is that they are all process-orientated. In other words, each program facilitates the implementation of a tangible process, within the client’s organization, enabling them to improve their process in relation to the specific service subject matter of the program. These programs can focus upon any of the following departments: Customer Service; E-business; Finance; Globalization; Human Resources; Information Technology; Legal; Management; Marketing; or Production. To see some examples of these, please select SERVICES from the home page followed by BESPOKE PROGRAMS. Because these programs are process orientated and are implemented over a sustainable period of time, usually 4-5 years, there is always a significant outsourcing requirement with each program. This is where Accredited Associate, Executive and Senior Consultants are required. These programs incorporate participation from a wide variety of Appleton Greene Accredited Associate, Executive and Senior Consultants, who each bring their own individual experience relating to the specific business skills and services which they have, the industry sectors they have worked within and the geographical locations where they have commercial knowledge. If additional expert knowledge is required then our Learning Providers and Program Directors have access to hundreds of other Appleton Greene Consultants, with a variety of different industry sector and geographical experience, located within most major cities worldwide.

A Certified Learning Provider (CLP) will typically manage a portfolio of 10 client companies with one program, although many learning providers develop and implement multiple programs. There are approximately 750 learning providers now, which means that Appleton Greene can be servicing approximately 7,500 companies at any one time, although there are 500,000+ individual contacts within the Appleton Greene global client network. You can review our client list by selecting CLIENTS from the home page. There are also literally hundreds of testimonials available from clients which are published online and you should take the time to review these. Each individual client company will be outsourcing to a number of Appleton Greene Accredited Consultants, where there are business projects developed as a result of the individual Appleton Greene program, which is being implemented. Indeed approximately 70% of consultancy assignments are generated directly from Certified Learning Providers (CLP), so this proves to be a significant source of new business for Accredited Consultants and Learning Providers are rewarded by receiving an introduction fee amounting to 10% of the total invoice value of any and all consultancy engagements that are generated from their own training programs. The remaining 30% of consultancy assignments are generated by clients themselves.

The same rule applies to Accredited Program Directors (APD). Clients are always interested in learning about new standard and bespoke training programs that are being developed and which may help to satisfy their Key Corporate Objectives (KCO). The fact that they may already be implementing Appleton Greene standard and bespoke training programs means that they are already familiar with the corporate training processes that are used and the resources that are available to Appleton Greene and this means that our client contacts and learning providers are well placed to evaluate and assess new programs that have been scheduled for development. If an Accredited Program Director (APD) has developed a Corporate Program Guide (CPG), which does not entirely meet with client requirements, then we can often obtain feedback from clients with reference to any changes that they would like to see made, in order to ensure that the program meets with their requirements. This enables Appleton Greene to use a simple market-led process of elimination in order to establish strong Unique Program Propositions (UPP) and it enables Accredited Program Directors (APD) to ensure that their programs ultimately meet with client requirements, without having to engage in any business development activities themselves.

Appleton Greene Business Development Process
There is no business development activity required on your part whatsoever. Appleton Greene is looking for Program Directors, not Sales People.

Corporate Program Profile (CPP)
Once your application to register as an Accredited Program Director (APD has been processed, Appleton Greene will facilitate the development of your Corporate Program Profile (CPP). The purpose of the Corporate Program Profile (CPP) is to provide potential clients with an Executive Summary of your proposed corporate training programs, incorporating the designated: departments; subjects; industry sectors; locations and mission statements. Clients can then elect to request further information about each individual program through Appleton Greene, as and when they have a requirement to engage the services of Program Directors.

Corporate Program Guide (CPG)
Once your Corporate Program Profile (CPP) has been approved by Appleton Greene, your Corporate Program Guide (CPG) will then be developed. The purpose of the Corporate Program Guide (CPG) is to provide potential clients and learning providers with much more information about your proposed corporate training program, including an executive summary, program objectives, methodology, industry sectors, location countries, clients or employers, program benefits and program process. The Corporate Program Guide (CPG) is then linked to four client program application forms, namely Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four, which potential clients and learning providers can then use to place direct program orders with you. Please note that all of the client program order application forms are for client use only and are forwarded directly to Appleton Greene and are verified for authenticity.

