We offer training packages covering the following topics:

• Health & Safety Competence Training Programmes
• Skills Competence Training and Evaluation Programmes
• Supervisory Management Training
• Personnel & Employment Law Training

These packages are offered either as bespoke packages to companies to suit their training needs or as general training courses at venues selected by ourselves.

OPAL TRAINING

Opal's core areas are training & development consultancy, training design & delivery, coaching, and psychometric assessment.

Training & Development Consultancy
Services provided include training needs analysis, management development, and training & development advice.

Training Design & Delivery
Programmes can be designed for delivery by in-company trainers or, as is more usual, for delivery by Opal.
Opal's specific training expertise covers

• team building
• management development
• presentation skills
• stress management
• inter-personal communication & rapport skills
• training the trainer
• coaching
• time management
• accelerated learning
• emotional intelligence.

All programmes use accelerated learning methods and are, therefore, practical, interactive, effective and fun.

Coaching
Personal, professional and executive coaching is provided.
The GROW method (Goals, Reality, Options, What Now) is used to help individuals both outline what they want and formulate an action plan to achieve it.

Psychometric Assessment
A wide range of aptitude tests can be provided for such areas as numeracy and critical reasoning.
We also provide administration, scoring, interpretation of results and direct feedback for

• Belbin Team Roles
• OPQ
• 16PF
• Myers-Briggs
• EQ Map (emotional intelligence) personality questionnaires either as part of a training course or as independent measures.

A strong thread over the last 10 years is that Opal and its associates have extensive experience working with multi-cultural groups and teams, especially throughout Europe.

Some of the larger organisations Opal has worked with over recent years are Abbott Laboratories, Agilent, Birmingham University, British Telecom, Delphi Automotives, London Borough of Harrow, Marks & Spencer, Rotterdam University, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, Texas Instruments, The Welding Institute.
As well as these large organisations, Opal has also worked with several smaller concerns and is as motivated to work with, for example, a 10 employee company as for a 10,000 employee company.

In order to meet client requirements, Opal Training has a small number of strategic alliances with other independent trainers and training firms which cover those areas Opal does not.
One close alliance is with a HR software design company who provide standard, or tailored, solutions to both the performance management and HR administration areas.

Opal Training is the trading name of Ken Moore and associates. Ken was HR & Training Director of Framework Consulting DFK, the management consultancy arm of parent company Chantrey Vellacott DFK, until 2002 when he left to establish his own venture.

Please contact Ken as shown to ask about any area mentioned or arrange a meeting.

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Accommodation and meals are free. You will stay at our training centre for the duration of the course, where you will be fully immersed in the subject.