NEW! Digital Products & Tools
Digital downloads that you immediately put to use? Yes.
In-Person Training Solutions
Our Live In-Person Training is what we are nationally known for. We love to go to the client’s site and facilitate customized, interactive training sessions for staff. It’s what we do. Check us out…
Coaching • Consulting
Services designed to supplement our content and training. Customized to help your organization reach that next level of success. Live, Virtual, Mini-Trainings & more. Let us custom design a solution for you…
Virtual Training Solutions
We can also create some cool resources for you! ALL designed to provide value. Products, Printable Resources, Workbooks, Mini-Trainings & more… let us know how we can help.
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Mini-Trainings!
Short, targeted mini-trainings. We keep the participant count low. More like super customized Coaching sessions, focused on problem solving real-time issues.
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Understanding Different Behavior Styles
In person live training 1-3 hours. Quoted specifically for your group, location, duration, etc. Contact us today for a quote! [email protected]
Our Blog
No AI Policy. No Training. No Problem. (Well. Some Problem.)
You’re Managing People Who Use AI and You Don’t. Congrats. Let’s do a quick show of hands. Raise your hand if your team is using AI tools at work and you have no idea what they’re actually doing with them. Raise your hand if your company has exactly zero written…
Quiet Cracking Is Real. And It Is Not Your Fault
There is a term making the rounds in HR research right now called quiet cracking. It is not dramatic. Nobody burns out overnight. Nobody flips a table. Nobody ghosts their calendar and moves to Portugal. It is slower than that. It is the manager who starts taking the…
Why Employee Feedback Isn’t Working – And It’s Not What You Think
Everyone’s talking about employee feedback like it’s the problem. More feedback. Better feedback. Faster feedback. There are entire software platforms built around it. The performance management software market is sitting at nearly $6 billion right now and…
About us
Companies don’t fall apart because the work is hard. They fall apart because of the people stuff. Someone won’t own their mistakes. Nobody handles change well. Two departments haven’t spoken since 2019. That’s the part we fix.
Not So Basic Training has been at this since 1993.
We help four ways.
- Digital tools you download and use the same day
- Coaching
- Consulting
- On-site Training
You pick what fits. Nobody’s here to hard-sell you the whole menu.
It’s owned and run by Mitzi Taylor, an Everything DiSC Certified facilitator out of Norton Shores, Michigan. Mitzi has trained thousands of employees, managers and teams at Michigan State University, Howmet, Herman Miller, and RENK, plus plenty of companies you haven’t heard of, across manufacturing, healthcare, banking, non-profits, and retail.
What people call us for most: Accountability, Managing Change, DiSC, and getting people to actually Communicate. It all runs on Mitzi’s own frameworks, including the System of Accountability and the Hear/Fear/Near/Cheer model for Change.
The whole thing has always come down to four things. Love what we do, do what we’re good at, have some fun, and get results. That’s it.