Class Catalog

BDR provides comprehensive training resources to help contracting and distribution companies achieve sustained business success. With in-person, live virtual, and self-paced online, BDR offers various training options that meet your individual and business needs.

Class Catalog

BDR provides comprehensive training resources to help contracting and distribution companies achieve sustained business success. With in-person, live virtual, and self-paced online, BDR offers various training options that meet your individual and business needs.

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Class Type

Role

Pathway

This class educates owners and bookkeepers in accounting and office management fundamentals. This course will review the proper methods and procedures of accounting, including general ledger maintenance and financial reporting.
In this course, territory managers will learn how to assist contractors in hiring dedicated retail sales staff, preparing them for a smooth onboarding process and establishing clear expectations for long-term success.
This course shows territory managers how to help RNC contractors understand the opportunity and be able to expand into the add-on replacement (AOR) market.
This workshop will show you how to capture high-margin, negotiated commercial replacement sales by creating loyal, long-lasting customers through service relationships.
In this three-part course, distribution parts counter and inside sales employees will developed a foundational understanding of HVAC systems and their components to better serve your customers.
This three-part course gives ongoing training for your distribution parts counter and inside sales teams and provides the knowledge and skills they need to succeed by growing sales and building stronger customer relationships.
This three-part course gives distribution parts counter team members the tools to be successful in their role and provide outstanding customer experience during every visit.
This class will show new and existing managers how to transition from being just an employee to succeeding in a new management role.
This course teaches sales and install coordinators a structured retail process to help build long-lasting customer relationships, close more appointments, and position the company for referrals.
This class will show contractors how to design a residential duct system that provides increased comfort and efficiency to their customers while increasing their revenue.
This course gives territory managers a complete roadmap for growing their territory by analyzing current territory coverage and gaps, researching prospects, and developing strategies for cold-calling new partners.
This class helps develop a clear, multifaceted strategy that covers recruiting, onboarding, and retention.
This course equips territory managers with the strategies strategies to help contractors improve lead management, convert opportunities into sales, and navigate the essential steps following a proposal.
This class will show you the opportunity cost of a lost labor hour and how to maximize profit through labor-saving techniques and strategies.
This class will help you discover your strengths as a leader and develop a plan for your professional growth to lead your team forward.
This class provides an in-depth review of the principles and strategies necessary to run a profitable service department.
This course shows territory managers how to work with contractors to develop an inventory strategy that ensures they have the products they need to install the jobs that drive your territory's growth.
This class provides residential contractors generating less than $500,000 annually with actionable steps to take their business to the next level.
In this session, territory managers will discover how to guide their contractors' through the process of correctly pricing a job for profit.
This class will show you how to apply the popular QuickBooks accounting software to the contracting industry along with improve your financial understanding and enhance your reporting.
This course will help distribution sales managers enhance their skills in core areas that lead directly to sales success, including leadership, time management, communication, financial understanding, and sales performance coaching.
In this training class, dealers will learn how to improve their maintenance delivery process while generating a steady stream of replacement leads, improving profits, and stabilizing cash flow.
This workshop will give your dispatchers the tools to be successful in their role and take their dispatching skills to the next level.
This course shows territory managers a proven process to follow and the pitfalls to avoid when taking new customers from prospect to purchasing partner.
This class provides owners and managers of plumbing companies with strategies they can apply to improve profits and streamline operations while maximizing their existing labor resources.