Posts by Paul Naybour

Many AsTrE members have been delivering virtual training for many years. As a membership organisation, we are supporting our members moving to virtual learning by sharing best practices and preparing revised standards. Based on my own experience, these are my tips for delivering high-quality virtual education.   Interactivity As with classroom training, people prefer training that…

It’s time to re-run the AsTrE market trends survey and examining body evaluation survey again. 1) Has the market picked up since the election? 2) What is happening to day rates? 3) What’s up and what’s down, is PRINCE2 still declining? 4) Is APMG still the best exam provider? 5) Has the APM recovered their…

The August 2019 AsTrE Business Census combines the market intelligence from all members. It gives an anonymous and unbiased view of the training market conditions. In summary, the results show: – 56% of Members forecast growth in January 2019.– 50% Membership experienced growth in the three months to August 2019.– 42% of Members forecast future…

How has the first half of 2019 turned out, compared to your plans? How does your business performance compare to other AsTrE Members? What is the consensus on future prospects? Today we are pleased to launch of second business intelligence census. This follows on from the first census in early 2019. The first census revealed…

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The report of the first ever AsTrE member market trend census, which was conducted at the beginning of 2019, has been very well received by AsTrE members. AsTrE committee, therefore, proposes to run the census regularly twice a year, with the next one starting in July 2019. This is so that the data can be…

The 2019 AsTrE AGM will be on the 6th September 2019 at Holden Bars and online. We plan to repeat the business intelligence survey during August, only this time the APM, APMG and Axelos have said they will share it to a wider group of training providers. The theme for the meeting will be Agile…

The March 2019 AsTrE meeting voted unanimously to form a company limited by guarantee to protect the Organisation and Officers. As there were half the members present the vote was quorate. This structure is used widely by voluntary not-for-profit organisations such as after school clubs or sports clubs. It is the least bureaucratic structure whilst…

At the March 2019 AsTrE meeting members identified that some Social Media training would be helpful. Especially the opportunities for AsTrE members to collaborate and coordinate social media campaigns. We have had the offer of a collaborative Social Media Workshop to be run by the APMG Marketing Team. This will include information about making the…

The training assocation for accreditiied training providers has just completed it’s first business intligence cencus of it’s members. Despite the currnet uncertantly the vast majority of members (56%) are forecasting growth in 2019, with a further 25% expecting the trunover to stay the same.  Only 19% are forecasting a fall in turnover.   This is…