Focused on Learning provides skilled and cost effective consultancy and training services in e-learning, web communications and publishing, with a focus on clients in the public, academic and not-for-profit sectors. Our specialist services and specific areas of expertise and training provision include:

• Report writing skills
• Effective recording (includes recording skills, pitfalls in recording, recording in residential care - or any of these elements can stand alone)
• Effective communications skills
• Plain language training
• Change management
• Information governance (can include information sharing, data protection, freedom of information, documents and records management - or any of these elements can stand alone)
• CRACK ON! - becoming a critical, reflective, analytical and confident practitioner
• Putting research into practice
• Understanding continuing professional development and post-registration training and learning
• Writing for e-learning
• Uses of new media in e-learning

We are more than just consultants. Focused on Learning works with you as a partner – and we strive for long-term relationships.

We focus on you. We'll help you understand how new technologies can be used for learning as well as to improve job and business performance. We provide practical tools and techniques to encourage knowledge sharing, collaboration and foster environments that connect your staff, partners and customers to relevant information or expertise, at their moment of need.

We will help you with any or all of the following e-learning services:

• advice on the possibilities for your organisation
• strategic consultancy
• product independent consultancy
• helping you with the 'business case'
• system specification
• Invitation to Tender (ITT) or Invitation to Quote (ITQ)
• product or supplier evaluation
• contract negotiation
• project management
• implementation
• online support and facilitation
• writing for e-learning
• uses of new media in e-learning
• Focused Accessibility Check, an audit of your website with advice on achieving a recognised compliancy standard and we'll test your site with disabled users

Our clients include...

• IRISS – the Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services
• Quarriers
• NHS Grampian
• Scottish Social Services Council
• Scottish Social Services Learning Network Tayforth
• University of Aberdeen
• University of Dundee
• University of Ulster
• Virtual Learning Centre (Baillie Consulting Ltd)

If you have a task in mind, please talk to us

- we would be very happy to informally discuss how we can help you. This may include:

• Filling a skills gap in your organisation, eg. related to re-organisation, staff sickness, delays in recruitment or a new challenge.
• Getting to grips with issues quickly and purposefully - our experience has given us a broad perspective and a familiarity with diverse organisational structures and processes.
• Providing a cost effective short term input - no recruitment costs, minimal induction, a focus on achieving outcomes within agreed timescales and none of the expensive overheads of larger companies to inflate our costs.
• Bringing to your organisation significant breadth and depth of knowledge and experience which informs our proactive, problem solving approach.
• Offering a fresh and independent perspective in relation to current practice, organisational issues and investigations.

• Formulating strategy
• Implementation of strategy
• Business planning
• Carrying out formal investigations
• Supporting the management of change
• Developing policy and procedures to meet legislative and regulatory requirements
• Preparing funding applications and completing returns
• Interim management
• Project management
• Devising and delivering training
• Report writing

Can we help?

If you would like more information about any or all of our services, please do contact us – we.are@focusedonlearning.com