We’re a training AND consulting firm. We often get retailer requests to help a client clarify their objectives as well as to recommend specific solutions. Most of the types of requests are to meet a specific skill gap with training. But more and more our clients are also coming to us to talk through how to be maximize reinforcement of company values, launch new initiatives, gain commitment to new processes, or to transform the entire company around a completely new direction.

We have always been able to teach interpersonal skills that drive business results. Whether it be leadership at all levels, sales, service, or negotiation, we can point to specific, measurable results from the facilitated training we implement. We also have known for a long time that in addition to building skills, training also is a powerful way to communicate a message to participants.

Because we facilitate discussions and reactions to retail best practices we’ve gathered or concepts or models we’ve researched, we learn and the group learns from each other. Using video as a part of our training also shows more than just the skills being taught. Visual models can telegraph what’s important to a company or how they want to see an interaction move. Clients often report that teams gain insight about each other that adds understanding and improves internal relationships when they train together. Buyers and planners get a glimpse of each other’s world and begin to share a single vision for how to work together.Company values are demonstrated during training that shows a more practical side of why we hold these so close.

The next time you have a need to communicate values, a message, or transform an entire company, think about creating a training experience that can do that as well as strengthen the attendees’ skills so that they leave training more prepared to take action on the message than just understanding the message.

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About MOHR Retail

For more than 30 years, MOHR Retail has developed the critical people-to-people skills needed to create results in the retail industry—and we’re just getting started. Through innovative classroom and online learning methods, as well as our ongoing national retail research projects, we continue to stay on top of the trends so we can fuel the success of specialty stores, chain stores, outlets, catalogue retailers, department stores, and more. Nowhere does learning meet experience as it does in a MOHR Retail training program.