Skills Programmes
The Skills Programmes are designed to equip learners with essential entrepreneurial, workplace, and interpersonal skills required for employment and self-employment. They focus on developing the ability to start and sustain small businesses, manage workplace conflict effectively, apply essential workplace skills, and prepare for entry into the job market.
Skills Programme Title: SP-210401- New Venture Creation
Skills Rationale
Youth for Employment Services (YES), is a business led NPO which works in partnership with government and labour to initiate policy in the creation of jobs for youth. One of the strategies adopted by YES is the Creation of New Ventures. This skills (learning) programme supports the New Ventures being created by young people, especially in rural areas.
The programme will help the trainee to:
- Start, manage, grow and sustain a small business.
- Know him/herself
- Know his/her industry
- Identify market opportunities
- Create business innovation
- Manage finances
- Price goods and services
- Plan and set business goals
Skills Programme Title- SP-210409 -Conflict Management
Skills Rationale
Conflict in the workplace negatively affect the productivity and quality of work.
Effective and efficient management of conflicts to create peace and harmony in the workplace (on a prevention basis).
A qualified learner will be able to:
- Identify and describe the main sources of conflict.
- Distinguish types of conflicts
- Apply appropriate strategies to manage conflict.
- Resolve conflict using appropriate techniques in the workplace.
- Develop and implement follow up plans
- Compile conflict resolution reports.
Skills Programme Title -SP-211009-Workplace Essential Skills
Credits 20
Duration in days 25 Days
Skills Rationale
Workplace Essential Skills are the skills needed for work, learning and life. WES training is designed to support apprentices who have experienced difficulties within a company working environment. The purpose of this skills programme is to prepare a learner to operate as an employee and to complete daily tasks and activities at a workplace.
Workplace Essential Skills are used in every industry and at different levels of complexity. They provide the foundation for learning other skills and enable employees adapt to modern working practices and workplace change. Workplace
Essential Skills are the core skills you need to continue learning and to complete daily tasks and activities at work.
The benefit to industry sector to address inequalities and to grow the economy, by enabling community reskilling and upliftment of an individual or society with providing employable skills
The typical learners for the skills programme are employed and unemployed South Africans, including those employed or previously employed in low-skilled occupations.
Skills Programme-SP-201201-Title Workplace Preparation
Credits 30
Duration in days 30 Days
Skills Rationale
To develop work place skills for young and unemployed to capacitate them for employment opportunities available in the market. The workplace skills are normally not taught within professional qualifications. The training is geared to prepare the learners for the job market. The learner will have skills for searching for employment, preparing and presenting him/herself well when opportunities arise. The learner will learn about:
- What work is about
- Job search and interview
- Expectations as an employee
- Succeeding at work
- Managing self and working with others
