Learning Partners certificate programs are designed to help organisations develop the comprehensive knowledge and skills needed for highly competent performance and long-term success.

Our Scope in Traineeships affords us to be able to meet organisational requirements across different streams of activity within the organisation and or provide relevant combinations to ensure relevancy for the company and the individual.

Learning Partners has developed very successful working partnerships with New Apprenticeship Centres across the country. As such, we can readily assist companies to access Traineeship funds to support this program in the workplace. The incentives can apply to both existing employees and new entry.

Benefits to the Employer - The benefit of this program to an employer is that the employer can receive incentive payments (if eligible) and their trainee is paid a trainee wage. Moreover, they have an employee who is interested in the industry and whom they can train in their business culture.

Benefits to the Trainee - The benefit for a trainee is that they acquire valuable work experience and a nationally recognised qualification. By undertaking your learning program via a Traineeship you will be able to fit your program into your workplace schedule.

Our Leadership and Management Certificate Programs are created specifically to develop leaders and managers. They are designed to help develop the comprehensive knowledge, skills and behaviours you need to be successful now and in the future.

These certificate programs provide an appropriate course of study in leadership and management in a flexible format ideal to address your unique needs. You determine the best courses based on preferences, professional responsibilities and current level of expertise.

By bringing any of our certificate programs to your site, you can target specific needs and address current learning objectives within your organisation while at the same time, providing incentive for employees to engage in formal learning.

Learning Partners is committed to helping our clients succeed by applying our expertise to their development issues, mission challenges and strategic goals.

Why Choose Learning Partners to address your Learning and Development needs?

We identify with you the most appropriate and cost effective approach relevant to your business, your culture, your people and your objectives (eg: blended learning, coaching, intensive one-to-one or e-learning).

• In-company training can be more cost effective for a group with the same needs.
• Our approach ensures we Identify, Design, Deliver and Evaluate the most appropriate approach for you.
• Quality and professionalism - Our team demands best practice for clients and values their credibility and the partnerships and networks they have developed to effectively support real outcomes.
• Programmes delivered where and when you need them.
• We listen to your needs by developing a consultative partnership approach.
• Cost and value focused - We are committed to developing a long term partnership with customers and demonstrating our value to ensure you see an increased ROI from your learning and development budget.
• Extensive experience - Over 10 years' experience of working within the public and private sectors, across industry sectors, with both large and small companies.
• Best Practice trainers and assessors and consultants continuously researching and developing Learning and Development processes and practices.

Our goal is to meet you where you are and provide assistance that is tailored to your unique needs and goals. We can:

• Provide a team of consultants who can be "on the ground" performing key roles to achieve the goals of the project.
• Alternatively, our specialists can partner with your team to provide short or longer term advisory guidance and assistance to help your team to build internal capability to achieve its goals now and into the future.
• Provide on-line services not restricted by time or place constraints.

Learning Partners provides expertise in the strategic management of human capital, from workforce planning to implementation of succession strategies. Our comprehensive approach reflects the interdependence of human resource dimensions and directly links them with results. Areas of focus include:

• Strategic Alignment
• Workforce Planning and Deployment
• Leadership Development
• Knowledge Management
• Performance Culture
• Measurement and Accountability

Our learning and development strategy has to be focused on the key benefit and impact of learning and development investment - improving people, performance and capacity.

We work in partnership with our clients and partners to provide expertise to assist in the review and development of learning and development strategy and offer assistance on strategic issues such as:

• Aligning learning and development strategy with business goals.
• Reviewing the current learning and development provision and re-designing programmes to better meet the competencies required within the business.
• Developing organisational learning infrastructural support systems.

Skills assessments and inventories with assigned development plans to help your people attain the skills and knowledge required to succeed. Learning Partners uses appropriate tools to:

• Identify and assess future developmental needs in required competency areas.
• Provide structured learning experiences linked to organisational needs, goals and job requirements.
• Establish an agreed-upon set of learning objectives and developmental activities as part of a formal career development program.
• Use the Individual Development Plans to help organisation an assessment of the individual's current skill levels, strengths and developmental needs. The Individual Development Plan can also be used to compare an individual's current ability with the required job competencies.
• Mutually determine developmental activities to be included in the Individual Development Plan.

This plan can contain training, education and development activities (formal and informal) to acquire the competencies needed to meet organisational and individual goals.

Custom content design, development and delivery services help to meet the evolving learning needs of your workforce with blended learning solutions and flexible content delivery methods. Customised content ensures that learning is immediately relevant to the work context.

