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Wait, you found me on LinkedIn? And you need a presenter? Let’s go!
If you are looking for a conference, breakout session or lunch & learn speaker, we can help with that! Just give us a call, we offer several technology and growth leadership topics.
We’re Always Up And Running – Acts of God Not Included
When you’ve scheduled an important day of training, the last thing you want to deal with is an internet problem. We’ve made sure this won’t happen… unless of course there is some “Act of God” scenario where we will all be dealing with bigger problems!
NAWBO Days in Washington DC: Advocating and Celebrating Small Business Owners
Advocacy for Women Owned Businesses: In a bi-partisan manner, we met with congresswoman Sharice David’s staffer for a meeting advocating for small business.
Woo-hoo and Boo-hoo Coffee: From Kindergarten to High School Graduation
When your kid starts Kindergarten, the PTA hosts a gathering for the parents on the first day of school, just after you drop your child off at class. They call this gathering “Woo-hoo! Coffee” or “Boo-hoo Coffee,” depending on how one parent feels about their kid starting Kindergarten.
Training Umbrella St. Louis is now open!
The facility has roughly 10,000 square feet of classrooms and computer labs available to rent for you and your company’s needs. The facility is visible from the St. Louis airport, just a few blocks away, and has 100+ parking spaces in a shared lot. Our building is ADA accessible, has an elevator, and a total of 6 meeting rooms.
Business Becomes Friendship: Teams Training for Lucas Commercial Flooring
Dana Hetrick owns Lucas Commercial Flooring Group which is on target for major growth. Implementing software that will help foster this growth and the communications that come along with it, is a smart move.
Why we love Ubiquiti Networks’ Unifi Solution for our Internet and WiFi needs
Our WiFi network is more stable and reliable, allowing our guests to connect and collaborate seamlessly. Many thanks to the Cenetric team who helped us implement Unifi!
State of Kansas Testing at Training Umbrella: Tuition-Free Online Public Education
For the past 8 years, Training Umbrella has hosted Kansas Connections Academy’s state testing here at our facility in Overland Park, Kansas.
We Support the Largest Private Healthcare Provider in America
One of our most recent contracts was with the largest, private, healthcare provider in America. They train and onboard hospital staff of all kinds- RN’s, CNA’s, ICU, NICU, the lot!
Client Success Story: LucasE3 (Ethanol – Efficiency – Engineering)
Training Umbrella was hired by LucasE3 to assist in the migration training from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365. Most importantly, we were engaged to help uplift their current proposal documents.
Training Umbrella Offers College Level Examination Program (CLEP) Exams
Something you may not know about Training Umbrella is the fact that we offer thousands of tests for schools and companies around the country.
We narrowly avoided a recent hacking attempt that 2FA would have stopped.
It started a few weeks ago on a late Friday afternoon. We received an email welcoming us to QuickBooks and that they had great news about our “Checking and Payments Application”. What?!?!
New Year, New Rooms – Training Umbrella Expansion
Come in and see the changes we’ve made! We would love to see you and get your feedback. Sometimes, you need to see a space in person to visualize how you can use it to your benefit. Who knows? Maybe one of our new training spaces will work for your meeting needs!
Client Success Story: TVH
Training Umbrella custom designed courses for TVH that fit their content needs and classroom timeframe. While TVH uses Google Workspace heavily for Email, Calendar and Drive, they are avid Microsoft Excel users. We’ve also worked with them learning other programs such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Access, Tableau and Business Writing Skills.
Mobile Labs from Training Umbrella – We bring the classroom to you.
Training Umbrella has clients all over the country that will reach out asking if we offer laptops for rent. Not only do we rent them out, we will ship them out or even drive them to you! We call this service Mobile Labs.
Here are a few cool tech tips we’ve been using this year!
Christy has been lucky enough over the years to not have to mess with wearing glasses or contacts. Until, she wasn’t. Here are some useful accessibility tips and other cool tech tips she has been using this year.
A Large Insurance Company Appreciates the Value of In-Person Training for Distributed Teams
One of our larger insurance clients recently reached out and said that they are DONE with virtual training. They want everything face-to-face and in person, but they have 30 people located across the United States.
Client Success Story – City of Leawood Up and Running with Microsoft 365
Microsoft Teams and OneDrive training for the City of Leawood was a success! Dedicated space, customized lessons and snacks? Check.