Graduate School for Professionals

GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT

Incorporates Aventis Certified Professional Trainer (ACPT) Certification

OVERVIEW

In today's demand business environment, more organizations are emphasizing on training and develop to help their organization ride through the economic challenges or to seek a 2nd career option as a Certified Lecturer, Coach or Trainer. Each year, organizations and individuals spend millions of dollars on professional training and organizational development, attempting to achieve their desired organizational or professional goals. To succeed, you need to be equipped with the knowledge and techniques to design training programs and assessment.

The Graduate Diploma in Training & Development is designed specifically for corporate executives; HR professionals in both public and private sectors or professionals seeking to embark on a career as a certified professional trainer, lecturer or career consultant

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

The Graduate Diploma in Training and Development prepares HR Professionals with the skills to meet the human resource development needs of business across all industry. It aims to enhance the knowledge and skills of those involved in organizational and individual development.

Aventis Certified Professional Trainer (ACPT) Program

The Aventis Certified Professional Trainer program is designed to equip participants with the tools, strategies, and techniques required for professionals seeking to enhance their skills set. This certification program serves as an ideal framework for participants preparing and developing their teaching or training role or individuals who are already in training and wish to enhance and upgrade their skills set and knowledge. Besides emphasising on key training skills set, the program aims to equip participants with the know-how to design and incorporates the Professional Trainer Toolkit to deliver competency based training using time tested methodology.

BENEFITS

Upon completion of this program, graduates will

• Spearhead a organizational assessment of the entire training cycle from the analysis of training needs (TNA) through to the effectiveness of the training programs
• Identify training needs at an individual, departmental and organizational level and aligning it with the overall corporate strategy
• Design and execute organizational competency mapping and training programs
• Professionally design, analyze and measure the effectiveness of the training program
• Design and deliver training as a Professional Trainer

PARTICIPANTS

This program is intended for professionals employed in business and industry or the public sector who have a professional interest in training and development. This program offers an excellent platform to enhance the technical competences and professional credentials of the participants.

PARTICIPANT's TESTIMONIAL

"There is a plethora of training programmes in the market but Aventis’s ACPT provides participants with a comprehensive programme covering not only training skills and tools but the knowledge to apply them effectively in any topic-linked training. Activities are stimulating and thought-provoking where one of the benefits include acquiring realistic, hands-on learning tools that improve not only presentation skills but also increase participants’ confidence in using them for future training. The master trainer is a dynamic presenter who knows his material very well and engaged us all with an innovative approach that made learning less complex and improved the skills of the entire group in a single programme."

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

This program is also ideal for professionals and executives seeking to pursue a rewarding career in training, HR development, career management and other related fields. Practitioners who are responsible for organization development projects will also benefit from this program.

The program is also suitable for individuals seeking to convert their academic qualification and professional experience into active income as a trainer / lecturer/ coach.

PROGRAM STRUCTURE

This is a 6 months part-time program comprising of 4 modules. This program are tailored for working professionals and classes are conducted on weekdays evening from 7.00pm to 10.00pm or over weekends 9am to 5pm. Each module is supported with 24 contact hours of face to face lectures which are conducted by our experienced faculty.

• "Certified Professional Trainer" Certification
• Human Capital Development and Leadership
• Mapping the T&D Blue-Print
• Competency Based Assessment and Evaluation

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

The Graduate Diploma in Training & Development is awarded by Aventis School of Management. Graduates will be allowed to use the designatory letters "Grad Dip Training & Development" after their name upon completion of the program. Successful graduates will also receive a Professional Certification awarded by Aventis School of Management to certify them as a "Certified Professional Trainer" which will enable them to conduct training and executive education courses with Aventis Learning Group.

Aventis School of Management is one of the 5 business schools in Singapore that is approved as members into the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) which recognized globally as an accreditation body of quality in management education and has established accreditation services for business schools and business school programmes, corporate universities and technology-enhanced learning programmes.

SINGAPORE

• Aventis School of Management
• Nanyang Technological University - Nanyang Business School
• National University of Singapore, School of Business
• Singapore Management University, Lee Kong Chian School of Business
• Universitas 21 Global

Please click here for a full list of all the EFMD members.

ADMISSION CRITERIA

All applicants must possess:

• A degree or similar professional qualifications from a recognized university/institution, OR
• A diploma from a polytechnic with at least 5 years of working experience.
• Senior executives with extensive experience but without academic qualification may be considered on a case to case basis.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Interested applicants are required to submit the following:

• Duly-completed application form (download Form)
• Certified true copies of all education certificates and transcripts
• Your detailed Profile - Curriculum vitae
• Statement of Personal & Career Objectives
• Application processing fee of S$107 (non-refundable)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Participants may enrol and attend any of the modules for the acquisition of knowledge in a particular discipline. An executive certificate will be awarded for students that have fulfilled at least 80% attendance for that enrolled module.

For participants that have enrolled and attended any of the modules for the acquisition of knowledge in a particular discipline, they will be issued with an executive certificate if they fulfil at least 80% attendance.

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