Can The Real Learning Experience Training Franchise turn anyone into a corporate trainer

To succeed in a corporate training franchise, franchisees will almost certainly need to be able to deliver corporate training. Some franchisees may choose to employ a trainer but The Real Learning Experience Training Franchise system is really designed for a franchisee who is actively involved in training delivery. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the business can’t be built by employing additional trainers as the corporate training franchise grows.

The obvious question – “What if I’m not a trainer?” Only about 5% of people who contact us about buying a corporate training franchise have a training background and even fewer have formal training qualifications. Another 5% come from a teaching background and the remaining 90% are a very mixed bunch, coming from various roles in small to medium businesses; supervisors and managers in corporations; public servants; sales people; people who run or own other businesses; consultants; and the list goes on.

Simon Thiessen, CEO of The Real Learning Experience Training Franchise group came from a business and sales background and had almost no experience as a business trainer when he founded The Real Learning Experience 17 years ago. Over the years he has worked with many of Australia’s best corporate trainers and their previous lives were equally diverse.

What does all of this tell us about succeeding as a trainer in a corporate training franchise? Success is all about the right character and has very little to do with qualifications and experience. At The Real Learning Experience Training Franchise we have a thorough selection process which is designed to identify potential franchisees with the character that provides the platform for success.

Of course, having the right character is just the start. So, what are the other factors?

• Personal and ongoing commitment to ongoing learning and professional development plus a determination to become the best corporate trainer possible 
• A passion for helping others fulfil their potential 
• Excellent training materials: over 17 years we have developed more than 150 training programs. Only the best of these have been selected for our corporate training franchisees to work with (around thirty programs are currently available) 
• Well designed and easy to use trainer support materials. All programs from The Real Learning Experience are supported with step-by-step leaders guides, professional overheads and various handouts and tools that have been collected over seventeen years of training 
• Induction training that is not just about reading an operations manual – in fact, it is all about doing. In the induction program, new corporate training franchisees attend live programs; learn about delivery; study, prepare and deliver segments of courses; and plan their own actual courses 
• Special training for franchisees to help them turn excellent materials into great training by making them relevant to the individual client – we call this contextualising 
• Consistent post training support including co delivery of sessions and market visits by the author of this article (Simon Thiessen) 
• Ongoing reviews of every training session designed to identify potential improvements in the materials and in the training delivery