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Dale Carnegie was born in 1888 in Missouri, USA, and was educated at Warrensburg State Teachers College. As a salesman and aspiring actor, he traveled to New York and began teaching communications classes to adults at the YMCA. In 1912, the world-famous Dale Carnegie Course was born. By the 1930s, Dale Carnegie was recruiting licensees throughout the United States.
Dale Carnegie wrote his now-renowned book How to Win Friends and Influence People in 1936. This milestone cemented the rapid spread of his core values across the United States. In addition, Carnegie developed his first sales training courses during this time which would later become our current Sales Advantage course. He began offering this new sales training along with his effective speaking and human relations courses.
Dale Carnegie’s company became incorporated as Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc. in 1954. Dale Carnegie passed away soon after in 1955, leaving his legacy and set of core principles to be disseminated for decades to come.
The 1950s also marked a period of international expansion in Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia. It was also during the 1950s that the foundations of Dale Carnegie Training® as it exists today began to take form. A group of professional managers were hired and specialized departments for instruction, distribution, purchasing, finance, and advertising were created.
Responding to contemporary needs, the first Dale Carnegie Training leadership courses were created in 1967. These would eventually grow into our current core program, Leadership Training for Managers.
In 1975, the Dale Carnegie Training’s courses and seminars were awarded accreditation by Continuing Education Council, today known as the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training.
Dale Carnegie Strategic Presentations Workshop (now known as High Impact Presentations) was developed in 1985. This grew out of a need in the market for intense presentations training designed for professionals.
Dale Carnegie Training began offering corporate solutions worldwide in 1992. This expansion of our business allowed courses and seminars to be tailored to meet the specific needs of businesses with the experience of our corporate solutions team.
All Dale Carnegie Training local sponsoring organizations in the U.S. were approved through the GSA Federal Supply Schedule #GS-10F-0329K to offer their products and services to federal government agencies in 2001.
Dale Carnegie Training celebrated its 90th anniversary in 2002.
With a roster of over 8
million graduates, Dale Carnegie Training is dedicated to serving the business community worldwide. Currently, there are over 2700
professional instructors that offer Dale Carnegie Training in more than 80
countries in 25
languages.
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For more information on Dale Carnegie Training's best-selling book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, along with his other published works, click here.
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