These will be of particular interest to Sector
Skills Councils, Standards Setting Bodies, Qualifications Regulatory
Organisations, Awarding Bodies, Government Departments, Regional Development
Agencies and training and enterprise organisations, as well as private
businesses.
We offer any level of business support to suit
your particular needs from entire project management and delivery to offering a
specific area of expertise and support to your own staff team. We will work in
partnership with you to develop solutions to meet your needs.
We are very happy to tender or supply quotations
for any size of project. We are also happy to form consortia with other research
and development organisations in order to undertake major national and
international projects.
Standards
and Qualifications Related Research and Development
We can assist you with:
Proposal formulation
Project design and
management
Occupational mapping
Functional analysis
Developing National
Occupational Standards
Design, implementation
and analysis of industry consultation exercises
Key and Core Skills signposting
Researching and
developing Assessment Strategies
Researching and developing Sector
Qualification Strategies
Tailoring Standards
European and
international benchmarking and any preceding feasibility study
Designing NVQs and
SVQs plus liaison with Regulatory and Awarding Bodies
Mapping of non-NVQ/SVQ
vocational qualifications against National Occupational Standards.
Production of support
materials
Designing NVQ/SVQ
assessment materials and quality assurance systems.
Direct
Training and Development Services
To
help you keep ahead by investing in people, we can:
Assist
the development of NVQ/SVQ assessors, and verifiers (and indeed
anyone else in your organisation who needs to know the ins and
outs of NVQs and SVQs)
Deliver
assessment portfolio development workshops
Assist
you and your staff to achieve higher levels of Customer Satisfaction
the key to creating and maintaining a successful business
Assist
the development of Personal and Management Communication Skills
e.g., presentation skills, assertiveness, influencing and
negotiation, managing change.
Help you
own trainers to use Accelerated Learning Techniques and improve
learning effectiveness (and cost performance) by 25-50% or more.
General
Training and Development Consultancy
We can support
your organisation in the following ways:
The Assessment of
Training Needs - to ensure training is accurately focussed to meet
both individual and organisational requirements.
Flexibility and Skills
Mapping both for internal job requirements and against National
Occupational Standards.
Designing or
Re-designing your existing in house training programmes to
incorporate accelerated learning techniques which will improve both
the speed, quality and enjoyment of learning.
Evaluation of Training
Effectiveness in company assistance and advice, possibly leading
to the re-design of training programmes.
The Development of and
Monitoring against business or organisation performance indicators
do you know where your business is failing or could improve?
Research and General
Business Support Services
Not got time to do
everything in house? Then we can help with the following:
General research activities industry or sector quantitative surveys
(online, telephone or face to face); qualitative research, desk
research and reviews of existing research evidence,
customer/stakeholder perception audits, identification of good
practice, development of toolkits, guidance and other applied
research.
The independent
evaluation of projects often EU and other publicly supported
work requires an independent evaluator we can provide this
service.
Small seminar and
event organisation
HRD related project
management
Representation
important seminar, meeting coming up and no time to go? Let us
represent you, find out what you need to know and report on the
outcomes.
