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Tailored Learning Solutions
GBC Learning and Development provide a fully tailored training service that can be delivered in house . If you have a group of at least four people needing training, you’ll find that it becomes increasingly cost effective to consider running an in house programme. This can be run at your premises or we can provide a venue for you.
Below is a small selection of some of the projects we have recently completed, for clients where our training has been tailored to meet their individual organisational need:
1. Topic: Proofreading Skills – March 2009
Background: A tailored programme for the communications arm of a major multinational in the UK. Although the team are expert communicators they found that proofreading errors were creeping through and they needed a strategy to address this. In addition team members wanted additional support in grammar, punctuation and plain English.
2. Topic: Better Business Writing – February 2009
Background: The Student Services team at a long established College in London requested training that would answer questions of grammar, spelling , punctuation, plain English and give them a structure to write emails and letters quickly and accurately.
3. Topic: Managing Absence – February 2009
Background: Following a pilot training course last year, we delivered a successful Absence Management training day to a group of managers from a large intergovernmental organisation – one day in English and the second in French.
4. Topic: Impact & Effectiveness at Work – January – March 2009
Background: A series of days for team members from a major automotive firm with outstanding technical skills but who lack confidence in communication. They are regularly required to contribute to meetings and discussions and often they were not able to convey their expertise in a meaningful way.
5. Topic: Influencing and Persuading – February 2009
Background: Battling for budgets within a development agency is always tough and this training was designed to help team members who wanted to have the confidence and the strategies to persuade others to their way of thinking.
6. Topic: Running Effective Meetings – February 2009
Background: This is one of the courses we run each for this governmental department each year.
7.Topic: Management Coaching – February – May 2009.
Background: Our client, a legal body, have recently appointed an inexperienced new manager to take over from a soon to retire colleague. Having had no management experience previously they wanted to fast track him by one to one coaching and the ongoing support this provides.
8. Topic: Better Business Writing – January to April 2009
Background: Our client has a large number of staff whose first language is not English which often resulted in written communications that had an inappropriate tone. They asked us for a writing course that would address this while also helping with a variety of grammar issues. The programme was tailored to completely reflect the day to issues the staff were dealing with.
9. Topic: Assessment tests for new staff recruitment – 2008
Background: Our client found that they were having to spend a lot of money training staff on basic writing skills that they should already have had to do the job. GBC were asked to devise a series of tests to be completed by applicants at interview stage that would identify skill shortages. The tests had to be completed within an hour, marked quickly and easily and address different levels of difficulty. The tests were piloted and are now part of their standard recruitment procedure.
10. Topic: Various – Throughout 2008 and 2009.
Background: In house courses for a range of divisions within the police service, including: Managing Team Performance, Dealing Effectively with Difficult People, Conflict Management, Getting the Most from your Voice, Grammar for Business, Report Writing and Assertiveness among others
11. Topic: Telephone Technique - January 2009
Background: Our client, an SME in a competitive industry, wanted a practical hands on training course to improve the quality of their call handling and also to energise and motivate the team. They were delighted with the outcome.
12. Topic: Presentation Skills – October 2008.
Background: This company provides IT support for high profile clients but their team of “techies” were not skilled at presenting to clients, either formally or informally. The training was very well received by a demanding and slightly sceptical audience.
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