Advance your team's GIS skills with prepaid training

Want to take your team’s geographic information systems (GIS) skills to the next level? The Esri Canada Prepaid Training Program offers a great option for enabling continuous GIS learning among your team in a cost-effective and convenient way. It’s about putting GIS training at your fingertips.

Now that budgeting season is under way, you’re likely thinking about ways to advance your team in 2026. How are we meant to increase our teams’ productivity, keep up with rapid changes in GIS technology and align team members’ development with organizational business goals—all while keeping within tight training budgets?

In 2026, the answer might surprise you: it’s the Esri Canada Prepaid Training Program, and it benefits teams like yours in many different ways.

1. Prepaid training enables continuous learning

Esri technology is changing and shifting all the time, and so are the skills required to maximize its use. Using ArcGIS software in day-to-day workflows is a great way to develop knowledge of it, but without additional GIS training to show your staff what’s new and changing about it, they might not realize what innovations they can achieve1.

Prepaid amounts can be applied to open enrollment courses or private training, allowing you to address training needs as and when they arise.

2. Prepaid training is convenient

Do training budget requests in your organization require layers of review and approval? Sometimes, it’s not the training that prevents us from taking it—it’s the amount of administration required.

Prepaid training ensures that you’ve already set aside packets of learning that can be used to address skill gaps, without having to put in a new training request every time. Make just one training purchase for the whole year and win back some peace of mind.

3. Prepaid training is cost-effective

It’s simple math: the more days of training you pre-purchase, the more savings you achieve. (See the table below for details.)

Need help choosing a prepaid training package or want to learn more about GIS training in Canada? Contact us at training@esri.ca to get more information.