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Today keeping abreast of new ways of dealing with situations, up-skilling the workforce and updating professional practice is all important. The Goldsmith Training Academy offers a wide range of short courses which can be delivered either in the workplace or at the Goldsmith Centre.
Professional Updates
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nVisual Merchandising
Technology
This training will show you how you can maximise your sales and profit through visual communication. This training will outline the way to create an environment that triggers the impulse to buy, improving your sales. Reinforcing the importance of good visual merchandising for brand performance. How to layout merchandise for stunning results. An exciting window of opportunities for shop identity Create selling links to increase sales Improve sales and bottom line profit with practical solutions. Your consultant: Terri Evans Date: 10/04/13 Time: 10:00 13:00
nSecrets of Search Engine Optimisation

Improve the visibility of your website. If you cant Google your business then you could be losing customers. Learn how to make your website more visible and increase traffic, enquiries and sales. Your consultant: Richard Dearn Date: 09/07/13 Time: 10:00 12:00
nWebsites Go Mobile
HR and People Management

nUnderstanding TUPE
Personal Effectiveness
By 2013 mobile devices will surpass PCs as the most common web access medium. Understand the changing nature of the way customers interact with the web. Learn how this may impact on their choice of products and services and affect your business. Your consultant: Richard Dearn Date: 09/07/13 Time: 13:00 16:00
niPad in Education
Transfer of Undertaking (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 Identify TUPE transfers and understand the implications. Employment Law is a highly specialised area. A current understanding is vital to ensure organisations are protected as much as possible against litigation and unnecessary costs. In this practical session, delegated will learn: How to identify a TUPE situation Which pitfalls to avoid The secrets of the assignment test Your consultant: Nichole Falconer Date: 18/06/13 Time: 10:00 13:00
nManaging Your Time
nHandling Redundancy
Learn how to have more time, a clearer focus, an uncluttered head space and to be even more effective. This interactive, hands-on course will leave you feeling more in control of your time and more able to deliver the things that really do need to be done. You will work with hammers, stones, pots, building blocks, beanbags, brainstorms and discussion groups. Fit more play into your day Discover the simple things that make a big difference Understand how to say No nicely Your consultant: Jayne Bratton Date: 16/05/13 Time: 10:00 13:00
This session will look at the various ways that the iPads can be used to facilitate and support learning. The following content will be discussed. Apps that can be used to support learning Apps to supports lesson planning Using iPads as part of an interactive learning environment Use of apps to gather evidence Setting up and configuring IPads Date: 13/05/13 Time: 09:00 12:00
niPad in Business
Reduce the stress of employers and employees face during the redundancy process. This practical training session takes managers through the redundancy process from start to finish. Delegates will learn: How to comply with the regulations How to approach changing roles and responsibilities Manage organisational needs through a restructuring process Your consultant: Nichole Falconer Date: 18/06/13 Time: 14:00 17:00
nIntroduction to Project Management
Managing a project is more about the way you think than just following a process. This course will help your projects be a success whether at work, in the community or organising a childs party. The course has been pitched at Team Leader level but is suitable for anyone interested in project management. Your consultant: Jayne Bratton Date: 16/05/13 Time: 14:00 17:00
This session will look at the various ways that the iPads can be used to facilitate and support learning. The following content will be discussed. Introduction to the Photoshop workspace Creating and setting up new documents Cropping and resizing images Red eye removal Correcting colure casts Working with layers Working with masks Sharpening images Using the healing tools Combining images Adding text to images Date: 13/05/13 Time: 14:00 - 17:00
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Who are we? We are a members association offering advice and guidance to all Care Providers in Hertfordshire What do we do? We manage over a quarter of a million pounds of training funding for the county on behalf of the Government, Local Authority and NHS Why do we exist? To help organisations raise their standards of quality of care Who are our members? Anyone who provides Adult Social Care in Hertfordshire residential, homecare, day services, voluntary organisations, social enterprises, charitable bodies etc.
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The first winner in the Goldsmith Centre InnoTech Awards, co-sponsored by Gazelle Local, is Mill End Nursery from Rushden, Hertfordshire. This nursery is owned by Conor and Jackie OGorman and is open to both trade and public customers offering a wide range of trees, shrubs and plants. Mill End Nursery is a long established, family-run business and was acquired by the OGormans in 2011. Set on a 6 acre site their key concern for cost control was their use of water. Conor OGorman said: The nursery is currently watered via sprinklers and hose pipes and during the peak season the plants are continuously being watered, to ensure the quality of the plant is of the standard which Mill End Nursery requires. Therefore, this high use of water has an impact on our profits. We monitored our water bills over the last two years and decided that there had to be a more efficient way to capture and use this finite resource. The InnoTech project will now review and develop a recyclable rain water table from which the plants can be tended. The benefits to the business are obvious; sustainable use of water in a growing environment, a more efficient use of water and considerably lower utility bills. Since acquiring the nursery many improvements have been introduced which will help the trade and gardener alike, including a new website which shows stock availability and stock overview. There have also been open evenings for traders, fund raising activities, student work experience, visits from horticulture college students, the opening of a coffee bar at peak season and extended opening hours during the key growing period, as well as extensive investment in the modernisation of the nursery.
Mill End Nursery First Winner in InnoTech Award

The judges felt that this project was innovative and could, long term, benefit the nursery industry. Now South West College at Cookstown, Northern Ireland will take this project forward for development. Fergal Tuffy, InnoTechs Centre Manager, said: This is just the kind of project that InnoTech can add value to and we can see the long-term benefits that could be developed for the nursery industry. The precious use of water in a commercial growing business is a logical area for review and the development of a recyclable water table is a product which could be offered to a global market. Commenting on the first round of applications at the InnoTech Awards ceremony held on 28th February, Bev Jones, MD of the Goldsmith Centre said:
We were delighted with the initial response to this prestigious Award and appreciate that there are many companies developing innovative ideas that have long-term benefits to the global marketplace. We will be supporting them with management data and business planning development.
Other companies who would like to be considered for
5,000 of InnoTech 01462 650246 and
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First Apprentices in Social Digital Media Reveal their Enthusiasm

50% of SMEs Expect Sales to Increase in 2013

Mill End Nursery First Winner in InnoTech Award

nSecrets of Search Engine Optimisation

HR and People Management

nManaging Your Time

nIntroduction to Project Management

For further information please call 0800 688 9022

Sharing Best Practice in Care through Partnership

CREATE | BELIEVE | SUCCEED

Mill End Nursery First Winner in InnoTech Award

Other companies who would like to be considered for

5,000 of InnoTech 01462 650246 and

consultancy support can obtain an entry form by telephoning

speaking direct to the Goldsmith Centre.

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