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Whether you are looking for training for your employees, TQM solutions for your company, state-of-the-art technology, or world-class integrated talent management solutions, FirstStep has the resources and strategic partners to deliver customized, cost effective business solutions to help you attain and maintain competitive advantage.

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The University of San Diego is one of the leading business schools in the world.  Its master of business administration program is ranked 21st  in the top 100 MBA programs worldwide.  FirstStep is proud to have a strategic partnership with the University of San Diego's Office of Corporate and Professional Education.  That office provides post-graduate extension course credits for participants successfully completing FirstStep executive seminars and workshops.  Together, we provide a variety of training opportunities that are designed to give companies working within the national and international business arena the competitive edge.

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GTC Consulting works with businesses in the United States and Mexico.  Their core competencies are in the areas of Strategic Planning, Continuous Operations Improvement, Project Management, International Negotiations, Organization Development, and Sustainable Financial Development.  The company has an active client base throughout Mexico's leading industrial and business centers.  Its proprietary electronic Quality Control System (eQCS) contains a company's systems and their relationships to control and synchronize their structure on an on-going basis.  The eQCS program can be readily crafted to meet the specific needs of any company.  By partnering with GTC, FirstStep gains exposure to Mexican businesses and can now offer American clients access to a state-of-the-art quality control program.

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Business Training Library was founded in 1997.  It offers a variety of solutions to fit organizations' unique employee training needs providing: a video, CD and DVD Lending Library and a hosted e-learning solution with over 3,500 off-the-shelf web-based training courses.  They also help companies develop their own custom online courses, and can track all training processes in its robust Learning Management System (LMS).  The Business Training Library serves small and mid-sized organizations delivering world-class programs that are cost-effective, convenient and results-oriented. It is the nation’s leading provider of e-learning platforms and support, and blended learning solutions for organizations with fewer than 2,500 employees.

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SuccessFactors has a succession planning tool can easily look at an employee’s overall profile, compare and contrast employees in specific job roles with an organization’s functional requirements, and provide real-time succession analysis.  Their succession planning core components include:

      Self-service profiles that keep employees access to keep their information up to date

      Performance reviews and 360-degree reviews that provide insight on value delivered by each employee

      Clearly-defined competency and/or behavioral requirements of the company are mapped to specific roles and requirements

      Real-time analysis capability allows for effective succession planning and matches ready employees profiles with a company’s success profile

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UltraLearn is the world leader in converting videos into interactive eLearning content, delivering video programs to controlled target audiences, and determining the effectiveness of the delivered content.   UltraLearn has technologies that can let trainers know who actually watched the video, how much they watched, and how much they learned from it.  Their software allows users to search videos by content.  At UltraLearn.com organizations can produce interactive videos with slides, sounds, images, text, and quizzes. You can broadcast your programs to specifically targeted audiences and evaluate learner understanding and content effectiveness through tracking analytics. All data are available real time because UltraLearn tracks data as the videos are being watched! I highly recommend this site and technology. It’s the best I’ve found anywhere for making video an effective eLearning tool.

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InfoPro Learning is a diversified conglomerate, with more than 17 years of experience in learning solutions.  It has operations across Europe, US, Middle East, SAARC countries, and South Africa.  It’s major focus is that of outsourcing partner for delivering eLearing solutions incorporating state-of-the-art technology and ISD methodologies.  Whether you are looking for customized solutions for delivery over the Internet or onto standalone machines, their core competencies ranging from instructional design, media asset creation, and programming, coupled with a unique delivery model for on-time, high-quality delivery are unmatched. InfoPro has successfully taken anytime, anywhere learning to mobile devices. They understand the nuances of developing media for efficient delivery onto various handheld devices, from mobile phones to PDAs.

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RMC Consultants was founded by Jerry Edge.  He and his team of senior consultants provide executive-level consulting expertise in compensation and benefits.  They analyze how performance, compensation and benefits fit with the strategic plans of the organization.  Then, together with company managers they create programs to generate high productivity, solid profits, and steady expansion.  With over 30 years experience working with FORTUNE 500 companies, Jerry brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to clients.  We are very pleased to be affiliated with RMC Consultants.