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Public Course Earlybird Discount

We offer a range of public courses at our venue in Northampton, UK. All of our open training courses are great value, ranging from as little as £197 per person per day (not including VAT).

Public training courses - 3 for 2 offer

Minute Taking
Handling Difficult People / Assertiveness Skills
Business Time Management Training
Management Development Workshop
Train the Trainer Course
Certificate in Training and Occupational Learning

See further information below for cancellation details, venue directions and more.

Available Public Courses

Choose an open course below. Select the date you wish to attend from the drop-down box. Where a course runs over two days this is listed. Click the Book Now button to be taken to the confirmation page.

Click on the link to read more about any of our public courses, their content and participant testimonials.

Minute Taking

This course covers the essentials to be an effective minute taker: organising the meeting, where to sit, active listening, note taking, recording styles and interrupting for clarity. Minute taking templates are provided to give attendees options to adapt back at work.

bullet Minute Taking

1 Day  £227


Handling Difficult People (Assertiveness Skills)

Of course, there are no difficult people, only difficult people situations! This one day course focuses on both mind and body in changing situations that are perceived as ‘difficult’.

Visualisation techniques combined with best practice techniques on how to deal with tricky situations raises awareness and confidence in attendees.

bullet Handling Difficult People (Assertiveness Skills)
1 Day  £227

Time Management Training

Guaranteed results on this one folks or your money back! Recent attendees have reported a saving in time of 2 hours per day (Simon Turner, Carlsberg) and reductions in stress (Andrew Sharman, Airwair International) due to implementing tried and tested techniques to prioritise to achieve projects that matter and to know what work to leave undone.

bullet Time Management Training
1 Day  £227

Management Development Workshop

It is hard to manage others effectively if you are your main obstacle! This course focuses on empowering others to achieve their maximum potential. Each person will work on how they can increase output from their staff by communicating more effectively to achieve empowerment.

bullet Management Development Workshop
2 Days  £454

Foundation Certificate in Staff Development

This 2 day qualification programme provides participants with the knowledge and skills required to design and deliver a range of training activities in the workplace.

Participants will be given the opportunity to practise and develop their skills in a supportive environment with individual feedback.

The qualification will enable those employed in training, assessment or vocational education to gain entry into the Institute of Training and Occupational Learning as an Associate Member.

bullet Train the Trainer Course
2 Days  £594

Certificate in Training and Occupational Learning

This modular (3 x 2 days) programme provides learning and development professionals with a broad range of knowledge and skills to enable them to design and deliver training sessions and courses to a high standard.

The qualification will enable those employed in training, assessment or vocational education to gain entry into the Institute of Training and Occupational Learning as a Full Member.

bullet Certificate in Training and Occupational Learning
6 Days  £1487

Further Information

Click here for details of our Midlands training course venueOur personal training courses have a maximum number of 12 participants attending (except Minute Taking and Train the Trainer where the maximum is 8). This enables the facilitator to give maximum attention to each participant.

Be assured that we won’t let you down. The Development Company does not cancel an open course date once a place is sold. Your diary date is safe with us as we put learning before profit.

Course fees include coffee / tea on arrival, mid-morning and mid afternoon, plus a fabulous build-your-own-butty lunch. At the end of the course, each participant takes away comprehensive handouts and a certificate of attendance. Each person also receives 12 months support relating to the open course attended in the form of email and phone call coaching.

We are totally committed to providing training that is the very best value for money. We guarantee the quality of our work and to help your training budget stretch just that little bit further we offer a 5% EarlyBird discount* on all course places.

Is the course you are looking for not listed?

If you have a minimum of 2 people with the same need, we will open an open course for you as long as they attend the course on the same day. All we need is 8 weeks notice so that we can sell to other clients. All we ask is that once you have booked 2 candidates, you do not cancel anyone from that date.

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Call us on 01604 810 801 today for a course flier.

We offer public training courses and open courses at our Midlands training venue in Northampton, which is convenient for travel from Birmingham, Coventry, Leicester, Nottingham and Milton Keynes and surrounding areas.

For more information about our tailored training courses
call 01604 810 801 or click here to contact us.

 

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The Development Company
Ireton House, 9 Sunny Side, Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, NN6 0EX.
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