Powerful Mind Creations: Our Training Packages.

1. Leadership Training:

In today's fast-paced business environment, leaders need a broad perspective, vision, and acute awareness of the trends and developments shaping their organization. Effective Leadership Training can help organizations and individuals improve and build upon what's currently happening in the organization and increase performance, motivation, and overall effectiveness for the future. PMC's Leadership Training is designed to provide participants with the critical skills needed to enhance future success while impacting bottom-line results.

PMC's approach to leadership training involves focusing on and developing key leadership talents and abilities to create "well rounded" leaders in the organization. In our leadership training programs, we teach practical "how-to" leadership skills that create high-performing individuals and teams. We introduce the leadership skills and techniques that sustain long-term excellence and maximize performance. Our leadership training will assist participants in establishing an environment of success both for their teams and for themselves.

Our Leadership Training Objectives;

o Understanding good Leadership Behaviours

o Learning the difference between Leadership and Management

o Gaining insight into your Patterns, Beliefs and Rules

o Defining Qualities and Strengths

o Determining how well you perceive what's going on around you

o Polishing Interpersonal Skills and Communication Skills

o Learning about Commitment and How to Move Things Forward

o Making Key Decisions

o Handling Your and Other People's Stress

o Empowering, Motivating and Inspiring Others

o Leading by Example

Our team is available at your convenience to discuss how the above topics can be tailored and customized for your organization. Contact us to learn why organizations have chosen PMC for their Leadership Training and Development initiatives.

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2. Leadership & Team Building Training:

What defines Team Building and Leadership?

"In sport or in business or within the community, a "team" is defined as a group of people who collaborate or work together toward a common goal. A team implies synergy, meaning the whole is greater than the sum of their parts. The essence of a team is a common commitment, because without it, the members are simply a group of individuals."

Building a Team would simply be the act of improving and maximizing these characteristics.

And what is Leadership?

Leadership is an individual's or organization's ability to inspire confidence and influence people to act in a coordinated fashion in a common direction or with a shared focus.

Thus, it is easy to see the obvious link between leaders and teams.

What will you learn from our training on Leadership and Team building?

Ø Strengthen team dynamics

Ø Open minds and expand horizons

Ø Uncover future leaders

Ø Become a more effective leader

Ø Move through life with greater confidence

Ø Maximize your greatest corporate asset

Ø Improve your company's bottom line

3. First Aid Training:

First aid is the provision of initial care for an illness or injury. It is usually performed by non-expert, but trained personnel to a sick or injured person until definitive medical treatment can be accessed. Certain self-limiting illnesses or minor injuries may not require further medical care past the first aid intervention. It generally consists of a series of simple and in some cases, potentially life-saving techniques that an individual can be atrained to perform with minimal equipment.

Our team of qualified and experienced trainers will provide the training effectively and the methods and theories will be based on Red Cross and St. John ambulance concepts and recommendations.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to,

Ø Deal with emergency situations

Ø Know the limits of basic first aid

Ø Familiarise themselves with First Aid regulations of 2002

Ø Be aware of the duties of the employer as to First Aid.

Method we use for first aid training:

Ø By practical and theoretical examples

Ø Powerpoint presentation, video/dvd clips

Ø Discussion/Class exercises

Ø Handouts

4. Project Cycle Management (PCM) Training:

“Project Cycle Management” is a term used to describe the management activities and decision-making procedures used during the life-cycle of a project. The image of a ‘project cycle’ assists applicants to understand how to organize their work so that it is based on real needs, is well planned, monitored and evaluated, and allows involved parties to learn from every project to improve their future work. The cycle represents a continuous process in which each stage provides the foundation for the next. The generic project cycle has six phases. In practice, the duration and importance of each phase may vary for different projects.

Objectives of our PCM training:

Ø Understand the importance of project cycle management

Ø Learn tools and techniques used in planning and implementing all phases of project cycle

Ø Gain ability to plan and manage a project efficiently and effectively

Each stage of the cycle is essential and should be given the same amount of attention. Firstly, because it is important to acknowledge that change is the only constant; aspects of humanitarian work are constantly in flux whether it is needs, people of concern, organizations, social and political relations, finance etc. Secondly, it allows learn from the successes and challenges of completed work. Learning organizations have imbedded structures and systems to support institutional learning through project cycle management.

