With what the institution’s Chief Executive Officer James Bovell says is an “eye to the country’s evolving skills needs,” the Brickdam-based The Business School (TBS) has unveiled a suite of courses that seeks, it says, to respond to current and emerging workplace requirements in both the public and private sectors.
“It is a matter of looking ahead and if you take a look at what lies ahead for our country as far as workplace skills are concerned you will find that the need exists in both the public and private sectors for particular skills sets. The template for what we are offering is based on what we see as a requirement to try to meet, simultaneously, the needs of both the public and private sectors. We cannot wait until the needs are actually on top of us to begin to train people to meet those needs,” Bovell told Stabroek Business in an interview late last week.
TBS’ current ‘training curriculum’, released by its Corporate Training Department recently and which includes up to 98 short seminars, targets “organizations seeking to train their employees …across multiple disciplines.” Several of the intense and highly condensed seminars last a maximum of four days an approach which Bovell says “offers employers the benefits of skills that can be applied at the workplace level in a relatively short period of time and which, he adds, is designed “to bring about short-term improvements in workplace effectiveness.”