Workplace Training Specialists

 

Developing businesses through training, education and events.

Engaging Sessions

Our training uses a mixture of learning techniques including discussion, quizzes, think-pair-share, manipulatives, presentations and short activities to ensure everyone takes something valuable from the session.

Skilled Trainers

All of the team are fully trained teachers each with over ten years’ experience within education and training meaning they know how to engage an audience, present effectively, use questioning techniques and handle difficult situations.

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Online Learning

Many of our face to face training courses are suitable for online learning allowing your employees to access training at a time and pace of their choosing. We can also offer virtual sessions if your staff are at multiple locations.

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Bespoke Training Materials

We can tailor our training materials to suit your company or industry at no extra cost. Printed materials for every delegate are included in the course price allowing your staff to revisit the training at any time.

Providing corporate training to increase your profits, reduce your staff turnover and give your employees the skills they need for success.

Workplace Training

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Educational Services

Letter writing course

Online Courses

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Communication Skills

Helping employees confidently use body language, questioning techniques and tone as well as write emails and letters using appropriate content and have face to face and telephone conversations.

Customer Service

Employees will have the opportunity to define what exceptional customer care looks like for your organisation and identify strengths and areas to improve. Employees will improve their telephone and face to face techniques and learn how to control a conversation and deal with complaints.

Presentation Skills

For employees who want to feel confident and well prepared when presenting in meetings, running training sessions or presenting ideas to clients. Content can include how to create a visual presentation, speaking techniques and engaging with an audience.

Report Writing

Giving your employees the confidence to put together effective reports. Contains information on how to use correct spelling, grammar and punctuation, structure, layout and the use of SMART targets. Reduces wasted time on drafting and redrafting and increases the usefulness of the reports written.

English & Maths

We can create bespoke programmes to meet the needs of your employees whether it’s achieving functional skills, feeling more confident with using maths in an engineering context or being able to write emails and reports.

Time Management

Helping employees plan their tasks, reduce stress, manage their inboxes and allocate their time effectively allowing them to be more productive in the workplace.

Meet our team

Lyn Calver

Managing Director

Lyn specialises in communication skills and enjoys developing all of the courses for the businesses as well as delivering many of them herself. Lyn also delivers training internationally on behalf of educational training companies.

Away from the business, Lyn is known for her love of cats and she also enjoys travelling to new countries.

Steven Gardiner

Maths specialist

Steve is a maths specialist and delivers part of our bespoke programme Maths for Engineers at Toyota. Steve also has his own tuition business and runs the highly successful YouTube Channel The Calculator Guide.

In his spare time Steve enjoys escape rooms and puzzles as well as travelling.

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Majid Waris

Sales Specialist

Multi-award winning sales strategist Majid delivers our sales and negotiation training courses as well as delivering his own open sales workshops and running a very successful health and safety consultancy. He has experience in both B2B and B2C sales and uses an experiential approach to develop sales skills.

In his spare time, Majid enjoys giving back to the community and is part of a charity supporting the homeless in his local area.

Tracey Gibson

Writing specialist

Tracey specialises in writing skills and working with adults with learning difficulties. Her patience and structured approach to delivery makes her popular with course participants and she is always willing to go the extra mile to help someone.

Outside of the training room, Tracey is a keen traveller and is always looking forward to her next trip!

 

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Cheryl Dent

Communication Specialist

Cheryl delivers some of our writing and communication based courses such as Functional English or report writing and has worked with a number of local employers in the past to organise training sessions such as Toyota, Argos and Kuehne + Nagel. Delegates love her professional approach and calm manner.

Cheryl is our most creative associate spending much of her time creating craft products as gifts.

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Kevin Whitehead

Industry Specialist

Kevin brings a wealth of knowledge from his many years working in industry including a long period working for Siemens. He can appreciate the challenges and targets that large companies have and knows how to get the best out of their staff. Following his time in industry, Kevin decided to take his teaching qualifications to enable him to train others.

In his spare time, Kevin loves walking his dogs and providing free transport for people in his local community to enable them to access events and facilities.

Why invest in training?

We provide courses to help employees work together, communicate with clients and give them skills for the future. Once the training is completed, your employees should feel more confident, efficient and effective in their job roles. This in turn helps you, the employer, retain staff, increase productivity and improve customer, client and colleague interactions.

Studies have shown that high staff turnover can be very costly for a business with replacing an employee costing between six and nine months of their salary.

Having a strong training programme and being known as an employer who invests in their staff, can enhance your company reputation and attract higher quality talent to work for you.

Training helps businesses to overcome challenges in our current turbulent market.

Here are some of the challenges businesses face when they decide to invest in training:

Our staff compete against each other rather than working together

We have a very young workforce and they don’t know how to communicate professionally

We’ve always done things in the same way and we need to be ready to change to compete in the current marketplace

We have a number of employees straight from school who don’t know how to apply their knowledge within the workplace

We don’t know how to communicate with our target audience effectively

Why Choose LC Education & Training Ltd?

Bespoke Training

We recognise that each business has its own unique challenges, so all our courses can be adapted to suit your needs. This includes providing courses online rather than face-to-face or using blended learning to combine the two. Our courses are very interactive with delegates getting the chance to discuss with each other, practise skills and take part in exercises to ensure they understand and retain what they are learning.

Award Winning

You can be confident in the quality of our courses as we were awarded Best Workplace Skills Training Provider 2018 & 2019 in the Greater London Enterprise Awards, but more importantly because our clients keep coming back to us, so we must be doing something right! 

 

Free Consultation

We offer a free consultation and skills assessment to find out what your company’s learning needs might be, so why not get in touch today to find out how we could help your business be more profitable, productive and successful.

 

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    Best Workplace Skills Training Provider 2019 & 2018  – Greater London Enterprise Awards

    Best English & Maths Staff Training Provider – Midlands & Excellence Award for Training Events – UK

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