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Advantage is committed to bringing you the best available performance improvement solutions. Our extensive Alliance network gives you access to world-renown performance developers, premier business thinkers, leading-edge training design, and dozens of industry-recognized solutions.
Our Alliance network makes Advantage the only performance improvement organization equipped to provide access to the industry’s "best of class" products and consulting services. It also allows us to objectively pinpoint and design custom solutions based solely on the unique needs of each of our clients.
You benefit from the research, client experience, and development expertise of leading performance specialists. And you enjoy the convenience of working with just one firm: Advantage. It’s a partnership designed with you—our client—in mind.
10,000 Feet™
Creating a Strategic Viewpoint
10,000 Feet is passionate about helping professionals view their businesses from a higher altitude.  The company's offerings help people rise out of the tyranny of the day-to-day to a broader, more strategic perspective. This higher viewpoint reveals the larger dynamics of the business and enables professionals to make more informed, effective ground-level decisions. 10,000 Feet's highly customized offerings include innovative simulations, interactive games, future and historical learning processes, and more. The company’s flagship Interplay simulation helps professionals understand how business decisions, actions, and forces interact to create or destroy value. 10,000 Feet company headquarters is in New York, NY. (Greatest hits include: Interplay)
Accordence
Improve Results of Every Negotiation
Accordence serves organizations' needs to negotiate successfully by maximizing negotiation as a competitive advantage. Our world-class consultants and facilitators provide organizations with solutions in negotiation, conflict management, persua sion, and influence so that they may vastly improve individual and organizational capacity for creating innovative and successful outcomes. Our philosophy of training is simple: provide world-class programs that help our clients succeed. Our programs are research-based, drawing on a multitude of learning, business, and academic experts, including the renowned Harvard Negotiation Project; results-focused and proven in the field; dynamically delivered by experienced facilitators and content experts; and collaborative and experiential, drawing on the best of adult learning principles. Thousands of leaders, managers, and sales professionals have benefited from Accordence consultants' experience and expertise. Accordence headquarters is in Burlingame, CA. (Greatest hits include: Just Negotiate®, Expand The Pie, Raise Your Game, Resolve Your Conflicts, The Power of 3, Pepulator-The Negotiation Paradox).
Advance Consulting
Advancing the Way People Work
Advance Consulting, Inc. specializes in transforming professionals into consultative business partners. Since 1990, we have helped professionals create more value for their clients, build deeper trust and commitment, and develop partnerships that increase productivity and accelerate business results. Our flagship workshop, The Consultative Approach®, is based on our best-selling book, The Consultative Approach: Partnering for Results! The program is used by organizations to build strategic, collaborative, and consistent consulting processes that add value to clients’ businesses. Advance Consulting’s rich curriculum addresses client interaction skills, relationship management, coaching, consultative selling for consultants, service excellence, and conflict resolution. Our solutions go way beyond training to include readiness assessments, reinforcement strategies, online tools, and executive coaching. Advance Consulting, Inc. is headquartered in Corte Madera, CA. (Greatest hits include: The Consultative Approach®, Leveraging the Consultative Approach, Winning With Service, Consultative Selling for Consultants, Focused Coaching, Building Business Partnerships, Advancing Client Interactions, and Workplace Conflict and Negotiation)
BTS
Catalysts for Profitability and Growth
BTS is the world leader in developing and delivering customized business simulations that drive profitability and growth while supporting strategic change.  Since 1985, BTS has worked as a thought partner with leading organizations around the globe to help individuals at all levels make better, faster business decisions. BTS simulations are dynamic, emotionally engaging learning experiences that provide each participant with a "helicopter perspective" of the business and its interrelationships. This context is paired with cutting-edge content and a proven learning process so that each simulation is highly relevant, realistic, and directly applicable back on the job. Simulations are offered in computer-based, board-based, and Web-based formats. They address key business levers in the areas of Business Acumen, Leadership, Sales and Marketing, and Operations. BTS is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.  It serves clients, providing consulting and facilitation support in local languages, from offices in leading business centers on four continents. BTS subsidiary, SMG (Strategic Management Group, Inc.®), headquartered in Philadelphia PA, serves as the firm’s global, scenario-based simulation Center of Excellence. SMG offers solutions in the areas of Business Acumen, Sales, Project Leadership, and Leadership. (Greatest hits include: Customer Understanding Series, Business Acumen Series and Custom Strategic Simulations)
