Employee Training Systems for Christmas Light Business Owners
Build a Crew That's Ready to Work Before Day One.
A simple employee training system for Christmas light businesses, so every new hire starts with a clear path.
Register your employees, give them access to role-specific training, and stop rebuilding onboarding every season.
Includes four role-based training paths worth over $2,000.
Built for the People Who Actually Run Christmas Light Businesses.
Built by Michael Carey, a business owner with experience managing commercial construction crews and building a Christmas lighting business.
He understands the pressure that comes with seasonal hiring: employees need to get up to speed quickly, standards need to stay consistent, and owners can't afford to personally reteach every process while the season is moving at full speed.
CLA was built to turn the knowledge that usually lives in the owner's head into a clear employee onboarding experience that can be used again and again.
Your Business Shouldn't Depend on You Explaining Everything.
When hiring ramps up, you don't have time to explain the same processes over and over again.
You need employees who understand what's expected before they arrive at a job site, answer a sales call, manage an office task, or lead a crew.
Without a consistent system, onboarding becomes another urgent task on an already overloaded list. Training gets rushed, standards get lost in translation, and you become the answer to every question.
Christmas Light Academy helps you replace inconsistent, start-from-scratch training with a repeatable employee onboarding system your team can follow.
You're Growing. But Too Much of the Business Still Lives in Your Head.
You know how the job should be done.
You know what an installer needs to understand before stepping onto a property. You know what your sales team should say, what your office staff needs to handle, what separates a reliable team lead from someone who creates more problems, and what standards protect your company's reputation.
The issue is that your employees don't automatically know all of that just because you do.
So every time hiring ramps up, you may find yourself:
- Explaining the same process to every new hire
- Training people while trying to sell jobs and manage operations
- Answering questions that should already have a clear answer
- Wondering whether new employees truly understand your expectations
- Rebuilding your onboarding process every season
- Carrying more of your company's knowledge in your head than you should have to
You don't need to become a "better trainer." You need a better way to deliver the training.
Hiring Should Add Capacityā€¦ Not More to Your Plate.
Picture a new employee joining your team with a clear understanding of their role, expectations, and next steps before their first day.
Your Installers arrive better prepared.
Your Sales reps know the fundamentals of the customer conversation.
Your Office staff & team leads have a structured starting point.
With the right onboarding system in place, hiring becomes less chaotic. Your standards are easier to protect. And your business becomes easier to grow without every process depending on you.
CLA helps you build confident, better-prepared team members before day one, so you can spend less time repeating yourself and more time leading the business.
How Christmas Light Academy Works.
A better training process doesn't have to mean more work for you.
Register
Add each employee's name and email through the appropriate registration page.
Access
Your employee automatically receives access to the CLA training available for their role or company.
Train
Employees complete structured lessons created for the responsibilities they're stepping into.
Complete
Built-in quizzes help confirm they understand the fundamentals before day one.
Repeat
When you hire again, use the same system instead of rebuilding onboarding from scratch.
One Employee Training System. Two Ways to Implement It.
Whether you need a complete employee training system you can begin using immediately or installer training customized around the way your company operates, Christmas Light Academy gives you a simpler way to onboard your team.
Christmas Light Academy Core
A Complete Employee Training System (Ready When You Are)
CLA Core is a complete, pre-built employee training system designed for Christmas light businesses that want to train employees right away.
It includes four role-based employee training paths: Installer Training, Sales Rep Training, Office Staff & VA Training, and Team Lead Training.
After purchase, you receive access to the CLA Employee Registration Page. Enter each employee's name and email address, and they are automatically granted access to the CLA Core training platform.
No custom build. No waiting. No piecing together separate courses. Just one complete system your team can start using right away.
- Four role-based employee training paths
- Installer Training
- Sales Rep Training
- Office Staff & VA Training
- Team Lead Training
- Employee Registration Page ā€” no custom build
- Automatic access after employee registration
- One complete system, ready to use right away
Christmas Light Academy Custom
Your Business. Your Processes. Your Training Platform.
CLA Custom includes access to CLA Core, plus a completely customized employee training system built around the way your company operates.