Learning Partners provides clients with customised approaches designed to meet global business challenges.

While some Training Program needs can be met through off-the-shelf training classes or commercial off-the-shelf training solutions, by their very nature, they can lack the mission-specific content or perspective needed to fully support your organisation's objectives. Many organisations require the development of customised or contextualised Learning Programs, tailored to their unique mission and business needs.

Learning Partners can customise/contextualise learning programs which provides you with the relevant learning content and delivery, while addressing the programmatic requirements unique to your business operation.

We perform the full cycle of a Learning Program including:

• Requirements analysis
• Content design
• Program development
• Program implementation
• Learning effectiveness evaluation

We can deliver programs through a variety of media including traditional training programs, e-Learning, multi-media and blended solutions.

Learning Partners consultants bring a unique blend of expertise and experience that assist clients in addressing key performance issues across a range of challenges in an environment of constant change. Our comprehensive approach to consulting is systems and performance-based to ensure effective implementation, delivery and results.

Every consulting partnership is based on a thorough understanding of client needs and objectives and an awareness of how globalization impacts the achievement of critical business goals. Overall, Learning Partners network of consultants and facilitators deliver services that enhance our client's competitiveness in a rapidly changing global marketplace.

Learning Partners provides performance-based consulting in the following areas:

• Organisational Development and Design
• Organisational and Cultural Alignment
• Change Management
• Leadership Development
• Team Building
• Workforce Development
• Managing Outsourcing Relationships
• Process and Project Management
• Coaching and Mentoring Development
• Supervisory Coaching
• Workplace Learning

Acquiring, managing and maintaining the complex infrastructure to support world-class training and education programs can be a daunting task. Learning Partners can work with organisations to identify, evaluate, implement and operate the organisational and technological infrastructure to support major learning programs.

We can provide:

• Learning Management System (LMS) evaluation and implementation
• Content Management System (CMS) evaluation and implementation
• Instructional design services
• Certification program design, development and implementation

As experts in managing the logistics of learning processes, facilitation of education and training programs is at the core of our business.

E-Learning Solutions
Ideally suited for large-scale training efforts where end users are geographically dispersed, e-Learning provides an immediate and engaging learning experience.

Learning Partners through its relationship with EQALS Pty Ltd, has the capacity to develop and implement customised e-Learning programs and a variety of e-Learning products. Our e-Learning offerings reduce costs associated with traditional training programs such as travel, loss of production/replacement costs and instructor costs.

EQALS offers e-Learning solutions through a Web-Based system. Web-Based learning uses streaming media, text and graphics to create a dynamic learning experience on the user's computer via the Internet. Using asynchronous e-Learning approaches, the learner can access training independent of any schedule, does not require a facilitator or instructor and can be accessed via Internet.

EQALS Computer-Based Training can also deliver e-Learning on a CD/ROM which does not always require Internet access to operate.

For more information about e-learning go to the eqals website.

Blended Learning
Learning Partners blended learning solutions can combine the more traditional delivery modes with electronically-based learning media and other distance learning options to meet your organisational objectives. Blended Learning combines the immediacy of face-to-face learning with the cost-effectiveness and accessibility of electronic learning environments and or, self-paced hard copy learning guides.

Action Learning
Action Learning is a proven process that has been successfully applied to many challenges within workplace environments and it has met these challenges with dramatic results! It is a powerful tool that leads to problem-solving while simultaneously developing individuals, teams and organisations. It is now being recognised worldwide as one of the most effective methods of solving organisational problems.

The reason it can be so successful is that it focuses on:

• Real Learning, Real Results - Learning and action occur in the context of solving significant organisational problems. High impact measurable results are built-in to the action learning process for individuals, teams and the entire organisation.
• Asking Questions - Questions asked within the problem-solving process lead to greater insight, new ideas, deeper understanding and real outcomes.
• Flexibility - The design of an Action Learning program is highly flexible and can be tailored to the unique needs, goals and culture of an organisation. Significant progress is made, while time away from the actual job is greatly reduced.
• Built on Many Disciplines - Action Learning is a powerful tool because it does not rely on a single philosophy or approach. Rather, it draws upon best theory and practices of many disciplines including: adult learning, systems theory, industrial psychology, organisational behaviour, cognitive psychology and management sciences.

Action Learning is identified by:

• The problem or issue
• Questioning and listening
• Focus on learning
• Making a commitment to take action
• Involving an action learning coach
• Developing a formal learning team