Hospital Corporation of America
HCA affiliated employers consist of over 160 hospitals and over 100 free standing surgery centers. Providing training across such a large group of facilities to over 10,000 managers is always a challenge. We have a strong commitment to a healthy work environment for all HCA affiliated employees, and part of that commitment means equipping managers with basic knowledge of employment and labor law. We feel managers who possess this knowledge will be better managers, make better decisions regarding management of their employees and therefore create a healthier work environment. We were looking for a way to provide this training in a manner that was easy for the manager to access and complete, and felt like it was value added rather than another “mandated education session”. We found what we were looking for in Training Advisor. From the very beginning, the professionals at Training Advisor have made every effort to accommodate our unique needs due to our size and our decentralized structure. The results have been outstanding, and we’ve been providing weekly training to over 10,000 managers since December, 2009. Quotes from managers across our company say it all:
“I think this is great!”
“I found the information presented very informative!”
“Just wanted you to know that since the first question hit their inboxes today, I have received such positive feedback from the management teams for my lines of business. Some of them are positively giddy that they answered the question correctly. Definitely a value-added tool! Thank you!”
“First, let me tell what an overwhelmingly positive response we have received from this training. The leaders seem to really like it. Thank you!”
“It does! I got your email from earlier and tried it. That is an awesome program!!! I always wished I knew about legal aspects-so if you are responsible for helping set this up, 'thank you' !!”
“This is going to be pretty great. Good information.”
“Thank you, I already did my first and loved it. It was very speedy and I think this will be a very effective learning method for me. I appreciate this tool to better my knowledge base and improve my ability to lead. We rock!”
“I find the healthy work environment questions to be very helpful. I am finding myself wrong in most of the questions. It actually upset me I didn't know the answers as well as I thought I did. I am very humbled by the work your group has to do every day. And thank you for the education you are providing.”
“Just wanted to thank you and the team for opening this up to all managers...I've heard lots of good feedback.”
“These are GREAT!!!! I love this. Thanks for helping me to be a better manager/employee.”
“I don’t know who came up with the idea for the Employment Quiz that comes through weekly but it is a great learning tool! The scenario’s are real and one that you can relate to, easy to read and understand with great explanations. I especially like the fact that the quiz’s are pushed to you for completion. Great job to whomever assign the scenarios and quizzes.”
“I'm going to sound like a geek but I like this training. It's quick but effective.”
Kelly Furbee,
AVP-Employee & Labor Relations, HCA
Granite School District
I wanted to take a minute to thank you for all of your help with our training. We have a unique situation with over 93 schools and about 150 very busy principals and assistants with overflowing responsibilities. As you know, the last thing a principal needs is another training meeting. Training Advisor™ has been a great fit for us in getting vital legal and policy training to our administrators in a creative and fun format that really sticks with them. I have received a good deal of positive feedback about the non-invasive training that most of our administrators greatly appreciate. Thanks again for all your help in making our training program a success.
Rick Forsythe, Associate Director,
Classified Recruitment / Safety Training Granite School District
Doug Smith Auto Plex
Training Advisor™ is a fun way to learn about important legal and human resource issues. Although our managers are knowledgeable in many of these subjects, Training Advisor is a great ongoing reminder. I have been in human resources for over 25 years. Training Advisor™ provides me with topics for monthly management training and makes it easy to come up with ideas for discussion. The questions are up to date, and questions can even be individualized for each company's needs. This tool is easy to navigate, can incorporate individual company information, and just makes my job easier.
-Cheryl Smith, HR Manager/Consultant
Lamps Plus
Lamps Plus has been using Training Advisor™ for several years. We have managers in 60 locations and I found that this was a good way to keep the managers current on company policies and changes in the laws. The program allows the user to customize questions which I found particularly helpful. Training Advisor’s support team is very good and quick at responding to any technical questions that I may have had.
-Linda Clayton, Director of HR
National Oak Distributors, Inc.
We have been using Training Advisor™ for two years now. It has been of real benefit to our company. As you know we have 20 locations across the U.S.; from Hawaii to Washington to the New England area and down to Florida. We are currently in 15 different states, and because of this we experience many challenges when it comes to training our managers. By utilizing Training Advisor we have been able to meet that challenge.
Training Advisor is very easy to use. Setting up the training tracks takes very little time and with the automated email delivery system you know that it will get there on schedule. It's fun, as well as interactive since the managers have the option to email the HR contact person with any questions or concerns. Through the analysis side we have the ability to follow up on the answers and reassign that question in a future track should there be a need.
We are currently in the process of designing a track specifically for our California harassment training. Once again it has been a great training tool for our managers. We will continue with the program and look forward to the new updates.
-Kim Allen, Human Resources
Staker & Parson Companies
Staker & Parson Companies has been using the Training Advisor ™ online training tool the past few years. The weekly questions have lead to group discussions among our supervisors on topics from drug abuse to harassment. This discussion helps keep HR topics on the mind of our managers and has helped improve our interaction between the HR department and the managers in the company.
The weekly questions have been a great way to help our managers review policies, keep track of upcoming events and important issues in our workplace. This program has created some healthy competition between departments to see who is answering the most questions correctly. In addition to HR issues, the ability to customize or write our own questions has allowed us to expand this program into other areas of our business. Thanks for partnering with us in providing this training program to our employees!
-Ben Graham, Staker & Parson Companies
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