We have recently placed another spanking new training room under our stable. This training room will be good for classes with a class size of 20 persons. Once again, we made sure that the training environment is conducive, cozy and comfortable for training and learning.

As we go along in this business, we realized besides business, we are very privileged to serve businesses, especially smaller start ups with a place to train, to hold their previews with a convenient location. Usually, newer start ups, entrepreneurs will not want to commit themselves to a training room as it may cost them substantially.  We made many new friends along the way and we feel really happy when we have dates to accommodate their dates that they want to book.

New photos of the new training room will be up very soon, please stay tuned. And for entrepreneurs who want to conduct your training, course previews, Parkmall is indeed a superb location as it is very near to the MRT (one minute walk from Dhoby Ghaut MRT) and your participants will not get lost due to the complexity of the layout of the building. There is only one lift leading to the training venue.

If you need training room or seminar room rental at a convenient and cozy place, visit our website at www.trainingroomsg.com

We have recently rented our training room to a client who trained their new hires and we like to share some tips on this topic with our readers and clients

An effective employee training / on boarding program ensures that new hires are prepared in their new positions, giving them confidence and the resources they need. A good on boarding and well planned process will ensure that new hires know that they play an important role in the organisation.

It also minimizes employee turnover, align the values and goals of the organisation and help to save managers’s time training the new employee. This article contains five tips on training new hires.

1. Incorporate Different Training Methods during the on boarding presentation

As an on boarding program usually comprise of all ranks in the program, it is important to know the profile of your audience. Do consider incorporating a variety of content during your training example, slide shows, power point presentations, employee handbook, hands on activities. This will help to ensure that all of the employees regardless of their proficiency in any language can grasp the intent of the program. If your presentation is in English, do consider developing your presentation in other languages or have a translator present to explain to the audience who needs assistance.

2. Communicate the objectives of the program at the start and at the end of the program

This will help the new staff to understand what the trainer will be speaking about and also help them to refresh their memory. Importantly, help the new staff to know what they are supposed to understand at the end of the orientation program.

3. Develop Practical Training program

Do not overwhelm your new staff with excessive information on the very first day. If there is too much information to share with new joiners, it is encouraged that you convince the respective department heads to make it into a two days program etc and it will translate into long lasting benefits for the department. Take note also not to scare the new joiners with overwhelming information that they are frighten off on the first day of work. One possible way of doing is to invite the respective department heads to sit in your program so that they are convinced that a one day program is insufficient and acknowledge the benefits of the program.

4. Have some fun

While it is important that the new joiners understand the objectives and know as much about the organisation as possible, understand that it is unrealistic to overdo it. It is important that the new hires make new friends across various departments and making them feel engaged and motivated. Hence, conduct your program well but have some fun!

If you are looking for an affordable, convenient training, seminar room or classroom rental strategically located in town, call us now at 66595919 to serve you for your next event!

As a trainer, besides our passion to impart our knowledge and help people grow or excel, how do you know whether you are doing good enough?

As the saying goes, what gets measured gets improved. How do you measure your training effectiveness? We encourage the use of a course evaluation checklist. What it does is that it allows your participants to talk to you, to feedback what went well, what went wrong in your presentation or training. Below are some questions that are good to ask your participants for their feedback. We also encourage that you keep the evaluation anoynmous as this will be a true test of your performance.

If you are doing an in house workshop for your client, the course evaluation checklist is often also used by the training department to understand the course, its effectiveness and whether its objectives are met. Most of the times, the objective of such in house workshops or training is that the employee must be able to do better at their work.

Some of the metrics that course evaluation form uses are yes/no questions. While some metrics used are very poor, poor, average, good, very good and excellent.

This article will share more about yes and no questions.

• Is the content constructed based on job tasks?
• Are steps or actions to take detailed and broke down into clear instructions?
• Is the material tailored to the seniority and/or experience level of the participants?
  
• Has the “by the way” information been minimized?
  
• Is more than one third of the training session spent on the content presentation?
  
  
• Is more than two third of the time spent on the allowing the participants to effectively apply the information?
  
  
• Are adult learning concepts built into the course?
  
• Is the pace of the course good?
• Is the course properly structured?
• Does break up group exercises simulate the tasks and bring across the learning points?
• Activities are built into the course to help transfer skills learned to the job.
  
  
• Is sufficient time allocated for the difficult tasks.
  
  
• The content is reviewed at regular intervals and there is good clarify by the speaker?
  
• Has the effectiveness of the course been evaluated?
• would you recommend this workshop to your colleagues or friends in this field?

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It is not an easy task keeping track of participants to your seminar or training if you do not have an organised way of keeping track. For example, how many has turned up, has not turned up and whether to make the decision whether to wait for more participants to come or wait for more to arrive.

While you can rely on your intuition with the room capacity being filled, still this is not a very good gauge and there are also some good reasons for keeping track of your participants attendance.

We recommend the old school method of just printing out the excel spreadsheet and let the participants sign when they arrive. Don’t tick but sign as some participants are fond of ticking for their friend or partner and this will disrupt your accuracy.

With a signing in sheet, it gives you benefits especially when your seminar room is full but some participants tried to walk in. As mentioned, we must always give priority to those who signed up online or have been following your blogs etc.

