ASKE believes that life/soft skills are integral parts of every training design and incorporate such skills and knowledge to all interventions.
ASKE takes up the challenge of building the Knowledge, Skills and Attitude of community based organisations and public sector organisations, empowering the team in subject matter and process development to serve the community better and as a result achieve personal and organisational goals. Interventions in Community Based Organisations range from project cycle management, outcome monitoring up to evaluation; in public administrative organisations the range include: service orientation, conflict sensitivity, transparency and accountability. The main focus is to create an enabling environment that will cradle the objective of the people serving and being served. The ASKE team has its expertise gathered from experience of working with CBOs, Divisional and District Secretariats for over 6 years.
The core team of ASKE has been pioneers of ToT in training methodology in the Vocational Training Sector, since 1999. Bernard Baruch states that “the ability to express an idea is nearly as important as the idea itself”. ASKE takes up the challenge of building ’The Trainer’ that is capable of planning, delivering (presenting) and monitoring learning on any subject. Being a trainer can be a highly rewarding and satisfying occupation. As a trainer, you have the opportunity to help others improve their performance and become more successful in their careers. As a trainer, you have the opportunity to learn and grow in new areas of knowledge, skills and attitudes. At the same time, becoming a trainer implies that you have reached a level of maturity, confidence, and self-discipline that allows you to work in a professional environment.
The core team members of ASKE have a long spell of experience in helping others in presentation skills. This is one subject of the Training of Trainers (ToT) that can be focused for individual or a group to improve their presentations. ASKE is able to help in personal and material presentation on any subject. Achieving excellence in inter-personal communication is a complex process made up of several basic skills. A message will be believed if the verbal, vocal, and visual elements of the communication are consistent. John Molloy stated that; “You never get a second chance to make a good first impression!”
‘Instructional supervision is a service to trainers, both as individuals and in groups. To put it simply, instructional supervision is a means of offering to trainers, specialised help in improving training. Instructional supervision is NOT evaluation!’ Where do excellent trainers come from? Are they born with the potential for excellence? Is the excellence developed over time and under certain conditions? In the early 1900's, the American education philosopher John Dewy emphasized that teacher learning and growth do not magically and instantly happen. Instead, they depend on appropriate interaction between the trainer and fellow colleagues. In the mind of John Dewy, we are all responsible for supervision.
ASKE believes that everyone manages a project at some time. A student manages a project as part of class requirement, an instructor manages a field trip with students, and a construction engineer manages the construction of a new building. A development project manager, implements and managers a specific intervention over a period of time. All of these people apply the same principles ‘the principles of project management’. Over the past 50 years, the field of project management has grown from an art to a science. ASKE approaches the learning of project management by sharing and discussing practical assignments of the project management life cycle and writing of a project proposal, within the main parameters of time cost and quality. The team at AKSE has over 9 years’ experience and developed unique strategies to empower the beneficiaries and organisations in development projects.
