Business Training Services
Make your business more competitive by taking advantage of a range of training opportunities through Bishop Auckland College’s Business Training Services.
Our dedicated business support team can give you impartial advice and guidance aimed at getting the best from your workforce. It can also identify a range of training opportunities from basic skills to full NVQ Level 2 qualifications most of which are funded through a range of local and national Government initiatives.
What we can offer you:
- Free ‘try before you buy’ taster session at your business
- Free funding search - to help offset training costs
- Training Needs Analysis - to help you identify skills gaps
- An individually tailored training programme
- Training on your premises at times convenient to your staff
- Ongoing advice & support
- Organisational Needs Analysis
Employer Engagement & Bishop Auckland College’s Business Training Services
Business Training Services supports businesses with practical business solutions, training, consultancy services and
advice & guidance.
Examples of training programmes that can be tailored to meet individual and company needs:
DESIGN & MANUFACTURE
- Computer Aided Design
ENVIRONMENTAL TRAINING
- Graffiti Removal
- Waste Management
FINANCE
- Sage Line 50 Introduction
- Sage Line 50 Intermediate
- Sage Line 50 Advanced
- Sage Payroll
HEALTH & SAFETY
- CIEH Level 2 Award in Food Safety in Catering
- CIEH Level 2 Award in Health & Safety in the Workplace
- City & Guilds 2377 Code of Practice In Service Inspection & Testing of Electrical Equipment
- City & Guilds 2382 BS7671 17th Edition IEE Wiring Regulations
- First Aid (Appointed Persons)
- First Aid (Babies and Children)
- Moving & Handling
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
- Basic Windows and Troubleshooting
- Creating Effective Presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint
- Creating Effective PromotionMaterials
- Desktop Publishing (2 Day)
- Digital Imagery (2 Day)
- ECDL Advanced
- ECDL (BCS) Certificate for IT Users
- Introduction to the Internet
- Keyboard Skills (2 Day)
- Microsoft Access Level 1/2/3
- Microsoft Excel Level 1/2/3
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Project Level 1/2
- Microsoft Word Level 1/2/3
- Using Microsoft Publisher
- Using Microsoft Word to produce your office documents
- Visual Basic (2 Day)
- Web Design (2 Day)
LANGUAGES
- French
- German
- Mandarin
- Spanish
- Italian
MANAGEMENT
- 360 Degree Feedback
- Assertiveness
- Customer Relations
- Delegation Skills
- Effective Decision Making
- Grievance & Harassment Handling
- Managing Change
- Managing People for the first time
- Motivating People
- Negotiation Skills
- NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming Marketing
- Presentation Skills
- Prince 2 Project Management (1 or 2 day course)
- Project Management
- Strategic Marketing
- Stress Management
- Successful Sales
- Team Building
- Team Leader Level 2
- Telephone Sales & Marketing
- Time Management
- Train the Trainer
NVQs
- Advice & Guidance
- Business Administration
- Business Improvement Techniques, Sales
- Business Management
- Childcare
- Cleaning & Support Services
- Construction
- Customer Service
- Distribution Warehousing & Storage
- Health & Social Care
- Performing Engineering Operations
- Performing Manufacturing Operations
- Playwork
- Retail
- Teaching Assistant
- Team Leading
- Youth Work
OFFICE SKILLS
- Customer Care & Communicating with Customers
- Managing Meetings
- Report Writing & Business Correspondence
- Taking Minutes
- Telephone Techniques
PERSONNEL
- Appraisal and Performance Review
- Coaching & Training Skills
- Conflict Management
- Counselling Skills
- Counter Bullying
- Data Protection and Freedom of Information Act
- Disciplinary Procedures
- Equality and Diversity
- Recruitment & Selection
- Sickness and Absence Management
- Working with older people
SKILLS FOR LIFE
- ESOL
- Literacy/Numeracy
