The Skills Factory offer a series of bite size courses aimed at Black County based businesses to assist with upskilling their workforce. Whether you are looking for office skills or more technical training such as AutoCad or Solidworks, we have a good range of fully funded courses to meet most company’s needs. Throughout October, November and December we have bite sized courses in, Excel, Word, Autocad, Solidworks, Team Leader Training and Project Management. See below for further details.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Provided by University of Wolverhampton, this is a 2 part session – Essential Project Management Skills, followed by Successfully Managing Project Management Techniques.
- Learn how to establish a Project Management team and how to organise for success. Be able to identify which technique to apply and the impact on individuals and the organisation.
- Be able to apply the knowledge in the workplace and improve work performance. Recognise good and poor practice and develop own tools and techniques in their industry.
EXCEL
Our Excel courses are varied and provided by Halesowen and Walsall College, a small selection below:
- Working with Dates & Text
- Introduction to Excel
- Looking up Data and Selection in Excel
- Presenting & analysing data; graphs, charts & pivot tables
MICROSOFT OFFICE
Provided by Halesowen College we currently have spaces available for
- Word – Manage Long Documents and Reports
AUTOCAD
This course is provided by the University of Wolverhampton:
- Basic CAD fundamentals using tools, displays and lay plan options. Demonstrate Cad fundamental tools for inserting a wide range of Autocad entries, from line types to text.
- Allows the client the capacity to improve their skills when creating dimension styles for a variety of object types in many orientations and alignments.
SOLIDWORKS
This course is provided by the University of Woverhampton:
- The use of Cad fundamentals, using tools, display options and dimensioning properties.
- Be able to apply the knowledge in the workplace and improve work performance. Recognise good and poor practice and develop own tools and techniques in their industry. REvolved Features workshop - create revolved features, apply special dimensioning techniques to sketches for revolved features.
Places are limited and anyone interested in booking a place can do so via our website.
www.blackcountryskills.co.uk/courses
The Black Country Skills Factory is a Local Enterprise Partnership initiative aimed at addressing skills shortages in the five transformational sectors in the Black County:
- Advanced Manufacturing (HVM) including Food and Drink
- Transport Technologies, including Aerospace
- Construction, including Building Technologies
- Business Services
The Skills Factory bite sized courses are fully funded via the European Social Fund (ESF) and are provided at no cost to the businesses. Suitable for any business size, you select the training you require with no limit on how many courses you can access. To view our full range of training courses please use the link shown above. If you can’t find what you are looking for please contact us via the form on our website or call Eileen Steventon on 01384 471133
