Bringing world-class training solutions to South Africa

Siyandza Skills Development and General Physics (GP) Corporation are working together to jointly explore opportunities within the South African market.

A level three BEE company, Siyandza's proven track record of consistent success in providing accredited, effective, efficient quality training solutions to a range of South African companies has shown that small companies with big visions can grow rapidly in the South African market.

Naturally, this self-same brisk pace of expansion has highlighted to Siyandza's management team the importance of ensuring that Siyandza's foundations remain strong.

“If we want to continue offering our customers a quality product, then it is vital that we build in the capacity to scale up in a measured, controllable but effective way,” says Jeff Austin CEO of Siyandza.

Multiple award-winning company, GP Corporation, brings a world of skill and experience to its customers, and know-how to offer tried and tested training solutions in markets as diverse as Europe, the Americas and the Asia Pacific countries.

This means the prospect of leveraging off of one another's mutual strengths is an exciting development, not only for the two companies, but more importantly, for skills development in South Africa.

“Ultimately,” says Austin, “it has always been about the learner and focusing on understanding their needs and challenges that I believe has been the secret to our success. We need, therefore, to consistently be open to new ways in which we can offer our learners and our customers skills training that facilitates each and every one becoming a competitive employee or entrepreneur, or business leader on the global stage.

“This opportunity we are exploring with GP,” adds Austin, “is just one such way of strengthening our own foundation, while simultaneously equipping our customers to compete in what is becoming an ever more competitive market.”

As with any other country, the South African training and skills development sector, both in the Occupationally Directed Training (ODT) arena and the Further Education and Training (FET) arena has its own unique history, culture and embedded paradigms.

This means it is best explored with a local 'guide' at hand, who has hard won experience, and who can help ensure the successful design, development and deployment of training to each unique customer.

“Siyandza Skills Development,” says John Lapolla, Director of the GP Technical Training Group “is uniquely positioned in both the public and private sectors in South Africa, and has a good track record of being able to provide a wide range of innovative solutions, both in the e-learning and traditional training consulting sphere.

“GP already has a history of establishing strong alliances and partnerships across the globe,” adds Lapolla. “This allows us to provide the most innovative and comprehensive solutions to our customers' business needs and enables GP to customise the best solutions to improve our customers' business performance.”

Globally, customers are demanding more cost-effective, efficient solutions that succeed across an ever increasingly diverse workforce.

This means that training solution providers are being forced to not only institute innovative solutions, but also be able to access unique, niche and specialised skills from anywhere across the globe at a moment's notice.

This prospective teaming with GP places Siyandza in a unique position to build on its already innovative Enterprise Learning Platform (ELP) and training products, while offering clients access to a global subject matter expertise footprint.