Even the best designed and facilitated training sessions are little more than inspiration and motivation if purposeful practice, processes and supports aren’t available after the training.  It’s having, and using practical solutions that will bridge the knowing doing gap. This is where real ‘learning’ happens and where we can help.

Experience is the learner of all things.”  ~ Albert Einstein

Here are some practical solutions we include in our programs and custom design that will help close the knowing doing gap.

• Coaching follow-up program and support
• Action Plans
• Facebook Group Communities
• Group Learning Round Tables

Education does not take place when you learn something you did not know before. Education is your ability to use what you have learned to be better today than you were yesterday.”

~ Iylanla Vanzant, Lawyer, Author, Life Coach

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Just like Dorothy Gale, when she found herself in Oz, individuals and organizations often find themselves swept up in a whirlwind of change and in an unknown land. Whirlwinds of change always bring the need for a new way of being. This new way of being requires new learning, new ways of doing things and most importantly, support and encouragement. That’s where AHz Learning can help.

If you are looking for training that is designed for how people learn, and focused on turning knowledge into action, look no further!

Our design incorporates:

• Accelerated learning techniques
• Adult learning principles
• Brain research and behaviour change
• Practical tools and techniques
• Interaction, engagement and problem solving
• Follow-up support processes, practices and coaching

Our design services:

• Customization of our pre-designed programs and workshops to meet your specific needs.
• Create new classroom or on-line programs and workshops on almost any topic; whether it’s a new software application, procedural or skills/behaviour training.
• Develop new software application documentation and training programs.
• Enhance your existing programs.
• Procedure development, documentation and training.

Whether designing a new training program or enhancing an existing one, our team will work with your subject matter experts to develop a highly effective, actionable training created especially for your organization and culture using your internal terminology and specific examples.

Program delivery options:

• Classroom
• elearning (using Articulate Story Line)
• Webinars
• Peer-to-Peer programs
• Job Aids or Quick Reference Guides
• Train-the-Trainer

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We offer a number of workshops that can be customized and delivered by our world-class facilitators or purchased as a package and delivered by your internal facilitators. Packages include the following:

• Participant Workbook
• Facilitator Guide
• PowerPoint Slide Deck

We also offer train-the-trainer programs for all of our workshops.

Customer Service

Note: Customer Service workshops are available for both Face-to-Face customer service or for Call Center audiences.

• Providing Outstanding Customer Service
  • Coaching for Success: Providing Outstanding Customer Service
• Handling Challenging Customer Situations with Finesse and Less Stress
  • Coaching for Success: Handling Challenging Customer Situations with Finesse and Less Stress

For detailed information on our customer service workshops click here.

Authentic, Holistic Leadership Series

• Holistic Leadership
  • Coaching for Success: Authentic, Holistic Leadership

For detailed information on our leadership workshops click here.

Organizational Development

• The Art of Communication
  • Coaching for Success: The Art of Communication
• Overcoming Conflict
  • Coaching for Success: Overcoming Conflict

For detailed information on our organizational development workshops click here.

“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”

~ R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) hailed as one of the greatest minds of our time

Buckminster Fuller was a creative innovator focused on pioneering technological solutions that improved human lives.

At AHz Learning, we are changing lives though creative and innovated training design and delivery that include tools that support that design.

We are glad you decided to explore this area of the Land of AHz because it’s where we will be sharing tools we have developed over the years. Tools for:

• Classroom and virtual program design
• Personal engagement and development
• Leadership development
• Organizational engagement and development

We will be sharing these tools with our ‘AH’mazing learning community. If you want to receive these tools in your inbox, all you need to do is join our community.

Hi! My name is Shelby. I am the co-founder and Chief Inspiration Officer of AHz Learning Technologies Inc. Rather than describe my company and provide you with a lot of statistics, I’d like to share the story of AHz with you. I think stories provide insight and convey the essence of who and what a company is, and what it stands for far better than a description and statistics – I hope you do too.

The year is 1996. Two sisters that are passionate about learning and behaviour change, decide to start a company dedicated to performance and learning. They don’t want a company that delivers content. They want an innovative company that makes a difference in organizations and the people that work for those organizations. A company that stretches the limits of learning to self-discovery, change and growth.

“So what should we call our company?” asked one sister. “What do we like best about being in the classroom and facilitating the training we’ve designed?” asked the other. They both looked at each other and said “It’s seeing people have aha moments”! As they explored this idea, they talked about what they needed to do to create those ‘aha’ moments – those moments when people really ‘get’ what’s being taught. Nobody knows why, but before they knew what was happening, they were talking about the Wizard of Oz and the different characters in the story.

They knew that in every classroom or learning interaction there are people that are like the lion. They are afraid of looking foolish, of making a mistake, or having to interact with others. There are those that aren’t engaged in the organization or in the learning because their heart just isn’t in it; and there are those that don’t think they are smart enough.

Finally, their discussion turned to the wizard and how he wasn’t really a wizard, he just put things in place so that Dorothy and her friends could find what they were looking for. “What if we called our company AHz Learning”, said one sister. The AH will represent those important aha moments and the z will represent the lessons from the Wizard of Oz. “And we could be ‘AH’ Wizards”, exclaimed the other!

So that is how AHz Learning got its name.

Remember, at the beginning of our story the sisters’ goal was to have an innovative company that made a difference in organizations and the people that work in those organizations. A company that stretches the limits of learning to self-discovery, change and growth. This goal is their quest or, you could say, their Emerald City.

The Quest (the Emerald City):

To stretch the limits of learning to self-discovery, change and growth by:

• creating and delivering programs and workshops that open the learning centers of the brain;
• removing barriers to learning;
• engaging the learner with stimulating, practical content and interactivity;
• providing learners with numerous ‘Aha’ moments of insight; and,
• using inquiry and providing opportunities for self-reflection.

The Journey

This journey has certainly been an adventure. We’ve had incredible highs and made a difference in the lives of many customers and their employees. We’ve also had our fair share of  disheartenment and doubt. The founding characters have even changed, as one sister’s heart took her on a different quest. Yet this wonderful journey has continued and we remain committed to changing lives and organizations as we stretch the limits of learning to self-discovery, change and growth.

What’s kept AHz on this journey is the team’s passion for learning; their creativity and commitment to finding innovative ways to help people learn, and apply what they learned; as well as the people we’ve met along the way and our client cheerleaders.

The AHz difference is they come at it from the Wizard of Oz perspective. They want you to walk down that path with them, take you down that road to the end where you get that learning ‘ah’!

~ Louise Yates, Farm Credit Corp

I hope you’ve enjoyed our story. We’d love to help you on your journey down the yellow brick road to your Emerald City. Let’s connect!