Friday, January 6, 2012

Bespoke Training

Bespoke training is training designed to meet the differing needs of the learner or learners. A training program can be formulated so that the trainer works with individuals or small groups to equip them with the skills and capabilities to use software and systems already available to then at their work place. What is learnt can be put to immediate use for the benefit of both business and employees, providing value for money in training investment.

Advantages of Bespoke Training
·         Exact training program is negotiated before starting.
·         Prior knowledge and capability can be taken into account.
·         As many hours training as needed, these can be broken into short 2 hour session.
·         The course can be delivered when required at a time and date best suited to the business giving minimal disruption to normal working schedules.
·         Learn at your own pace.
·         Targeted at the need of the business.
·         Flexibility - pace and course content can change if needed.
·         Can be undertaken at the workplace.
·         The majority of what is learnt is put immediate use for the benefit of the business.

3 comments:

  1. Have you only just started blogging Pete! Well, its very useful in Education for Literature Reviews, Student Collaboration and Modern Foreign Languages students engaging with students in other countries using Yoututbe video vox pops aswell. I am all into using any Web 2.0 tool intergration to give the complete learning experience to students.
    Paul

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  3. Bespoke ICT Training Case Study – Mail-Merging to Printer Labels

    A Nottingham based printer contacted me asking for some specific Excel training. He had just produced some printing work for Asda which now had to be sent to every Asda store in the UK; they had sent him address details on an Excel spread sheet. As a printer he could happily print labels from Word as long as each label was the same. He was a confident computer user, very good with Photoshop and printing applications but never having much need to used Excel.

    His problem was that he did not know how to mail-merge from Excel into Word to produce individually addressed labels. He did not like the idea of asking one of his staff to spend valuable time labelling each package by hand because he knew that there was a much quicker ICT solution. So he asked me to come in and show him how to mail-merge to printer labels.

    The training took around half an hour we took some screen shots (pasted into Word) as we went along and the fully addressed labels came out of the printer in about 2 minutes. He then went thought the who process again on his own using the screen shot notes to check that he would be able to do it again without me being there.

    The printer was very happy because not only had he learnt a new and useful ICT skill but the time cost of a member of staff labelling packages by hand would have far outweighed the cost his bespoke training.

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