(APD) Promotions
Once the Program Director Profile (PDP) and Corporate Program Guide (CPG) have both been developed, approved and published by Appleton Greene, (usually within the first month) then Appleton Greene publishes and distributes this information via email to approximately 750+ Certified Learning Providers and 500,000+ contacts within the Appleton Greene global client network, gradually and over a sustainable period of time, throughout your designated period of membership. This enables you to create awareness and to establish credibility for your proposed Unique Program Proposition (UPP) with learning providers and potential clients. Your Corporate Program Guide (CPG) also incorporates program order application forms, enabling clients to place program orders directly with you, after having reviewed the information that you have provided.

Time Planning
Your Program Director Profile (PDP) and Corporate Program Guide (CPG) should both be developed and published within the first month of membership, depending upon your own current commitments of course. This means that Appleton Greene can usually start promoting these from the second month of membership, so it would certainly be possible to start generating interest and program orders from the second month. Success will ultimately be determined by third party learning providers and client companies of course and each individual Program Director’s program offerings will be entirely different. As such it is understandably impossible for Appleton Greene to provide individual Program Directors with a time plan for business development, because it will be different in each individual case. Appleton Greene understandably provides individual Program Directors with no guarantees of success. However, the income projections provided within your service information guide are based upon the average annual income of all Program Directors featured within each service category.

Service Fees
Appleton Greene charges an annual service fee of USD$1,500.00 for Accredited Program Directors (APD). This service fee merely covers the cost of developing the Program Director Profile (PDP), Corporate Program Guide (CPG) and the provision of the (APD) Promotions Service, all of which are described in detail above. The potential financial risk to individual Program Directors is therefore negligible and it would certainly cost much more than this just to place one program advert within an established media source, with a much less likely return on investment.

Appleton Greene also charges Accredited Program Directors (APD) a 10% service fee on all program orders that are generated through Appleton Greene, together with a 10% introductory fee, which is usually payable to the introducing Learning Provider or Consultant. Accredited Program Directors (APD) would only become liable for these service charges if and when they elect to accept any program orders that are placed with them through Appleton Greene and as such these service fees would be automatically deducted from your monthly income payments by Appleton Greene.

Accredited Program Directors (APD) can also earn introduction fees themselves, amounting to 10% of the total invoice value of any client program or service orders, which they personally introduce to Appleton Greene, Learning Providers, or other Consultants. The minimum annual service fees can range from USD$12k for the Bronze Client Service, to USD$48k for the Platinum Client Service, so each individual client introduction fee can therefore range from USD$1,200 to USD$4,800 respectively using these examples. It is therefore always worth your while keeping your eyes and ears open.

Financial Accounts
Upon receipt of a program order form, Appleton Greene verifies the program order for authenticity. The client program order is then forwarded onto the appropriate Accredited Program Director (APD) for their consideration. It is the Program Director’s prerogative to decide whether to accept or decline the program order. Upon written acceptance, Appleton Greene then processes the order and informs the legal department, who are responsible for processing the contractual agreement for a minimum period of 12 months and the accounts department, who will then issue an invoice to the client. Invoices are payable monthly in advance of program and service provision by clients by international bank wire transfer and the Program Director is then paid by Appleton Greene, when payment has been received by the client, again by international bank wire transfer, after deducting the 10% service fee payable to Appleton Greene and the 10% introduction fee payable to the introducing learning provider or consultant. It is the individual Program Director’s responsibility to produce and manage their own independent financial accounts and to manage their own tax affairs, depending upon their own individual tax jurisdictions. If you need further advice or assistance in this regard, then you should contact your local Accountant or Tax Adviser for assistance.

Summary
When you consider the low annual service fee which is levied for Accredited Program Directors (APD), the complete service that is provided by Appleton Greene and the potential professional and financial rewards that are available, the Accredited Program Director (APD) service represents an extremely low risk opportunity and provides suitable candidates with the opportunity to experience Appleton Greene for themselves, over a sustainable period of time, should their application ultimately be approved by Appleton Greene.

Location

Appleton Greene has clients, consultants, learning providers and program directors within most major cities worldwide, so it does not matter where you may be personally located internationally.

