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About learndirect We re one of the largest integrated providers of courses and qualifications, training and employment services in the UK. We re also a world-leader in providing secure, extensive e-assessment solutions, complemented by our delivery of large-scale technology-enabled employability and work-based learning in the UK. A trusted partner to the UK government and employers, we re focused on making sure individuals, businesses and nations have the skills critical in supporting economic development and growth. Our vision is to inspire people to realise their potential, and in the UK alone, we ve worked with more than 4.5million people. We ve already helped more than 75,000 business equip their employees with the skills needed to improve productivity. 300,000 people fulfil their career ambitions with us every year
Join our global network of partners Are you an established organisation with a passion for learning and a desire to grow in a competitive market? Then we re inviting you to become a learndirect approved partner. As a member of our global partner network, you ll gain access to the services and resources of the UK s largest provider of skills, training, e-assessment and employability. Grow with us and become part of an outstanding world-class global network of businesses and organisations. Together we can equip the professionals of today and tomorrow with the skills critical to support economic growth and development. With a combination of our extensive knowledge and experience, coupled with your local market information and trends, you ll be well positioned to maximise your growth potential. You ll benefit by: tapping into the huge market opportunities presented through e-learning expanding your existing portfolio with market-leading products and services adding real value to your customers, helping both businesses and learners alike to realise their potential and aspirations capitalising on our credibility as a trusted brand What support will you receive? We ll provide a dedicated partner support service. Our commitments to you include: helping you to get up and running so you can provide a quality service working with you to create the best experience for your learners actively building a lasting partnership with you and supporting you to achieve longterm success providing marketing and branding resources, such as an official learndirect approved partner logo, templates for your emails, website, printed material and signage Want to become a learndirect approved partner? It s easy! You can become an approved partner by signing up to one or more of the following services: reseller referral partner e-assessment delivery centre learning delivery centre Turn over the page to read more about each of our services
Reseller Do you want to extend and support your training services? Then you can access our world-class short online courses and learning programmes catalogues at a special discount. What are the benefits? As an authorised reseller, you can: access our courses on demand to fill specific skills gaps for individual learners or business customers, using our short online courses to enhance and support other training programmes improve your competitive position in the market, and reach new markets compete in the market with best of breed e-learning from leading publishers grow your commercial provision through an extensive and diverse training offer improve the return on marketing investment by up-selling and cross-selling to customers benefit from a flexible access model and partner discounts on all products. maintain full control of the customer relationship determine your own retail price when selling courses forward to your learners Your learners journey through our LMS 1 2 3 4 5 Reseller sells course to learner/customer Reseller sets up the learner s account in our specially co-branded LMS Reseller enrols learner onto the relevant course Learner logs in online and completes course Learner receives completion certificate How does it work? We ll provide you with a specially co-branded learner management system (LMS) which gives you a fully integrated way to manage learning and performance. Our comprehensive LMS allows you to: browse and access our library of affordable multi-supplier short online courses gain an overview of your training, so your organisation can use, monitor and plan e-learning across your business create and manage accounts, and enrol learners (individuals or groups) track and report on enrolments, expenditures and learner progress through a customised dashboard What s the cost? Joining our reseller network is cost-effective, quick and easy. It s based on a pre-payment for course tokens that are used as currency within the system. Each time an enrolment is processed, the course s token value is deducted from the pre-paid amount. The tokens are supplied at a discount which equates to a wholesale price. The pricing consists of: a one-off set up fee of 500 which includes comprehensive training by our dedicated support team, co-branding of the reseller portal with your logo and the creation of your administration account an initial course token purchase of 3000 tokens for 2,100. This is the minimum commitment for the first year. During the year, additional tokens can be purchased at a discount in multiples of 250. Bigger discounts are available for larger token purchases A sample list of course topics is available in the ecourses section of this brochure. A rate card including the full course price list is provided on application along with the contract details.
