Technical Training & Industrial Performance Solutions
GP Strategies designs and delivers technical training for employees across the world’s most complex industrial and operational environments. We build the technical capabilities that protect your people, improve safety outcomes, and connect workforce performance to measurable business results, delivering the learning velocity your operations demand.
Why Technical Training for Employees Stalls at the Point of Execution
Technical workforces face challenges that generic L&D approaches were never built to solve:
- Critical knowledge is locked in your most experienced people—and attrition erodes it faster than documentation captures it.
- Compliance and environmental, health, and safety (EHS) requirements demand consistency that varies across sites, shifts, and regions.
- New technologies and systems are deployed before the workforce has the skills to use them effectively.
- Certification and credentialing processes are time-consuming and disconnected from on-the-job performance.
- Online technical courses are often generic, outdated, and disconnected from the tools and processes your people actually use.
These aren’t learning problems. They’re operational risk, safety, and performance problems. We treat them that way.
Technical Training Should Drive Performance, Not Just Compliance
Most industrial and technical training programs are built to check boxes: completing compliance courses, logging certification hours, and distributing documentation. The organizations that outperform their peers build something different: a technical capability architecture that connects knowledge to real work, embeds learning into operations, and ties every training investment to measurable performance outcomes.
That’s what we help you build.
When technical training is anchored to how work actually happens—on the shop floor, in the field, or inside a complex enterprise system—it drives the outcomes that matter: faster time to competency, reduced downtime, stronger safety records, and a workforce that can adopt new technology without losing operational momentum.
Our Industrial & Technical Performance Capabilities
Technical and industrial training fails when it’s treated as a content problem. The real challenge is building the skills, processes, and systems that keep pace with how work evolves. We combine 60 years of industrial training expertise with modern learning technology to close the gap between what your workforce knows and what your operations require.
Technical Training
- Craft skills and EHS training for high-hazard environments
- Technical curriculum design across role-specific and multi-site deployments
- Certification, credentialing, and tiered development pathways
- Lean Six Sigma training from awareness to Black Belt
- Technical documentation that supports performance at the point of need
GPiLEARN+™ Online Technical Courses
- Hundreds of online technical courses across energy, utilities, manufacturing, and more
- Content aligned to industry standards and compliance requirements
- Flexible deployment across LMS platforms and mobile environments
- Continuously updated to reflect evolving regulations and best practices
Enterprise Technology Adoption
- Adoption readiness assessment and user impact analysis
- Role-based training strategies aligned to system rollout timelines
- Performance support that embeds guidance in the flow of work
- Sustainment programs that reinforce adoption beyond go-live
Our Approach to Industrial & Technical Performance
For 60 years, GP Strategies has designed and delivered technical training for employees across the most demanding industrial environments in the world—energy, automotive, aerospace, manufacturing, and life sciences. That depth is what makes learning velocity possible at scale: the ability to build critical capabilities at the pace your operations demand, without sacrificing quality, consistency, or safety.
Rapid capability building at the pace your operations demand, from go-lives and compliance changes to workforce transitions.
Relevance
Every program is anchored to how work actually happens, so training drives performance, not just completion.
Quality
60 years of proven technical instructional design, enhanced by our GP AIQ+™ platform.
Proven Results in Industrial & Technical IPerformance
Powering the AES Workforce for a New Generation of Plants
AES needed to upskill its existing workforce to operate highly automated combined cycle gas turbine plants and close major technology gaps before launch. GP Strategies designed and delivered a comprehensive technical training program—including GPiLEARN+™ online technical courses—that prepared the workforce before a single turbine came online.
- $50,000 saved in contractor costs
- $20,000 saved in fuel costs
- 110 potential issues identified before launch—including 7 that would have tripped the plant on start-up
- 1% reduction in equivalent forced outage rate, projecting $8M in savings over 20 years
Industrial & Technical Performance Insights
Start with Your Operational Challenge, Not a Training Catalog
Most technical training programs look good on paper but fall short in the field: too generic for the precision your operations require, too slow to keep pace with system and compliance changes, and too disconnected to link training activity to safety or performance outcomes.
GP Strategies builds technical capability that shows up where it counts: faster time to competency, stronger safety records, improved operational efficiency, and a workforce ready to adopt new technology without losing momentum.