About The Corporate Tool-box

Online training resources for business growth

Welcome To The Corporate Tool-box

Hello, I am Ann Andrews, the creator of The Corporate Tool-box.  Allow me tell you how The Corporate Tool-box was born and how it can help you!

Who Are Our Contributors?

All of our contributors are authors, consultants, trainers and or professional speakers with at least 15 years' experience in their field.  That's your guarantee of our product quality.

How Are We Different?

Most training websites promote products created by just one person, often on just one topic.  The Corporate Tool-box^TM actively sources products from a huge range of fields and countries around the world, keep us at the forefront of the corporate training world. 

How It All Began 

As an in-house human resources practitioner and HR consultant and self-managing team specialist for over 15 years, I soon realised that to help as many businesses as I wanted to, I had to find a way to multiply myself.

My first attempt involved franchising my proven 6-step team process.  This took a year in development to create how-to manuals, workshops, and step-by-step instructions so that anyone could use my system and create their own programs.  

In just 18 months I signed up 11 wonderful people who were absoluted committed and very excited about becoming team trainers and facilitators.  And then disaster struck: mysteriously, one-by-one they gave up their dream and returned to the world of paid employment.  My eureka moment came when I realised that because they had all come from the secure world of full-time employment they had no idea about the realities of building a business and being a franchisee.  Although they had all the training materials, one-on-one training and support in the world they still faced the challenge to get networking, get marketing and get themselves some clients.  

When my final three franchisees decided to get 'real' jobs again, I knew that I had to make some tough decisions.  Did I want to start the franchisee recruitment process all over again? I certainly knew a lot more than before about the challenges that the franchisees would face, and could perhaps better prepare them.  In the end, however, I decided that my heart wasn't in starting all over again.  So I too went back to what was familiar to me: corporate training, facilitating teams, and helping to grow other people's businesses - all on the hours for dollars treadmill. 

Magically, I then had the great fortune to attend an entrepreneurs' workshop in Belgium where groups of very successful business people gathered around a table with the aim of taking one person's business model apart and suggesting ways to improve it - and they chose my business model.  After much debate and lots of exciting ideas, their recommendation was for me to become a marketer of mine and other expert trainers business and training materials.

They felt that my many years of experience working with business teams, plus the learning I had gathered through the franchising years was not wasted; that learning what not to do can often be as valuable as knowing what you do want to do.  

The flight back home to New Zealand gave me plenty of time to think through the options.  But in the end for me, it was a no-brainer.  And so The Corporate Tool-box was born!

Where We Are Today

I now have a team of seven amazing people working with me on this exciting business.  We pride ourselves on having a constantly updated range of the very best leading-edge business and training products from around the world for:

• Owner-operated businesses who need great business growth and staff training programs that don't cost the earth
• Corporates who need an ongoing supply of the latest products in the corporate training field in a format that is instantly downloadable and replicable
• Individuals who want to develop their own careers 

Every business in the world faces the constant challenge of managing budgets and improving employee performance in the most economical way possible.  As an HR consultant I saw evidence on the bottom line results of training employees, on a daily basis.  Here's just some of the benefits I saw:

• Improved productivity
• Improved morale
• Decreased absenteeism and reduced sick leave (one company I worked with went from a 27% absenteeism rate down to 3%.  People actually wanted to come to work!)
• Serious bottom-line improvements

Even the simplest training intervention caused people to become more involved, more alert and more engaged. The beautiful thing is that the training investment always pays for itself - and some!  

We look forward to helping you achieve results in your business that previously you had only dared dream of.

Ann Andrews, CSP, Dip Bus (Pmer)

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