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Training resources and best practices for developing propane industry employees, from certification to safety education.

  • Key Steps to Building the Leadership Bench in Your Company

    How soft skills & leadership development can drive measurable results & build a high-performing workforce
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  • Propane Delivery Trucks, Center of Gravity & Diminishing Loads

    The insights, data & precautions your delivery drivers need to know
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  • NPGA’s ACE Service to Lift the Burden of the ELDT Mandate

    Learn more about the commercial driver mandate & how NPGA’s ACE can help you through it
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  • Why CETP Is Invaluable to the Propane Industry

    The impact of the training program & continual education in Connecticut & beyond
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  • North Carolina Technical Education Center Focuses on Workforce Development

    How an education center in North Carolina is preparing a new generation of propane professionals
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  • How to Maintain a Productive Workforce in a Post-COVID-19 Workplace

    The new approach to creating an engaged & energized company culture
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  • From Military to Management: Lessons from a Veteran

    A regional manager draws on the leadership skills gained through his military training
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  • 6 Ways to Make Sexual Harassment Training More Effective

    What you can do to better protect and properly inform your employees
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  • Distributor Reacts To New Norms With Product Mix, Training

    Reacting to the changing needs of customers has never been more important than it has been in the last few months. For a company whose customers are contractors, the pandemic has brought about changes in both the products that are selling and the ways product training must be delivered. “Our priorities go where the customers are; we run to what people want,” says Ray Kazakewich, national LPG manager at R.E. Michel Co. (Glen Burnie, Md.), a wholesale distributor serving professional contractors. “It seems every week, we have to react to different norms—not just in business, but in everything—and that certainly translates into our business.” For one thing, he says, there has been a shift in demand of products. “The mix of products and inventory has…
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  • Plumbing/HVAC Instructors Can Win Free Training Getaway

    (Janauary 10, 2020) — Building on last year’s Train the Trainer success, the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) will be offering four in-person events in 2020 to train instructors how to teach the Overview of Propane Distribution Systems for HVAC and Plumbing Professionals course. Up to 80 winners will be selected to help get propane curriculum into more classrooms across the country. If you know someone who teaches or trains plumbing and HVAC professionals, nominate them to win a free trip and training, including airfare and hotel), to one of the locations below: • Nashville, TN – April 8-9 • Ocean Springs, MS – May 18-19 • Chicago, IL – June 1-2 • Phoenix, AZ – June 25-26 The course taught during this special…
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  • CoEnergy Propane and Community College Offer Propane Automotive Service Training Courses

    There’s a growing need for technicians in a variety of industries, including the propane and alternative fueled-vehicles industry. Now is the time to start training people for those positions. Those are messages being promoted in the state of Oregon and across the country by a propane marketer and a community college. CoEnergy Propane (Albany, Ore.) and Linn-Benton Community College (LBCC; Albany, Ore.) partner in teaching students and automotive service professionals how to service propane-powered vehicles. They also are working to increase the number of educators teaching these skills nationwide. In Oregon, they recently joined the state’s 16 other community colleges at two events promoting the importance of community colleges and their career technical education (CTE) programs. Career Technical Education Day (Feb. 1) and Community College…
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  • Women In Propane Council Takes DiSC Training on the Road

    Paula Summers Murphy, director of business development for Vision Financial Group, was so impressed with the DiSC management training she received at the National Propane Gas Association’s (NPGA) Southeastern Convention last spring, she knew it would be beneficial for everyone in her company to have a similar experience. The training, offered by NPGA’s Women in Propane Council (WIP), teaches an effective behavior profile training program by certified DiSC experts, affordably and conveniently. DiSC training was developed to provide a more interactive learning experience and more dynamic resources than a traditional classroom model. It is not specific to any industry, although the WIP trainers are involved in the propane industry. The WIP Council offers the training to men and women, members and non-members, and companies and…
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