Workplace Essentials
Change Management
Help leaders and employees understand change, adapt more effectively and strengthen organisational readiness.
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Blakes' Training Institute
Build capability that moves your organisation forward.
Practical training that helps people apply new skills, strengthen performance and contribute more effectively.
Blakes' Training Institute
Develop your people. Strengthen your results.
Choose practical training designed for workplace performance, career growth and professional development.
Blakes' Training Institute
Your next level starts with the skills you build today.
For individuals and organisations, professional development can open new possibilities and create measurable workplace impact.
Licensed workshop content. Professionally delivered.
All BTI workshops use properly licensed training content and materials, delivered for practical workplace application.
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Individual
Training Solutions
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2009
Institute founded
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Face-to-face & virtual delivery
Practical
Learn · Apply · Reflect
Priority Development Areas
Start where stronger capability can make the biggest difference.
Explore a high-demand workshops and two broad development pathways for organisations and professionals.
Development Pathway
Career Development
Build communication, confidence, creativity, negotiation, project management and other skills that support professional growth.
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Development Pathway
Personal Development
Strengthen critical thinking, emotional intelligence, productivity, public speaking, resilience and personal effectiveness.
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What skill does your team need next?
Search by challenge, capability or topic. The catalogue searches workshop titles, summaries, objectives and keywords.
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Tell us what is not working as well as it should. We can help identify suitable training options.
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Built for Organisations and Individuals
Turn development into practical progress.
Does your staff need training?
Skills gaps often show up as operational inefficiency, repeated escalation, inconsistent customer service and avoidable errors. We offer customised group packages for organisations with teams to develop.
- Customisable group training
- Face-to-face and virtual delivery
- Leadership, HR, workplace and business skills
- Practical application through the Institute's “go and do” approach
Fresh out of school or newly employed?
Qualifications can open the door, but confidence, communication, self-management and professional judgement often determine what happens next. Build the skills that help you perform at your best.
- Career and personal development
- Communication and critical thinking
- Leadership and workplace readiness
- Skills you can apply in real situations
A practical training approach
Learning continues after the workshop.
BTI programmes are designed to move beyond simply hearing information and toward applying it in practical situations.
Learn
Instructor-led modules introduce concepts and practical skills.
Apply
Participants practise through workplace “go and do” activities.
Reflect
Participants reconvene to discuss challenges, discoveries and best practices.
Assess
Assessment and feedback help confirm understanding and practical application.
Evidence of development
Training in action. Experiences in their own words.
See how training translates into workplace development and hear directly from people who have participated.
Our Impact
View all →From Workplace Readiness to Stronger Performance
A large public-sector organisation periodically recruits employees who may have the required qualifications but are not always fully prepared for the expectations and pressures of the workplace. Through an ongoing programme of professional developme…
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An Experience That Made me Think Differently
I thoroughly enjoyed my experience with Blakes’ Training Institute, where i participated in Critical Thinking and Emotional Intelligence training.
What stood out for me was how practical and relevant the sessions were. I was challenged to question my assumptions, think more deeply before making decisions an…
Sandra Wedderburn
CEO/Co-Founder
A Transformative Experience
I participated in the Critical Thinking and Emotional Intelligence workshops with Blakes’ Training Institute and the experience was both enlightening and transformative.
The Critical Thinking workshop challenged me to question assumptions, analyze information more carefully, recognize flawed reasoning, and make more thoug…
Keith Wedderburn,
CEO/Co-Founder
The Project Management course was a highly valuable professional development experience that reinforced and further strengthened my approach to managing complex projects and institutional initiatives. The structured examination of the 10 Knowledge Areas, five Process Groups, and 49 project management processes provided a useful framework for integrating pla…
Dr. Nadine Boothe-Gooden
Managing Director
Experience That Supports Progress
Let us put decades of practical experience to work helping you achieve your career and organisational goals.
The workplace keeps changing. Whether you are retooling, reskilling, preparing new employees for the world of work or strengthening an established team, BTI can help identify practical development options that support better performance.
Ready to develop your people?
Tell us what you want your team — or yourself — to be able to do better.