Customized Training:
Meeting Business Needs Through Training

Wendy Miles

Director

P: 360-475-7786

F: 360-475-7440
customtraining@oc.ctc.edu 

NEW TAX CREDIT OPTION:

The new Washington Customized Training Program is a revolving loan fund that covers businesses' up-front training costs and provides a 50 percent businesss and occupation tax credit to businesses located or expanding in this state. The program will begin June 7, 2006 and expire July 1, 2012. It is administered  by the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges.  See the link to WA State Customized Training Tax Credit on the left side of this page for more information.

Business Challenges

Do you face any of these issues in your workplace?

• Inadequate communication
• Underperformance
• Morale
• High turnover
• Substandard job applicants

Solution:

We help you analyze your business development needs and target appropriate solutions.

Training Challenges

Do you struggle with canned training solutions? We can:

• Customize curriculum to meet the needs of your business
• Conduct training on dates and times that work for you
• Develop the curriculum so you  can focus on your business
• Bring the training to you to avoid travel costs

Solution:

Our team collaborates with you to design a program that meets your requirements.

Competitive Challenges

Are you on a “fast track” to enhance your team’s skills in response to ever increasing competition, rapidly changing technology and the globally expanding market place?

Solution:

We work with your team to develop focused training that quickly cultivates needed skills.

We build programs to respond to all of these challenges.

Program examples include:

• Barbering
• Culinary
• Customer Service
• Engines
• Electronics
• Hotel Management: Front Office, Customer Service, Housekeeping
• Microsoft Office Suite: Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access
• Supervisory/Management Skills
• Welding
• Workplace Ethics

"Olympic College worked collaboratively with us to develop customized curricula on a variety of subjects. Their professionalism, efficiency and enthusiasm made this an easy project, and our staff loved their instructors. They stayed within budget and met timeline goals. I would unhesitatingly recommend Olympic College to any company needing customized training for their workforce.”

Bob Hungerford
Manager, Human Resources
SAFE Boats International