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Tharstern Launches Training Academy - 04/01/2008 - Tharstern Limited
04/01/2008 Tharstern Launches Training Academy
Tharstern have added a new arm to their operation with the opening of the
The new State-of-the-art training facility is based at their head office in Colne and offers a wide range of Tharstern MIS, Print and general business skills courses. The doors opened to Academy September last year when Tharstern piloted several courses including ‘Improving Print Estimating’, ‘Getting the most out of your MIS’ and ‘An Introduction to PRINCE2™ Project Management.’
Sue Atherton, responsible for the Academy, joined Tharstern in early 2007 as a Training Manager and headed up the project. Sue commented. “We hosted a selection of courses from September last year and as soon as we made an announcement to our customers quite a few of the dates became fully booked, encouraging us to offer more dates.”
Sue continued. “We heavily invested in developing the right surroundings and technology and have created an ideal learning environment The feedback from the delegates who attended the training was very positive which further confirmed our belief that there was a need for such a Training Academy.”
There are a wide range of courses on offer for 2008 helping users to refresh, review and improve their current use of Tharstern. The prices of the courses are attractively priced starting from £150 up to £325 per delegate for 1 day events and from £750 for 2 day events with discounts for additional delegates.
Some of the courses on available include:
Using Tharstern to calculate your cost rates
Advanced Datafile configuration for Tharstern
Scheduling and Production planning with Tharstern
TharsternSQL™ for Network Administrators
2008 will also see the return of popular courses such as ‘Getting the most out of your MIS’ and ‘Improving print Estimating’ in addition to non-Tharstern courses for topics such as diary and email management with outlook, Presentations with PowerPoint and using Excel to analyse data.
Sue added. “We sampled a couple of general business skills courses last year and were pleasantly surprised by the uptake and number of printers wanting to acquire these sorts of skills.
The Academy is ideally situated just off the M65 at Tharstern’s head office in Colne, Lancashire allowing delegates to get away from the office and learn in a comfortable and un-interrupted environment.
The facilities cater for up to 14 delegates and include a state-of-the-art interactive whiteboard, hi-performance PC's and ample free parking.
In addition to the Tharstern MIS range of courses there will also be a range of other Print, IT and business skills courses on offer. The venue is also available to customers, external agencies and organisations to hire or alternatively tailored courses can be created for businesses and groups to help achieve business specific goals.
Visit www.tharstern.com/academy for course details, prices and to book your places.
