HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT CONSULT

Most of these training programmes were developed from Ambrose Kibuuka’s life-inspiring book,

“After University, What Next?”

TRAINING PROGRAMMES	DURATION	BRIEF DESCRIPTION
Dreams to Action: 7 Keys to Realizing Your Ambitions	3 days Or 18 contact hours. Plus additional 4 hours of doing personal home work and field practical assignment.	This training helps those with the ambition to achieve greater things, but who have not yet figured out where to start from. If you have the dream, we help you discover the art and science of taking action NOW. You will learn to detect and deal with the five dream killers. “You don’t start because you are great; you become great because you started”.
After University, What Next? Employment Strategies and Work Orientation for Finalists and Fresh graduates (ESWOFF)	5 days Or 30 contact hours. Plus additional 12 hours of doing personal home work and field practical assignment.	Perhaps there are no jobs for everyone. But for sure there is plenty of undone work, practically in all organizations. This means there are lots of employment opportunities for those who have what it takes. This training empowers young people leaving school with the strategies and practical skills for identifying and acquiring rewarding employment opportunities. You also develop the key soft skills needed to excel at work and to realize rapid career advancement, despite stiff competition. You will learn the art of creating your own vacancy in an organization that has no open vacancies. It’s all about mastering how to create your own employment opportunity, even where there seems to be none.
Strategies to Make Jobs Look for You	2 days Or 12 Contact hours. Plus additional 3 hours of personal homework.	Certain people are too experienced and skilled to look for jobs. But surprisingly they continue to do so! However, there is a small nucleus of professionals who have developed a magnetic pull for jobs. This training is for professionals who want to develop the stature and enjoy the pleasure of not having to look for jobs any more. You will discover the secret of what it takes to have employers head-hunt you instead of you having to look for the next job. The training takes you through a step-by-step awakening and skills-building scheme towards this goal.
Advanced Life Management Skills (ALMS)	5 days Or 30 contact hours. Plus 16 hours of personal homework.	Through this training you develop an internal locus of direction and control that enables you to make the most optimal choices at every moment of your life. It builds your ability to navigate successfully through moments of stress, frustration and disappointments without losing your spirit, head or heart. Based on the science of Emotional Intelligence, this training will boost your sense of self-awareness, self-mastery and purposeful living. It will become your life-long answer to the question: How do I stay focused on my purpose and goals despite life’s inevitable odds?
From Reading Hard to Reading Smart: How to Become a Sharp Learner “Its not how much you read; its how you read it” Highly recommended for students and knowledge workers of all sorts For students, previous trainees have labeled it “the unrivaled examination passer”.	2 days Or 12 contact hours. Plus 4 hours of personal homework.	It’s a pity that from childhood no one teaches us how our mind works and how we can use it optimally in all aspects of life. Hence even in learning, we just know how to read hard; not how to read smart. We now live in the information age where life will increasingly depend on reading. The 21st century will be very challenging for people who cannot read fast, easily comprehend, and retain what they have learned. This training is perhaps the best thing that can happen to students and professionals who must deal with vast volumes to read and use everyday. Based on the science of how the human mind works, the training enables you to discover how to tap into the unlimited capacity of your mind to read quickly, understand indelibly, and remember easily what you have read. For writers, it will boost your capacity to generate and develop creative, cutting-edge ideas in just a flash of time. We teach you to apply MINDMAPPING in all aspects of your life – it is the ultimate tool for optimizing the power of your mind.
How to Develop an Entrepreneurial Mind	2 days Or 12 contact hours. Plus 4 hours of personal homework.	The first step to becoming an entrepreneur is to develop an entrepreneurial mind. One that sees extraordinary value in the ordinary things around you, and grand opportunities within the usual problems and difficulties. This training is a step-by-step mental process designed to supercharge your Opportunity Recognition Quotient (ORQ). After the training you will begin seeing numerous opportunities that remain invisible to the average eye, (Just like you might as well be in your current status).
Preparing for Career Change	2 days Or 12 contact hours. Plus 3 hours of personal homework.	Changing career line is like changing from a leaking boat to a better one, but in the middle of the lake. If you don’t do it skillfully, you can easily lose balance and drown. This training is specially designed for those who want to move on by changing from one career line to another. It helps you to anticipate what lies ahead and to plan effectively for the transition. It gives you a step-by-step checklist of the prerequisites. Probably the ultimate companion to your new-found passion.
Preparing for Retirement	3 days Or 18 contact hours. Plus additional 4 hours of doing personal home work and field practical assignment.	The time for retirement is an opportunity to be in charge of your time and pursue your dreams. But retirement can also be a nightmare if you are not well prepared for it. No wonder most people are dead scared of it! This training helps you to conquer the fear of retirement. You will develop great insights to convert your work experience and expertise into financial freedom and personal fulfillment during retirement. We help you to identify appropriate and profitable investment options. You will learn how to use it as a precious time to reinvent yourself, enjoy life, and harvest from the social networks you have built throughout the years of your professional practice.
