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Well trained, confident employees are more effective at closing deals and upselling! By training new and existing employees you can increase productivity and retention and create new business opportunities for your company.

Whether you are looking to add a new product or service, the Central teams is here to help. From basic to advanced training, certifications or a hands on experience, we will work with you to get your team up to speed to execute effectively and efficiently.

Certifications + Continuing Education

Central offers courses for certification and continuing education credits for national, state, and local landscape, irrigation, pest control, and more. You can even use your Rewards Points to cover online or in-person training costs.

  • CEUs across all categories, offered multiple times a year: in-person, online, at trade show events, and for private instruction
  • 30-Hour Eligibility Certification for Core & Category 3A Ornamental & Turf
  • Access to certification training online through the IA and Irritech
  • Manufacturer training online, virtual, or in-person

Advanced + Customized Training

Central hosts regular advanced training opportunities throughout the year. Our Subject Matter Experts can even create custom training. Don't see something you need-let us know!

  • New employee training
  • New service offerings
  • Advanced Installation Techniques
  • Design and system layouts
  • Sales training and deal closing
  • Marketing and business training
Click Here for Central's Online Calendar for Scheduled Training Events in Your Area

Resources by Category

Irrigation Training

Hunter offers a variety of training opportunities that can be completed any time of day at your own pace, from installation and troubleshooting to water conservation, operations efficiency or selling tools.

BaselineWeb Training is available through YouTube at no cost. Most videos are 10 minutes or less allows your team to easily digest the material that is covered.

With more than six training formats available, you’ll be able to find the right training option for your team. Rain Bird offers both residential and commercial training courses

Armada Technologies also offers training videos through YouTube at no cost. Most of the training videos are under five minutes and covers a variety of topics such two-wire troubleshooting (with locators or the clamp-meter), testing and repairing systems, easily finding cable/wire, and products overview.

Toro offers You Tube tutorials and a huge library of content on their One Contractor Rewards Program platform. Contractors who install any combination of Toro Irritrol or Unique Lighting Systems should enroll.

The Irrigation Association has a variety of educational resources including self-study, teaching kits, workbooks, technical papers, online learning, webinars, continuing education, certifications. Many of the classes are available for Spanish speakers as well.

Turf Training

Lebanon Turf offers online training resources that will guide you through the range of LebanonTurf fertilizer, herbicide and pesticide solutions, the science behind their effectiveness and their ideal application

Learn about preemergence and postemergence herbicides, insecticides and fungicides with nine course offerings.

Simplify the training process through flexible online segments that allow you to select and review specific products. Each of the site’s online training modules are between two and five minutes in length.

NuFarm offers extensive online resources which teach you how you can save labor and chemical costs, achieve premium weed control, and best practices for pest management.

Landscape architects and related design professionals can now access information on continuing education courses from more than 130 approved providers with the Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System™ (LA CES™).

Become a FMC Champion with resources for golf, lawn, and pests. With a Webinar the 1st Friday of every month, and some with qualifying options for CEU’s!

If you are looking for resources and education for your ornamentals, you’re in the right place. At BASF, they create chemistry for a sustainable future, combining economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility.

Want to ensure that you, or your team members, have mastered the basic landscape management knowledge needed to succeed? Then the options at the NALP online certificate program is for you. It is available in both English and Spanish.

Lighting Training

Hunter offers online learning with courses, videos/streaming content, tutorials and resources, testing, and user Q&A.

Kichler offers a variety of online accredited courses and trainings to help advance your skills in lighting design.

If your business requires you to design, install or maintain landscape lighting, or if you are looking to add lighting to your business – these seminars at Unique Lighting are meant for you!

The Intensive Course at the International Landscape Lighting Institute qualifies you for 32 Continuing Education Credits! In addition to their in-person courses, they also offer online webinars and Youtube Videos for the landscape lighting professional.

AOLP has two excellent certification programs – Certified Low Voltage Lighting Technician (CLVLT) and Certified Outdoor Lighting Designer Course (COLD).

Additional Categories

Learn about sealers, sand, adhesives, wall systems, erosion control, and more with SRW.

Learn about TruAudio outdoor speakers, components, and setups in this free online training class.

Learn more about your new favorite tool! Get projects done in record time with less labor.

Grow Your Business with a NDS Professional Drainage Contractor Certification. Their four-part stormwater management and drainage installation course for contractors takes less than a day to complete and offer CEU credits.

Online Learning

There are also several online platforms that offer free or low-costs training. The following three are some of the most popular for businesses.

Alison: is a free online education platform that focuses on workplace-based skills such as HR, Operations, Finance, Communications, and Sales etc.

LinkedIn Learning: is an online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. It is a favorite among IT, design, creative professionals.

edX: offers increased access to high-quality, free online courses from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, and more on this online educational platform. Users can take courses across a variety of subjects from data analysis, to foreign languages, finance, project management, and more.

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