TRP Enterprises Inc. of Winston-Salem is on a mission — to help people take responsibility for themselves, no matter what.
And the company’s work has reached around the world, with its workbooks translated into several languages, including Russian.
It also recently provided training for 150 staff members of a Navajo Nation program.
Thomas White, a lawyer, and Dr. Sanford Danziger formed TRP Enterprises, a personal-responsibility training and consultation company, in 1996. Two years later, they had provided training to about 20,000 people. Today, more than 140,000 people have taken their “Becoming a Totally Responsible Person” training, which is known as “TRP training.”
“A totally responsible person is a person who lives a life of values and character, who lives a purposeful life with meaning and who serves others, expressing his or her best, whatever that is,” White said.
Danziger said that the mission of TRP is to help people stay positive, productive and effective no matter what the circumstances.
TRP Enterprises has worked for years with companies but recently started expanding its customer base to include more agencies and associations.
The Navajo Nation Program for Self Reliance has a client base of more than 4,200 people. It provides support, resources training, and direction for eligible clients who live on the Navajo Nation, which is based in Window Rock, Ariz.
“What they do is to help their clients become more self-reliant,” said Richard Roddy, a certified TRP trainer who conducted the training in Tucson, Ariz.
“So this training fits perfectly because their staff learn how to become more personally responsible for their own attitudes, emotions and behaviors.
“Then they can take that and help their clients.”
Roddy said he saw positive reaction right away from the TRP training for The Navajo Nation Program. For example, a receptionist in the program’s central office created a log sheet for anybody interested in using it.
“Anytime anybody in the central office felt they were being critical or negative or feeling like a victim, they just came up and wrote down what they felt like and somebody else would come by and say, ‘Well, here’s a positive way to handle it,’” Roddy said.
TRP Enterprises increased the number of people it trained over the years by starting a train-the-trainers program in 2000.
Once a trainer at a company client is certified in the TRP training he can then train other employees within that company.
TRP Enterprises also offers video-assisted workshops to customers that do not require a certified trainer.
And it’s now providing self-paced online training in which customers can take courses sitting at their own computers.
They also have live, 90-minute Webinars that cover four topics — leadership, giving and receiving feedback, developing high-performance teams, and becoming a totally responsible person.
They have started other areas of training, including developmental education to help deal with the issues of decreasing the dropout rate and increasing the graduation rate for students in high school and college.
Danziger said that Forsyth Technical Community College will train 3,000 people a year for the next three years, using an abbreviated version of the company’s workshop through a self-paced workbook.
The YMCA of Northwest North Carolina started using TRP training in the mid-1990s.
“I think the program helps people put things in perspective as far as making decisions and not reacting to negative situations, just kind of taking it and filtering through it and coming up with a better way of responding to someone as opposed to reacting to them,” said Ed Barron, the director of staff training and leadership development for the YMCA.
For example, he said, some people may feel they are a victim when it comes to dealing with erratic drivers but TRP training teaches that people have control over their responses to other people.
“You can turn a negative action into a more positive response,” Barron said.
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