Research has shown that when job candidates are asked what is most important in their decision to accept a position, the number one answer is a commitment from the company’s management to develop its people. Make sure your company can give them that commitment, and you’ll recruit and retain the best employees.

In addition, when businesses evolve, its employees must evolve concomitantly. This requires training and developing employees to ensure they are up to date with any new requirements that dictate enhanced or additional skill sets.

By being proactive and supporting training and development, you will have employees with upgraded skills working to their full potential and equipped to deal with the changing demands of your customers. Your employees will have improved morale, career satisfaction and motivation. Their productivity will increase as they find it easier to meet the goals of your business.

Training can provide these tremendous advantages for your business and therefore help you to keep your operation current. This is why successful companies view training as an investment rather than an expense!

Achieving your Organisational Objectives in 2007
We believe that we have many programmes that can assist you towards meeting your organisational objectives, and we would like to highlight a few:

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®

Turbulent, unpredictable change. Low trust. Poor communication. Stagnant performance. These challenges exact a heavy price on your organisation - and on staff. As your organisation's marketplace advantage decreases, demands on staff increase. They work longer hours, feel burnt out and spend less time on value adding activities. Staff can learn to solve these problems with The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People® workshop and become your organisation's ultimate competitive advantage.

Other organisations can imitate products and marketing strategies, but they cannot duplicate your people. Because true organisational change starts from the inside - from within each individual, effective people are a company's most important resource.

This workshop teaches the principles found in the No. 1 best-selling business book of all time - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People® by Stephen R. Covey. The 7 Habits workshop provides the most comprehensive foundation for fostering change within your organisation.

• Business Performance Improvement

Companies that experience growth find that growth puts considerable stress on its people processes and systems. Growth can in fact render many processes obsolete and ineffective. It is imperative to redesign key processes so that growth can be sustained over the long term; achieving efficiencies, improving cash flow and maintaining profitability.

This workshop provides a common framework and delivery mechanism for engagements applying the performance improvement approach. The Business Performance Improvement (BPI) approach is based on three pillars - people, process and technology. Change management issues are embedded in each of its eight phases.

Understanding BPI philosophy will contribute towards a holistic approach in addressing the improvement of business performance in all spheres.

• Project Management Methodology

Developing and refining project management processes is one of the fundamental strengths of many organisations. Our course can help you improve that methodology to be more efficient and effective.

This four-day workshop is based on principles that enable learners to address all phases of project management from inception to completion. It provides comprehensive guidelines for the effective management and administration of projects, while providing sufficient flexibility to meet the needs of individual projects and project managers. Specific practical techniques will focus on ensuring the successful completion of projects on time and within budget.

• Experiential Leadership and Team Building

Leadership and team synergy are now recognised as a fundamental aspect of organisational success. Experiential learning is about accomplishing behavioural change to create a competitive advantage. Our experiential programme can help you create this competitive advantage.

Experiential learning is based on the principle that people learn best from experience and from reflecting on experience to gain insights that help them to develop at a personal, professional and organisational level. The activities serve as powerful tools to sharpen critical skills in a rapid and effective manner.

Whether focused on leadership enhancement, team building or personal empowerment; our programme guarantees a potent experience that is fun and gives you results!

• Finance for non-finance managers

Finance is an integral part of any business. A functional knowledge of financial principles and their application is therefore essential for managerial effectiveness regardless of their area of operation.

Our course equips the managers who may not have a strong grounding in finance, to better understand the financial implications of their business decisions, and therefore make decisions that have a more positive impact on organisational profitability.

All our programs can be specifically tailored to meet precise client needs. We will be on hand as always to consult with you on your precise needs, so that we can provide the performance solution that best meets your needs.

Please feel free to contact either Monica Nderitu on mnderitu@kpmg.co.ke
or Anne Ngethe on angethe@kpmg.co.ke

Download our management development and capacity building 2007 Schedule: