What exactly do you guys do?

Learning Unlimited Corporation (LUC) provides training services and resources for individual, team, and organizational development. We specialize in professionally facilitating active learning techniques, sometimes called experiential learning. We deliver training at various locations – hotels, conference centers, retreat sites, classrooms, client facilities – nationally and internationally.

What about due diligence and your process?

First, let’s talk. Before we agree to work together, we need to discover if what we do is what you want and need. Through initial communication we can share enough information for you to decide if you want a service proposal. We’ll rough out a service proposal within a few days, check that we’re on track, then make necessary adjustments. When you decide to move forward with our services, we’ll complete an in-depth needs assessment via instruments, interviews, face-to-face meetings, or a combination thereof. To assure long-term success, the lead facilitator assigned to your process will maintain frequent contact throughout the phases of design, delivery/implementation, and performance checkpoints.

What can I expect from your facilitators?

Customers often praise the skill and adaptability of LUC facilitators – they’re seasoned, personable, and able to facilitate productive learning environments. Our facilitators connect with each client with great respect for what the client already knows, and often do it with shared humor. We take care to build the trust that gives us permission to not only encourage but also confront as needed.

How does follow through occur?

The measure of successful training and consulting are the changes that occur in the workplace. Remember, new insight and awareness does not mean instant behavior change! Your LUC consultant will meet with you within a few days of each program (or step in the consulting process) for evaluation and a definition of next steps. We will provide coaching or help you formulate a coaching strategy for learners as they put new skills into practice.

What type of audience is best for LUC?

Over the past decade, LUC has developed a specialization for frontline managers in blue-collar industrial environments – specifically in construction, energy gathering and distribution, oilfield personnel, and manufacturing. Our facilitators have learned to successfully and skillfully engage the smartest, toughest, and most skeptical groups you can imagine.

LUC has two decades of experience working with intact work groups or teams, executive teams, departments, boards, project teams, sales or marketing teams, leaders, supervisors, managers, or anyone with direct reports.

What tools or assessments do you employ?

LUC only uses assessments proven to increase the effectiveness of our learning environments. This includes the DiSC Profile, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Team Dimensions Profile, Gallup’s StrengthsFinder 2.0, TalentSmart’s Emotional Intelligence 2.0, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Assessments, and organization-wide surveys that include employee engagement metrics. We also sell many of these same instruments, facilitator kits, including video and PowerPoint, and books for those professionals or organizations who want to do it themselves. Most require no training for the experienced trainer, although we will gladly provide consulting, coaching, and/or “train the trainer” services.

What is experiential learning?

Experiential or active learning is exactly what it sounds like: learning through experience. It’s how we all learn best, and that’s why LUC programs incorporate active learning. We’ve all experienced the challenge of taking an exciting idea, concept, or skill and making it our own. Reading and hearing about a new skill is just the first step: it’s only after we struggle with it, try it out, practice, fail and try again that we begin to gain competence… and that’s when real growth begins.