Central Open Learning Institute - Gewa Au & Associates - Education and Training Consultants

Services

Closing the Gap

We help you to establish a roadmap to closing the gaps. This roadmap may include training, internal or external mentoring, professional development, and self-learning. Through our unique competency maintenance and evaluation program, we will also evaluate regularly to ensure that progress is being made, suggest corrective measures if necessary, and assess new staff as they join the organization. Contact Us to set up a consultation with one of our Assessment Specialists.

Customisation

We work closely with you to understand your needs and to design education experiences that achieve the best objectives. Our ability to listen, collaborate, and truly customise education solutions is fundamental to our approach. Our team of expert trainers will tailor our courses or custom design new ones to meet your exact training requirements and deliver the course on-site anywhere in the world. We train your staff in the use of:

Off-the-Shelf productivity tools and applications
We offer modification of our standard curriculum to meet your requirements by:

Adding, removing, and rearranging class units to meet your company�s specific needs
Combining classes
Special scheduling
Tailoring examples and simulations to address your own industry and terminology
Incorporating your own process tools and templates

We custom design and develop training courses to incorporate:

Your own processes and methodology
Your specific learning objectives
Your unique requirements

Our network of instructional designers and specialists allow us to meet your customised training design and development needs. We will work with you to determine the best method of delivery for the intended audience. Program formats include written self-study, web-based, video teleconferencing, video, coaching models, audio and instructor-led delivery. We also offer training materials and train-the-trainer courses to help you bring programs into your organisation and teach them in house. We will deliver courses for you or train your employees to deliver the courses themselves.

Facilitation

The ability to facilitate a group of people working together is fundamental to keep them focused, motivated and moving forward. This ability to extract ideas out of people in a group setting improves outcomes in terms of decision-making, clarity, focus and balance. As a project manager, you apply this skill in many situations involving your project team, steering committees, advisory boards, and other stakeholder groups.

The Benefits

Facilitation helps members of a group to gain clarity and to commit to well-ordered and agreed priorities. Decisions can be reached more quickly with much less negative dissension. The facilitator brings their experience of similar situations from other businesses. While people like to think that their problems are unique, they rarely are, and bringing another industry perspective can be refreshing and enlightening. Improves outcomes in terms of decision-making, clarify, focus, balance.

Our Services

We provide expert facilitators for your:

Departmental planning meetings
Strategic planning retreats
Project planning workshops
Problem solving sessions
Visioning sessions

We also provide your own staff with training on how to be more effective as facilitators. We offer a course on Effective Facilitation Skills. This management course enhances existing facilitation skills and helps participants understand how they can be applied to advantage in specific contexts.

Leadership and Management Programs

We offer more numerous professional management seminars to improve your skills and competencies and give you the edge to succeed in today�s environment. Choose from topics such as project management, organisational change management, leadership and communications, knowledge management, negotiation skills, facilitation skills, sales and marketing, and portfolio management.