Services

Learnerships

All our Learnerships form part of SETA registered National Certificates, are duration of a maximum of 12 months and combine theory training with on-the-job practical development. The programmes focus on the development of participants in a specific functional area.

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Learnership Funding:

Learnership can be implemented with SETA funding where the SETA using funds collected from the skills levy makes funding available for the implementation of Learnership including stipends for unemployed learners, Employers can also self-fund the implementation of Learnerships which comes with huge incentives. SARS allows for a tax deduction of R 40,000 in the year of registration of a learner and R 40,000 in the year of completion of the Learnership, which adds up to a total tax deduction of R 80,000 per completed Learnership. This translates into a net tax saving of R48 000.

Kills Programmes

Skills programmes are job specific and are designed to develop learners through training that is workplace related and through which credits towards a registered qualification can be achieved. Lons Pride also offers a variety of unit standard aligned courses, which could build up to a Skills Programme. Below is a list of SAQA registered unit standard that form a qualification, Lons Pride derives skills programmes from the list as per the outcomes of the skills audit.

Skills Audits and Workplace Skills Plan

Lons Pride conducts Skills audits to determine training needs within an organization in order for that organization to improve its skills and knowledge. Individual skills audit establishes an individual’s current competence against the skills matrix for a particular position and a Individual Development plan is formulated. A skills audit gathers more information than current qualifications levels.

The outcome of the company skills audit process is a skills gap analysis intended guide the Workplace Skills Plan.

Lons Pride Skills Development Facilitators analyze the needs of the organization and develop and draw up a suitable skills development plan. It is the Skills Development Facilitator’s responsibility to ensure that the skills development plan is followed and properly administrated. The responsibility of a Skills Development Facilitator is great and thus Lons Pride strives to source professionals that meet high standard of criteria.

Lons Pride Skill Development Deliverables:

• Develop an organizational training and development plan

• Conduct an analysis to determine outcomes of learning for skills development and other purposes

• Provide information and advice regarding skills development and related issues

• Conduct skills development administration in an organization

• Coordinate planned skills development interventions in an organization

Community leadership development

 Nurturing an appreciation for the concept of facilitation leadership and the roles / qualities that need to be enhanced towards this.

• Helping participants distinguish between leaders and leadership.

• Helping participants develop a deepened understanding of working with power and change in communities.

• Exploring the role of leadership in community mobilizing and organizing towards collective action.

• Understanding the importance of dialogue practices in community.

• Understanding how to cultivate participation and nurture horizontal + collaborative relationships.

Supervisor and Management Development Programmes

One of the main focus areas of skills development for organizations, often in line with meeting BBBEE-objectives, is the development of current and future leadership. In this regard, Lons Pride has developed a model with various subjects for Supervisory and Management development initiatives within your organization.

These models can still run over a 12-month period, even though they do not necessarily form part of the National Certificate in Management Learnership programme. We feel that the models of these programmes should be aligned to the needs of the participants and the organization and therefore different modules will be applicable and suitable for different organizations.

Some of the topics that Lons Pride is currently running as part as internal supervisory and management development programmes:

• Introduction to supervising

• Being a leader and motivating a team

• Introduction to management

• Employee wellness

• Administration skills

• Maintaining quality

• Business skills

• Customer Service

• Time management

• Performance Management

• Mentorship and Coaching

• Leadership skills

• Problem Solving

• Professionalism

Assessment and Moderation

Assessment

Lons Pride Assessors are professionals registered by the relevant Education and Training Quality Assurance (ETQA) body to measure competence against specified National Qualifications Framework (NQF) unit standards and qualifications. The assessor has an important role in the conduct of outcomes based assessment in the following manner:

• Assess candidates against registered unit standards and qualifications.

• Uses different assessment methods to judge learner competency against identified standards.

• Assess knowledge and skills of learners.

• Assists in skills audits by assessing employees to determine skills gaps.

• Assess evidence for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)

Lons Pride Assessment Process:

1.) Plan for the assessment.

2.) Prepare the candidate for the assessment.

3.) Conduct the assessment according to established assessment principles and decide whether the candidate is competent or not yet competent.

4.) Collect evidence of the candidates’ performance.

5.) Evaluate and judge the evidence.

6.) Record the assessment decision.

7.) Provide feedback to the candidate.

8.) Complete all documentation and forward to the ETQA.

9.) Regularly review the assessment process and implement changes as and when required.

10.) Comply with all moderation and ETQA requirements.'

Moderation

Moderation is the process of ensuring that assessments have been conducted in line with agreed practices, and are fair, reliable and valid. The generic assessor standard registered by SAQA entitled ‘Moderate assessments’ outlines the process in detail. One moderator usually checks the work of several assessors to ensure consistency. The management of moderation is the responsibility of the provider.

Lons Pride Moderators are professionals registered by the relevant Education and Training Quality Assurance (ETQA) body to conducts quality assurance in relation to the assessments carried out by assessors.

Lons Pride Moderators duties are:

• To evaluate the design of assessments and assessment instruments and the need for redesign where necessary

• Ensuring that assignments and tests are carried out correctly and fairly.

• Handling the concerns of learners.

• Evaluating the performance of an assessor.

• To verify that assessments are fair, valid, reliable and practicable and that they have been conducted according to the

ETQA assessors code of conduct

• To identify and investigate any trends of inconsistencies.

• To evaluate the performance of assessors and ensure that methods used are comparable and judgments are consistent.

• To provide an appeals procedure for dissatisfied learners

• To provide feedback to the ETQA on unit standards / skills programmes and qualifications.

• To advise ETQA on the deregistration of unsatisfactory assessors.