Facilitation Skills to the fore in the workplace

Good facilitators are experts at stimulating discussions, generating ideas, clarifying situations and most importantly producing outcomes.  A facilitator works with groups of people to enable them to interact more effectively in a range of situations, including workplace change initiatives, meetings, organisational planning and community development.

We offer a suite of courses to build on the experience of new and experienced facilitators. They provide realistic, relevant techniques and strategies that reflect the context of the potential facilitator.  They also address the situation where the facilitator may need to manage inappropriate behaviour and difficult situations.

Click here for a sample outline for Managers, Trainers, HR Professionals or the Voluntary Sector. Contact us to discuss your requirements.

Skilled Presenters Needed

For most people, even experienced presenters, getting up and presenting in front of an audience can be a terrifying and even phobic experience. In times of economic uncertainty, communication skills are vital in effectively delivering in the job you have, or acquiring new work - whether as an employee or for your own business.  Speaking well is a skill, learnable by anyone who cares enough to succeed.   

Our training is designed to help new presenters to understand just what happens to them when they have to stand and deliver and how they can become confident and effective presenters. It also benefits experienced presenters who may be in a rut, giving acceptable, but not brilliant presentations or presenters who need to deliver detailed and technical information without putting their audience to sleep.

To be ready to deliver effectively, click here or to see presentation skills help to manage a team, click here. Contact us for any customized or in-house requirements.

Python Programming

Python is a remarkably powerful dynamic programming language that is used in a wide variety of application domains. Python is often compared to Perl, Ruby or Java.
It lets users work more quickly and integrate systems more effectively.

Python is powerful... and fast - its standard library covers everything from asynchronous processing to zip files.
The language itself is a flexible powerhouse that can handle practically any problem domain.
Build your own web server in three lines of code.
Build flexible data-driven code using Python's powerful and dynamic introspection capabilities and advanced language features such as meta-classes, duck typing and decorators.

Python lets you write the code you need - quickly and thanks to a highly optimized byte compiler and support libraries, Python code runs more than fast enough for most applications.
Our training allows participtants to learn to use Python and see almost immediate gains in productivity and lower maintenance costs.

Click here for details of how to get started with Python, or contact us to discuss customised requirements.

Upskilling in C++ Programming

C++ is one of the most popular programming languages ever created and is widely used in the software industry.  It is a big language that takes time to learn but this is as a consequence of the language's power.  C++  remains an essential tool for software engineers not necessarily because anybody thinks it's the best possible language, but because it's a single, portable language that works better than any alternative in each of several areas.  For an easy problem, any language will do; a hard problem demands a powerful language.  Each feature of C++ exists because it has proven important for some area of industrial programming.  Real-world programmers are more interested in problems than in languages: a programming language is a way to solve a problem. When you use the right mix of languages and language features, the solution to a problem is much easier to describe and implement, with better results.

To upskill in this important language, we offer a range of courses for C Programmers, Non-C Programmers and Advanced C++ Programmers. We can also offer completely customized courses or consultancy to the most advanced levels of C++ use – contact us to discuss.

Public schedule for Business and IT training courses

In addition to customised courses for our clients, we offer an extensive range of Public Courses.

IT training includes: SQL Server 2005 and 2008, Oracle, Unix, Linux, VB.NET, Crystal Reports, Dreamweaver, Flash, InDesign, Photoshop, MS Office, etc.

Business Skills training includes: Sales, Finance, HR, Customer Service, Leadership & Management, etc.

For details on all of our public scheduled courses, click here