“I Wasn’t Prepared For How Well This Training Would Equip My Crew.”
The anti-training for skilled trades.
THE PROBLEM
You’re Losing Money Every Day
And You’ve Just Learned To Live With It.
Every time you skip training, someone on your crew is figuring it out the hard way… on your dime. Rework will eat your margins. Jobs will drag. Good people will leave because nobody invested in them. Supervisors won’t handle situations properly.
You didn't learn the importance of training crews at trade school. So you patch the business with duct tape and hope everyone learns through osmosis. That used to work, until your good guys retire or you have to rehire.
Running high performing skilled crews doesn't have to be this hard.
Every one of these problems has the same answer: skill development. That's exactly what our training addresses.
HOW IT WORKS
You Already Did School. We’re Not Going To Put You Through That Again.
Skill develops when you practice repetitively.
Hockey players don’t get better by reading about hockey. Golfers don’t fix their swing by watching YouTube. Just like them, you’ll only get better by practicing… with someone who can demonstrate what good looks like, correct what’s wrong, encourage and motivate.
That’s exactly what our training does.
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01 Built From Hundreds of Real Trades Businesses
Every element in our training was developed from hundreds of real problems and required skills across the building trades. Whether it's hands-on technical skills on the tools or the that make or break a crew - every trainee will work through the exact situations your industry deals with every day.
We've already done the hard work of figuring out what skills matter most for each industry and how to train them.
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02 - We Incorporate Real Problems
Trainees work through real situations: a technique that's slowing the crew down, a piece of equipment that requires training, difficult personalities who are pushing back, specialized skills that can’t be trained anywhere else.
Our training is specific to your trade.
Your crew. Your reality. -
03 - We Stack Skills Towards Competency
We avoid training that looks like a talking head on a screen. We avoid death by Powerpoint for your team.
Every program puts the trainee’s reality into the scenario and keeps them there until the skill sticks.
We lay out skill pathways that stack until trainees master their trade over time.
TESTIMONIALS
What’s Being Said About Our Skilled-Trades Training
Somehow, you guys knew exactly what skills every role needed.
You organized the skills in a way that it felt like a game.
I’ve got motivated guys working towards levels of competency. They’re learning and they are proud of it.
I get guys who are mastering the trade.
— Concrete Company Owner
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BUILT BY AN EXPERT
Built For Profit.
Built For Trades.
This training is built by a team under the direction of Manja Horner, a skilled trades expert with over 20 years in the field, and the author of Pass the Torch, the bestselling book that’s sounding the alarm on what this industry needs to do to survive what’s coming.
This isn’t frilly or corporate stuff that looks good on paper and feels irrelevant. All training is built with two purposes: to fix the people problems that are bleeding money out of skilled trades businesses at every level and to develop skilled workers faster. Each program targets a different role and level of competency of your business, from helper to apprentice all the way up to top leaders.
Manja’s entire philosophy of skill development has been proven across skilled trades businesses at every stage of growth.
THE PROGRAMS
Find Your Training
All programs are available as group or individual sessions, ready to deploy, or built custom for your business.
It’s not your job to figure out where to start.
Book a call and we’ll figure it out together.
Ready to Grow With Training?
Book a 30-minute discovery call.
We’ll identify exactly what your team needs - whether that’s a ready-to-go program or something built custom for your business - and show you what changes when all of your people know what they’re doing.