Modern Apprenticeship in Business and Administration
Entry Qualifications :
There are no formal entry qualifications required, however, you should have a keen interest in business and administration and be enthusiastic about learning whilst working in a company. You must be aged between 16 and 24 to qualify for the Modern Apprenticeship programme.
What Are The Costs :
There is no cost to the learner or work placement company, training costs are met by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC).
Course Content :
Learners usually attend the Training Centre one day per week for study towards achieving the Modern Apprenticeship framework which consists:
- NVQ Level 2 in Business and Administration (work-based)
- Certificate in Administration Level 2 (theory and knowledge)
- Key Skills in Communication (literacy)
- Key Skills in Application of Number (numeracy)
Learners also have the opportunity of completing added-value qualifications in ICT and the Certificate in Text Processing at Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Levels - subjects include:
- Text Production (layout of formal business correspondence)
- Word Processing (business documents using word)
- Mail Merge (one letter sent to several addressees)
- Business Presentations (presentations using PowerPoint)
- Document Presentation (create business documents
What Will I Learn :
All aspects of Business and Administration including:
- Different types of Organisation and how they operate
- Business and organisational charts and structures
- Health and Safety in the workplace
- Data protection and copyright
- Equal opportunities and contracts of employment
- Your rights and responsibilities at work
- Role/skills of an Administrator-what the Admin function does
- Workplace systems, policies and procedures
- Time and workload management
- Working with others and importance of team working
- Create and maintain good, professional working relationship
- How to deal with conflict in the workplace
- Dealing with giving and receiving good and bad feedback
- Principles of effective negotiation
- Spoken and written communication and how it is used
- Telephone techniques
- Dealing with information and filing systems
- Learning styles, plans and personal and career development
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