Appleton Greene is a small, niche corporate training provider, operating on a global scale. The majority of our people work remotely from a variety of different international locations. We have accredited consultants, learning providers, professors, service support assistants and clients, located in the United States, Europe, Switzerland, Canada, Middle East, Africa, India, China, Japan, Far East, Australasia, South America and the Caribbean. Our approach to global localization enables us to provide clients with a truly international service with that all important personal touch. The largest economies in the world are the United States, China, India, Japan, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and France and Appleton Greene is at the forefront of corporate training provision within these locations. However, given the fact that many Appleton Greene clients operate internationally or globally themselves, we are also proactive within other emerging markets. Appleton Greene is uniquely positioned within the world’s biggest financial trading centers such as New York, Geneva, London and the Cayman Islands, but with an unprecedented global reach through its network of international consultants and accredited learning providers.

Geographical location information relating to the United States of America, Europe, other International locations and Appleton Greene offices, is available online. Please CLICK HERE for further information.

Time

Standard programs are implemented over a sustainable period of time, usually 4 years, incorporating 48 monthly workshops together with online support. Only 8 hours per month are required on the client’s premises, plus 8 hours per month for online support. An (APD) can therefore manage a portfolio of 5 clients part time within 20 hours per week, or 10 clients full time within 40 hours per week.

Each standard corporate training program will feature four parts, one for each year. Each part would be implemented over a period of 12 months, incorporating 12 monthly workshops, together with online support via email or via the Appleton Greene cloud servers. All four parts would therefore be implemented over a sustainable period of 4 years and would enable clients to have the time to implement what they are learning within their organization, before moving onto the next stage. In other words, clients can progress at their own pace and this enables Accredited Program Directors (APD) to use their Appleton Greene programs as vehicles to implement tangible business processes within their clients’ organizations. From the Accredited Program Director’s point of view, they would only be required to be physically present on the client’s premises, or within a designated training location, for one day each month and this enables them to build a sustainable portfolio of up to 10 clients if the intention is to work alone, or much more than this if the Accredited Program Director (APD) has ambitions to employ internal trainers, or intends to outsource their workshops to Appleton Greene Accredited Associate, Executive, or Senior Consultants.

All of our Accredited Program Directors (APD) will be in full time employment, either in their own capacity, or independently with Appleton Greene, so we understand that you are busy. It will only take you a few hours to develop an outline plan for your Appleton Greene Corporate Program Guide (CPG). It would take you much longer for you to develop detailed individual proposals for your potential clients, or to try and explain to your potential clients precisely what you propose to do and how they might benefit. Indeed the more effort that you can put into your Corporate Program Guide (CPG), the less time you will have to spend selling yourself during meetings and interviews and the higher your conversion rate will be. The ideal scenario would be to ensure that your Corporate Program Guide (CPG) contains enough information where your potential clients would be able to make a decision to place a program order without even meeting you. This is the core objective for all Program Directors. With this in mind, you can amend and update your Corporate Program Guide (CPG) over a sustainable period of time in order to ensure that it incorporates everything that you need it to. The more information that you can provide your potential clients with in advance, relating to your portfolio of corporate training programs, the better your chances of success will be.

Resources

As your practice grows, you can either elect to employ dedicated trainers internally, or alternatively outsource to 500+ Appleton Greene Accredited Associate, Executive and Senior Consultants, located within most major cities worldwide.

Appleton Greene has an excellent global team of qualified, experienced and intuitive people, including consultants, professors, learning providers and service support assistants. Our consultants are located all over the world and have specialist knowledge relating to their service subjects, individual commercial locations and industry sectors. Our accredited learning providers develop and implement standard and bespoke corporate training programs based upon their own skills, knowledge and experience and outsource to our consultants as and when they need to. We employ departmental service support assistants who work within our customer service, finance, marketing, human resource, technology, legal, management and operations departments. We also outsource to independent third party consultants and consulting companies as and when it is deemed necessary. Appleton Greene has an international central call center located in New York and serviced offices located in New York, Geneva and London. Our registered head office is located in the Cayman Islands. The majority of our consultants, learning providers and service support assistants work remotely from a variety of different international locations using the Appleton Greene Cloud Server, indeed we have consultants, learning providers and service support assistants located within most major cities worldwide.

Information relating to Consultants, Learning Providers, Employees and Consulting Companies, is available online. Please CLICK HERE for further information.

