Provost Consulting

Performance Management

Barbara Provost MS EdD – Doctor of Adult and Higher Education, Business Coach, Adjunct Professor, Entrepreneur, Thought Leader on Women and Financial Services, and Expert on How Adults Learn — leads our team of professionals as we

Assess your organizations training and education needs,
Design solutions, and
Implement the results

With over two decades of experience developing training programs for Fortune 100 companies, our team understands the demands of the corporate world and how to balance them with maximizing your employees’ value

Motivating Employees

It’s a common misconception that employees are motivated primarily by money. While compensation always helps, research shows that the number one thing people want is growth and development in their work. They want to be successful in the job that they do.

So whether you’re rolling out a new product line, making significant changes to your organization, or just taking a fresh look at your training program, investing in employee training results in workers with:

higher motivation,
greater feelings of success in their jobs, and
increased competence and success.

Expense vs. Investment

We’ve all experienced traditional “training” that consists of hours or days of slide presentations in large venues. It’s expensive, it’s tedious, and it often fails to yield real learning. Taking people off the sales line or workforce should be an investment, not an expense.

Our team will design and develop education that will help your end users be successful, competent, and confident in the work that they do. Creating training that is engaging and will hit the mark for the learner is the key to making it work.

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The Provost Consulting Guarantee

With over a decade of experience in educating and coaching businesspeople, the Provost Consulting team consistently produces results through:

Accurate and timely needs assessments
Practical yet aggressive project plans
Designing, developing, and delivering curriculum or programs to meet end-user needs and effect organizational change
Meeting milestones
Projects delivered on time and on budget
Minimal operational disruption

Our Specialties

Here’s a list of just some of the ways we have effected change in organizations throughout the United States.

Implementing LMS systems
Engaging Online Learning via Storyline
Sales Vignettes to step through the sales process
Sales Presentation that engage
Presentation skills training
New employee onboarding programs
Technical system training
Large/small group discussions and facilitation
Performance checklists
Instructor-led education
Multi-media education
Case studies/scenarios
Task forces/groups
Demonstrations
Consultation
Online facilitation

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Our team will design and develop education that will help your end users be successful, competent, and confident in the work that they do. Creating training that is engaging and will hit the mark for the learner is the key to making it work.

Steps to Success:

When you work with Provost Consulting, we begin with a proven process that meets your needs.

Assess

A thorough assessment is the foundation of all good performance improvement. It’s finding out the core issues at hand. Here is where we investigate where the organization is now and where they want to go. By gathering all the pertinent information, we then strategize how to overcome gaps to meet the organizational objectives.

Design

Once we know where the organization wants to go, then we make a game plan. We design a strategy – like blueprints when building a house. We map out how everything will look and what needs to be done.

Develop

Now, we have our marching orders. We know what needs to be built – so we are on to development. This could be courses, job aids, webinars, communications, group work, you name it. We start our process of developing what’s needed to equip audiences to be confident and competent in the work they do!

Implement

Now, we are ready to launch. Be it a pilot session, or a full-blown program, we hit the ground running. We train trainers to implement the strategies created to meet the needs of the organization. We stay close to this process to adjust or tweak as needed.

Evaluate

As performance improvement sessions are active, we evaluate and adjust as necessary. At completion, we gather input at many levels to measure against the intended outcomes provided in the assessment phase. Evaluation and adjustments are continuous to ensure enhanced performance is achieved.

Dr. Barbara J. Provost, MS, EdD
President, Provost Consulting, Inc.

Barbara Provost MS EdD is a 25-year veteran of the fast-paced world of Chicago business. With multiple Masters Degrees and a Doctorate in Adult and Continuing Education, Barbara Provost MS EdD is an expert in how adults learn. In her roles as an Educator and as an Adjunct Professor, Barbara Provost MS EdD has taught new and emerging leaders at some of America’s foremost financial companies.

Dr. Provost’s leadership provides the best of both worlds — cutting-edge research and academics combined with more than two decades of experience developing training programs for Fortune 100 companies. She knows the practical demands of the corporate world and can help you and your organization take the next steps to success.

As a Certified Coach of the International Coaching Federation, Dr. Provost’s one-on-one work focuses on personal, professional, and small business fields.