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Open Courses Now Open For Booking

Concrew Training's short run of open event courses are now open for booking. Provincial events cost £299+vat/person.  London Events £349+vat/person. Understanding Data Protection and The GDPR Using Social Media at Work - Rights and Responsibilities Alternative Sources of Funding for Education, Schools & Young People Projects Using Stretch and Challenge to Embed Deeper Learning #opencourses #training #openevents #dataprotection #socialmedia #funding #schools #colleges #eduaction #edchat #stretchchallenge #concrewtraining #gdpr #hr  

Open Event Courses

Concrew Training plan to offer a short series of one-day open event courses for June July 2017 designed to showcase our quality and value. We hope to have the events, dates, locations and prices finalised before the end of April 2017. Initial topics are likely to include: Data Protection and the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) Using Social Media at Work - Rights and Responsibilities Sources of Alternative Funding for Education Using Stretch and Challenge to Embed Deeper Learning

managing bad behaviour in classrooms - course updated

Concrew Training have now updated our workshop on  Managing Challenging Behaviour within Teaching  to include some of the latest advice on  tackling bad behaviour in the classroom #teaching #education #schools #furthereducation #concrewtraining #badbehaviour

Using Cloud Technology within Education

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TES believes that that the Further Education Sector needs to embrace cloud based technology (link) .  Cloud based systems can help save money, reduce emissions and above all help provider engage with their learners in a more effective manner. Concrew Training's workshop on Technology Enhanced Learning (link)  explores whats on offer, provides ideas and support to improve implementation and use. Faced with current budget pressures spending money on training and technology is a tough choice but the benefits on offer are significant #fe #schools #furthereducation #education #learning #wbl #apprenticeships Image:   A personal timeline of technology usage by Sandra  Schön  used under CC BY 2.0

Finance For Non Financial Managers Training 2017

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Understanding budgets and how the company finances work is essential knowledge for all managers.  ” Finance for non financial manager” training courses aim to provide the underpinning financial knowledge information managers need, but with needs differing across roles and sectors and a one size fits all training solution seldom works! Concrew Training offer a range of one-day, or longer, workshops that explore different aspects and issues.  More Information via the links below: Better Budgeting   Credit Control Finance for Business Finance for Directors Financial Statements Financial Planning and Control I                         Image:   balance sheet ok  by  Philippe Put  used under  CC BY-ND n                           #financefornonfinancialmanagers #financetraining #concrewtraining #budget #business #finance #training

Report on ways to manage challenging behaviour in the classroom

Interesting Government sponsored report on how to manage challenging behaviour in the classroom more information and links to the report at: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-report-with-practical-advice-for-teachers-on-pupil-behaviour on site support and training from Concrew Training here

Poor Pre Sales Doesn't Inspire Wanna be Barista

I made some enquiries about Barista Training in Lincoln last week. The first company I approached was at the top of the google search page and promote themselves as being available to speak to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week including bank holidays.  I called at about 09:30 on Friday morning but the person who answered the phone could give me any information about their training courses or open evenings and said some one would phone me back.  Having heard nothing more by lunch time I phoned again and got an answer machine so I left a message, its now Monday evening and guess what - they still haven't called me back. The second company promised a reply within 24 hours, I sent a message through their on line enquiry form at about 21:00 on the Friday evening, to be honest I wasnt expecting a reply over the weekend but guess what ............. No your wrong -  I didn't get a call back and I still haven't had one. All I can say is Concrew Training values your custom and we