News
Release
Oct 3, 2011
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: ANSON
SMITH AT 203-332-5229
HCC Offering Comprehensive Training/Consulting Services
To Meet Employee Development Needs Of Businesses, Organizations
Provides Needs Assessment, Business Solutions
Complimentary Diagnostic Services Available
BRIDGEPORT - Housatonic Community College this month
is launching a comprehensive affordable consulting/training service
for area organizations and businesses.
Through its
new Strategic Solutions Group (SSG), Housatonic will offer both workplace needs
assessment and customized training designed to meet organizational needs. Six
months in the making, the service will formally kick off Otcober. 7.
";The
key feature of this service is needs diagnosis," said Gary A. Kecskés
of Trumbull, dean of Community Outreach. ";Our organizational specialists
will meet first with prospective clients to learn as much as possible about
their operations and the workforce challenges they face. Then, the HCC specialists
will develop an appropriate, customized response to address a client's
unique employee development needs."
SSG's
organizational specialists, G. Thomas Sheffer and Joseph G. Jenecaro, have
extensive experience as corporate trainers and workforce solutions providers,
Kecskés said. ";Having served organizations large and small across
a wide spectrum of industries, they are well equipped to provide diagnostic
services, needs assessments, and tailored workforce solutions to businesses
and organizations in our service area in New Haven and Fairfield Counties," he
said.
SSG offers
its basic diagnostic services at no charge, Kecskés said, and will help
to identify any sources of supplementary funding that can be used to implement
its recommendations. Training services are provided on a competitive
fee-for-service basis."
SSG is equipped to provide businesses and other organizations the solutions
they need when they need them. ";We have the ability to quickly
respond to a prospect's needs by moving at the speed of business," Kecskés
said. ";We can respond from the time we receive an inquiry, through
conducting a needs assessment, to providing a finished proposal to
meet those needs in as little as ten working days if needed."
Another distinguishing feature of SSG is the robustness of its program
offerings. ";We offer a broad portfolio that includes some 230
offerings in areas such as effective management and supervision, contemporary
workplace issues, communications skills including presentation and
negotiation techniques, effective customer service and outreach, desktop
software, and shop-floor technical programs," Kecskés
said. ";To complement HCC's own extensive inventory of competency-based
employee training programs, we've also added some 40 award-winning
programs licensed to us by Development Dimensions International (DDI),
a nationally known provider of workforce training programs."
The seasoned
content experts who conduct the programs have extensive real-world experience
in their fields," he said. ";Many have experienced the types of
challenges clients face and have successfully addressed them."
In addition to SSG's own thorough assessment of every client
program, Kecskés said, ";We can, at the client's
request, develop evaluation tools to measure participant achievement
at a program's close."
For more
information about SSG and its services, call Sheffer at 203-332-5971, Jenecaro
at 203-332-5964, or visit the SSG website at www.hccadvantage.com.
HCC is located at 900 Lafayette Blvd. in downtown Bridgeport, less
than 150 yards off I-95 (Exit 27) and Rte. 8 (Exit 1), a block from
the Webster Bank Arena at Harbor Yard. Free parking is available in
the Housatonic garage.
Anson C. Smith, Public Relations Coordinator
Housatonic Community College
900 Lafayette Blvd.
Bridgeport, CT 06604
Tel: 203-332-5229, Fax: 203-332-5247
E-mail: asmith@hcc.commnet.edu