Sustainable Transformation Through Partnership

Reap Africa Initiative provides professionalism, in-depth knowledge and attention to detail – key attributes that have highlighted the Reap Africa Initiative brand and underpinned our values for over a decade. The reason our clients choose us is because, above all, we deliver. We realise that funds can be limited and that it is therefore vital that budgets are managed carefully in order to provide the greatest possible return. When you appoint Reap Af rica Initiative, you appoint a team that understands value and is geared to delivering value-rich solutions that achieve agreed goals on time and on budget. Accomplishing this requires a great deal of practical experience and the exercising of financial discipline, two qualities that we have demonstrated time and again.

Equally importantly, Reap Africa Initiative thinks outside the box, adopting innovative new approaches to solving problems and building strong partnerships in order to get the job done in the most efficient way possible. We have coined the term SMART Project Management to describe this approach: it denotes a disciplined professional service whose worth is measured not in fine words and noble aspirations, but in practical results and measurable benefits.

Our Approach

Our approach to every assignment carefully considers your requirements, as stated in the terms of reference, and these translate into a series of steps aimed at achieving the objectives of the assignment. The successful execution of any project requires persons with the requisite experience and capabilities and the adoption of strong project management techniques.

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We will deploy using our global service delivery approach, which contains six phases, as shown in the diagram below. We believe our approach provides a framework for application of a consistent process for all engagements. It provides a structured approach to managing different phases of all projects, including design, delivery, implementation and sustainability.

 

COULD I BENEFIT FROM A REAP AFRICA INITIATIVE TRAINING COURSE?

THE BIG QUESTION

Our courses are open to anyone who desires to improve workplace and personal productivity. Over the years, we’ve trained managers, financiers, communications experts, civil servants, government officials and statesmen. In short, we offer a dedicated training service to anyone who’s in a position to make an impact within their organization in a managerial, advisory or
communications role. Our associate consultants have worked in advisory roles for organizations and governments across Nigeria and the US, giving us both the knowledge and experience to provide trainings that target specific needs of organizations, as well as giving us a unique insight into the cultures, practices and customs of these organizations.

CONSULTING

Reap Africa Initiative offers ongoing consultancy to help organizations achieve more. Trained in business, governance and finance, our expert advisors come from all walks of life. Our people have experience working in organizations across the nation in senior management roles. In other words, we can do more than just teach. We know our delegates trust us to provide knowledge and experience, but we have also found a demand for support that lasts longer than a week or two weeks course. That’s why we’ve introduced a range of consultancy packages so we can help you no matter where you are in the country. Draw on our advisors’ experience at any time by bringing us in as management, communication or advisory consultants.

Reap Af rica Initiative isn’t just a training company, it’s a global knowledge bank able to offer ongoing professional business support. We can help you execute projects, oversee business processes and assist in the production of specific bids and tenders on behalf of your organization. We deliver quantifiable and sustainable benefits to our clients. What makes us unique is our ability to combine the experience, capability and local knowledge to deliver the best value.

We can provide you with the following consulting and outsourcing support:

OUTSOURCING

§ Procurement BPO
§ Business Process Outsourcing § HRBPO
§ LearningBPO
§ Applicationoutsourcing

CONSULTANCY

§ Human Resource Consulting
§ BusinessProcessManagement
§ Change Management
§ Leadership and Talent Management
§ Strategy Consulting
§ Workforce Performance Management

TABLE OF CONTENTS

MANAGEMENT COURSE

1. Train the Trainer

2. From Management to Leadership

3. Managing and Leading in Challenging Times

4. Strategic Human Resoursces Management Skills

5. Building, Managing and Leading High Performance Teams

6. Mastering the Art of Effective Communication

7. Delivering Powerful and Charismatic Presentations

8. Negotiating, Drafting and Managing Commercial Contracts

9. Business Writing Skills

10. Effective Business Writing (Memos, Email, Agendas, Meetings Minutes)

11.Effective Time and Priority Management

12. Finance for Non-Financial Managers

13. Improving Management Performance through Budgeting and Cost Control

14. Risk Evaluation and Management

15. Corporate Governance in the Public Service

16. Improving Performance and Accountability in Public Sector

17. Records and Information Management

18. International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS)

19. Performance Appraisal

20. Preparing Effective Business Plans

21. Effective Communications at Work

22. Management Workshop on Public Sector Reforms

23. Public Procurement Proficiency Training for Public Officers

24. Planning, Procuring and Managing Public Private Partnerships

25. Planning, Procurement, Designing Tenders and Managing Contracts

26. Security Awareness Training Course

27. Defensive Driving Skills Course

 

TRAIN THE TRAINER

Course Overview:

This unique programme has been specially designed to provide you with the skills and knowledge you need in order to design, develop and deliver training intervention of the very highest standard. You will learn everything from how to conduct training needs analysis through to return on investment and business focused evaluation. Thiscourseis about creating training programmes that really make a difference to the delegates and their business results.

