Pandora's Training Courses
Pandora Consulting offers training in a number of areas. Click on the area of interest for more details, or contact us for a fuller discussion.
1. Fast Five™ (five modules)
- Improving Business Efficiency
- Improving Business Effectiveness
- Build a Robust Process
- Achieving the Invincible Process
- Create an Elegant Process
2. Project Management (three modules)
3. Innovation (four modules)
4. General Management
All these courses are available on a multi-company basis or can be tailored for in-house use. Contact us for further details.
Fast Five™ - Improving Business Efficiency
Duration: ˝ a day
Description: A short course on the first step of the Fast Five™ process. Candidates learn the basis and the techniques for improving business efficiency. The course concentrates on the Theory of Constraints and its application to your business process.
Fast Five™ - Improving Business Effectiveness
Duration: ˝ a day
Description: A short course on step two of the Fast Five™ process. Candidates learn how to identify the most cost effective place to reduce waste and improve the business effectiveness.
Fast Five™ - Build a Robust Process
Duration: ˝ a day
Description: A short course on step three of the Fast Five™ process. Candidates learn the principles and techniques of improving process consistency.
Fast Five™ - Achieving the Invincible Process
Duration: ˝ a day
Description: A short course on step four of the Fast Five™ process. Candidates learn the techniques to ensure on quality product, all the time.
Fast Five™ - Create an Elegant Process
Duration: ˝ a day
Description: A short course on step five of the Fast Five™ process. Candidates learn the principles of simplifying and streamlining process, especially non-value added processes like maintenance.
Project Management - Basic Project Management
Duration: 1 day
Description: Candidates learn about project lifecycles, breakdown structures, scope definition and planning.
Project Management - Intermediate Project Management
Duration: 1 day
Description: Candidates learn how to design project management processes, the Project Manager types, planning methods under uncertain conditions, how to classify projects and how uncertainty affects the choice of tools used to manage a project.
Project Management - Advanced Project Management
Duration: 1 day
Description: Candidates learn how to leverage uncertainty to accelerate projects, how to address "Wicked Problems", creating modular designs and the power of the Project Data Array.
Innovation - An Overview
Duration: 1 day
Description: Candidates discover the differences between invention and innovation, the thinking process, how to effectively innovate, how to include opportunity analysis in to the project management system and the human factors needed to become a successful innovating organisation.
Innovation - Creative Thinking
Duration: 1 day
Description: Candidates learn and apply various creativity techniques including the Creativity Breakdown Structure, synetics, TRIZ, brainstorming and more, as well as the theory behind human thinking with respect to creativity.
Innovation - Options Analysis
Duration: 1 day
Description: Candidates learn ranking, sorting and selection techniques used to select inventive ideas so that become customer delighting innovations.
Innovation - Problem Finding
Duration: 1 day
Description: Candidates learn an assortment of methods for identifying failure modes and potential difficulties or shortcomings with designs allowing the root cause of 'customer dissatisfaction' to be resolved.
General Management - Group Behaviour and Leadership
Duration: 1 day
Description: This is an advanced class on the social dynamics of organisations and their complex nature and how this affects motivation and team performance. The course is based on Pandora's proprietary GILT model.
Classroom versus
Hands-on
There is often a debate about the value of classroom versus hands-on training. As with many things, at Pandora we believe there is a balance required between both types. A short period of classroom followed by the practical application at your premises.
This split approach has two advantages. One, the short classroom period doesn't overload the student with information. Two, the new knowledge can be rapidly applied to the student's organisation.