Market Demand – Top 10 Corporate Training Programs

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As a valued client, you are already implementing Appleton Greene programs. As such, you already understand the value proposition of process-driven corporate training programs. Our programs are used as vehicles to implement tangible processes within your organization, enabling you to clearly see the value proposition after every monthly workshop. They constitute cost-effective tools for implementing what you learn. But we are always being asked about new programs that are being developed, which programs have availability, which programs are currently in high demand, and which programs are considered to be a “must have.” Our current clients have each implemented an average of 25 corporate training programs. But what other programs should we be looking at?

Here are the current top 10.

1. Team Accountability Top-Gun Teamwork

Critical Success Factor (CSF)

Most organizations struggle with implementing system-wide accountability. Holding people accountable for their decisions and associated actions is a challenging prospect for anyone, especially those who haven’t been trained on how to do so in a team setting. An additional pressure point is the prospect of accountable leadership in a rapidly changing environment, in an age where disruptors are constantly emerging, challenging “the old way” of doing business. Organizations that thrive in this age of rapid change are those that have built processes and employ methodologies focusing on human interactions. Critically, they’ve adopted cultures that embrace improvement and value positive, forward-focused accountability in ALL aspects of their operations. Either by design or chance they are following the approach high-performing military teams take to enable success in complex environments the world-over. Learning from these high-performing military teams is a powerful option for any organization that intends to win in the face of constant disruptive changes. This course takes the very best from the high-performance military team world—a world centered on successfully harnessing the upside of positive, forward-focused accountability to foster team learning, continuous improvement, and enable top performance in a really demanding environment, and usually with a very young and constantly rotating workforce—and translates the core principles into the business world.

For further information about the Team Accountability program – CLICK HERE

2. Superyacht Market Entry

Critical Success Factor (CSF)

Bringing together years of yachting sector knowledge and understanding of what works, and what doesn’t, we have now built a 12-month program to holistically support well-established company’s and start-up businesses who wish to access the superyacht community. Our program gives you the ability to adapt your business structure, your products and services and the mindset of your personnel where needed, to ensure the best possible chance of success. We share insight into the unique motivations that this unusual sector has, and how best to promote your business proposition. We signpost who the key decision makers and influencers are and educate you on how to approach them. We give you the skills to conducts relevant market research and competitor analysis, and how to convert that information into efficient and future proof action plans. Our program looks at all aspects of your business from marketing and sales, to logistics and customer services, and ensures that all departments work together synergistically to provide the levels of quality and service that the superyacht industry expects. We also offer honest feedback at all stages of the program to make sure that your business is fully prepared at every level with a winning strategy for your superyacht market entry. Businesses that complete the Superyacht Market Entry Program will have the research, systems, and processes in place to launch your products and services to the yachting sector. You will also have the knowledge and internal understanding of what it takes to build upon a successful launch and how to work as a team to deliver your promises and generate repeat business.

For further information about the Superyacht Market Entry program – CLICK HERE

3. Acquisitive Growth

Critical Success Factor (CSF):

In today’s context of changing markets, technologies and business models, and in conjunction with historic levels of available capital, acquisitive growth has emerged as an increasingly compelling approach to transformational growth. However, as has been empirically proven growth through acquisitions is fraught with pitfalls and inherently risky. Successfully acquisitive growth requires the confluence of many factors that go beyond the traditional phased steps of a typical process. Success is a function of bringing together the elements of people, processes, and technologies into a set of capabilities that are custom-made for an organization’s particular strengths, circumstances and aspirations. Winning in today’s dynamic markets demands bold, unique and sustainable strategies. The difference between success and failure with acquisitive growth is not in rote adherence to some set of processes, rather it is found in the combination of process discipline and strong application of experiential, practical knowhow. The nature of this knowhow is to apply and allocate the elements below in a smart, efficient manner to achieve exemplary outcomes for the specific client’s unique situation and circumstances.

For further information about the Acquisitive Growth program – CLICK HERE

4. Women Empowerment

Critical Success Factor (CSF):

The Women Empowerment Leadership Program is a process of accelerating the professional growth of women in the workforce. Although women have made significant strides in the workplace there is no doubt that women are still struggling to move up the corporate ladder. Women who are socioeconomically disadvantaged face insurmountable barriers to entering and excelling in the workforce around the world. They often have fewer opportunities for economic participation than men, greater safety risks and less political representation. In today’s corporate world, it is essential for businesses to put a process in place that specifically supports and empowers women. Transformation in this area can only happen with a proven system that ensures all women have access to everything they need to succeed. This will in turn, help with company culture, employee retention, productivity as well as, profitability. The objective of the Women Empowerment Leadership Program is to enable organizations to develop empowered and skilled women leaders within all departments of their organization. This Program, offers a series of dynamic workshops specifically designed to provide the skills and tools necessary for each woman to become empowered and move up on their career path. We focus on an inside/out approach – first addressing the belief system of each individual and how it’s affecting their results, how they see themselves and how others perceive them. We help them to remove blocks that are sabotaging their success or preventing them from reaching their potential.

For further information about the Women Empowerment program – CLICK HERE

5. High-Performance Innovation

Critical Success Factor (CSF):

It is now essential to steer your innovation process to make it both fertile and profitable, creative and rational, borrowing the best from the left brain and the right brain. This imperative is made all the more critical as the valuations of innovations measured by the statistics and forecasts in the private equity sector are melting like snow in the sun. We are witnessing a real flight to quality, a well-known phenomenon when times are uncertain or when a chronic crisis dynamic forces leaders to manage emergencies more often than they would like. What prevails for scaleups and unicorns, which are often very specialized, is also structuring for diversified companies, because all of them must innovate. Knowing how to sort and stimulate, measure and encourage, choose and finance, decide and support is at the heart of the performance of the company of our time. By pushing this logic to the limit, an ideal model emerges. It takes up certain characteristics of historical models, such as the matrix organization of General Electric, or the cellular organization of Microsoft, by sublimating them. Its ultimate outcome is a collection of hyper-growing spin-offs fueled by activities that have already reached their maturity stage, serving as a crucible for future innovations. More and more concrete examples are now operational: financial groups succeed in carve-out and IPO of hyper-growing activities supported both by exceptional market dynamics and by the promotion of a internal breakthrough innovation culture; pharmaceutical groups successfully arbitrate, on very specific perimeters, between in-house R&D and collaborations with biotechs on a human scale, or even buy them out if necessary; finally, digital service companies manage to isolate process outsourcing offerings allowing them to move up the value chain.

For further information about the High-Performance Innovation program – CLICK HERE