USA, Chicago: ILLAFTrain launches the “twenty state-voyage”

With a great success, ILLAFTrain-Chicago came to life on April 28, 2008. The reception was attended by prominent figures among the Arab American community in the area. Dr. Muhannad Riad Alfrhan, the owner of the franchisee and CEO of the “American Institute for HR Development, gave a speech summarizing the strategy of the franchisee for the next phase.

Dr. Alfrhan described his vision for the next phase saying that it will be: “Improving the Arab and Muslim communities in the US, through propagation of positive thinking and through teaching the skills of learning and success. This will be accomplished through attracting the best and most experienced trainers”

Dr. Alfrhan sat four different phases for this vision:

• First Phase: “Reaching out to the Arab community in the Midwest initially then the entire US. This will be accomplished through seminars and training courses, which have already, began. This phase will take three years.”
• Second phase: “Reaching out to the part of the Muslim American community that does not speak Arabic, in association with Arab and American training companies. This phase will start after two months and extend for eight years.”
• Third phase: “Reaching out to the non-Muslim non-Arab Americans and competing with the top American companies in order to initiate a positive change in the society at large. This phase starts after five years and extends for sixty years”. He added jokingly:” At that time we will meet again with everyone in attendance today, to discuss all the progress achieved by then.”
• Fourth Phase: “will start after sixty years, and we will discuss the details of that phase in the meeting we planned to conduct after sixty years.”

Dr. Alfrhan highlighted three priorities:

• Providing the best possible learning to trainees, and motivating them on the path of positive change.
• Maintaining excellent reputation to help us succeed in achieving our goals.
• Directing most of the gross income to attract top talented trainers.

Dr. Alfrhan elaborated:

In the Past:

We conducted four training courses

• We conducted three courses in NLP “one in South Bend, IN, and two in Crown Point, IN”
• We also conducted an Intensive Course in Time Management in Crown Point, IN

We conducted few seminars:

• The first was in Merrillville, IN “Invitation to think”
• The second was in Chicago “A stop for reflection”
• The third was in Highland, IN “Planting success in the hearts of children”
• The fourth was in Highland, IN “Communication with Kids”

In the Future we will have:

1-    Seminars in Arabic and in English to intrigue people toward learning and positive change.

2-    Multiple Courses to include:

• Caring for children
• How to memorize the Holy Koran in a Short Time?
• ILLAFTrain Certified Trainer
• Neuro Linguistic Programming - NLP Assistant Practitioner 
• Time management

3-    Training and supporting trainers who reside in the US, and are fluent in both Arabic and English, so we can provide the training in both languages.

Trainer Architect Mohammad Pedra said “We worked with the management of the American Institute for HR development with regard to Chicago franchisee since last year. It took a lot of effort on both sides, as we had to study the community there and study the market in general. Praise to Allah we eventually achieved this remarkable agreement. A quick glance over the strategy presented by the franchisee; can demonstrate the enormous amount of work that lies ahead. I sincerely, wish them all the success.

This is the first franchisee in the US and  we will soon see many others to follow -In Shaa Allah-“