Celemi
Simulations that help employees think and act like owners
Celemi truly unleashes "The Power of Learning."  The company is based on the principal that people learn most from their own experience. Celemi's energizing and competitive team simulations give managers and individual contributors the experience of running their own company. Participants' business literacy increases tenfold as they learn how cash circulates through companies and affects scarce resources. By evaluating customers' marketing and operating strategies and financial environment, participants better understand ways in which their own actions can support their company's business strategy and profitability. Celemi headquarters is located in Malmo, Sweden. (Greatest hits include: Livon, Tango, Apples & Oranges, Decision Base®)
The HR Chally Group
Success CAN Be Predicted
The HR Chally Group (Chally) is a premier provider of employee performance and sales effectiveness solutions.  More than 2,000 clients in 38 business segments worldwide have used Chally’s predictive methods to improve employee performance and create top-line growth. The Chally assessment is based on extensive and ongoing actuarial research. The Chally database includes assessment results and measures of performance for over 300,000 incumbents in sales, management and support positions. Chally has developed the skills that predict on-the-job performance and comply with EEOC regulations. Through its World-Class Sales Benchmark research, Chally is able to track the customer-rated performance of over 1,500 sales forces. Chally solutions include a web-based system for candidate selection and employee development and an organizational development analysis to identify skill gaps, training needs and talent deployment. Partnering with Chally now enables the Advantage Performance Group to deliver predictive methods for selecting, developing and retaining highly effective employees. Company headquarters is in Dayton, OH.
Clarity Advantage
More Profitable Sales FASTER
Clarity Advantage works with companies that sell to the small and medium enterprise market.  The company supports sales campaign strategy design and execution, including: clarifying value messages, developing and expanding prospecting and cross-selling skills, and planning and managing sales activities to accelerate sales cycles. Clarity's goal for clients is to achieve a measurable increase in sales by increasing appointments with the right prospects and clients and cross-selling faster. The company is especially strong in helping companies shift from selling products to selling integrated solutions. Clarity has partnered with clients in the financial services, professional services, and computer hardware/software industries, among others. The company is based in Concord, MA. (Greatest hits include: What Are You Worth?: Positioning Your Value; Faster Forward: Prospecting and Qualifying; 1,2,3: Framing Buyer Priorities)
Customer Focus, Inc.
Customer Service skill-building and culture-building programs
Customer Focus, Inc. provides innovative, world-class customer service skill-building that helps companies create a customer-focused culture throughout their entire organization.  Employees develop the critical skills, practical knowledge, confidence, motivation, and values to create and retain customers for life. Training programs combine fast-paced, multi-sensory learning design with powerful communication skills and attitudes. The company’s signature program, Delighting Customers, includes the GEM Employee Recognition Program and manager tools that emphasize long-term performance improvement and culture change. Customer Focus headquarters is located in Atlanta, GA. (Greatest hits include: Delighting Customers, Delighting Customers for Call Centers)
Eagle's Flight®
Experiential learning that develops insight and commitment to success
Eagle's Flight®is a recognized leader in the development of experiential training tools. Its series of fast-paced,  highly interactive programs recreate real work issues in a controlled environment that is both captivating and challenging. Participants develop insight about how they react to workplace pressures, and become energized and committed to success. Eagle's Flight® programs have been proven in hundreds of organizations throughout the world. Company headquarters is located in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. (Greatest hits include: Gold of the Desert Kings™, Promises, Promises!™, Lord Devon's Demise™, Rattlesnake Canyon™)
exper!ence it inc.
We bring content to life!
exper!ence it inc. is dedicated to bringing ideas and content to life! Our leading-edge learning experiences and simulations put a heartbeat in our clients’ messages. We develop experiential solutions that are engaging, challenging, and fun; that reflect the reality of the participants; and that respect participants’ knowledge and experience levels. Our custom and off-the-shelf solutions have traveled the globe and achieved outstanding results for some of the world's largest and best-known companies, supporting internal training programs, massive culture change initiatives, large and small-scale conference events, product launches, and sales initiatives. Ranging in length from 2-hour simulations to 5-day programs, designed for groups from 8 to 4008 participants, our experiences can be used individually or flexibly linked in a series. exper!ence it inc. headquarters is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Greatest hits include: PLANET X™, The Journey Home™)
Frogkick, Inc.
