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In the ever changing business environment, investing in staff training is a key way to stay ahead of the competition.
With this in mind Leicester College has introduced a range of cost-effective Business Essentials training to help employers boost the skills and knowledge of their workforce.
This training is designed specifically to develop the essential skills to give you the edge, using proven techniques that work in the real world, not just the training room.
Our one day Business Essentials are relevant to every business and include:
Accurate Minute Taking
This training will help you minute meetings with the techniques, skills and confidence to prepare agendas, take accurate minutes and organise meetings.
Wed 7 November 2012, Wed 6 March 2013, Wed 12 June 2013
Appraisal Training
This training will explain the process of appraisals and explore your own feelings and attitudes to the process.
Thurs 15 November 2012, Thurs 14 March 2013, Thurs 20 June 2013
Coaching and Mentoring
This training will investigate your coaching and mentoring capability by applying your skills to different scenarios.
Tues 13 November 2012, Tues 12 March 2013, Tues 18 June 2013
Conflict Management
This training introduces you to the impact of conflict in the workplace and explores resources that can be used to help reduce or remove conflict.
Thurs 8 November 2012, Thurs 7 March 2013, Thurs 13 June 2013
Time Management
This training examines what you spend time doing during the working day and how to create additional time to improve your productivity.
Tues 20 November 2012, Tues 19 March 2013, Tues 25 June 2013
Sales and Marketing
This training will explain the process of appraisals and explore your own feelings and attitudes to the process.
Thurs 15 November 2012, Thurs 14 March 2013, Thurs 20 June 2013
Entrepreneurial Skills
This training is designed to help you to ignite your entrepreneurial spirit and identify how you might use these skills effectively within your workplace for the benefit of yourself and your employer.
Thurs 22 November 2012, Tues 5 March 2013, Tues 11 June 2013
Social Media and Marketing
This training uses social media sites as a marketing tool. You will learn how to market your business or product online and with your business values in mind you will learn how online communication styles can aid you in successfully reaching your target audience.
Wed 21 November 2012, Wed 13 March 2013, Wed 19 June 2013
Social Media and Recruitment
This training uses social media sites as a tool, enabling you to market yourself on a professional networking site such as Linkedin. You will also learn how small businesses can cut the cost of recruitment by using social media as a tool to advertise and how to search for potential candidates.
Wed 14 November 2012, Wed 20 March 2013, Wed 26 June 2013
Essential Legal Aspects of Recruitment and Selection
This training is designed to help you to navigate through the minefield of employment law legislation exploring some key aspects that you need to be aware of when recruiting and selecting staff.
Mon 12 November 2012, Mon 18 March 2013, Mon 17 June 2013
Introduction to Website Design for SMEs
This training uses Dreamweaver as a development programme, to help you create your own basic web page. Not only will you be using Dreamweaver to create your web page, you will also use elements of HTML coding to customise your creation.
Wed 28 November 2012, Wed 6 March 2013, Thurs 6 June 2013
Emails and Outlook, Internet, Spreadsheets and Word Processing
These one day topic-specific workshops give you a taste of using popular IT tools for business needs and can develop your individual skills. Choose from, creating spreadsheets, producing professional looking documents in Word, optimising your use of search engines or make the most of Outlook – it’s not just for email.
Every Tuesday starting from 20th November 2012
All of our training can be delivered to groups of ten or more at your preferred location, and customised to your exact needs. For smaller groups or individuals they can be run as a scheduled training course at Leicester College.
If you do not see a course that meets your needs please do not hesitate to contact us. We have a dedicated team of business and IT professionals who can create/tailor any course to your specific business requirements.
Pricing
All our courses are priced at £99* for individuals.
Group bookings
Discount packages are available for group bookings of ten or more employees attending the college for training. (subject to availability and the nature of training).
Group package delivered in the workplace
£800 for full day or £450 for half-day.
Group package: minimum:10 employees maximum: 20 employees.
Work experience discounts
You can receive 10% discount on any “full-price” training if you take a College learner on a work experience placement.
Chamber of Commerce members’ discount
Leicester College is the preferred training provider for Leicester Chamber of Commerce and all Chamber members are entitled to a 10% discount on training (terms and conditions apply). Please contact Leicester College on 0116 224 2240 for more details. The Chamber of Commerce is the voice of Leicestershire business, helping to shape local economic policy.
For more information please email info@leicestercollege.ac.uk or call 0116 224 2240.