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Councils want to 'Train the Trainer'  09.06.08

DONEGAL County Council and Limavady Borough Council are teaming up to provide a ‘Train the Trainer' course to businesses and individuals throughout the region as part of a major cross border skills drive.
The ‘Train the Trainer’ courses will help the local small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) sector to train staff in-house and provide them with the skills necessary to maintain the region's reputation of providing high quality standards of service.
Local resource development officer with Donegal County Council Kevin O’Connor said the course would provide organisations with an in-depth practical and theoretical understanding of training in the business environment. "They will also gain an invaluable insight into the knowledge, skills and attitudes that successful trainers need to design, deliver, assess and evaluate high quality training," he said.
The Train the Trainer course is part of a wider tourism skills development programme, the Atlantic Drift Training Programme, which commenced in September. The €159,000 project was funded under INTERREG 111A Programme for Ireland/N.Ireland. It has already provided training to more than 200 people throughout the region in customer care, e-commerce and website development, marketing, public relations, media management and festival and event management. In addition to this six tourism related businesses underwent a highly successful mentoring programme.
“The 'Train the Trainer' course is the last part of the Atlantic Drift Training Programme and therefore I expect demand for places to be very strong, as has been the case with the rest of the courses," added Mr. O'Connor. If you would like your business to take part you can email: kevin.oconnor@donegalcoco.ie  or phone Carndonagh Public Services Centre on 074 9373 763.
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