Negotiating a success

Today  I spent another  day attending  a course  rather  than instructing!

With much thanks to Camgrain at  Balsham for providing excellent  facilities and with the  services of  Bob White from At Last training we settled  down to the first  of two  management  courses - Negotiating Skills, next  Friday  being Time/Meeting management with a  nod to  new  technology.

Bob provided an entertaining and informative  day with a  diverse  group of trainees all taking away  much food for thought.

Next week (2nd Dec) is a different  slant on "getting things done" which already  has generated  much interest.  If you want to  join us  please email enquiries@catrain.co.uk for  more information.

A week of Forklifts and Telehandlers

A week of contrasts.  Away from the training provider side of the business and this week was spent out in the  field instructing in the  operation of Counterbalance  Forklifts and Telescopic handlers.

Starting the week with a two  day counterbalance forklift course  for  students on farm placements. Really encouraging to see  enthusiasm and capability in the  new  generation of farmers.

Next: A Telescopic handler course for  all the staff on a traditional family  farm.   Again enjoyable to chat  and work with  some  of the  more  mature members of the  farming community while  putting the world to rights!

Finally,  and something very different on Thursday.  Time to have  my own Lantra Awards Operators certificate for  Telescopic Handlers renewed!  So attending a course  as a trainee with a couple of managers from research farms in Cambridge, Craig Ireland did an excellent  job of running the course and plying us with Chocolate  digestives.  Thank you also to NIAB for  hosting the day.

So a  great week with some  fascinating people and a wide variety of equipment to operate. The paperwork is already  filed with  Lantra Awards who are doing an excellent  job of turning round registrations and certificates at present.

Friday then is all about  planning next week and closing down this  weeks courses on the system. 

Health and Safety Courses Autumn Winter 20011-12

As  part of our  continuing campaign for  Landbased Industry Health and Safety Awareness we are  pleased to announce our  dates  for  Health and Safety Awareness Courses across  East Anglia.  Benefiting from Landskills  East funding these  courses will  also provide a  Lantra Awards  certificate of  attendance.

Last year we  presented a  number of courses  specifically  for particular  areas of the  industry.  We also picked up  nationwide  news  coverage  being featured on BBC Breakfast  News (along with  some  lambs!)

Our  courses  in Health and Safety awareness benefit  from over  30  years  in the  Agricultural industry and use  recent examples and experience to show  how your  business  can be  safe and remain productive.



Dates:
18 November - South Cambs
07  December - Hertfordshire
11 January - East  Suffolk
01  Feburary - South Cambs
07 February - East Suffolk
08 February - Hertfordshire

Other Courses  Click HERE

October 2011 Update

Dates available now for
PA4 (S) PA 6 and PA2 Courses click HERE
Emergency Aid Click HERE
Welding Abrasive Wheels HERE
Management Courses HERE
More Autumn dates being added. Just email us (HERE)for more information.

Harvest 2010

Yes that is  right Harvest  2010.  As we all bask in an Indian summer  I was  reminded of this  video I made at the  latter end of a difficult harvest in 2010  here in Suffolk.  With thanks to Farmer and  Combine  operator  Peter Holloway:

Anglia Rural Training gains Landskills East Award

You may  be interested to know that  ART  (our  umbrella  organisation) received the  award for  “Most Progressive Delivery Partner” at  a Funding awards ceremony held at "Jimmys Farm"  by Landskills East last  night.  This  in part reflected  the support of  all of our customers   who  have supported the  Landskills East  funding initiative for  skills  development in the  East of England by attending  courses  provided by  CAT Ltd.  

Jo  Bruce who  has  managed the project on behalf of ART said:

This project has   been all about  teamwork right from the beginning - Landskills East, Norfolk County Council  and their delivery partners - Us - The  East Anglian Training providers who make up Anglia Rural Training and then our  customers who have supported the  project and made it the  success it is.

At CATraining  Ltd. we are also quite pleased in our own right as we  designed and developed the database used to enable  ART to  manage the project.   The  database  has  so far managed over  2000 courses from the 10 members of Anglia Rural Training  from initial grant application through to the management of the  repayments  from Landskills  East all at varying skill levels, grant rates (and VAT  changes).

In the next  few  weeks we will  be  launching our  CATraining Ltd.  Autumn  programme, much benefiting from Landskills  East funding.

New Services for 2011/12

More technology I am afraid. September is a time we spend planning for the Winter season. After an exceptionally busy year we have revisited how we can better action training requests and supply information to our customers. Over the next few months we will be contacting all our customers with records of services provided over the last two years. We will also be targeting relevant training courses to our customers so they can plan and budget training over the coming months. By October we hope to launch online access for our regular customers to records and upcomimg course information. Eventually this will be available to all our customers. So in summary this year will be about giving you the information you need and responding to training request efficently so you, our customer, can keep track of your training and skills development in a simple and efficient way. Just to remind you: Landskills funding still available, The funding rates change with the moon cycles, have an idea? need advice on funding? Talk to us now - we will navigate the minefield for you!