The course was short, snappy and to the point

Nick Palin, Finance & Administration Director, Forum of Private Business (FPB) attended a course provided by Vision called, "Developing Your Staff". He thoroughly enjoyed the course and found it to be so helpful that he arranged for the training consultant to visit his workplace and train key members of staff on how to get the best out of people. "Paul Proctor the Training Consultant gave hints and tips on how best to develop people and I found it applicable to the job. I was not at all surprised when the course attendees came to me afterwards and told me they had done exactly what they had learnt and it worked!" "The course was short, snappy and to the point. I would definitely promote it to the businesses that the FPB deals with.”

Marked improvement in confidence, morale & motivation

Melanie Whitehead organises training for Bolton, Salford and Trafford Mental Health NHS Trust. “North Trafford College was chosen to deliver Health and Safety in the Workplace to 130 staff,” she said. “The college was excellent, helpful and very flexible, even helping with the administration. We have had 100% pass rate and managers have reported not only an increased understanding of health and safety issues but also a marked improvement in confidence, morale and motivation. Some of the staff had been out of formal education for a long time and are usually difficult to engage in training – now they are keen to move on to the next level.”

Wine worker shows his bottle

Ian Sanderson works in the tank room at Kingsland Wines and Spirits bottling factory in Irlam. He left school feeling he was an educational failure with few qualifications. Now with help and support from North Trafford College and his training manager he has received help for dyslexia and achieved NVQs in Food and Drink, Assessor and Internal Verifier Award. Ian is delighted “I am walking around with a big grin on my face. After years of thinking I can’t do things I now know I can.”

Production has gone up!

Alan Reeves is the Factory Manager at Remploy in Wythenshawe. A company initiative required that learning centres were set up at all sites. “I wasn’t fully behind it,”  admitted Alan. “I didn’t want it interfering with production and I told the college that it would be cancelled if we were busy. But I didn’t cancel a single lesson and although 50% of the workforce has been in training for 2 hours every week, production has amazingly gone up! It has really opened my eyes! There have been such phenomenal changes in their communication skills and the team leaders have much more flexibility as everyone is eager to up-skill and try new roles.”

There is no holding Catherine back now!

Catherine Stanhope started a North Trafford College literacy course at her workplace, Trafford General Hospital, at the age of 50: “I wanted to move on in my workplace but my writing was holding me back. I’m so enthusiastic about what I have learnt I am now encouraging other people to get on courses. I have much more confidence. Now I have got two qualifications in English and I’m enjoying reading. Next year I will do the GCSE and maybe some Maths. I’m already doing a computer course and an NVQ in catering which means I get more wages!”

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