Innovations in Health & Social Care Course Public sectors organizations such as social services & NHS trusts are driven by internal & external forces such as the government, innovations in the private sector of new or more efficient health & social care products, & are required to demonstrate their performance against set criteria.  Mulgan & Albury (2003) suggest “ Innovation should be a core activity of the public sector: it helps public services to improve performance & increase public value; responds to expectations of citizens & adapt to the needs of users; increase service efficiency & minimize costs… How to seek out & foster innovation from all levels is crucial to continual development & improvement:” In this sense public services have to be innovative to keep up with public perception of quality & delivery of services & to meet the ever-changing performance criteria (for example, Best Value). Innovations are not just top down approaches. A number of innovations are generated from grass-roots; the front line workers who may see issues arising & consider how they can change systems to make them more efficient or productive or more comfortable for service users. This course aims to introduce the student to the importance of innovations in Health & Social Work from the perspective of Service Users & Carers. It will also address Policy & Practice innovations & how best to evaluate them. ...

Instructor Skills Course Any instructor, like a teacher, needs to have the skills & knowledge to be able to get their message across to their pupils. This course will give you the communication skills to provide the correct level of instruction to the pupils. ...

Integrated Therapeutic Counselling Course The Facts: More & more people are turning to professional counsellors to help them with the ever-escalating problems of modern society.
Features: An excellent opportunity to study multi-disciplinary therapeutic techniques, culminating in a complete "tool-box" of diagnostic counselling tools. Your Opportunity: This course provides the student with comprehensive knowledge of the broad counselling spectrum approaches.
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Interior Design Course Are you thinking about starting a career as an Interior Designer? Have you considered setting up your own business & making an income as an Interior Designer? Or maybe you have always wanted to study Interior Design to improve your own home? If you have answered yes to any of these questions then this is the course for you. About Interior Design As an Interior Designer you will consult with your clients to plan & carry out the design of their interior & furnishings.  This course covers a whole range of aspects relating to interior design & the elements that need to be considered in the planning stages. The objectives of the Interior Design course are to: describe the history of interior design, classic design styles & the work of leading designers investigate the seven design elements which contribute to a design explore the room elements which influence a design effect undertake an interior design project develop a business plan for establishing a design business ...

Interior Plant Care Course Looking after those plants in the home or office to ensure they grow & produce the best effect for the home or office environment is a skill most of us wish we had. The course helps you to gain these skills & obtain the knowledge needed to ensure your indoor plants thrive. ...

International Business Strategy Course International Business Strategy draws together & applies ideas from many of the disciplines & fields of study which contribute to a broad understanding of business. Some of the ideas may already be familiar to students who have previously studied courses in marketing, economics, management theory or organizational behaviour. Crucially though, through an understanding of strategy & strategic management, we can gain an insight into how these individual disciplines interact. The course is designed for all those intending a business career & for those with an interest in how contemporary organisations operate. Business strategy is not simply the province & responsibility of senior level management decision makers. The ideas which underpin International Business Strategy can be applied at many levels in the business organisation to help ensure that individual business units or departments maintain an effective contribution to the overall success of the business. ...

International Human Resource Management Course For many years, human resource management was seen as the "poor relation" of the business functions. Limited to a low-key administrative role, concerned with employee welfare & payroll administration, or at best a trouble-shooting role concerned with resolving labour-management conflicts, human resource professionals were rarely seen as having any significant role to play in determining the organisation's overall strategy. In the words of Peter Drucker, personnel was the "trash can". How things have changed. Increasingly, managers are now realising that the key resource determining the effectiveness of an organisation is its human resources: its people. As long ago as the late 1970s & early 1980s, North American & European managers were beginning to realise that what made Japanese businesses so different, so superbly competitive, was their approach to managing people. The American management consultants, Peters & Waterman, searching for examples of business excellence in the US, decided that the key lay in the distinctive cultures of their "excellent" businesses. Current debates in strategic management focus on the conditions for the creation of sustainable competitive advantage. It is becoming clear that many of the traditional marketing & product development bases of competitive strategy can be imitated by competitors relatively easily
- the advantage gained through such strategies is often simply not sustainable. This is less the case with human resource management. The way an organisation treats its staff, an organisation's culture & its approach to teamwork & innovation are all potentially distinctive & value-creating characteristics that have the potential to create competitive advantage. Furthermore, the very idiosyncrasy & social complexity of such characteristics means that once created any advantage is likely to be sustainable simply because competitors will find it difficult to imitate.
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International Travel Industry Studies Course " Ready For Take Off" Do you dream about working in the exciting & challenging Travel Industry? Enrol on our home study International Travel Industry Course & you could be working in the Travel Industry sooner than you think!  Airlines & Travel companies worldwide are constantly in touch with the College eager to recruit our graduates. This course is aimed at candidates who would like to enter the Travel Industry or for experienced Travel Personnel who are currently working in the Industry & would like to work in a different area. This course will help open many doors in the following areas: Cabin Crew Passenger Service Reservation Sales Travel Agent Tour Operator Overseas Rep Cruising Positions Ferry Positions  ...

Intrafocal Healing Course Intrafocal therapy enables the patient to use his/hers powerful reservoir of healing potential within the mind to facilitate a healing process within the body. This holistic approach for exploring medical problems, pain, sleep disorders, psychosomatic disorders & much more. This course enables the student to discover the latent ability we all have to heal ourselves & provides informative knowledge of methods used to tap into the healing potential & direct it as necessary. ...

Introduction to Bookkeeping Course Bookkeeping is the activity of keeping accurate records of all movements of money or of things with value that take place in a particular business or organisation. The only qualities a would-be bookkeeper needs are some common sense, a logical mind, the ability to write neatly & the ability to do simple arithmetic accurately
- & nowadays most arithmetic is done on a calculator! All businesses use the same system of bookkeeping which has its own built-in self checking methods to make sure that it is done accurately. Once you have learnt the system, you are just as able to keep the books of a large multi-million pound corporation as you are able to keep the books of a small one-man business
- the only difference is the amount of work involved. This course is designed to teach you the basic rules of book-keeping in easy stages so that you gradually build up your knowledge & confidence & eventually achieve complete mastery of the subject at this level. More importantly, you will be able to handle your own accounting records, or those of an employer, in a practical & professional manner. Each lesson deals with a related group of topics. These can be studied one at a time or in one session, according to your personal situation
- how much time you have & how much you feel that you can cope with in one session. The course is designed for you to study at your own pace. You don't have to rush to keep up with a class or wait for a class to catch up with you. At the end of each lesson, there is a test covering all the topics of the lesson together which your college tutor will mark & return to you. A lot of people imagine that book-keeping is complicated & difficult to learn. As you will soon discover on this course, it is in fact extremely straightforward & logical. It's also very interesting because it deals with the lifeblood of any business
- money!



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