Mission
of PQA's Training Courses
The goal of PQA's Training Training Courses are to provide you
with enjoyable, effective training courses that you need to succeed, when
you need them, at a location close to you.
The experience received during PQA's training
courses and workshops.
PQA's On-line Courses
offer some of 75
different courses through our web server using Moodle (moodle.org)
On-line Course Management Software. Moodle uses "social
constructionist pedagogy" to maximize the learning achieved.
This is a full feature system especially designed for delivery of
training through the Internet.
PQA's face-to-face training course materials have been totally re-worked
for this different medium, ensuring that you get maximum value.
The Course Instructor will be interacting, coaching, challenging, and
aiding your learning throughout the course. DO NOT confuse PQA's
high-interactive courses with cheap, low quality, low effectiveness
collection of slides and exercises where you have to wander about on
your own with no assistance.
If you want one of PQA's courses that is not currently offered on-line
by PQA,
contact PQA and we can advise if this can be done, the cost, and how
soon we can have the course ready for you to start.
Public & In-House Training Courses
We are able to deliver any of
our training courses as:
- Public
(ie. enrollment is open to all, held at PQA's facilities), or
- In-house
(ie. private enrollment just for your employees, delivered at your
facility).
PQA schedules public training courses on
a yearly basis. They are scheduled to provide you with:
- the most popular training
training courses that you may need,
- when you need them, and
- at a location close to you.
In-House Training Courses
If you have 7 or more people at your company who would benefit from a
training course, it may be more cost effective, convenient, and timely
to schedule an in-house training course of PQA's course at your facility
(or a site nearby).
Your employee's and their specialized needs get the full attention of
the PQA specialist for the full training course.
Questions asked and statements made can often expose the current
methods and future plans of an individual or organization. This is one
of the disadvantages of sending employees to public training courses.
This is why savvy competitors often attend public training courses,
picking up small snippets of information that help discover what
industry leaders are doing behind closed doors.
By holding a private session of PQA's training courses, you get: the
latest and best information on the subject, just what your employees
need Your proprietary secrets & competitive advantages stay
inside your company.
Frequently, there is a need for 1 to 3 levels of comprehension.
For in-house training, it is cost effective and PQA often recommends 3
levels of training and comprehension, as follows:
- Overview This would be suitable for management
and all employees. It may be as short as 15 minutes, but
typically takes 1 hour or less. The purpose is to quickly inform
everybody about the training topic, why it's important, how to
recognize when you need an expert, and how to find or contact the
company's experts. This training should be received by everybody
who does not receive one of the other two levels of training.
- Support Personnel This training is typically 1
to 4 hrs. in duration. The purpose is to ensure understanding of
the key issues, needs, and methods so that the trainee can effectively
co-ordinate with the subject experts. This level of
comprehension would be suitable for executives, managers, supervisors,
foremen, lead hands, people who generate data used by the experts (ie.
Work Upstream), and people who use the deliverables created by the
experts (ie. Work Downstream).
- Expert Practitioners This training provides the
chosen personnel everything they need to develop the necessary
expertise and on-the-job skills to excel in the topic being trained.
This is typically 1 to 5 days of training.
PQA can schedule all the above into a seamless and effective training
program. Multiple sessions can be scheduled for each of these
levels so that ongoing service to production lines, customers, etc. is
not interrupted by the training. If you're not sure who fits into
what category, PQA can assist you in defining a training matrix that
best fits your needs.
For in-House training courses, PQA can customize the content to
exactly meet your needs at a reasonable price. Emphasis is placed on the
specific topics and issues you need. Contact PQA at 1 (800) 837-7046 to
discuss your special situation.
Public Training Courses on
Demand
If you need a training course
and don't have enough people to hold a private in-house training course (just for
people in your organization), PQA has developed the Public Workshop
On Demand system.
For any training course that
PQA offers which you would like to see scheduled at a time & location to
fit your schedule:
- Call PQA at 1 (800) 837-7046 or
E-mail PQA
- Tell us the training course
title, time, & location that would meet your training needs.
Usually, we will need 4 to 8 weeks lead time.
- PQA will actively
recruit other potential participants. If we get 8 or more committed to
attending, we will hold the training course.
- For every participant you
are able to get to attend the training course, PQA will give
you an honorarium of $25.
What's Included in the
Price of PQA's Training Courses
All PQA training course attendees receive:
- A comprehensive training manual, including a copy of every slide
presented, 2 slides per page. There are usually extra reading
materials included in most of PQA's courses, ready for further study
after the course. The pages have plenty of room for putting in
your personal notes. Usually, PQA uses a 3-ring binder format.
This allows you to collect additional reference material and add it to
your PQA course notes. This will eventually become your own,
personal reference library for the training course topic.
- Comprehensive explanations, anecdotes, case studies, and examples
for the application of the training course topic in real-world
environments. This generally includes shining examples of
world-class implementations, and what not to do (faulty, disastrous,
or non-optimum implementations).
- Lunch
- Refreshments during morning & afternoon breaks, and throughout the
day.
- Training certificate suitable for framing.
- Optional post-course comprehension test (if you make arrangements
with PQA at least 5 business days before the course)
- Free telephone, fax, or email support (up to 1 hour of PQA's time, or 7
incidents; whichever is less) for the trainee. This is designed
to help the trainee with on-the-job implementation for the knowledge
and skills they have just acquired.
Terms and Conditions
Standard terms & conditions for
registration to all of PQA's Training Courses. |
