|
Description |
Pros |
Cons |
| Standard Public
Schedule
Course |
Generic "off-the-peg" course on a
training environment, delivered at
Acuma offices |
Allows delivery to be spread over time
and location for different team members
to attend the same standard course.
No set up costs. |
No opportunity to put course theory into practice in the realistic working environment.
Some course topics may not be relevant. |
 |
Standard
Private Course |
Generic “off-the-peg” course on a
training environment, delivered
privately
for a single customer. |
Consistency of standard course delivery.
No set up costs (if using Acuma kit).
|
No opportunity to put course theory into practice in the realistic working environment.
Some course topics may not be relevant. |
|
Fully
Customised Course |
Course contents as per standard course, but delivered privately on a realistic working environment.
|
Allows learners to put course theory
into practice in the realistic working
environment during the course, for
earlier business benefits. |
Very high course development and set up costs.
Some course topics may not be relevant. |
|
Fully Tailored Course |
Course contents designed
specifically to meet training needs,
and course delivered privately on a
training environment. |
All course topics will be relevant. |
Very high course development and set up costs.
No opportunity to put course theory into practice in the realistic working environment.
|
|
Tailored Integrated Workshop |
Course contents selected from a
menu of available modules of
learning,
theory taught using generic environment, workshop practice on a realistic working environment. |
Allows learners to put course theory into practice in the realistic working
environment during the course, for earlier business benefits.
All course topics
will be relevant.
|
Limited course development and set up costs to combine the selected course modules, and to customise the workshop exercises for those modules. |
|
Skills Transfer Workshops & Desk-side Support |
Post-training support through a joint workshop, and/or one-to-one support at the desk, aimed at introducing the actual working environment and answering learners questions. |
Allows consolidation of learning through proactive follow-up support. Encourages sharing of best practice. Helps learners to put course theory into practice in the actual workplace, for earlier business benefits.
|
Additional support costs. |
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