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant

 

From Management to Leadership

Course Overview:

Leading a team, department or organization is very different from actually managing it. Leadership is a unique skill -set that has to be developed deliberately. This unique course is the only one of its kind specifically designed to provide you with a firm foundation in the key skills, strategies and techniques that will eventually make you an effective leader.

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant

Managing and Leading in Challenging Times

Course Overview:

This course has been designed to help managers and leaders navigate their business and their people through tough times. Attend and you will easily be able to identify the key actions you can take to minimize the impact and optimize the outputs at all levels throughout your business. It will ensure managers stay sharp, focused and lead others confidently and competently.

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant

STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT SKILLS

Course Overview:

Most problems that any company can have been ultimately people-problems. Human resources management (HRM) is therefore critical to the success of any company, especially as environments in which companies operate are becoming more competitive. The fundamental objective of this course is to bring delegates to understand how to harness the human capital a company has to achieve its goals.

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant

BUILDING, MANAGING AND LEADING HIGH-PERFORMANCE TEAMS

Course Overview:

This course is designed to provide solutions to the new problems which occur in the shift from a traditional face-to-face/top-down management structure to a remote team culture. It will provide you with the skills and techniques that you need to manage and maintain a highly successful remote team. You will also learn how to overcome the interpersonal and management challenges faced as a leader of team members in different locations.

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant

MASTERING THE ART OF EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION

Course Overview:

This Programme has been designed to give you a “communications toolkit” – a collection of models and techniques that you can dip into and utilise in whatever communication challenge you find yourself in. Not only will you walk away with the ability to communicate better on all levels, you will also gain a unique insight into how to read and understand the ways others communicate. You will gain comprehensive skills set that will ensure success not only in your professional but also your personal life.

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant

DELIVERING POWERFUL & CHARISMATIC PRESENTATIONS

Course Overview

Attend this course and discover the secrets behind the mystique of how to deliver a powerful presentation and, thanks to the “microwave principle” – developing from the inside out through gaining a powerful belief in yourself and your ability – you will develop new levels of confidence in delivering presentations.

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant

 

NEGOTIATING, DRAFTING AND MANAGING COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS

Course Overview

This course will provide you with the commercial skills required to help you through each stage of negotiating, drafting and managing commercial contracts to ensure your contracts deliver value to the business. You will gain an in-depth insight into the commercial and legal issues surrounding contracts, and determine how you can proactively identify and manage the risks involved.

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant

 

BUSINESS WRITING SKILLS

Course Overview

By attending this course, you will have the unique opportunity to master the critical writing skills that will help you to reinforce the impact of your written message. By the end of the course you will be able to develop and adapt your personal style of convincing written communication to reflect the nature of your audience and achieve interest.

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant

EFFECTIVE BUSINESS WRITING (Memos, Emails, Agendas, Meeting Minutes)

Overview

This seminar-workshop helps improve the writing skills of anyone tasked to prepare written communications.

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant

 

EFFECTIVE TIME AND PRIORITY MANAGEMENT

Course Overview

A highly practical training programme specially designed to equip you with the practical skills, strategies and techniques that
will help you increase your personal productivity and efficiency and help you take control of your working day. This unique
training programme has been designed to enhance your productivity skills and make all your professional efforts more efficient and effective.

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant

Finance for Non-Financial Managers

Course Overview

This Programme will provide you with a unique insight into the financial workings of your organization. You will discover how to analyse your costs, provide accurate profit forecasts, and streamline the budgeting process. You will also acquire the critical skills which will enable you to participate fully in large and small investment appraisal decisions and key strategies issues.

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant

 

IMPROVING MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE THROUGH BUDGETING AND COST CONTROL

Course Overview

Both finance and non-finance staff may be responsible for establishing and managing budgets. This course will help delegates to understand the full relevance of budgeting and how this can be effectively achieved by providing delegates with the right skills. It will focus on identifying factors that can impact an organization’s performance, enable managers to plan for such factors, consider contingencies, and evaluate resource levels as an ongoing process.

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant

 

RISK EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT

Course Overview

This course teaches delegates to develop project objectives, scope and requirements, and achieve expected results in cross
functional projects. During the course, essentials of structural planning, including logical framework process, will be reviewed.

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant

IMPROVING PERFORMANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN PUBLIC SERVICE

Course Overview

This course prepares delegates to cultivate modern policies and practices in their department or area of responsibility. Delegates will discuss, analyze and evaluate key elements of modern governance using interactive techniques and case studies from Africa, Asia and Europe. The course provides ideas to stimulate improvement of economy, efficiency and effectiveness in the workplace and examines means of developing staff into high-performing teams.

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant

 

RECORDS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

Course Overview

This course introduces records management in all media, providing techniques to deal with the issues and challenges of implementing electronic records management systems, back- record conversion and archiving.