Preparing for Self-employment	3 days Or 18 contact hours. Plus additional 4 hours of doing personal home work and field practical assignment.	Self-employment is an effective means to earning a decent living and realizing your personal dreams. However, from experience, it has tended to backfire for some people, leaving many others skeptical about moving in that direction. This training is a crucial eye-opener and a source of encouragement for those who want to pursue self-employment. It prepares you to avoid the common mistakes people make and miserably fail. The training takes you deep through learning how to do the things you must do in order to succeed in self-employment.
Financial Literacy : How to Make Small Money Work for You	2 days Or 12 contact hours. Plus 3 hours of personal homework.	Why are some people able to turn small money into great wealth while others have nothing to show for the big monies they earn? The difference lies in financial literacy. Perhaps there is nothing as dangerous as using a tool that you do not understand how it actually works. Money is the inevitable tool that we must all work with. Unfortunately, school and home teach us so many other things except the nature of money and how it works. No wonder then, we all want it to be our friend but unknowingly, we keep doing things that instead repel money away. This training will help you learn the true character of money, how to earn more of it, keep more of it, and make it multiply. You will learn how to work for money and ultimately turn around to make money work for you.
Increasing Personal Effectiveness: The Magic of a Time Management Revolution (TMR)	2 days Or 12 contact hours. Plus 3 hours of personal homework.	We all have 24 hours in a day. What do high achievers do with their time that the rest do not? The single-most factor responsible for why people achieve differently in life lies how they use their time. Changing what you do with every minute of your day, week and month automatically changes all the results you get. Time management is more than being a punctuality freak. This training will lead you into undertaking fundamental shifts in your priorities, and values. It will teach you how to identify high-impact actions that are aligned to your targets and goals everyday. This training is your chance to understand the age-old adage, “time is money”. Discover how you can revolutionalize your entire life by simply revolutionalizing how you use your time.
Managing Stress	2 days Or 12 contact hours. Plus 3 hours of personal homework.	Life is full of experiences that exert upon us pressure, strain, anxiety and tension. While some people sail through such stressful moments intact, others come out of it severely bruised and devastated. What makes the difference? This training is designed to enable you develop an emotional guidance system that navigates you through stressful moments without losing yourself. The training is built on the science of emotional intelligence, which puts personal mastery at the centre of the whole discipline of managing stress. We take you to the core of who you are and help you to discover that no force external to you can disorganize you without your own permission. Ultimately, you will learn how to thrive on stress.
How to Convert Knowledge and Experience into Business	2 days Or 12 contact hours. Plus 3 hours of personal homework.	Knowledge has taken over as the greatest factor of production in the 21st century. Unfortunately, most people who possess cutting-edge knowledge have not yet learned how to convert it into profitable business. This training takes you through the dynamics of how the global knowledge economy works and how you can position yourself by starting a profitable knowledge-based business. Imagine, there are thousands out there who need your vast knowledge, experience and exposure in order to realize their dreams. And they are willing to pay for it! Our mission in this training is to help you make business sense out of it all and profit by it.
Advanced Communication Skills for Personal Effectiveness	3 days Or 18 contact hours. Plus 4 hours of personal homework.	Personal effectiveness is all about realizing optimum results from one’s efforts in any mission. Your ability to communicate effectively is at the centre of this drama. Whether you are looking for a job, lobbying for support, marketing your products and ideas, or dealing with team-mates, you rely on your ability to win people’s confidence and approval. The extent to which you succeed in this game determines your personal effectiveness. In this training we take you through deep and advanced skills in making effective written communication, one-on-one dialogue, public presentations and personal presentation that will always leave your target audience with only one option: to nod in approval.
Self-discovery and Personal Development	3 days Or 18 contact hours. Plus 4 hours of personal homework.	What most people are looking for in life is within them and within their reach, but they can’t see it. So they spend the whole of their lives without finding it. The reason is very simple; society has taught us to look for valuable things outside of ourselves, not within. This is a highly reflective training that helps you to discover your true identity and the treasures hidden inside you. Once you discover these, then your journey to personal development and self-realization is conquered. We provide you with tools that reveal your immense endowments. Only when you know who you are can you work towards becoming the best person that you can be.
How to Become an Effective Public Speaker	2 days Or 12 contact hours. Plus 3 hours of personal homework	If your work involves making public presentations then you need top public speaking skills to climb to the top of your career. Do you want to lose the fear of audiences? You want to learn how to speak with humor and capture people’s attention? Is your problem convincing people and winning them to your side? You want to stop being defensive when answering questions from the audience? In this training we cover all these aspects and a lot more, including how to master your presentation without having to read straight from paper.
Re-positioning Your Career for Global Competitiveness	1 days Or 6 contact hours. Plus 3 hours of personal homework	The world is now connected as a global village. National gates are wide open and people can trade and work almost anywhere in the world. Professionals who do not have what it takes to compete in this new environment will increasingly be displaced by more competent professionals from across borders. This training opens your mind to a whole new world of opportunities in the global arena. It prepares you to embark on an agenda that will ultimately make you highly competitive in the global labour market. You will be amazed at how simple changes can bring about a huge impact on your career positioning.
