About

Training Resources Group, Inc. (TRG) is an employee-owned management consulting and training firm located in Arlington, Virginia. Since its founding in 1973, TRG has grown steadily in size and in our professional capabilities. TRG has worked in over one hundred countries providing training and organizational development services to clients in large and small corporations, international organizations, federal and state government agencies and non-profit organizations.

As an employee-owned firm, we are each personally committed to the work we do. We understand that our success is entirely dependent on our ability to help our clients achieve their business and service goals. Internally, we place a great deal of emphasis on nurturing a widely held ownership mentality and participatory culture. At TRG, there is no “majority” shareholder, and in fact, no TRGer owns more than 10% of the company. We manage ourselves through an employee board of directors, committees and client service teams. We believe that our clients benefit from the over thirty years of self-management.

As a result of the working environment we have created, the vast majority of the consultants who have joined TRG in its thirty year history are working at TRG today. Like our clients, we constantly revise how we do our own work, developing and testing new approaches to leadership, employee involvement, and communications. We use our firm as a learning lab to test out ideas and learn new ways of managing that might prove useful to clients. We strive to remain on the cutting edge of our field by applying state-of-the-art methods to support clients in their own improvement efforts.
 

Working at TRG

At TRG, we empower others to do their best work.

It is our systems of employee ownership, employee governance, and a strong workplace culture allow us to do our best work. Because a majority of our staff are shareholders in TRG, we are personally committed to supporting our clients’ goals with excellence and care. No employee is just a number here — participation, collaboration, and transparency at every level of corporate governance are pivotal to who we are.
 

Our Values

At TRG, we believe in actively promoting social equity and inclusion, both in our work and with each other. We strive to cultivate a community of passionate, talented, and diverse staff who live by the values our company was built on over 35 years ago.
 

Extraordinary Service to Clients

• Passion for excellence in serving clients
• Devotion to helping clients achieve results
• Ceaseless pursuit of technical competence
• Engagement in life-long learning and the attainment of wisdom

Being a Profitable Company

• Extraordinary attention to serving clients
• Commitment to achieving financial goals
• Inclusive employee ownership
• Staff involvement in strategic decision-making
• Pledge that leadership opportunities are open to all staff

Alive With Joy and Laughter

• Enthusiasm for an environment that is alive with joy and laughter
• Belief that optimism and humor are powerful components of success
• Making time for joy and laughter
• Dedication to helping clients build and maintain a culture of optimism and humor

Positive Work-Life Balance

• Schedules that attend to both personal and work life
• Balance between profit and professional satisfaction
• Promotion of physical and emotional health and well-being for ourselves and our clients

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

• Inclusive work environment that values the contributions of our diverse staff
• Consideration for diversity as we recruit staff
• Work place environment that champions the freedom to be oneself
• Enthusiasm for helping clients work with their diversity

Care and Compassion

• Caring about and investing in the well-being of our ourselves and our clients
• Frequent expressions of appreciation
• Willingness to listen with our hearts, not just our ears
• Forgiveness of one another when we have been less than perfect