In our T&D directory you will find hundreds of different training companies, training consultancies, individual trainers, coaches, e-learning suppliers, and other companies selling Products and services related to training and development.

What we're here to help you with is finding the best suppliers (locally or globally) for the particular training solution you may need. With today's information overload and marketing 'noise', it's actually getting more and more difficult to find the right people for the right job. As the size of a vendor's marketing budget does not guarantee that the company has more expertise, more competence or more suitability for your needs, finding the ones that will really deliver what they promise can be a daunting task. This is where we can assist.

Instead of combing through hundreds of webpages, reading tons of marketing materials, or sitting in front of your screen striving to come up with the very best phrases so your search engine will give you exactly what you want, you can go to our directory and in a couple minutes find the solution to your training need.

In the "TRAINING" section of our website you have the option of searching for a specific training course or workshop by a detailed list of pre-determined categories or by any keyword relevant to your training need.

Whether you're looking for an in-company or an open course, you will find a large number of suppliers (trainers, training consultancies, etc.) with expertise in the areas of communication, management development, personal development, supervisor training, selling skills, team building or customer service, just to name a few.

What you might also find helpful is that you can also select the location you need to have this training delivered and/or where the training will be held. Within these main categories you will find workshops in anger management, time management, conflict resolution, cross-cultural communication, sexual harassment training, various training solutions for supervisors, diversity training and many others. You can also locate the nearest trainers experienced in NLP, sales management, key account management, or seek out those who are the best in training people on effective sales presentations.

We also dedicated a special category to Team Building and Outdoor Challenges, as this still appears to be one of the hottest areas and most sought after training solutions of all. In this category you can find training companies particularly specialized in team building and outdoor development, activities and if you already have the type of training in mind, you can just search by that subcategory, be it scavenger and treasure hunts, ropes courses, executive retreats, off-road adventures, navigational challenges or any other type of water activities that will bring your people closer to each other and help increase cooperation and team-work.

We also have a separate category called Supervisor Training. Within this category you will find many subcategories listed in other areas, such as management development and supervisory skills training.

We have also dedicated a special section to Coaching, and give you access to some of the best coaches worldwide, whether in the business of the personal development realm. You can seek out communication coaches, executive coaches, coaches that will help you achieve results financially, coaches that will give your guidance in your career or your life in general.

As life coaching is a more and more an in-demand profession, we have made an effort to list the best in that category as well. Whether your people could benefit from the experience of a sales coach or a performance coach, at the click of a button you can have access to contact details for the professionals you need.

Some of our categories, (i.e. life coaching, communications coaching, or executive coaching) are divided into two alternatives: coaching by phone and coaching by person. As coaching by phone and, increasingly, coaching by video phone is becoming ever more popular, we thought giving such a search option would be to a benefit both to potential coaches and coachees.

TRAINING VENUES, TRAINING FACILITIES!
Both trainers and their clients know that finding the ideal venue for that particular training can often be a challenge. The once that usually come to mind are either too close, too far, don't have enough room, too much room, etc. In our database of training venues we tried to make sure that users can search by most of the criteria that tend to be relevant for training programs and conferences.

A lot of the training venues in our directory also have short videos to enable you to have a better look of that particular meeting room or surrounding, this is probably the closest you can get to without having to actually visit the venue, which is often quite difficult to manage for busy people such as, most likely, yourself.

We have also initiated a rating system, whereby trainers and training companies can rate the venue they've conducted a training program in. After all, who better to rate a training venue from training purposes than the trainer him or herself!

Our "E-LEARNING" section is mainly devoted to… well, e-learning. As the term is rather all-encompassing, we have dedicated a number of subcategories to this topic, such as: Learning management systems, learning content management systems, authoring tools, interactive tutorials, enterprise solutions, and online courses.

Under "online courses" you will also find a number of subcategories, i.e. online communication skills courses, MCSE or other computer courses, management skills, personal development and selling skills courses. Although typically providers in, let's say, communication skills, will also have online courses on selling skills or supervisory skills, there are some providers who will specialize in some of these, so it's worth investigating, as you might get a better quality or more customized solution that can be tailored to your specific need.

The "SUPPLIES" section's main purpose is to help you find all the things you may need to run a training course. Of course this could be training equipment, i.e. flipcharts, pin-up boards, overhead projectors, projectors, etc. or things that will enhance the quality of your training, e.g. make it more interesting or visually appealing by using a training video or DVD on a particular subject. Also, this is where you would search for a CD-ROM on, let's say, MS Excel programming.

Other main areas of intense interest of late are training software and training kits or off-the-shelf course materials, which you could use with your internal trainers. Among the things our registered companies offer here are assessment instruments, 360 degree feedback forms or processes, simulations and games, CD-ROM based programs, or audio programs for development. Some other helpful supplies, such as books and white papers can be accessed from our home page.

The last section (RFQ-s) on Trainingspotting.com is what we believe may bring the most benefit to both users and suppliers. This is where you can request a quotation for a particular training seminar, workshop, coaching work, or anything else related to the field of employee training and development. More information on the process can be found in that section.