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant

 

INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC SECTOR ACCOUNTING STANDARDS (IPSAS)

Course Overview

This course helps delegates meet the challenges of introducing IPSAS and secure the benefits of improved financial management to help secure organizational objectives and goals of their public service organization.

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant

 

PREPARING EFFECTIVE BUSINESS PLANS

Course Overview

No matter what business venture you run or want to start it must be preceded by the document called BUSINESS PLAN. Business Plan and Model for a Growing Market An existing player should evaluate these growth factors, review the business model and rewrite it to fit the business as it may now become.

For new entrants into the growth markets, a meticulously prepared business plan will substantially improve the chances of success. The production of this document is the minimum evidence that the individual or organization has taken the first formal step, atleast, in screening and evaluating the potentials of the new business idea. Business Plan and Model for a Shrinking Market Company failures, longer business cycles, hard time keeping good employees, shrinking gross margins, shrinking cash flow should cause the business to do a review of the business model and write a new plan.

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant

 

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATIONS AT WORK

Course Overview

A two-day practical way for workplace communication in a variety of media that managers should master if they plan to succeed. The participants will learn that effective communication is vital to the success of the organization’s business.

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant

 

MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP ON PUBLIC SECTORREFORMS

COURSE OVERVIEW

Public sector reform (PSR) is about strengthening the way that the public sector is managed. The public sector may be overextended – attempting to do too much with too few resources. It may be poorly organized; its decision-making processes may be irrational; staff may be mismanaged: accountability may be weak;

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public Programmes may be poorly designed and public services poorly  delivered. PSRis the attempt to fix these problems.

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant

 

PUBLIC PROCUREMENT PROFICIENCY TRAINING FOR PUBLIC OFFICERS

With an increased focus on procurement through the drive for greater efficiencies and the liabilities that public organizations face, the importance of getting the specification right, selecting appropriate contractors/suppliers and managing contract performance has never been greater. Public Procurement has been seen as a tool for delivering value for money and efficiency in spending tax payers’ funds.

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Improving public purchasers’ capability in the various aspects of procurement and contracting best practices is essential.

These three (3) days training Programme will enable government/public service organizations to nurture the talent which already exists within their procurement community and enhance the capacity of public servants involved in procurement and contract management duties. Having identified the existing skills and competency gaps in the area of effective public procurement practices in Nigeria, this Programme will infuse world-class and cutting-edge skills required by public servants in various procurement and contract management roles. Basically, it is intended to complement the existing professional development efforts in the public sector organizations. Public service workers attending this training Programme will gain high level skills to enable them initiate, plan, implement and manage procurement projects with a clear and accurate description of the contract deliverables that meet set project targets. Above all, it will also teach participants how to use new methods, tools and strategies for managing complex procurement projects to manage divergent stakeholder interest groups.

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant

 

PLANNING, PROCURING & MANAGING PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS

Course Overview

Explore innovative Public-Private Partnership (PPP) approaches to the provision of public services and major projects. Huge investment in public services and infrastructure are at the centre of national plans to boost economic growth and facilitate trade. With public financial

resources limited, there is a real appetite for the public sector to work in partnership with the private sector.

This course explains what PPPs are, where they are appropriate and how to make them work successfully in practice, with a focus on the effective planning, procurement and management. It also explores models of PPP, risk planning and sharing, commercial propositions, and how to build and manage partnership relationships.

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant

 

PLANNING PROCUREMENT, DESIGNING TENDERS & MANAGING CONTRACTS

Latest tools and techniques to undertake effective and efficient procurement of goods and services. Strong planning, tendering and management skills are essential to ensuring procurement goals are achieved. Producing quality tenders protects organizations against the risks of poor quality, misunderstandings, delays and escalation of costs.

This intensive course develops the skills to achieve optimal tendering and contract delivery results. Subjects include identifying the need, procurement planning, writing tender documents, evaluation criteria and specifications, and evaluating responses. Post award topics include contract management and monitoring and evaluation of performance.

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant

SECURITY AWARENESS TRAINING COURSE

Course Outline

  • Introduction to security and ethics of security
  •  Observation skills
  •  Work behavior
  • Crowd control management procedure
  • Interviewing techniques
  • Patrol techniques
  • Physical security and perimeter control
  • Security report writing
  • Terrorism and V I P protection
  • Crisis intervention
  • Crime scene management procedure
  • Communication skills during crisis
  • Emergency planning and disaster management
  • Occupational health
  • Handling hazardous materials
  • Introduction to first aid

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant

DEFENSIVE DRIVING SKILLS COURSE

Course Objectives

At the end of the workshop, Participants should be able to:

Identify risks associated with negative attitude and poor behaviour on the highwayIdentify and appreciate basic rules and regulations of the highway code Apply highway safety procedure, codes and driving ethics Communicate effectively and maintain basic human relations on the wheel.

Duration: 3Days
PRICE: N120,000 per participant