Referral partner Become an authorised referral partner and you ll benefit from access to our library of short online courses through our website store. It s a quick, flexible and costeffective way to earn commission, boost your learners skills and improve business performance. What are the benefits? As a referral partner, you ll be able to: join quickly and easily for free get started without any technical expertise expand your learning offer with access to a greater range of high quality courses benefit from our partner support system, including a hassle-free payment process and customer service, managed by us at learndirect How does it work? You ll earn commission on every sale you refer to our website store. Just place referral partner links or promotional codes to our website store on your own website, emails or collateral, and we ll track the sales you ve driven. We offer three flexible options for our referral partners, each of which earns you commission on every sale generated: promotional code provide your learners with a special code unique URL give your learners a unique website link white label website link to a co-branded website store featuring our short online courses 10,000 people log on and learn with us every day.
e-assessment delivery centre We ve the scale and capacity to deliver a significant number of tests internationally through secure, computer-based delivery. Why not become an authorised test centre for our innovative, fit-for-purpose e-assessment solutions? By working together to deliver invigilated tests to a global audience, you ll be complementing your own training offer whilst generating additional revenue for your organisation. By becoming a test centre, you ll benefit from: our experience of delivering more than 1.5 million tests on behalf of the Home Office UK Border Agency since 2005 our trusted robust, resilient and low risk systems and processes our unrivalled quality, with 97% of candidates satisfied or highly satisfied with our service our innovative thin client technology Learning delivery centre As a market-leader, helping thousands of learners in hundreds of learning centres in the UK, we can provide you with the knowledge and expertise to successfully run an effective facilitated e-learning centre. Becoming a learndirect approved partner centre will allow your learners to access hundreds of courses and qualifications, and enable them to learn in a variety of ways giving them complete flexibility. We ll help you set-up your learning centre and train your tutors to deliver a world-class learning experience for your community that will equip learners with the skills needed to secure a job or get ahead at work. What s next? To join the Global Partner Network, please fill out the application form on our website: learndirect.com/globalpartnernetwork Please note: learndirect reserves the right to select partners based on market reach, capacity and whether they complement the existing partner network.
ecourses from learndirect ecourses is our library of short online courses and e-learning training programmes. All the support you and your staff need is built into the courses, as well as inbuilt tracking system to ensure they keep on track with their learning. They can be accessed on demand, supporting the needs of individual clients. As well as being exceptional value for money, our short online courses are a flexible, trackable, time-saving way to upskill your staff. These are just a sample of the courses (some of which also offer accreditation) that can be made available to your organisation: These are just some of the courses that can be made available to your organisation: Change Management Planning Change Communication Briefing Skills Producing Project Reports Written Communications Financial Management Cash Accounting for Small Businesses Financial Environment Sage Bookkeeping Project Management PRINCE2 Foundation (certification) Project Management Essentials Agile Project Management Information Management Maintaining Information Systems Using Information for Decisions Leadership and Managing Teams Leadership Motivation Problem Solving Skills 94% of our learners are satisfied with the services we provide. Building the Team Delegation Giving and Receiving Feedback Managing Performance Challenging Behaviour Assessing Performance Customer Service Understanding Customers Professional Customer Service Complaint Procedures Employability Applying for Jobs CV Writing Planning your Career Interview Techniques Performance & Efficiency Effectiveness and Efficiency Giving and Receiving Feedback Performance Indicators Planning Work Resolving Conflict Supporting Individuals Personal Effectiveness Identifying Self Development Needs Manage Own Stress Minimising Stress Time Management Equality & Diversity Age Discrimination Disability Confident Diversity Challenge Compliance - Health & Safety Introduction to Health and Safety Introduction to Risk Assessment Fire Safety First Aid Awareness Health and Safety for Employees Health and Safety for Employers Manual Handling Preventing Accidents Slips, Trips and Falls Food Safety Desktop Computing Internet Explorer Windows Access Excel Project Outlook PowerPoint SharePoint Word Keyboard Skills Web Design & Digital Images Web Design HTML5 Dreamweaver Photoshop WordPress Languages We offer more than 100 courses including: Arabic Chinese (Mandarin) Czech Danish Dutch English French German Greek Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Spanish Thai Turkish Please note that not all courses are available in all countries.
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