If you would like to review the Consultant Profiles of current Associate, Executive and Senior Consultants then please CLICK HERE and select Search our Consultants from the side bar followed by: Customer Service; e-Business; Finance; Globalization; Human Resources; Information Technology; Legal; Management; or Production.

Service charges

It only costs USD$1,500.00 to register as an Appleton Greene Accredited Program Director (APD) and this enables you to see if there would be sufficient market demand generated from potential clients for your proposed Unique Program Proposition (UPP).

Appleton Greene charges an annual service fee of USD$1,500.00 for Accredited Program Directors (APD). This service fee merely covers the cost of developing the Program Director Profile (PDP), Corporate Program Guide (CPG) and the provision of the (APD) Promotions Service, all of which are described in detail above. The potential financial risk to individual Program Directors is therefore negligible and it would certainly cost much more than this just to place one program advert within an established media source, with a much less likely return on investment.

Appleton Greene also charges Accredited Program Directors (APD) a 10% service fee on all program orders that are generated through Appleton Greene, together with a 10% introductory fee, which is usually payable to the introducing Learning Provider or Consultant. Accredited Program Directors (APD) would only become liable for these service charges if and when they elect to accept any program orders that are placed with them through Appleton Greene and as such these service fees would be automatically deducted from your monthly income payments by Appleton Greene.

Accredited Program Directors (APD) can also earn introduction fees themselves, amounting to 10% of the total invoice value of any client program or service orders, which they personally introduce to Appleton Greene, Learning Providers, or other Consultants. The minimum annual service fees can range from USD$12k for the Bronze Client Service, to USD$48k for the Platinum Client Service, so each individual client introduction fee can therefore range from USD$1,200 to USD$4,800 respectively using these examples. It is therefore always worth your while keeping your eyes and ears open.

Testimonials

There are literally hundreds of testimonials published online within the Appleton Greene web site for your information, available from clients and learning providers and we suggest that you take the time to review these.

Client testimonials
Appleton Greene has clients within most major industry sectors and within most major cities worldwide. They range from small to medium sized businesses to fortune 500 companies, although in the majority of cases our clients are invariably operating on a national, international, or global scale. It does not matter whether clients have a local or international team, Appleton Greene can still bring that team together to achieve a common and collective goal and facilitate the process. Business sustainability is achieved through client retention and program orders being achieved from our existing client base. We therefore understand the importance of client relationship management, continuous service improvement and the necessity to provide our clients with the widest possible choice when considering Appleton Greene standard and bespoke programs. Our clients tend to be proactive organizations that consider their most important asset to be their human resources. Business processes drive companies forward, but it is a company’s human resources which ultimately drive business processes. Executive Officers and Directors understand that shared knowledge is imperative. Knowledge transfer into tangible business processes is what really makes the difference at Appleton Greene.

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Testimonials
There are literally hundreds of testimonials published online within the Appleton Greene web site for your information, available from clients and from learning providers and these are constantly amended and updated and we recommend that you take the time to peruse through these when you have the time to do so. They will enable you to obtain a thorough insight into the reasons why individual clients, learning providers, program directors and consultants have done business through Appleton Greene and the service benefits that have been achieved in each case. These testimonials are listed under each individual industry sector that is currently serviced by Appleton Greene. Individual AGC program testimonials are also available to clients upon request.

If you would like to review the Consultant Profiles of current Associate, Executive and Senior Consultants, then you can do so by selecting CONSULTANTS from the home page followed by one of the consulting service categories listed. You can either elect to search by location, that is to say the countries and cities where our consultants will have had commercial experience, or alternatively you can elect to search by the industry sectors, which the consultants will have personally had experience within.

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Privacy Policy
The full names and personal contact details of individual clients, learning providers and consultants are not published or distributed by Appleton Greene in accordance with our privacy and security policy. The personal contact details of individual client contacts, learning providers, program directors and consultants are only provided to clients for business-related purposes and after the related business opportunity has been verified by Appleton Greene and upon receipt of written authorization from the contact concerned. We understand that new candidates would like to review testimonials from clients and learning providers and this is why they are published online via the Appleton Greene web site. We would also ask that you respect our clients, learning providers, program directors and consultants’ rights to privacy and refrain from forwarding unsolicited communications to them without their written consent. Any complaints received by Appleton Greene from individual clients, learning providers, program directors or consultants may result in a candidate’s application or membership being withdrawn in accordance with our privacy policy. Appleton Greene understandably has a duty and responsibility to protect the privacy and security of clients, learning providers, program directors and consultants and to act upon any complaints which refer to unsolicited communications, unauthorized networking or self-promotion. Please refer to our Privacy Policy, located under Legal Notices, towards the bottom of the Appleton Greene web site for further information.

