Kiran Patel - The general manager and the best soft skills trainer of The Learning Institute will deliver a "Effective Communication through NLP" workshop for ACCA students and members at China World Hotel Beijing at 6;30pm, Thursday, Feb 9th, 2012. Anyone who are interested in this workshop, please come and join us: http://cn.accaglobal.com/friday/detail.asp?id=745

The Learning Institute总经理及优秀软技能培训师Kiran Patel将于下周四2月9号晚上6:30在中国大饭店为ACCA的学员和会员做一个关于Effective Communication through NLP的Workshop. 欢迎感兴趣的朋友来报名:http://cn.accaglobal.com/friday/detail.asp?id=745

The Learning Institute is pleased to announce the launch of our open course business skills and management programmes for 2012 in Beijing. Starting from February, we will be organising at least 5 open courses a month with February’s schedule below.

Our first course offering will be a two day Presentation Skills programme, called Powerful Presentation Skills. This highly practical course will be ideal for those working in sales who are either in customer focussed or sales management positions, or those who frequently need to deliver powerful presentations as part of their job description.

Between the period of 14th December 2011 until 23rd January 2012, we will be offering the special ’early bird’ discount of 20% per person for Christmas and New Year. Don’t miss out on this great offer to develop your staff. There are only a maximum of 16 places available on each course, so we recommend that you book early to avoid disappointment.

1. What were your primary motives for establishing The Learning Institute in China?

China is making incredible strides down the path of becoming the World’s premier economic powerhouse. However, for this to happen, it is important for the business skills of its people to keep pace. The Learning Institute was set up in China to contribute to this process.

Within China, there are many many high-quality training organisations already operating - although few of them are providing quality training in soft skills for use in the workplace. We therefore concluded that we could achieve the greatest impact if we equipped such training organisations to broaden their range of offerings to include training in soft-skills. This has meant that a greater number of people have benefitted from our programmes than if we provided the training delivery alone.

2. Where do you see the major developmental and training needs amongst local Chinese Mainland staff in general?

Let’s be clear - there are many highly talented and well-trained people within China already. But there does remain a very large number of people that would benefit from more honed soft skills. Naturally, different people have different needs - but areas  that we see as requiring most help include presenting, communicating, project management, teamwork, customer service, delegation, influencing and selling, motivating of staff, networking, time management and business development.

3. How is the Learning Institute planning to meet the growing demand for soft skills training in the region?

As mentioned, we see equipping and supporting existing training organisations as the best way for us to contribute to the need. So this is our primary approach both in China and also elsewhere in Asia.

4. What are the distinguishing points that separate The Learning Institute from the vast competition out there in the market?

As mentioned, we do little direct training of our own - but instead seek to equip other training organisations with the tools to deliver soft-skills courses.

But the other major differentiator is our materials. The Learning Institute has developed what we believe to be the most effective materials for the delivery of soft-skills courses. We have sought to maximise the visual impact from our materials so as to increase their effectiveness with the course participants. And we have compiled the materials in such a way, and including specific facilitator guidance, such that individuals not experienced in delivering such courses can do so readily and to a high standard.

5. What are your future plans for The Learning Institute?

We are now starting to roll out soft skills courses in the form of iPhone apps, using our proven materials and methods. And we continue to look for ways whereby we can help more people to improve themself.

To read the full article from the ACCA news letter, click here

ICFE (International Certificate of Financial English) is a programme run jointly between  Cambridge ESOL and the ACCA - of which The Learning Institute are a globally approved training and content provider.

Interview with: David Ran

David Ran worked for the finance team in the Beijing office of international marketing communications company Ogilvy & Mather (O&M) when he studied for – and passed – the ICFE qualification. ’My employer wanted me, and my colleagues, to improve our English language skills, especially in a professional context, and so arranged for us to attend a tuition course for ICFE,’ explains David. Tuition was delivered in-house by specialist local learning provider The Learning Institute: ’We took about 20 classes, and were taught by an English teacher - Kiran Patel - which really helped us a lot,’ he adds.

