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Enskills identifies the missing pieces in your training needs


enskills identifies the missing pieces in your training needs and provides viable, cost-effective training solutions.
 
  ABOUT US

enskills integrates various skills and talents, derived from over 20 years in Business, Education and Journalism, and brings with them a fresh and exciting vision of people development and business communication and the role of individual effectiveness in achieving organisational goals.

This page features enskills Learning & Development Personnel, their skills and qualifications.

LINDA CHANDER

Linda Chander, Principal and Director
Linda Chander
Principal and Director
BA; Grad Dip Ed; MBTI Accredited; Cert IV Workplace Training & Assessment.

As a learning and development professional, Linda prides herself in being an organisational catalyst and highly adaptable training design consultant with a proven track record of producing extraordinary results for clients. Her commitment to human development ensures a thorough research of all clients and their specific needs to provide viable, cost-effective training solutions. Enskills is building a reputation for adding value to many organisations both in Australia and overseas.

With a background in Journalism and Education, Linda’s focus is on enabling performance improvement through education and personal development.

Linda is a highly adaptable and flexible deliverer of learning interventions.

Areas of Expertise include:
  • Developing A Professional Approach
  • Developing Employees
  • Professional Presentation Skills
  • Leadership for Middle Managers
  • Effective Leadership
  • Dealing with Change
  • Managing Conflict
  • Time Management
  • Building Business Relationship
  • Retaining Top Talent
  • Business Writing
  • Report Writing
  • Persuasive Proposals and Effective Reports
  • Effective Team Building
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • Telephone Skills
  • Communication Skills
  • Managing Stress
  • Coaching & Mentoring
  • Assertiveness
  • Performance Management

JAY CHANDER

Jay Chander 
Senior Training Partner Jay Chander, Senior Training Partner
Jay Chander
Senior Training Partner
CA (ICAS); ACA; BA; MIIA; AIMM

Jay Chander is a commercially focused Chartered Accountant with over 27 years experience and proven achievement in Business Assurance/Control, Internal/Operational Audit, Business/Profitability Improvement, Risk Management, Business Process Design/Re-engineering, Financial Management, Project Management and other key operations across a range of industries.

Jay holds directorships with several companies including Capstone Business Improvement and Assurance, Capstone Asia Pacific and Enskills Learning and Development.

Jay was an integral part of major business initiatives and has implemented a number of significant cost savings and process reengineering projects for international firms. He has significantly contributed to developing and achieving business strategies, with significant bottom line enhancement. Jay qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young in the United Kingdom and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland, Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, Institute of Internal Auditors and the Australian Institute of Management.

Areas of Expertise include:
  • Improvement and growth of business performance /profitability
  • Operational Internal Audit
  • Risk Assessment and Risk Management
  • Business Assurance/Control
  • Corporate Governance
  • Process Re-engineering
  • Project management/systems implementation and control
  • Business consultancy
  • Business planning
  • Financial & Budgetary Management
  • Troubleshooting & Problem Solving
  • Interim Management
  • Variety of business related training
  • Implementing action plans for Business Strategies.


AND..
Steer your way through the audit process using the Auditing Road Map by Jay Chander.

DESMOND McGOLDRICK

Adjunct Professor at New Jersey City University and William Paterson University
Desmond McGoldrick
Linguistics Instructor
Language Educator

As a second language learner (Spanish and German) and educator with over fifteen years in-class experience in Ireland and the United States, Desmond’s expertise lies in his ability to use the personality strengths of the individual language learner. By enabling the student to develop a learning strategy that matches his/her individual learning style, he facilitates second language acquisition through a process of learning which, while cognitively challenging, is both enjoyable and personally rewarding.

With a background in Sales and Marketing and Education, Desmond believes that learning is a life-long activity which fosters self-confidence as well as prolonging physical and mental health.