CLA Custom includes access to CLA Core, plus Christmas Light Installer Training customized around the way your company actually installs. We learn your installation methods, company policies, SOPs, branding, and expectations for installers, then customize the training experience around your business.
With CLA Custom, you get:
- Full access to CLA Core (all four training paths)
- Christmas Light Installer Training customized for your company
- Training built around your installation methods, policies, SOPs, and expectations
- A dedicated employee registration page branded for your company
- A guided onboarding, build, review, and delivery process
- Custom build-outs take place during the off-season (Febā€“Aug)
More Than $2,000 in Employee Training. Bundled Into One Complete System for $999.
CLA Core is not one course. It is a complete employee onboarding system that gives your business four role-specific training paths, a streamlined employee registration process, automatic training access, and a repeatable way to onboard new hires without rebuilding your process every season.
What's Included in CLA Core
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Ā Installer Training$499 value
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Ā Sales Rep Training$499 value
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Ā Office Staff & VA Training$499 value
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Ā Team Lead Training$499 value
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Ā Employee Registration Pageincluded
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Ā Automatic access after employee registrationincluded
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Ā Reusable onboarding system for future hiresincluded
Total Value
Over $2,000
Your Investment
$999
What Happens After You Choose CLA Custom?
CLA Custom gives you a guided path from relying on generic installer training to having Christmas Light Installer Training customized around the way your company actually does the work.
Step 1
Welcome
Once you've invested in CLA Custom, you'll receive a welcome email with a clear overview of the onboarding process and what to expect next.
Step 2
Assessments
You complete a guided set of onboarding assessments that help us understand how your company handles installation, including your installation methods, company policies, SOPs, branding, and expectations for your installers.
Step 3
Build
After your assessments are complete, our team begins building and customizing your Christmas Light Installer Training around the information you've provided.
Step 4
Review
With the initial build complete, we move into the review process. You'll review your customized Installer Training and request any edits or changes you'd like made.
Step 5
Launch
We finalize your customized Installer Training and deliver your company's dedicated employee registration page. Your installers can then register and access training customized specifically for your business.
Start With a System Now. Make It Yours in the Off-Season.
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Michael Carey
Founder, CLA
Built by an Owner Who Understands the Pressure.
Hi, I'm Michael Carey, founder of Christmas Light Academy.
I built CLA after experiencing the same challenge so many business owners face: seasonal growth is exciting, until you're trying to hire, train, manage, and lead everyone at once.
After years of managing crews in commercial construction and building my own Christmas lighting business, I saw the need for a better way to prepare employees before they stepped into the field.
Christmas Light Academy exists to help owners build capable teams, protect their standards, and grow without carrying every process in their own head.
Built for Real Teams. Not Theory.
CLA was designed for the fast-moving reality of seasonal hiring: real customers, real crews, real job sites, and not enough time to personally retrain every employee.
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Get the Free Employee Onboarding Checklist.
Start with a practical checklist designed to help you organize the essential steps, expectations, and materials new hires need before their first day.
Use it to create a more consistent onboarding experience nowā€”and see where a complete employee training system could save you time this season.
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Learn From Christmas Light Academy.
Get practical insights on employee training, hiring, systems, operations, and growth, created specifically for Christmas light business owners.
Featured Topics
- Ā CLA Core vs. CLA Custom: Which Is Right for Your Business?
- Ā How to Train Christmas Light Installers Before Day One
- Ā The Employee Onboarding System Every Seasonal Business Needs
- Ā How to Build a Christmas Light Business That Doesn't Depend on You
- Ā The Biggest Hiring Mistakes Christmas Light Business Owners Make
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More Employees Shouldn't Mean More Dependence on You.
Hiring more people should create capacity, not more questions, more retraining, and more pressure on the owner.
Christmas Light Academy gives your team a clearer way to learn the expectations, processes, and role-specific fundamentals they need before day one.
Build the Team That Helps Your Business Grow.
Choose the ready-to-use CLA Core system or have your Christmas Light Installer Training customized around the way your company operates.
