How to Start or Expand Your Employee Training Business

Want to start your own employee training business or expand an existing one?

• The information on this page will help you start your own employee training business, whether on your own or as a HumaNext Certified Facilitator.
• Either way, you will find this information invaluable.
• HumaNext enables you to start or expand your training business for about $1500, for which you will receive our powerful Train-the-Trainer Heart & Mind Learning program, in addition to complete ready-to-deliver programs of your certification in today’s most popular topics such as emotional intelligence, diversity and inclusion, cross cultural competency, critical conversations, creativity and innovation, employee engagement for change, and others.

People who work in fields related to training, learning, education, coaching, communication, and similar fields will find It easy to enter the training field using many of the skills they already possess. This includes: 

• Corporate trainers
• School teachers
• College professors and educators
• Life and business coaches
• Consultants, authors and speakers
• Communicators
• Entrepreneurs
• Preachers and religious leaders
• Community activists

Start or expand your employee training business by becoming a HumaNext Certified Facilitator either online or in person. Attend HumaNext event and the post-event certification webinars.

Learn more here: http://www.humanext.com/HumaNext-Events.html

According to Entrepreneur, a US based magazine, it costs between $10,000 and $50,000 to start an employee training business in the United States. However, HumaNext makes it possible for you to start a training business for as low as about $1500.

The great thing about the employee training business in particular, however, is that you can operate it from your own home, saving the high costs of renting and furnishing a training facility or office.

Since your services – delivering training workshops – will be delivered at clients’ facility, or in a conference room in an hotel, you do not need to have a “store-front” for your training business.

The other aspect that can require significant amounts of money is the content (materials or programs) that you will need to deliver the training. Most training companies demand several thousands, even tens of thousands, of dollars for each training workshop they will license to you to deliver, and many require you to send them a portion of your revenue as well.

HumaNext offers you a model that makes much easier for you to start your training business, and does not take any portions of your revenue. You can get certified by HumaNext to deliver two or more training workshops for as little as $1500

Start or expand your employee training business by becoming a HumaNext Certified Facilitator. Attend HumaNext 2010 and the post-event certification webinars.

Learn more here: http://www.humanext.com/HumaNext-Events.html

One of the great things about the United States is that it is one of the most business-friendly countries in the world. Compared to most other countries in the world, starting a business in the US is not a complex matter.

What Business Form Should I Choose?

The easiest way to start a training business is the form of business known as “Sole Proprietorship”. This means you will simply report your business income on your personal income tax form. You don’t need to form a corporation or other complex forms of business, at least in the beginning.

For example, HumaNext started its business as a Sole- Proprietorship for several years before choosing to change in to an LLC (Limited Liability Company.) Because employee training is a type of business that does not involve the type of risks and liability that a construction or home repair business does, you don’t really need a special liability insurance to operate.

So you may simply register a name for your business at your county’s office, using your social security number, and you are in business.

Print a few business cards with your name, phone, email and web site if available.

You will need to market your training business in order to get clients. You can do this in many ways:

• You might have to start offering training and speaking engagements at low or no fees in the beginning of your business to get yourself known before starting to charge for your services.
• You will need to get 500 or 1000  business cards with the name of your business and contact information.
• You need to produce a small brochure or at least a well designed flyer you can give to people to learn about your training business.
• You can contact your local Chamber of Commerce to let them know of your new business.
• You can join local business and social communities and groups and offer them your services, perhaps free in the beginning.
• Contact all businesses within 100 miles and make them aware of your new business and what you offer.
• You can join the local chapters of professional organizations like ASTD and other training and learning associations to network with others who might pass on assignments to you.
• You may use direct marketing to reach local businesses with a letter and a brochure. This might be costly and you will need to follow up to be effective.
• You can use online advertisement by Google and others. But this can be costly unless you limit it to your geographical area, which is possible with Google. 
• You should take advantage of the free marketing potential offered by new web 2:0 technologies, particularly social network platforms such as Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, and others. LinkedIn is the most respected professional network used by many business people. Add your profile there and start connecting to people, join groups, and keep updating them on what you do so they can hire you for similar work.