Patel, who is regional manager – North China of The Learning Institute, points out that this combination of focused financial English language teaching delivered by native speakers proved particularly effective: ’O&M were enticed by the overall quality of the qualification, and by our enthusiasm for the course and our native speaking teaching resource,’ he says. In addition, formal skills certification is an important benefit in the highly competitive Chinese employment market, and the ability to offer staff a qualification accredited by both ACCA and Cambridge ESOL was seen as a further benefit.

Up to 16 O&M employees attended each class, which developed students’ ability to use English confidently and accurately in a financial environment, focusing on the core skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking. The class used study materials published by BPP Learning Media together with supporting resources developed by Patel and his team. ’I found help with writing English the most useful section of the course,’ says David; classes prepared students for the final exam, but also incorporated simulations of real life situations in order to provide plenty of opportunity for students to practise their skills.

David passed his exam in January 2010 and is now making the most of his new qualification: ’I have found that the course has been useful in helping me perform day to day tasks, such as writing emails, but I also hope the Certificate will improve my longer term career prospects as it is proof of specific professional skills.’

This is an ideal position for an individual with sales experience who is looking for career progression with a small but dynamic and entrepreneurial foreign - owned education business. You will have the ability to have a direct impact upon the overall direction, strategy and successes of the company through applying yourself in to the role. Candidates new to the industry who seek to develop career in sales will also be considered. You are passionate about sales, and enjoy the thrill of achieving targets and closing deals. You are polished, presentable and goal orientated.

The Role

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What will we provide you?

We will provide you aside from a competitive remuneration package, on-going training and development to ensure your success in this role, develop your skills and extract the best of your potential. According to your needs, we will structure a one-year career development and coaching plan.

Requirements:

The Learning Institute would like to announce that the Beijing office has as of 1st February 2011 relocated to a new address in the Sanyuanqiao. We would like to thank The Executive Centre in Beijing for their fantastic support over the past 2 years and wish them well.

You can now find us at the below and welcome you to visit us in the near future:
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Room 4025, Xin He Tower, No.14 Sanyuan Li Street, Beijing, 100027
北京市朝阳区三源里信和大厦4025室 100027 

Tel: +86 10 6467 7187

enquiries@the-learninginstitute.com

marketing@the-learninginstitut

We are pleased to inform you that select products from The Learning Institute’s portfolio have now been made available as downloadable mobile apps for all touch screen apple devices. We will be following up with releases for other formats in the coming year, however if you are an apple mobile device user, and keen to develop you soft skills, please refer to the link below for a free download of our Presentation Skills app.

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These have been developed in conjunction with DH Company, a UK based and Chinese owned entity who are making great strides in the industry. Aside from powering The Learning Institute’s apps, DH have been developing passcard applications for BPP’s range of   ACCA and CFA material, as well as recently entering in to partnership with Oxford Uninversity Press (OUP) to work with a range of their high quality education material.

The NRH Group, parent company of The Learning Institute and its subsidaries has recently invested in to developing a new online Young Learner’s English platform, through a local Beijing based international Kindergarten,  LEAP.  The target of this project is to make more readily available to young learners of English in 2nd, 3rd and 4 tier Chinese cities, access to foreign native English speaking teaching classes via high quality video link.

More news to follow on this as we continue to make developments.

In the meantime, you can learn more about LEAP’s classroom based programmes here.

The Learning Institute are proud to announce that we have entered in to an agreement to engage as official distributer in China for Clarity English, developer of a leading range of high quality online learning training programmes, including the recently launched British Council’s "Road to IELTS".

Clarity was set up in 1992 primarily to develop ELT software for schools and universities. The company’s first program, Tense Buster Lower Intermediate, was published on a floppy disk in 1993. Since then, Clarity has developed more than 25 programs in eight series covering language areas from grammar and reading to business English and exam preparation.

In 1998 the company started a distribution division which represents specialist publishers of software for English language. Clarity’s catalogue, the Clarity Guide to ELT Software, is published every April and includes high quality programs developed in countries across the English-speaking world.