Areas of Expertise include:
  • Basic Literacy Skills
  • Communication Skills
  • Rules of Conversation
  • Language Functions
  • First / Second Language Acquisition
  • English as a Second / Foreign Language
  • Developing Effective Reading Strategies
  • Writing as a Process
  • Persuasive Writing
  • Academic Writing
  • Morphology
  • Phonology
  • Syntax
  • Grammar
  • Transformational Generative Grammar
  • Applied Linguistics
  • Semantics
  • Language and Culture
  • Language and Gender
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Methods of Teaching ESL
  • Bilingual Education

PATRICK McGOLDRICK

Patrick McGoldrick, Senior Training Consultant
Patrick McGoldrick
Senior Training Consultant


Patrick McGoldrick has been a writer and editor all his working life, and has held senior editorial positions in six national newspapers in the UK, Ireland and Canada: the Daily Express, the Sun, the Irish Independent Group, the Toronto Star, the Irish Times and the Irish Mail on Sunday.

He also founded, published and edited Canada’s first Irish newspaper.

He has been a trainer and facilitator of personal development courses, lectured in business networking, and developed and delivered courses in English for newspapers, business writing and real estate reporting, and has negotiated wage and technology agreements for the National Union of Journalists and newspaper management.

Patrick is a firm believer in the philosophy of win/win, and is an unapologetic advocate of plain English in business and a fierce opponent of jargon. He took early retirement from journalism to concentrate on helping non- and second language English speakers in Asia to develop their conversational, writing and business networking skills.

He joined Enskills in 2012 and has quickly become an integral member of our training team.

Areas of Expertise include:
  • Business Writing
  • Copy Editing & Proofreading
  • Presentation Skills
  • Negotiation Skills
  • Presentation Skills
  • Business Networking

JAN BURNES

Jan Burnes Jan Burnes, Senior Training Partner
Jan Burnes
Senior Training Partner
MBA, NLP Certified Practitioner, Diploma in Business Counselling AQF Level VI, Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training, Diploma in Advanced Communication Skills.

Jan Burnes is a dynamic Trainer and Corporate Facilitator with over 25 years experience in the area of Leadership and Management. Previously the managing director of a top performing company employing over 1,000 people, Jan now uses her real-life experience in developing people at all levels to achieve higher standards of performance and productivity.

Jan developed training packages that were subsequently accredited by the NSW Vocational Education & Training Board (VETAB), and gained reciprocal recognition from the official accrediting bodies in other States and Territories. Her training programmes were widely acknowledged as representing International Best Practice in training principles. During this period she trained over 2,000 business professionals including Business Enterprise Centre staff and management, bankers, accountants, lawyers and financial advisers.

Areas of Expertise include:
  • Customer Service
  • Sales Effectiveness
  • True Colors Communication Styles (Internationally accredited facilitator)
  • Facilitation Skills for Managers and Team Leaders.
  • Management and Leadership
  • Developing High Performance Teams
  • Interpersonal Communication
  • Coaching & Mentoring
  • Dealing With Difficult People
  • The Art of Assertiveness

PAM HARRIS

Pam Harris Pam Harris, Senior Training Partner
Pam Harris
Senior Training Partner
B Ed; MBTI Accredited

Pam Harris has twenty years experience in the field of Learning and Development and her training workshops are always enjoyable, involving and high energy.

Pam specialises in people skills workshops, and is an accredited facilitator for the internationally acclaimed communication programmes Think on Your Feet® and Writing Dynamics™ . Another major focus of her work is Time Management where she helps people discover how to focus their activities to achieve results.

Pam has extensive experience in developing and tailoring programmes to meet the needs of her clients, and won a training design award.

Prior to establishing a consulting business, Pam managed the training function for an international bank, a business association and a food manufacturer, and was a financial advisor. Her career in learning and development began after completing a degree in education, and the financial sector has been her main client focus.

Areas of Expertise include:
  • Think on Your Feet
  • Leadership and Management Skills
  • Frontline Management
  • Behavioural Interviewing
  • Time Management
  • Negotiation Skills
  • Assertiveness
  • Targeted Selection
  • Sales Training
  • Managing Change
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Communication
  • Customer Service

COMMITMENT TO SERVICE

enskills prides itself on its “after delivery services” which include:

  • availability for consultation
  • prompt evaluation feedback
  • ongoing input into development of personnel

enskills has established very successful and long-term relationships with all of its clients. It is regularly consulted as a business partner in determining the ongoing learning and development needs of each organisation with a view to delivering a combined, flexible, tailored and seamless training solution.

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