How Contract Interiors: An Introduction Courses Provide the First 2-5 Years of Experience in 10 Weeks
The Contract Interiors industry is one of the most complicated industries in the world. It also happens to be one of the most fun and rewarding industries to join. Employees outside the industry are drawn to the unique culture of contract interiors AND intimidated by its complex structure.
Whether you just joined the industry or you’ve been here for a while, the Contract Interiors courses from Embark will give you a firm foundation in this complicated market and equip you with a deeper understanding of the industry’s interworkings.
All in all, you’ll walk away from the experience fully equipped to excel in the Contract Interiors industry.
The Three Steps to this Training
The Contract Interiors: An Introduction program includes 3 separate courses. When you combine all three, participants glean a deep understanding of their industry and become equipped with the tools they’ll need to quickly master their jobs and move up the ranks.
Step 1
Contract Interior: Self Study Video Course
This 5-module course serves as your entry point into the industry! As a high-level overview, the Self Study course gives you insight into the people, the product, and the processes that exist in the CI world.
The course is complete with downloadable resources and should take participants 3-4 hours to complete.
Contract Interiors: Self Study is a the best way to begin your career in CI and proves to be the most popular option for admin roles in the industry, such as assistants, sales support, and financial roles.
Step 2
Contract Interiors: Your Beginning
As a part of the Your Beginning course, you’ll join a 1-hour, interactive webinar session full of your peers once a week for 5 weeks. Webinar outlines are provided, and each week, you’ll take a simple “quiz” to verify your knowledge.
Lastly, you’ll spend time with your direct supervisor reviewing how your newfound knowledge relates to your company directly.
While Embark recommends starting with the Self Study course first, some users choose to jump right into the Your Beginning course.
Step 3
Contract Interiors: Next Level
In the Next Level course, you’ll participate in a 1-hour, interactive webinar format with your peers across the industry. The course includes webinar sessions once a week for 4 weeks, followed by quizzes to test your knowledge.
You’ll also schedule meetings with your manager to gain clarity and context around the information you’ve learned and how it applies to your specific organization.
Embark highly recommends participating in the Your Beginning course before jumping into the Next Level course, so you gain as much industry insight as possible.
Why we created this training
In this short video, Sid explains WHY this program was created and the importance of jump starting your career with Contract Interiors: An Introduction.
Contract Interiors: Your Beginning
The User's Manual for Your New Industry
Imagine you just changed jobs and moved to a whole new industry. You don’t know the buzzwords or sales tactics; you don’t know the key players or the leadership structure. And if you’re honest, you don’t know the personas and verticals you’ll be serving.
What if someone offered you first-hand, expert knowledge on your new industry to give you a head start? And what if it was guaranteed to kick start your career and set you apart among your industry peers?
Contract Interiors: Your Beginning serves as your user’s manual for the CI industry. The knowledge, thought leadership, and inside expertise you’ll develop in this course will give you 1-5 years of knowledge that used to only be available through personal experience.
First, you’ll learn the history of our industry, including industry leaders that still affect us today. As a foundation for your furniture knowledge, you will gain an understanding of the major market segments and product categories, as well as learn to identify types of dealers.
The CI industry is prone to change, and as you journey through this course, you will come to see how disruptors lead to positive industry change.
As a course graduate, you will have a firm understanding of your new industry, as well as a vision for thought-leadership and goals for further industry education.
Contract Interiors: Next Level
Advance Your Learning to Better Serve Your Customers
In customer-facing roles, it’s important to understand sales structure, pricing decisions, and how trends guide buyers – especially in such a unique industry. Through this program, you’ll gain a profound understanding of the practical, functional aspects of selling in this industry.
With exclusive insights from this course, you will advance your learning to better serve your customers as you dive into sales.
The Next Level course provides an accelerated learning environment, where you’ll gain a thorough understanding of the industry’s sales cycle, pricing, and buying decisions. You’ll learn to recognize trends, influencers, and disruptors – and how they affect your market. Lastly, you’ll learn about specialist positions that are unique to Contact Interiors.
The Next Level course fills your tool belt with industry-specific sales knowledge and expertise to better serve your company and your customers.
As a Next Level graduate, you’ll be on a trajectory towards leadership among your peers, with industry knowledge and insight as the foundation of your career.
Purchase Options
We offer multiple ways for you to begin your journey in the Contract Interiors Industry. Choose the one that works best for you. You can move at your own pace in the Video Course,or join the interactive Live Group Courses.
a la Carte Self Study Course
$495
Move at your own pace training
Self Study Course
5 Modules
3-4 hours of training
Download Presentation
Resources
Trend Report
a la Carte Group Course
$995
Per Course
Your Beginning
or
Next Level
Live Group Courses
Multiple Modules, one hour each
Detailed Q&A
Workbook
Assessment
Sponsor Overview
All In Video & Group
$1,995
Take All 3 of these courses
1 Package - 3 Courses
Self Study, Your Beginning and Next Level all included
Optimum Learning Opportunity
Best Value
Workbooks
Assessments
The Group Courses
$1,595
Get 20% off when you buy both
Your Beginning
AND
Next Level
Live Group Cources
Multiple Modules, one hour each
Detailed Q&A
Workbook
Assessment
Sponsor Overview
Meet Your Instructor
Sid Meadows, CHPC, CPC, ELI-MP
Sid is the mastermind behind the Contract Interiors: An Introduction courses! After decades in the industry, Sid realized the huge need for a comprehensive training to equip newcomers in the industry with the tools to succeed. With his extensive knowledge of the global office furniture market, Sid created the courses in this program to shed light on the intensive and complex interworkings of the Contract Interiors Industry.
Sid is a leader who inspires teams to deliver consistently outstanding results by leveraging training, sales best practices, and performance metrics - and his practiced, intriguing instruction in the CI:AI program is the perfect way to jumpstart your career in the industry.
"I've worked with Sid for over a year. He's an amazing coach and trainer. His approach is open and friendly and he works hard to make sure you are engaging, learning and growing!"
Jackie D.
Territory Manager - Office Furniture Manafacturer
"Sid and his team have a great knack for taking any issue, a project, a new hire, a complex problem, and helping you to break it down, and craft the best solution to address it. He's great at training new people to really understand our industry and how to be successful in it."
