The Latest News From NexTech Academy
How the Smart Home Changes What Your Techs Need to Know
A home is no longer just a home. It’s fast becoming a smart home. What’s a smart home? In its simplest terms, a smart home
How Home Service Business Owners Can Improve the Skills of Their Technicians in 18 to 24 Months via Online Training at NexTech Academy
Learning a skilled trade such as plumbing, HVAC or electrical takes time. But how much? Traditional vocational training programs and apprenticeship programs could take as
How Can a Nexstar Network Membership Help HVAC Technicians Train with NexTech Academy?
Running a successful HVAC business involves a good measure of luck and timing. These variables are obviously beyond an HVAC business owner’s control. You can’t
Return On Investment: NexTech Students Producing Revenue
Ryan Lumpkins, general manager of Boothe’s HVAC currently has four students enrolled in NexTech Academy’s plumbing and HVAC online technical training programs. Boothe’s specializes in
How to Take Care of Your Health as a Plumber, Electrician, or HVAC Technician
The number one priority of every electrician, HVAC technician or plumber is to take care of a customer’s needs. Day in and day out, it’s
Get To Know Dave Herding NexTech Academy Instructional Designer
How did you get into instructional design? I started my teaching career using classroom lectures as the primary means to disseminate information to my students.
How Can a Nexstar Network Membership Help Electricians Train with NexTech Academy?
It’s likely your electrical business has already benefited in many ways from being a member of the Nexstar Network. Whether it’s due to the business
NexTech User Profile: Five Star Plumbing, Heating, Cooling and Electric
Larry Sinn is the owner of Five Star Plumbing, Heating, Cooling and Electric in Greer, South Carolina. He currently has two plumbers in NexTech Academy
Meet Steven Vang, NexTech’s Instructional Designer
How did you get into instructional design? By complete accident. I never realized that there was a whole industry called instructional design or technical writing.
How to Make Working for a Residential Service Company Appealing to Gen Z
The future of the electrical, HVAC and plumbing industries rests in the hands of Generation Z. Now, we understand that this can be said about
NexTech User Profile: Corley Plumbing, Air and Electric
C.K. Baker is the plumbing and electrical service manager of Corley Plumbing, Air and Electric in Greenville, South Carolina. His company currently has three plumbers
How to Motivate Your Employees to Complete Self-Paced Vocational Trades Skills Training Programs
Among the most popular aspects of NexTech Academy is the ability for students to learn at their own pace. This self-paced learning concept makes it
Built to Be the Best Electrician Training Option
The new NexTech Academy electrician training courses have been a long time in the making. Our coaches, instructional designers, business leaders, and training professionals have
NexTech 2.0 Is Here!
Since NexTech Academy launched, we’ve been busy analyzing how users are using the program and planning for improvements. Our observations have led us to the
Hire for Success
Ask anyone who owns an HVAC, electric or plumbing business what their biggest challenge is, and their response is almost always the same; recruitment. With
Interview with Jason Haskin – Service Manager at Boothes regarding Chris Barnett, NexTech’s first HVAC graduate
Joe: So it looks like your company has our very first HVAC graduate Chris Barnett in our program! First, on behalf of Nexstar Network and
Get To Know Jeff Atwell, NexTech’s Plumbing Technical Coach
How did you get into your trade? What was your trade education experience like? I fell into the trade. My brother owned a plumbing company,
How Nexstar Network’s Industry Experience Supports NexTech Academy Training
NexTech Academy is among the most effective providers of online technical training programs for HVAC technician training, electrical training and plumber training. But who is
