New Education Partnership is Here!
BRINGING EVEN MORE VALUABLE TRAINING TO SUPPLY-BUILD CANADA MEMBERS
Yardstick – Spring 2025 – Rebekah Doerksen, Supply-Build Canada
We’re very pleased to bring the North American Hardware and Paint Association (NHPA) suite of education to our members and be the sole Canadian provider of these valuable classes.
Over the past 18 years, thousands of retail employees have taken NHPA education and training courses, ranging from basic training for new staff to specialized modules designed to meet the needs of retail managers and owners. The NHPA courses have been available to Canadians since 2006, but this new partnership allows Supply-Build Canada to be a strong resource and advocate for our specific market training needs.
At Supply-Build Canada, we’re thrilled to have these courses filling in the gaps for our members. For your new-to-the-industry staff, we have a strong foundation in material covered with the Building Material Fundamentals courses (included in membership!). NHPA’s suite brings a whole new realm of retail training to your onboarding process: with courses on loss prevention, merchandising, and selling skills.
For more specialized project sales roles, we have you covered with our Estimating Suite, and NHPA has courses like Project PRO, which teaches employees how to sell an entire project, and therefore make larger sales.
When it comes to the management level, NHPA brings rounds out store operations skills with Inventory Management, Retail Pricing, and Retail Accounting. It’s a great steppingstone to our Business Series (coming soon!) which will walk owners and their management teams through the tools they need for every phase of business, from start up to planning for retirement.
And of course, leaders need to continuously learn too, which is why our Executive Mastermind group is there for those who want to take their leadership to a new level.
Our commitment to bringing members great training and advancing the knowledge and professionalism in the industry continues—rest assured that as the industry changes and grows, we’ll keep bringing you what you need to grow with it!