Learn, to Leap!
Frogkick creates custom-developed learning solutions that are engaging, business-smart and effective. Because corporate strategy and marketplace views can be interwoven into the fabric of a custom initiative,  Frogkick provides opportunities to realize distinct competitive advantage by consistently communicating (and amplifying) these messages within your learning programs. In the words of APG client, DaimlerChrysler Financial Services, "My experience working with Advantage and Frogkick was incredibly positive. They were extremely responsive to our needs and created completely custom solutions that were very high quality. The collaborative partnership that developed between us was absolutely a key to success." Frogkick headquarters is in Asbury Park, NJ.
Impact Learning Systems
Improving customer service and sales
Impact Learning Systems customer service training provides communication skills training to frontline sales and service representatives and their managers. Impact’s innovative learning systems blend online and traditional classroom training to teach employees to delight customers and increase sales. Critical competencies are tied to business objectives and organizational values in order to achieve measurable business results and make learning relevant and specific to each person’s job. Impact’s unique Performance Management Center allows managers and trainers to track the progress of employees throughout the learning process. Built-in tools allow managers and supervisors to support learning with action plans, on-the-job exercises, follow-up coaching, and reinforcement activities. Impact Learning Systems is headquartered in San Luis Obispo, CA. (Greatest hits include Making It Happen™; Sales—The Other Side of Service™; and the series, Getting to the Heart of: Customer Service™, E-mail Communication™, Field Service™, Telephone Sales™, Technical Support™.)
InfoWorks International, Inc.
Improving your business effectiveness
InfoWorks is known for its project management training course, Managing Successful Projects, which has been used since 1992  by companies both in the U.S. and overseas to provide a common framework and language for projects across the organization. Founded in 1990, InfoWorks International is a leading provider of project management training. Its popular course, Managing Successful Projects, has been used by hundreds of companies worldwide. InfoWorks also offers training in advanced project management, problem solving and decision making, project teams, negotiating skills, and consulting skills. It offers both onsite and train-the-trainer options. InfoWorks is a Project Management Institute Registered Education Provider.
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InsideOut Development
The workplace coaching resource
InsideOut Development is the world leader in workplace coaching. Over 20 years of helping leading organizations achieve breakthrough performance,  InsideOut has developed an approach to coaching that boosts people's confidence, helps them tune out distractions and focus on key behaviors, and infuses them with an unquenchable fire to succeed. The company's flagship program, The InsideOut™Advantage, uses a world-class learning methodology to promote a coaching culture that helps workers want to change, perform to their peak potential, and embrace organizational goals as their own. The company is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT. (Greatest hits include: The InsideOut™Advantage)
The Learning Alliance, Inc.™
Delivering Business Results from Training
Founded by Robert O. Brinkerhoff, Ed.D., The Learning Alliance specializes in working with HRD professionals to help their organizations achieve dramatically increased results from their training investments. A world-recognized expert in training effectiveness and evaluation, and author of numerous books including High Impact Learning, Brinkerhoff and co-developer Dennis Dressler have created a proven methodology used by organizations around the world to link training to improved performance and business results. Learning Alliance headquarters is located in Richland, MI. (Greatest hits include: High Impact Learning System®)
No More Cold Calling™
Referral selling to build your sales and profits
No More Cold Calling™ was founded by Joanne Black, creator of the original No More Cold Calling™  Workshop and the country’s leading experts on referral selling. Her company detects—and corrects—the underlying issues that prevent sales. Her clients reach their revenue and profitability goals, attract the kinds of clients they want, increase the ratio of proposals that become signed contracts, retain their top salespeople and clients, and increase sales force productivity. Joanne has more than 30 years of client-focused sales and sales management experience, and through her training, consulting, and coaching, she transforms businesses into effective sales organizations. The company’s flagship workshop, No More Cold Calling™, is the premier program for building sales through referrals. No More Cold Calling™ headquarters is in Greenbrae, CA (Greatest hits include: No More Cold Calling™, Weaving Your Own Network, Growing While It’s Still Slowing)
Pantelis, Inc.