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5. PRA Training:

Participatory rural appraisal is a short cut method of data collection. It is a methodology for action research and utilizes a range of techniques. It involves local people and outsiders from different sectors and disciplines. Outsiders facilitate local people in analyzing information, practicing critical self awareness, taking responsibility, and sharing their knowledge of life and conditions to plan and to act.

The objectives of our PRA training:

The content included in the PRA training are simple and do not require high caliber or mathematical thinking. But require minds which are prepared to accept a new way of learning, a new of doing things and that we have limited knowledge of something. The ultimate aim of PRA training is:

o To build up a permanent “people first” attitudes in the minds of the participants. To show that “people are capable agents to change their own lives” but require limited out side assistance.

o To establish a notion of “respect” to the people’s knowledge in the life of professionals and their institutions.

o To provide simple analytical tools to analyze rural situations.

o To show some of the analytical tools to the community in the field setting and understand their suitability to farmer situation.

o To enhance participant’s ability to plan with the community.

“Participatory Rural Appraisal is a family of approaches and methods to enable local people to share, enhance, and analyse their knowledge of life and conditions, to plan, and to act”.

-Robert Chambers

6. CBO Strengthening Programme:

Though community-based organizations (CBOs) are small, informal organizations, indications are that they provide various services towards the development of rural communities and can be used as channels to route development information and other resources required to improve living conditions in rural communities. CBOs are, however, constrained from providing a more diverse range of services to their communities due to certain basic weaknesses. Leadership development, networking with both local and external organizations and registration with an official public agency are identified and discussed as sustainable strategies to strengthen CBOs, improve upon their service delivery standards and place them in a position to tap available opportunities to develop the communities they are located in.

The community based organizations play a key role in sustainable development and continuing development initiatives. Therefore, it is essential to strengthen their capacity on regular basis so that they remain active and effective in their respective locations.

Key Objective of our training:

Well equipped community based organizations with an ability to manage their affairs independently and contribute to community development.

Our training provides:

o Personal and professional development of CBO members

o Capacity strengthening programs for church leaders

o Promoting ethics, human values and work standards

o Conduct training on management of CBO’s

o Infrastructure development and equipment support

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7. Report writing Training:

This module is for coordinators of field workers, managers, administrators, planners, ministry officials, and local authorities responsible for programmes and people who are working to encourage and train low income communities to solve their own problems, to identify their own resources, and to plan their own development.

You can be the most articulate member of your team, but sit down to do some report writing and you face that blank page terror.

You can stand in front of a crowd and extemporise with fluency and flair, but asked to summarise it in written report form and all that fluency dribbles away.

Sound familiar?

For a lot of people, report writing causes serious angst.

See, most people have an authentic 'voice', which, when they connect with, allows them to express themselves forcefully and passionately.

But in the written form, at least, fluency can be a rare commodity.

What happens is that for most people when report writing, they tend to write way too much and then get stuck when it comes to the editing and rewrites.

They seem to lose sight of their natural style and the writing strengths they already have.

So that's your first step: get clear about your own natural style (a good place to begin is your speaking style - see if you can avoid straight-jacketing it as soon as you take pen to paper or fingers to computer keyboard to do some report writing).

There are two more steps that lay the foundation of good report writing even before you begin to write:

1. Get clear about the purpose of your report: what's it for, what's it supposed to achieve, what do you need it to say?

If you're not clear your readers won't be either.

2. Have a point of view: it will help you writing your report (and your readers) if it's clear 'where you're coming from'.

Everything you have to say can then get filtered through that view.

Topics we include in our training module;

o Reviewing the different types of reports

o Recognizing the audience’s needs

o Writing summaries

o Using visual aids

o Creating reader-friendly formats

o Developing worksheets for different types of reports

o Editing and proofreading reports