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Build Your Own Apprenticeship Program – Why #2

Yesterday I talked about how an Apprenticeship Program benefits businesses

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Building Your Own Apprenticeship Program – Why #1 – All Skill Bases Are Covered

Wouldn’t it be amazing if your business constantly had employees who have all mastered the skills of your industry, they’re all trained the exact same way and they all embody your business’ core values? Well, that concept is easily attainable by having your own Apprenticeship Program. When you bring an apprentice on board with your [...]

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Building Your Own Apprenticeship Program – The 4 Whys Behind It

For the past few weeks we have been discussing how you can develop your own Apprenticeship Program for your business, but now it’s time for you to know WHY it’s important to develop your own program. It’s obvious that after the economy took a hit a few years ago that the unemployment rate increased because [...]

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If You Build It They Will Sell

You may have heard the phrase “If you build it they will come,” but today I’m here to tell you “If you build it they will sell. “By “it,” I don’t mean the product or service that they will sell, I mean the backbone that you develop in your Apprentice. The backbone is everything that you teach them, [...]

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Light at the End of the Tunnel

Today was the day I encountered my first problem with the Apprenticeship program. I overcame the obstacle I encountered while developing the training portion of the program and I was forced to look through the fog on this situation that challenged me. The challenge was to create enough training materials (On the Job Training and Classroom Training) [...]

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