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Smart Skills for Supervisors
This comprehensive course will provide supervisors with: Supervisors will be better equipped to lead teams, communicate effectively, resolve conflicts, manage performance and drive success in their organisations.
Occupational Certificate: Learning and Development Practitioner
The purpose of this qualification is to prepare a learner to operate as a Learning and Development Practitioner. A Learning and Development Practitioner plans, writes learning objectives, selects and adapts learning resources required for the delivery of learning interventions, and facilitates learning in an occupational context. A qualified learner will be able to: Co-ordinate learning within an…
Diploma of Procurement and Supply: Chartered Institute In Procurement and Supply (CIPS)
People who are working or intend to work in procurement industry and need a qualification to do so or to up skill and move to the next level of their career.
Occupational Certificate: Project Manager
The purpose of this qualification is to prepare a learner to operate as a Project Manager. A Project Manager applies knowledge of project management to achieve project objectives in a specific field of application. A qualified learner will be able to: Initiate a project to address specific project objectives.• Plan and prepare the delivery of a project. • Execute and control the delivery of a pro…
Occupational Certificate: Community Development Worker
The purpose of this qualification is to prepare a learner to operate as a Community Development Worker. A Community Development Worker collects and provides relevant information from and to communities and builds social cohesion within the community, in order to support the development and implementation of community development initiatives and processes.
End User Computing (Includ.MS Office)
Prospective full-time students who have not gained access to Faculty of Business National Diploma offerings.
Ideal for those with inadequate computer literacy
Prospective students in excess of capped quotas,
Prospective students endeavouring to register late and those who do not meet specific entry requirements for certain ND offerings.
Financial Computing / Basic Bookkeeping Pastel Accounting
The aims of the course is to provide people who are not trained financial specialists who are required to, or have an interest in, creating financial accounts in a business environment.
It is specially targeted at small business managers or aspiring middle managers from all non-financial spheres of the organization.
This course is also particularly suited to current or aspirant bookkeepers wh…
Finance for Non-Finance Managers
The aim of the course is to provide people who are not trained financial specialists yet are required to, or have an interest in, understanding and interpreting corporate financial information, with the necessary skills to do so. It is specially targeted at middle managers or aspiring middle managers from all non-financial spheres of the organization. This course would also be particularly suited…
Effective Supervisory Management
Supervisors wishing to improve their skills and anyone with aspirations towards supervision. It is essential for people such as supervisors to understand the basic mechanics of the business they are in, if they are to appreciate and understand the part that their jobs play in the general running of the company. This course is intended to introduce and provide them with basic knowledge on the fund…
Occupational Certificate: Valuer (Municipal Property Assessor)
The purpose of this qualification is to prepare a learner to operate as a Municipal Property Assessor. A Municipal Property Assessor (MPA) provides a number of services and support services within a municipality. They coordinate the implementation of the Municipal Property Rates Act (MPRA) in order to ensure compliance, collect data on properties determine the market value of a single residential…
Occupational Certificate: Office Administrator – Public Service Administrator
The purpose of this qualification is to prepare and equip Public Administrators with key skills and knowledge needed to effectively operate in the public sector. It is designed to prepare these learners on how to manage, organise, and analyse the effects of government policies, and to use business and statistical tools to solve public sector challenges in an ethical manner. Learners will develop…
Occupational Certificate: Occupational Trainer
The purpose of this qualification is to prepare a learner to: Plan, prepare for, coordinate, implement and evaluate learning programmes to achieve occupational trainee competence. A qualified learner will be able to: Establish the profile, special needs and barriers to learning of learners within the specified requirements of the training programme. Prepare, adapt and align learning materials and…
National Certificate: Generic Management
A person acquiring this qualification will be able to manage first line managers in an organisational entity. First line managers may include team leaders, supervisors, junior managers, section heads and foremen. The focus of this qualification is to enable learners to develop competence in a range of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values including: Initiating, developing, implementing and eval…
Occupational Certificate: Community Development Practitioner
The purpose of this qualification is to prepare a learner to operate as a Community Development Practitioner. A Community Development Practitioner acts as a change agent to add value to community development practice by exploring and coordinating networks and partnerships. Conducts community-based research to inform interventions, aligned to relevant legal and regulatory frameworks. Plans, design…
Professional Development for PA's and Secretaries
On completion of this short course, the individual will be able to:
Interpret, understand and apply Labour Law applicable to their work environment.
Understand and apply the law when drafting or interpreting contracts.
Assess their human relations skills and apply techniques to improve these skills.
Communicate effectively to obtain desirable results.
Understand how conflict occurs and how…
Credit Management 3
Fully qualified and knowledgeable credit controllers and credit manager are in demand by all businesses and can expect to be suitably rewarded. There is recognition by commerce and industry that in-house training of staff on systems and procedures requires to be supplemented continually, because of the dynamic changes in the environment. Existing practices and procedures need to be changed to com…
Credit Management 1
Fully qualified and knowledgeable credit controllers and credit manager are in demand by all businesses and can expect to be suitably rewarded. There is recognition by commerce and industry that in-house training of staff on systems and procedures requires to be supplemented continually, because of the dynamic changes in the environment. Existing practices and procedures need to be changed to com…
Business Communication
The course is designed for prospective full-time students who have not gained access to Faculty of Business National Diploma offerings and those who do not meet specific entry requirements for certain ND offerings.
Occupational Certificate: Career Development Information Officer
Target Audience
The purpose of this qualification is to prepare a learner to operate as a Career Development Information Officer. A Career Development Information Officer provides individuals and groups with information about career choices and how to access their career paths that will empower them to make informed career related decisions.
A qualified learner will be able to: • Provide career…
Management Development Programme (MDP)
Current practicing managers and supervisors/ team leaders who lack formal managerial qualifications
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