There are few benefits for both organizer and participant adopting the sign in sheet.

1) This helps the participant to ensure that he is at the right place/ seminar. It is not uncommon that several seminars take place together at one venue and the participant went to the wrong seminar that he did not sign up for.

2) It helps the organizer to ascertain the number of participants attending the seminar. Sometimes, if the participant has typed in the wrong email address or other personal information, it is also a good time during the sign in to correct the mistake.

3) Some trainer will send some freebies to the emails of the participants who attend the seminar to thank them for their time. Without a sign in sheet, the organizer has no means to find out who did physically came for the seminar. It will not look good for the company if they state they will only send to those who attended but sent to everyone in the sign up sheet even those who did not attend on that day.

If you have enough space to accommodate walk in guests, do not forget to leave blank space at the below of the paper so that the walk in guests can write their names and means of contacting them. This is your potential leads to sales!

In summary, your client database is your lifeline in business and people who took time to come attend your seminar deserve to be rewarded with your freebies or useful resources. Segregate those who genuinely are interested in your business from those and those who sign up for fun and you should be able to close deals more easily.

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If you are holding seminars which have products or offers for the participants to buy at the end of the seminar, if your seminar that you are holding falls in such a category, perhaps the following tips about about placement product and also tips to convince and persuade more of your attendees to purchase and not walk away without any sales purchase.

It is often quite common that after a seminar is done, many seminar operates are unable to hit their sales target. One of the reasons is that there is a lack of a proper and structured presentation of the offer delivery.

The number one thing to do is to increase the visibility of your product or offer. If it is not visible, it will not attract any attention and how to attract sales? If it is for tangible products, the physical product can be placed but if it is for selling of courses, then perhaps you should place a prominent sales booth with registration form, pamphlets and sales representatives.
Secondly, the placement must be convenient to your participants. It will be apt to place your counter or table with the offers near the entrance/exit doors of your venue. That is, a location that no one can miss when they enter and exit (especially).

The sales pitch usually occurs at the end of a seminar or presentation. For offering of courses, it is usually done by the speaker during the last part of his presentation.

In such instances, the speaker might ask for a show of hands for those who are keen. Another option is to inform the participants to approach the staff at the counter directly who are keen. Sometimes, giving a first ten sign up offer might work. For the first ten who sign up, the price or offer will be much more attractive than the rest. However, somehow this method seems to be over used in recent years and is not as effective as last time.

For physical products that you wish to sell, a table with a nice table cloth will be good for your presentation. Remember, the essence of doing so is to place the sales counter at a very prominent place where no one can miss (usually at the entrance or exit). Make sure your sales counter has all the necessary equipment set up to make it hassle free for people to purchase. For example, NET terminal and you should also know where is the nearest ATM machine if your client needs one.

While these tips seem ordinary, but are often neglected by many as they are too insignificant to take note of yet, they have a place to play in your sales figures.

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If you are a small company in the training business, e.g. internet marketing, speaking, motivational programs, you will likely one day faced with the opportunity or decision whether to purchase your own training or seminar room as opposed to rent a seminar room or training .

There’s no hard and fast rule but this article provide some factors which you might want to consider. Also, one more thing to add before we proceed is this article focuses on business owners who have already settle in and already have a positive cash flow.

Consideration of the Costs of Buying Your Office – Opportunity Costs
Buying an office will need a big amount of upfront capital. Are there any expansion plans upcoming which require a huge amount of capital? Because an office or training room purchase requires a huge outlay of capital. Bottom line, consider the opportunity costs of tying up your funds in the purchase.

Do You Plan to Grow or Shrink Your company?
Companies with employee numbers which fluctuate or who plan to increase headcount may find renting the better option as the size of working force is yet to be fixed. Making a decision to purchase an office or training room may be not appropriate until your headcount required for your business is more or less determined for the next 3-5 years.

Have you found a suitable location?
Consider the dynamics of your current office location as compared to the location which you wish to purchase. It is not surprising that some employees might not be willing to move over together to the new office in view of the inconvenience. Hence, you might also seek the opinions of your staff to have a feel

Do You Plan to Move?
Is your business currently located to your current clients which gives you an edge in doing business? If so, you might want to re consider. Also, if you want flexibility you should rent.

How do You Define Peace of Mind?
You should also think about whether to purchase or rent your office to hold your training program depending on how you define peace of mind.

For some, peace of mind equals knowing that you will be in the same office paying a fixed mortgage and you are not held ransom to rent increases by landlords. Possibly, there may also be capital appreciation. However, for others, peace of mind may mean that they do not have to spend time troubling themselves with maintenance issues and can rely on someone to fix any issues that arise along way of the lease. In addition, there is also flexibility to shift offices whenever he wants.

Some nice and recent photos of the seating arrangements we configured for our clients.  And some pretty yellow chairs we recently purchased.

If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, speaker, trainer and business owner who needs to have a good, cozy and affordable training room or seminar room to hold your event or preview, do consider our venue. It is affordable and very convenient.

Cluster Seating Arrangement

Seminar Room Seating Arrangement (50 pax)