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Your Challenge. Our Solution.
Corporate Training at Ƶ is about bringing ongoing learning to your organization through customized contract training.
We provide private training and team building for businesses, non-profit organizations, and professional associations. Whether you have a group of employees with a specific skills gap, want to provide training as a service for your own clients, or need a comprehensive training and development plan across your company, we can help. Our customized training includes:
- Industry specific instructors
- Tailored curriculum
- Training at your location, ours, or online
- Custom training dates
- Assistance with government grants
Ƶ can deliver your training where and when you need it. See below for a list of our corporate training and professional development offerings. Contact us at corporatetraining@okanagan.bc.ca or one of the options below to get started.
Leadership Training
Whether you are an aspiring, a new or a developing leader, there’s education for all levels at Ƶ.
Explore essential and advanced leadership training from Ƶ's Continuing Studies and Corporate Training Department. These 6-hour workshops cover a range of topics that will hone your abilities to be the best leader you can be. We also offer a selection of other leadership training courses to choose from.
What We Offer
Corporate Training takes the knowledge contained in Ƶ’s degree and apprenticeship programs, vocational certificates and industry partnerships and makes it accessible to you, your stakeholders and your employees. We have hundreds of courses and more than 25 certificates to draw from.
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Using our current professional experts and our history of curriculum development experience, we customize the above to create your perfect training solution.
If you’re seeking professional development for one or two of your employees, Continuing Studies and Corporate Training offers our professional development programming regularly throughout the year at our campuses. Through a sponsorship agreement, you can arrange to send your employees to our programming and be invoiced directly, so that you can take advantage of reimbursement training grants.
Contact our Contract Training Specialist to learn about the sponsorship process for your employees. It’s quick, easy and ensures a straightforward billing process in the case of course changes or cancellations.
We design custom courses and programs quickly and effectively. We can work with you to perform a needs assessment and design a curriculum around the results.
As a College with deep ties to the industries which drive our economy, we pride ourselves on training that reflects the specific nature and challenges of those industries. As a learning institution we are experts at curriculum development, allowing us to develop targeted workshops and programs on demand.
Clients can be involved in the training process to the degree that best suits their time or business. If you don’t have the time, you can leave the whole process to us. If you’d prefer to be involved in the details of instructor selection, workbook development, and custom content, we can work together every step of the way. Contact our Contract Training Specialist to get started.
Corporate training with Ƶ is streamlined and straightforward:
- Discuss your needs with our Corporate Training Specialist
- Receive a training outline and quote
- Finalize details, dates and locations, and sign agreements
- Work with our subject matter experts to tailor the curriculum
The contract training process can take as little as 2 weeks from start to finish depending on the training, and can be organized months in advance to accommodate long term scheduling and development plans of your business.
We remain committed to being competitive with private industry training and the open enrolment tuition listed here. As every contract training service is customized to meet your needs, Corporate Training with Ƶ provides a quote specific to your training for every offering. Our quotes are also designed to provide what you need to apply for WorkBC’s B.C. Employer Training Grant. Successful applicants of this grant can be reimbursed for portions of their training costs. Visit for more details.
Meet our Corporate Training Specialist
Corporate Training at Ƶ is a hands-on approach to our mission to transform lives and communities. We provide solutions to our surrounding businesses and communities through practical workshops and programs, targeted directly at their identified needs.
As a Corporate Training Specialist, it’s my role to act as a resource for your training and development needs. I will work with you to understand your needs and challenges, to connect you with the resources available through the college, and to lower training costs through group rates and awareness of grant funding. Ultimately, I’m here to help bring your professional development vision to life.
Think of me as an extension of your training and development team.
Corporate Training Specialist
Testimonials
The Ƶ facilitators were keen, prepared and engaging. They heard and understood our unique First Nation training needs. They assured that they developed and consequently delivered a tailor-made “Supervisory and Leadership” program that fully addressed and satisfied our organizational needs.
Pauline Terbasket, Executive Director
Okanagan Nation Alliance
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Our clients
Alpine Aerotech
Andrew Peller
Askew’s Foods
Boyd Autobody & Glass
City of Kelowna
City of Vernon
Community Futures North Okanagan
Country Prime Meats
Factors Group
Kingfisher Boats
Norsteel Building Systems
North Okanagan Friendship Society
Okanagan Nation Alliance
Pro Builders Supply Inc
Reidco Metal Industries
SW Event Technology
Universal Packaging
Venture Training
Westbank First Nation
Wilson Beck Insurance