THE KETCHUM GROUP - SERVICES
Business & Industry Performance Improvement & Training
Best practice in training requires understanding the return on investment (ROI) from training investments. Our performance improvement approach ensures training solutions are effective. Using the Paradigm Training Structured On-The-Job (SOJT) Trainer System produces Kirkpatrick Level 3 evaluations. Kirkpatrick’s 4 Levels of Evaluation Model. Web-delivered training is increasingly common, but requires SOJT to be decisive in producing error-free learning. Improved productivity is our training goal. We offer services ranging from review of existing training initiatives to producing overall training plans. Grant development for state training funds is a specialty.
Training Grants
TKG will assist in identifying training grants. Our extensive experience with Idaho's Workforce Development Training Fund allows us to help your company communicate with your state's workforce training organization to help identify funds to assist your company.
Structured On-The-Job Trainer System
Our flagship training tool is based on the Paradigm Training Structured On-The-Job (SOJT) Trainer System. This training method offers many advantages:
- Is relatively inexpensive to develop and deliver
- Reduces time off the job and total training time
- Reinforces work relationships and relates to the work of the team
- Reduces mis-learning from peers and teaches the most expert methods
- Can be tied to performance assessment and pay systems
- Supports ISO registration and other industry and government certifications
- Supplements classroom and online training
Internationally acclaimed as the best, most effective, and most economical SOJT program presently available, the Paradigm system will enable you to establish and maintain your own SOJT program such that your SOJT trainers can generate error-free work performance. Your trainers are taught both instructional and development skills as they are led through practice exercises with “transparent” content to learn the SOJT process. They then proceed to teach the content and skills needed by your employees. Your trainers will also learn how to perform task analyses and how to convert them electronically to performance checklists, training handouts, and lesson plans, using our proprietary “Show-Tell System” software.
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Community Workforce Strategy
Local and regional economic development require workforce development strategies that align government, business and education. The Ketchum Group will lead Workforce Summit meetings with outcome strategies that marshal resources and deliver a skilled and flexible workforce development system. Extensive experience with workforce boards; chamber leaders; business leaders and education leaders ensures effective cross organizational planning.
College and University Workforce Development Strategy and Implementation
Specializing in communication tools and strategies that produce open dialogue and effective partnering between post-secondary educational institutions and the business and industry communities they serve. Tools and techniques that produce services need by the private sector result and community support for institutional leadership.
Accreditation - Technical Assistance
Are you pursuing candidacy for accreditation or preparing for a site visit? Accreditation is the foundation of your school's success. TKG assists both private and public post-secondary institutions by providing technical assistance for initial candidacy and site visits. Experienced evaluators will guide your efforts through accreditation's challenging processes.
Government Agency Workforce Development Policy and Strategy
Align policy initiatives in workforce development with best practice in workforce development including Registered Apprenticeship, the National Career Readiness Certificate and Structured On-The-Job (SOJT) training necessary for addressing the increasing skilled workers shortages. Clarify and communicate government agency workforce policy to business and industry. Extensive experience with state departments of labor and professional-technical systems delivers results.
