Our Mission      Our Services      Our Process      Next steps      Press Releases

. Our Mission

FindLearning connects corporate managers with quality classroom training and e-learning solutions from our network of over 500 learning providers. FindLearning combines its industry knowledge with our knowledgebase of partners to connect companies quickly with an appropriate set of providers for their particular learning needs. From a corporate perspective, FindLearning gives your company a single point of contact for procuring all your external learning solutions. FindLearning saves your company the time normally required to perform time-consuming vendor searches. Choosing the right learning solution can be very complex. There are hundreds of providers, each in different locations and specializing in different delivery formats. FindLearning helps eliminate that complexity and find quality solutions quickly. FindLearning can also help your company reduce training costs by delivering options from a variety of competitive vendors. For learning providers, FindLearning is an additional marketing channel to find out about new training opportunities. FindLearning focuses its resources on building relationships with corporate managers and training professionals, so learning providers can focus less time on sales and marketing and more time on their core competency - delivering quality learning solutions! . FindLearning has three core services: 1. Spot Sourcing Service - Through our website at www.findlearning.com, corporate managers can submit requests for immediate learning needs. This service can be used by HR and training professionals sourcing courses for their corporate curriculum, or business and IT managers within various departments sourcing ad-hoc needs as they arise through out the year. Our spot sourcing service is free to use. To get started, simply go to our homepage, and submit your learning request. Learn more about our sourcing process here. 2. Enterprise Sourcing Solution - Our sourcing platform can be customized for your corporate university or intranet. By offering our service to all employees in a company, central HR and training orgaizations give their employees a standard process for funneling all learning requests, and in the process, get a way to track, control and manage all the decentralized spending going on in their company. Incoming requests can be evaluated against existing programs, immediately sourced through our service, or aggregrated into more strategic sourcing requests. Our platform can be customized to match the "look & feel" of the company's corporate university, can include workflow rules for routing new requests for approval and fulfillment, and includes on-line tracking reports. Learn more about our Enterprise Sourcing Solution here. 3. Strategic Partnerships - Our content sourcing service is perfect for other learning and HR vendors seeking to expand their offerings to their customers. LMS vendors can use our service to offer a branded, turnkey service to their corporate customers to assist them in the procurement of classroom training and e-learning content solutions. HR Outsourcing firms can use our service to expand their offerings beyond recruiting, benefits, retirement planning, and payroll into training outsourcing. HR Consultants and training vendors can use our service to source training needs for their customers they cannot fulfill themselves. Learn more about strategic partnering with FindLearning here.

. Our Process

FindLearning solves a few basic problems for companies seeking to train their employees. First, the learning industry is more complicated than ever. Learning solutions can consist of a number of different delivery modes such as public classroom, private classroom, asynchronous e-Learning or synchronous. Learning solutions can cover a wide range of topics within technology and professional development. Each of these solutions is often best met by different solution providers. How does a company find the best provider for any given business need? Second, a typical company purchases up to 50% of the learning solutions they need decentrally, by business and technology managers. How does a company manage the process of finding providing, selecting providers, and managing costs across their organization? FindLearning can connect the managers in your company with the best learning providers for any specific learning need. Using our web site, managers across your organization can submit learning requests whenever they have a need. The structured forms on our web site help the process of defining requirements, and let requirements be entered only once to reach multiple vendors. Once submitted to FindLearning.com, FindLearning will ensure requirements are complete and may for ask for additional input that could facilitate solution identification. The learning request is then matched up based on our knowledge with qualified learning providers in our network. If someone else in your company has used a certain provider successfully for a similar need, we will inform the requestor so everyone in your company can leverage the past experience's of others. Based on the number of providers you've designated in your request form, we will send you a short-list of providers who are qualified to meet your needs. The short-list will include each provider's background and capabilities. We will confirm with you which providers you wish to receive proposals from. The providers you select will then create a customized proposal for your particular learning need. They may in some cases wish to interview you over the telephone or in person to ask specific questions about your requirements. Within 3-5 days, FindLearning will deliver you final proposals from each of the providers you selected. From the proposals, you decide which, if any, of the providers you wish to use. After completion of the project (or designated phases of the project) FindLearning invoices you the amount quoted by the provider in their proposal, and makes payment to the provider for their services. FindLearning acts as a central point of contacting, handling contracting, scheduling, invoicing and reporting across all the providers your company wants to use. Where as the identification process can often take weeks, FindLearning can complete the provider identification, interview, proposal, selection and scheduling process for you in a matter of days. FindLearning specializes in sourcing custom classroom training and e-Learning course creation. Companies are finding that off-the-shelf training is good for meeting certain basic needs, custom learning is often needed to really accomplish their learning objectives. Private classroom training can be customized to a company's particular needs and is much more cost effective than public training courses. Off-the-shelf e-Learning is good to meet certain basic needs, but companies are finding the most effective e-Learning to be custom e-Learning they create around their own industry, business process, best practices and proprietary systems.

. Next steps

To get started, simply go to our homepage, and submit your learning request. FindLearning will evaluate your request, and if needed, call you to define your requirements in greater detail. Your request will be assessed and matched to a qualified set of learning providers based on the criteria you define. After speaking with a short-list of providers, you’ll receive back a set of custom proposals from us to select your final solution. You will often get a broad selection of price points and services to choose from, and can typically obtain significant cost savings by comparing options. If you have any questions? Ask us. If you want to talk or meet one of the providers on your finalist list, let us know. FindLearning will help you evaluate your available options. We’ll even tell you if others in your company have preferred providers they have used for similar solutions. When you’re ready to select a final solution, just let us know and we’ll coordinate all the contracting, scheduling and billing for you. Centralized billing across all vendors. Quick solutions to meet your needs. FindLearning receives commission fees from vendors for finding them new business. You pay no fees at all to use the FindLearning service. Learn more about our sourcing process here.

. . Press Releases

FindLearning.com Gives Companies a New Way to Control Costs  March 4, 2007 FindLearning.com Launches New Training Catalog  June 20, 2006 FindLearning Launches Research Center  April 30, 2005 LearnSource Rebrands to FindLearning.com  January 1, 2004 LearnSource Launches Bookstore of Training Resources  December 15, 2003 LearnSource Helps Companies Find Learning Solutions!  September 30, 2003 News

The Basics of Outsourcing Training  Workindex.com, September 2002