Development Courses tailor made for entry level employees

Development Courses tailor made for entry level employees

Creatively Functional Development Institute and Consultancy has enlarged and established 2 eLearning classrooms and practical room. In just 5 weeks 95% of the over 100 students have been found to become more engaged, excited about learning and eager to apply what they have learnt using our eLearning centre.

This is an eLearning centre that offers a wide range of short courses in a number of fields via blended learning, eLearning and pure workshops. We are offering businesses in Swakopmund good rates to help us celebrate our new premises and computer rooms sponsored by Woermann Brock Swakopmund.

Our courses help employees to develop skills – this increases employees’ productivity and efficiency in an organisation. It is also a great way for employers to challenge their employees and help them to become more effective as they will practice skills and learn how to incorporate learning strategies. 

To celebrate our opening, we are offering 1 day courses with early bird and bulk discounts in: Employee orientation to effectiveness, Introduction to Health & Safety (SHE), Customer Service, Food Hygiene, Communication & Telephone etiquette and Basic conditions of employment.

Our courses are facilitator led and coached, and are offered via blended learning which is workshop style and eLearning. This mixture of independent interactions on computer, and facilitator interactions, also upgrade all levels of computer skills as well as improving goals orientation, focus and time management. 

The 1 day course also includes extra time to complete eLearning modules, and paper based notes for later reference. If a company signs up for a 6 months programme or longer, they will also get journals, Self-Guided Learning exercises and logbooks for practical application of the new skills. Assessments will be done per student and evaluation reports will be sent to employers.

We follow good vocational training practices that promote skills, knowledge and attitude, and our courses fit in with later qualification under Recognition for Prior Learning. Our course can also be used to claim back your VET levy.

Join us in our celebration of skills development at the cost on these 1 day courses, for entry level employees to become more effective.

Four easy steps to making sure you are taking good action

Four easy steps to making sure you are taking good action
Pam Miller 
18 August 2016

The first step is: Be present, calm down, stop everything else and just be aware of where you are and what you should be doing.

Step 2: Think of all best practices regarding what it is that you are about to do.

Step 3: Think of the purpose of what you are doing - What is the point of what you are trying to achieve, and keep in mind that it should benefit the community.

Picture of brainstorming ideas, thinking before taking action

Step 4: Find your voice and do the best thing in the circumstances even if its not going to win you any friends because, it is the right thing to do.

There is a modern trend that says “only look at the positive ” and while that is a great way to be happy and content, it is not really going to change the world or do something to benefit it. I fully agree with being grateful, finding the positive in things, being aware of the good things, but I also support that we need to be aware of the things that are damaging all the good bits. 

We need to be aware of what steps need to be taken to make sure that those good bits remain for ourselves, and for our children, and to benefit the world. So I do not support the school of thought that calls anyone who disagrees with you a "hater". To deny somebody who disagree, with you is a very shallow approach to life, and in fact it says we need to look at the way we are thinking.

We need to think before we do things and that means we need to look at the bigger picture, not just our own self-centered selfish needs. Look what the world need so that we can benefit indirectly.To only look at our direct needs and wants will, in the long term, cause damage.

Picture of girls surrounded by Re-Petaled flowers

We as humans tend to go with the herd and there is a reason for doing that. We are programmed to try and stick with the herd because that is survival. But it is a very short term survival - it only gives us survival for ourselves. It does not ensure that the planet survives, that our children survive. 

You need to consciously make sure that you have made a good decision and that is where the four steps come in. And then decide to stick your head above the parapet, focus on doing the right thing even if unpopular because it benefits the world rather than just yourself. 

Find your voice and speak about it. 

http://iono.fm/c/2445

Interview with Divan Mouton 04 August 2016

Interview with Divan Mouton

04 August 2016

Young people from Swakopmund are travelling farther and wide recently, gaining knowledge and experience. One of my TEDx co-speakers,Immanuel Pamwenatse Hango, is returning from his Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, as is Ailly Nampala. And I know they will have both gained an immense amount of knowledge and experience. 

Somebody else though, is setting off on a new journey: Divan Mouton is travelling to Germany next week to start his masters in psychology , specifically in learning or education. It is wonderful to see so many young Africans going out to learn more, but then coming back to plough it back into Africa as Divan is wanting to do.

Divan has spent a few years teaching after his initial degree and ongoing courses and is passionate about creating a better environment for the nutritional status of children before they go to school. Without nutrition, children cannot learn.

Pam and Divan chat about these topics for two 25 minute segments , about the value of nutrition as well as what can be done at a local level and psychology as a whole

Catch up with their interview on Iono FM  http://iono.fm/c/2445

Valuable support for the Swakopmund branch of the NCCI from USA

Pam Miller
 

Photo of Andrew Resor at swakopmund Namibia

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry is of the benefits from volunteers from the Peace Corps from United States of America. The Swakopmund branch has just started term of office of two years of the second volunteer. These are no ordinary volunteers, as they are qualified, mature young people, who have a mission to complete in their term of office.

Andrew Rezor is currently in the assessment phase, to be able to complete his mission of assisting small to medium enterprises. He is well qualified for this with his financial degree, supported by his legal degree. He will then formulate his plan and put it into action, to the benefit of business in Swakopmund.

Namibia has approximately150 volunteers from the Peace Corps, with many in education, the remaining agricultural and community development through business. Andrew is there in the community development side, by improving business in Namibia.

He had an interview on West Coast FM with Pam Miller on Creatively Functional which was broadcast on 28 July 2016. Another interview is planned next year to see the progress he has made, as well as to see the growth and understanding he has gained to be able to take back to USA.

http://iono.fm/c/2445
https://www.peacecorps.gov/