Training

WSI has been involved in training for over 3 years now.  Here are examples of some of the training we have been involved in:

• Insurance Sector Education and Training Authority (INSETA):  Over 120 employees from the insurance industry were trained in End User Computer, including Microsoft Office suite applications.  All learners received a bursary from the INSETA for this training.
• Energy and Water Sector Education and Training Authority (EWSETA): Approximately  70 Skills Development Facilitators (SDFs) were trained for the energy and water sectors to deliver organisational and development plans for their companies. 
• Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA):  Learners received training in End User computing. 
• Department of Health: Over 2 000 nurses / doctors - many who had never used a computer in the workplace - were trained in  End User Computing from January - July 2009.  The course was designed as an introduction to computer usage and included a focus on Microsoft Word and use of the internet and email. The training was designed to equip nurses with the skills required for the technological changes happening in the hospitals and clinics.
• Safety and Security Sector Education and Training Authority (SASSETA): Prisoners who were about to complete their sentences were given training in SMME developmment and management. One hundred prisoners attended and were encouraged to start their own business on  release.
• eSETA: WSI ran a capacity building workshop for NGOs / CBOs on how to access funding from the SETAs.

Project Management

• Safety and Security Sector Education and Training Authority’s (SASSETA) Military Veteran National Skills Fund Project (2 year contract). The objective of this R56 million project was to train military veterans in skills for employability – be this in the formal job sector or to start their own Small Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs).  WSI, together with its partners, was responsible for project planning, management of all training and service providers nationally, financial management, and stakeholder management.
• Seta for Secondary Agriculture (3 year contract). WSI was responsible for the overall project management of the SETASA NSF and its sub-projects, namely: Cross functional skills; Bursary scheme/scarce skills; ABET (2 900 learners); SMME support; Export Readiness. We responsible for the design of the project, for recruiting, inducting learners, liaising with institutions, administering the programmes Monitoring and Evaluation of the programme and reporting to the SETA and DoL.
• Uthukela Water : We have consulted to the Human Resource division and have assisted in the management of a range of  training interventions.  We have researched the Company's skills needs, have conducted a Skills Audit, prepared Workplace Skills and Employment Equity Plans and advised on a Performance Management System.

Marketing and Communication

• Department of Labour: National: We have recently produced a Marketing and Communication Strategy  and Plan for the Employment and Skills Development Services of the national DoL.  We have a long – standing relation with the DoL after having been involved in the marketing and communication of the first National Skills Development Strategy nationally
• Wholesale and Retail Sector Education and Training Authority (W&RSETA):  WSI produced and distributed a Critical and Scarce Skills Guide, as well as a range of marketing materials.  The Career Guide was written, edited and produced by WSI.
• Forest Industries Education and Training Authority (FIETA). The SHINTSHA Furniture Project as a National Skills Fund Project of FIETA. WSI, with CODI Communications won a 2-year contract to engage in marketing and communication activities for the project.  These activities included: Event Management; Public Relations; Writing and editing (Booklets and Marketing Materials); Design and publications; Writing / Design of advertorials; Management of Photography and Videography.

Brochures / Publications / Educational Materials

• W&RSETA: Update of Critical and Scarce Skills Guide as well as poster and brochure.
• Department of Labour: Leadership Pack – This included 5 booklets, 6 pamphlets and a poster that explain aspects of the National Skills Development Strategy.  Fifty thousand copies were produced and distributed nationally.
• Alex Health Centre and University Clinic: Wrote their 70th Anniversary Publication.
• LINK Newsletter: Edit and production of the official newsletter of the LINK Centre, Wits University.  This newsletter is made available to industry to update them on what is happening in the telecommunications and information technology world.
• Annual Reports:  Urban Sector Network/South African Qualifications Authority; CETA; MDDA
• Our Past, Our Pride: ABET publication.  Researched in Impendle, KwaZulu-Natal and produced as ABET publication.  This was published by Via Afrika.