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NHLA NEWS NHLA EXPANDS
NHLA NEWS NHLA EXPANDS EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES NHLA is proud to announce an important new addition to our educational offerings – the NHLA’s online learning portal. The portal includes a series of webinars focusing on the most current and relevant technical and business issues impacting our members bottom line. Webinar topics are based on member input and on educational topics that are important to enhancing their bottom line. NHLA’s traditional educational programming has focused on helping increase the overall success and profitability of member companies for years. Most offerings have been based on education historically offered by the NHLA Inspector Training Schools and in-person short courses. And while rules-based training will always be a core member value, we recognized that members need more in order to compete in today’s brave new world, particularly since so many educational programming had to be canceled because of the COVID-19 epidemic. Clearly, new approaches were necessary if we intended to fulfill our educational obligations to our members. We chose webinars as our educational vehicle because they present an affordable and effective way of reaching more members with more training opportunities they can access at their own time – day or night. In order to serve our members in these unprecedented times, we took a step forward and created NHLA Webinars On Demand. And because of the dedicated support of our NHLA sustaining member sponsors, we are able to offer the webinars free of charge to members – another critical benefit in today’s business environment. NHLA webinars are designed to be convenient as all webinars are posted on the NHLA website after the live event. The instructor for the webinars is none other than leading industry expert Eugene Wengert, President of the Wood Doctor RX, and Professor Emeritus of University of Wisconsin. Please turn to page 76 BY LORNA D. CHRISTIE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL HARDWOOD LUMBER ASSOC., MEMPHIS, TN 901-377-1818 WWW.NHLA.COM 24 OCTOBER 2020 n NATIONAL HARDWOOD MAGAZINE
HANDS YOU CAN DEPEND ON. He’s Nick, and he thinks gloves are for sissies. Our yard men have hands so tough, splinters don’t even try. After all, they work every day moving wood from kilns, pallets, trucks to make sure our hardwoods are in the right place to deliver to you at the right time. Need a hand? Ask Nick. SOLID HARDWOOD. SOLID PEOPLE. Call 800-536-3151 for a quote, or visit www.colehardwood.com. OCTOBER 2020 n NATIONAL HARDWOOD MAGAZINE 25
