"LEARNING partners has changed the way I look at life both at work and at home."

Production  Manager

All companies want people who have the skills, knowledge and attitude to make profits. It is through the application of their skills and knowledge that people produce. Not just by the narrow application of the specialisation of the role but the broader skills and knowledge of operating successfully in an organisation to meet the customers' requirements. Ineffective, inefficient and incompetent employees give poor performance and this can significantly affect a company's results. The competition in today's turbulent marketplace will weed out the organisations that do not maximise the value of their most important asset – their people. Even the top performers, without continual training, will rapidly become the losers in the race for business success.

Training is a necessary investment where the introduction of clarity and process will provide a return-on-investment that far outweighs the cost. Trained people get into full production rapidly, fit in well with their colleagues and bring ideas and enthusiasm to the organisation. Companies want to maximise the return on this investment, but this seldom happens, often because the training is badly targeted, not followed up, or simply done in order to get a tick in the training box. Well-targeted training programmes will help you get the best from your people and thereby increase productivity and profitability.

Training is not a one off event. Coping with rapid and continuous change is the biggest challenge facing managers in organisations today. This is likely to continue into the foreseeable future. New technologies, increasing customer requirements and expectations, new policies, changing legislation and not least, changing expectations of employees demanding continual upgrading of skills and knowledge.

LEARNING partners takes a flexible and value-for-money approach in helping companies define their requirements by using a variety of tools such as competencies, role profiling and needs analysis. We specialise in the areas of training that make a difference – transferable skills. LEARNING partners creates off-the-job learning conditions that replicate the in-company interpersonal and interactive situations, inculcating skills and attitudes that make a difference across the organisation. We expose the learning event participants to practical methods and process that give the participants additional or new mental models geared to their own roles, so increasing flexibility and the ability to thrive on change.

Off-the-job learning is only part of the process. LEARNING partners ensures that the training is an every day event in the work place by managers and skilled people coaching others.