Comprehensive strategies and skills that maximize employee performance
Pantelis, Inc. specializes in leadership, team-building, groupware (OptionFinder®), meeting facilitation, and change management strategies and skills (Navigating Through Change). The company applies a customized, interactive learning process founded on a "learn by doing" philosophy, offering its clients more than fifty programs, simulations, and learning experiences. Pantelis has an extensive track record of proven results with leading organizations. Company headquarters is located in Alpharetta, GA. (Greatest hits include: Navigating Through Change)
Porter Henry & Company
Comprehensive sales performance solutions
Porter Henry & Company is "The Sales Performance Specialist." With more than 45 years' experience, Porter Henry is a national leader in building sales results. Offerings include workshops in all aspects of sales leadership (including strategic, competitive, and team selling; recruiting; motivation; and conducting sales meetings), and sales skills (including negotiating, territory management, consultative selling, new product launches, and presenting value-added benefits). Porter Henry headquarters is located in New York, NY. (Greatest hits include: Value-Added Negotiating, Field Coaching, SalesAbility II)
The Real Learning Company
Unique and experiential performance mastery systems and tools
The Real Learning Company (RLI) specializes in the design and implementation of unique and inspiring learning programs and tools. The company’s flagship Performance Mastery System is used by organizations to manage performance, build strong teams, and improve results. Participants learn by discovery, by dialogue, and from multiple senses during captivating and challenging group events. Software, Internet applications, and ongoing surveys and measurement tools ensure that learning is sustained and improvement is supported back on the job. The Real Learning Company headquarters is located in Scottsdale, AZ. (Greatest hits include: Symphony, Conductor, Performer, Audition, Dress Rehearsal, Values, SalesTEAM, Building Value, Inspiration, Negotiating Value, Aligning Value, Driving Business Results)
Root Learning®, Inc.
Engaging learning tools that Create a Company of Business People™
Root Learning helps organizations launch, implement, accelerate, and sustain strategic initiatives. By interpreting complex business issues in creative ways, we have helped companies of all sizes worldwide to fully engage their employees.  We provide the process and develop the tools that organizations need to align key stakeholders and achieve their business goals. Root Learning combines the best of consulting, learning, and communication disciplines into a unique creative problem-solving approach that aligns and engages people. Regardless of the level at which they serve, people who are connected to the business can be inspired and motivated to make change happen and generate incredible results. We work with organizations to identify the gaps or "canyons" between where they are and where they aspire to be and engage them in a process to bridge those canyons. Our approach creates a compelling and authentic belief that there is a better way, builds understanding and engagement around the new "way," and defines the tangible "how to's" to make the "better way" a reality. Root Learning is headquartered in Sylvania, Ohio, and has offices in Chicago, London and Zurich. (Greatest hits include: custom Root Learning Map® modules, innovative electronic learning modules, and Diversity MadeSimple by Root™)
Simulation Training Systems
Participatory simulations that change attitudes and behavior
Simulation Training Systems  specializes in high-impact participatory training simulations that stimulate changes in attitudes and behavior. Programs include StarPower® for teaching the use and abuse of power, BaFa’ BaFa’ for teaching the management of cultural diversity, and Pumping the Colors® for developing high-performing teams. The company's simulations have been translated into more than 20 languages and are used by corporations, governments, and schools in over 60 countries. Simulation Training Systems headquarters is located in San Diego, CA. (Greatest hits include: Pumping the Colors®)
Vital Learning
"Take the Lead" on employee development
Vital Learning Corporation is an international provider of online and classroom-based employee development programs.  More than 1 million learners have improved their business skills and achieved quantifiable results using our Sales, Supervision, Customer Service, and WorkReady™ (Basic Work Skills) curricula. Vital Learning offers organizations unparalleled flexibility in how, when, and where they implement training. Pioneers in the application of Internet training technologies, the company delivers most programs in traditional classroom, Internet, Intranet, and CD ROM formats. Vital Learning headquarters is located in Omaha, NE. (Greatest hits include: Leadership Essentials)
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