Start or expand your employee training business by becoming a HumaNext Certified Facilitator either online or in person. Attend HumaNext event and the post-event certification webinars.

Learn more here: http://www.humanext.com/HumaNext-Events.html

When Francois Basili started to create his own employee training and communication company, called Communication Ideas at the time and now HumaNext LLC, it was late 2001, shortly after the September eleven terrorist attack that almost crippled New York City and caused the loss of many jobs.

While many training professionals were spending from six months to a year trying to find a job, Francois spent these months building his new business.

By the time the city, and the country, recovered from the impact of the attack about a year later, his business was already operational, offering a few training programs at the time. He was ready when times started to change and things started to get better.

More than 80% of CEOs are confident the economy will bounce back this year (2010), according to a new survey conducted by Pricewaterhouse Coopers. The survey showed a 16% leap in CEO confidence over last year.

A similar poll, conducted as part of Forbes 2010 Small Business Owners’ Outlook Survey, revealed that 64% of CEOs plan to invest more aggressively this year and 50% definitely plan to invest in growth and expansion.

This raises the question: Are you ready to start or expand your own training business to satisfy the expected demand? Are you at just the right moment to consider making the move toward building your training business? You might want to find out how HumaNext can help you do just that- read more on this page. One important event that can help you is HumaNext 2010 with trainer certification options to be held on May 15 to 17, 2010. Learn about it here: http://www.humanext.com/HumaNext-Events.html  

• You will gain the advantage of associating with a training company that offers the most innovative training programs needed by organizations today. Just take a look at our web sites to get an idea of the wide range of our capabilities, products, and services.
• You will be entitled - but not obligated - to use your HumaNext certification designation and logo to promote your training workshops.
• You will be trained on and receive complete ready-to-deliver training workshops on today’s most needed skills such as emotional intelligence, creativity and innovation, diversity, inclusion and cultural competency, and others. You get the Facilitator’s Guide, PowerPoint slides and reproducible Participant Workbook for the workshops of your certification.
• You will be able to reproduce the Workbooks for hundreds of participants in your workshops at no additional charge, unlike many other certification providers who charge you for each workbook every time you deliver a workshop.
• You will be trained to use our powerful Heart & Mind Learning methodology for the design and delivery of exciting, transformational training. And you will receive complete Facilitator’s Guide and PowerPoint slides for this unique Train-The-Trainer program.
• You will receive a full 20% discount on all training products and programs offered by us (except some videos) for as long as you maintain your certification status.

Learn more here: http://www.humanext.com/HumaNext-Events.html

As to a financial plan, you don't need to develop an elaborate one. But you do need to think about your financial situation during the starting months when you might not generate enough income.

If you have a full or part time job, you can start your training business without quitting your job. You might be able to offer some of your free or reduced-fee workshops for marketing purposes during weekends or days off your work. You can also learn and get certified in the workshops you intend to deliver while holding a job, thus not wasting time doing that after you start working full time in your own business.

But once you start to establish yourself and get a number of years of experience under your belt, you will want to build a web site to show that you are now someone who is ready to play with the big players.

Once you decide you need a web site, you can build one and have it hosted for $10 to $15 per month. You can build your own web site without having to learn any codes by using a template called SiteStudio that comes with your hosting service from a HumaNext affiliated business: Web Hosting Ideas: www.webhostingideas.com  

By Francois Basili, President, HumaNext LLC

Driving to work one morning, I saw a bumper sticker that said: "A bad day of fishing is better than a good day at work." I was deeply saddened. We spend most of our waking hours at work. Isn't it sad to go through life feeling this way? What a waste! I remembered how miserable I was in my first job as an engineer. I didn't have passion for what I was doing, and my boss denigrated people and made them feel bad. Going to work every morning I felt like a "Dead Man Walking." When I changed my career, I found myself coming alive again. I learned the importance of having a job you love, in a work culture that uplifts the spirit and ignites the passion to achieve great things.

In early 2002, during the difficult few months after Nine Eleven and in the midst of difficult economic times, I started my own training company to help people change the culture of work and build an exciting workplace that would prompt them to say, Thank God It's Monday!

For the rest of the story visit: http://www.humanext.com/about%20us.html  

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