The third strand of Clarity’s operation is to deliver publishing services for other organisations. The first development project, in 1993, was the Automatic Exercise Generator for Oxford University Press; the most recent, in 2009, is Call Center Communication Skills for Future Perfect Business English Specialists.

Clarity now publishes programs to meet the needs of the company’s broad range of clients. These vary from a reading program installed on a standalone computer in a school in Cambodia to a SCORM-compliant authoring system deployed by a leading multinational to tens of thousands of its staff.

Operating from its own offices in Hong Kong, Clarity delivers interactive English language materials to millions of students worldwide.

Should you be interested in learning more about how these programmes can benefit you, your students or your library, please take a look at the relevant section on our website, or contact us directly for more information.

We are proud to announce that The Learning Institute has entered in to a formal partnership with Oxford Associates - a member of the Aston Education Group.  Although we have been working together providing quality open and corporate seminars to our clients thourought 2010, we are delighted to now take this to the next stage and ramp up our cooperation.  We look forward to continuing this partnership throughout 2011 and beyond.

To learn more about Oxford Associates and find a language training or soft skills solution for you, you can visit their website for more information. To learn more about the Aston Group as a whole, you can do so here.

Dear viewers,

Welcome to The Learning Institute’s brand new website complete with new interactive design and extensive course information. We hope that you can find all the information you need and that enjoy touring our site.

For any enquiries in to our services, or that or our business partners and channels,  please contact us on enquiries@the-learninginstitute.com.

The Learning Institute

In a strategic partnership, The Learning Institute has joined forces with the Apollo Consulting  Group. Headed up by Francis Hung, Apollo is a PRINCE2® and PMP® ITIL®, P3O® in project or program portfolio management training and consulting provider with its own training academy located in Hong Kong and Beijing, China.

The arrangement will see this new range of exciting programmes added to our training portfolio including:

To learn more more Apollo Consulting, you can visit their website here.

This spring marks the start of the ACCA Job Hunting Competition 2010 (JHC). This competition, through mock interviews, is expected to help university students to learn more on the skills of job interviews and hopefully after this, can help students to land on the ideal jobs they want in the future.  The preliminary round will be held individually in five regions: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Hong Kong, from this Feb to May. Afterwards, the top three from each region will enter the final, held in Beijing.

This year, as a record, ACCA has formed nation-wide partnerships with 12 enterprises, including the Big 4 accounting firms, and 60 other enterprises and organizations as local partners. With greater involvement and influence, we hope more students and ACCA-recognized employers can benefit from it. The competition will offer 2,100 entries for logic testing, 780 entries for the BULATS English test and over 140 internship opportunities in big corporations from China or aboard. With fostering the finance and accounting elites in mind, ACCA is keen on promoting continuous improvement among enterprises and participating charity events.  Through the JHC, we hope college students can enhance their employability while at the same time, fortifying communication with employers, as well as a better understanding of their personal and employer needs, so as to be fully equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills before entering their professional field.

This competition has been held continuously, 6 times from 2004 to 2009. Last year, the event received 5,462 applicants from over 180 colleges. Through a series of written tests, on-campus interviews, employability training camps and interactive activities with renowned enterprises, participants gained advice on career planning and had advanced their employability. In 2009, over 140 students were selected to the internship program where they could get invaluable experience. To this day, ACCA JHC is getting more and more recognition among teachers and employers.

For students who are interested to know more about JHC or want to join the 2010 JHC, please click the following link for registration.

http://cn.accaglobal.com/jhc2010

The Learning Institute is proud to announce that we have entered in to a formal partnership with The Language key - a leading provider of Business English and Soft Skills training in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai.  Our agreement will see ensure that Language Key is able to continue to meet the growing needs of it’s clientele as they seek to develop the core business skills of their workforce. The Mastery Programmes as these have been branded will include the below core subject areas and many more.

To learn more about  Language Key and to find a quality  training solution for your company, you can visit their website for more information. Please feel free to contact them directly regarding any training needs.