How to Create a Rewarding Job	3 days Or 18 contact hours. Plus 4 hours of personal homework.	There is a shortage of jobs compared to the number of people looking for jobs. But there are a lot of undone jobs all around us. Job creators are those people who have mastered how to exploit this gap creatively. Our previous experience shows that this is a skill and discipline that can be learned and developed. In this training we take through the process of disciplining your mind to think creatively, learning to identify gaps that can be translated into job creation opportunities and designing a practical action plan that enables you to start where you are with what you have NOW. If “capital” is your problem, that is part of this training’s equation!
Talent Discovery for Career Planning	3 days Or 18 contact hours. Plus 4 hours of personal homework.	The conscious discovery of one’s talents is the first step towards designing a great career plan. A career plan that leads to personal fulfillment ought to be based on the natural inclination of one’s abilities. This training brings the two elements of talent discovery and career planning together in an experiential, hands-on learning experience. At the end of it all, you have a clear career plan that gives you a clue on the bearing your talents have on your present and future. Your talents represent the “path of least resistance” to fulfilling career. You can avoid living by accidents like most professionals do.
How to Prepare for a Successful Job Interview	2 days Or 12 contact hours. Plus 3 hours of personal homework	Why are some people able to charm the interview panel and others not? Why do some people emerge winners at interviews and others losers, despite having the same qualifications? Well, the answer lies in personality and preparation. In this training we take you through a checklist of the homework you need to do in preparation for a job interview. We will even take you through a practical interview simulation where you go through the real thing. And you wont go off the hook until we are satisfied you can win any interview. Leave no room for chances, where necessary, you will have to learn to polish your personality.
How to Write an Attractive CV and Convincing Application Letter	2 days Or 12 contact hours. Plus 3 hours of personal homework	When looking for a job, you have only one chance to make the first impression. Your application letter and your CV is all you have to make that first impression. This is an intensive training that dwells on every minute detail related to writing an attractive CV and an application letter that makes every panelist eager to have a chat with you. The training involves you having to write each of the two documents from scratch, as many times as necessary until the panel is satisfied you are next to perfection. This is not theory, no stories. It is a practical training. You come as amateur and leave as a pro.
How to Chose the Right Course to Study	1 days Or 6 contact hours. Plus 3 hours of personal homework	When people fail to understand the career and entrepreneurial value of courses, they label them “bad courses”. In reality there is no bad course. There can only be a mismatch between the person and the course. In this training we take you through the process of analyzing the suitability of courses and making the best choice. We provide you with tools that take you to the depth of understanding your personal inclination, available career prospects, related labour market dynamics, unexploited opportunities, future trends, as well as your personal vision and lifestyle. In the final analysis, our role is to enable you make the most informed choices rather than basing on people’s limited opinions and hearsays.
Sharp Tips for Effective Job Hunting	2 days Or 12 contact hours. Plus 3 hours of personal homework	Looking for jobs without any formula can be frustrating. Being effective at job hunting requires you to be well organized. This among others includes knowing your prospects and boundaries. This training provides you the insights and tools you need to attract the jobs you deserve. What preparations must you undertake before reaching out? How can you ensure your visibility? How can you create your own customized vacancy in an organization where there is no advertised job? How do safeguard yourself against being devastated by frustration and disappointments? All in all, how do you succeed where others fail to get jobs? The training is tuned to help you discover effective solutions to these questions and more.
Strategies for Affordable further Education Without Leaving Your Job	1 days Or 6 contact hours. Plus 3 hours of personal homework	The trends in the 21st century require professionals to be broadly and deeply knowledgeable and multi-skilled too. This means people have to catch the habit of continuous learning. But how do you balance the tight work life demands with further education? This training is specially designed for professionals looking for a strategy that allows them to pursue affordable further education without leaving their job. Using live show-cases and personal testimonies, we will explore practical ways achieving this goal through both self-education and formal education.
Academic Skills Enhancement Training (ASET)	3 days Or 18 contact hours. Plus 4 hours of personal homework.	The training targets students who feel they need to develop practical skills and insights that enhance their interest and proficiency in academic work. It explores the essential aspects of personal mental power that are usually not tackled in class, yet are so central to academic work. It aims at helping students to understand how the human mind works and how to enhance its capacity to think creatively, critically, fast and consistently, in order to generate the desired results on demand, especially in the pursuit of scholarly work. It also includes the essential communication skills for effective writing and public presentations. This training helps students to tremendously improve their grades.
Deriving the Career Interpretation of Your Course	1 days Or 6 contact hours. Plus 3 hours of personal homework	This training targets students and fresh graduates who want to explore the variety of career possibilities associated with their course of study. The main argument of the training is that virtually all courses offered in our local universities can translate into a rewarding career. But it takes the right exposure and a more open mindset to recognize this fact. The training therefore focuses on enabling each participant to examine their respective courses through such creative lenses. This training is also highly recommended for lecturers in universities and other tertiary institutions of learning.