Risk

Continue with your current employment until you have an established client base at Appleton Greene. You can elect to work part time or full time with Appleton Greene and scale your activities up or down to accommodate your other work commitments.

We understand that Accredited Program Directors (APD) will in most cases already have an established career, either internally as an Executive Employee, or independently as a Consultant with an established client base. As such we do not expect or require candidates to risk what they already have. We would always advise candidates to continue with any current employment that they have and then register as an Accredited Program Director (APD) at the same time. This enables candidates to have the opportunity to experience Appleton Greene for themselves, develop an outline plan for their proposed Unique Program Proposition (UPP) and see if they can establish a viable market for their corporate training program, without having to undertake any personal risk. It only costs the annual (APD) service fee of USD$1,500.00 for candidates to be able to do this. Then, as and when the Accredited Program Director (APD) starts to receive program orders from clients and learning providers, they can then elect whether to develop the program themselves, or whether to outsource this task and continue working. Once a sufficient quantity of client program orders have been received by the Accredited Program Director (APD), they can elect whether to resign from their current employment, or just scale down their other activities, at a time when they have an established client base with Appleton Greene. This enables candidates to make the transition as and when it suits them to do so and at a pace that they are personally comfortable with. It also enables them to be able to minimize any unnecessary financial risk, by continuing with other work while they become established.

Accredited Program Directors (APD) are also welcome to register as Appleton Greene Accredited Associate, Executive, or Senior Consultants, if they would like to earn additional income while developing their Unique Program Proposition (UPP). As with all Appleton Greene services, positions are available by invitation only, but Accredited Program Directors (APD) are automatically eligible to apply if they would like to.

Evaluation

Appleton Greene & Co takes great care to ensure that candidates are evaluated and assessed carefully before being offered a position as an Accredited Program Director (APD).

The application process takes a minimum period of four weeks and incorporates the provision of detailed service information and the requirement for the candidate to complete a detailed application form, incorporating Appleton Greene’s terms and conditions of service. This provides ample time for due consideration. The candidate will also be able to undertake a personal interview via telephone with an authorized Appleton Greene representative and can ask any additional questions that they may have by forwarding an email. You will need to allow a period of up to 7 business days for your application to be reviewed, evaluated and processed. Appleton Greene is limited in terms of the number of Accredited Program Director (APD) places that are available during any one calendar year and applications are only usually considered once annually. The quality of applications that we receive at Appleton Greene is always extremely high and as such we reserve the right to respectfully decline applications, which are not considered to be of the required standard. If your application is ultimately approved, then a formal offer will be forwarded to you and you will then have a further 7 days in which to arrange the payment of your annual service fee. Your statutory rights are not affected.

How to apply

To complete your application, please CLICK HERE. This will transfer you directly to the appropriate application form. You then just need to follow the instructions accordingly. The application form should take you no longer than approximately 30 minutes.

If you would like to be considered for one of the Accredited Program Director (APD) positions that are available, please remember to ensure that Appleton Greene has received your application form on or before the closing date for applications during this calendar year. This will be featured towards the top of your invitation email. The application form will take approximately 30 minutes to complete and this will then be forwarded onto Appleton Greene for evaluation. You will also need to have a copy of your resume or CV at hand, so that you can copy and paste the relevant information within the application form when requested to do so. You will also have an opportunity to review our terms and conditions of service before completing your application form. If you would like to receive a copy of your application form, then you can request one by replying to this email, after you have completed the application form. You will need to allow a period of up to 7 business days for Appleton Greene to evaluate and assess your application and if your application is ultimately approved, then a formal offer will be made at the appropriate time and you will then have a further 7 days in which to arrange the payment of your annual service fee.

Thank you for your kind interest in Appleton Greene and we look forward to receiving your application in due course.