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NOC is an Accredited Training Provider and is registered with the Services SETA. Accreditation Number: 12953.

One of our main goals is to empower individuals and businesses by transferring knowledge through innovative and unique learning programs and experiences.

To this end, we are proud to offer in-house, online and open programs, delivered by dynamic professionals with a proven track-record of success.

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Personal Mastery

Discover your true self and take responsibility for how you live. Develop a personal vision, identify your purpose, and learn proactive ways to achieve life balance.
  • Our Personal Mastery Workshop equips delegates with the necessary skills involved in gaining deeper insight into oneself and allows one to take responsibility for the manner in which he or she lives in the world. It covers creating personal vision and purpose, how to engage in proactive behaviour, how to overcome fears and how to achieve balance in life, as well as many other topics.
  • PROGRAM OUTCOMES:
  • Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
  • • Gain deeper insight into yourself with the aim of taking responsibility for how you live in the world
  • • Demonstrate personal vision and purpose
  • • Demonstrate self-discipline
  • • Demonstrate proactive behaviour
  • • Employ positive contribution to others
  • • Demonstrate a positive attitude
  • • Overcome fears
  • • Achieve balance in life
  • • Achieve success
19th February 2025
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Change Management

Change is inevitable and affects how we live and work. Learn tools for smoother transitions, better acceptance, and managing reactions to change.
  • Change is a constant in many of our lives. All around us, technologies, processes, people, ideas, and methods often change, affecting the way we perform daily tasks and live our lives. Having a smooth transition when change occurs is important in any situation and your delegates will gain some valuable skills through this program. Our Change Management program will give any leader tools to implement changes more smoothly and to have those changes better accepted. This program will also give all delegates an understanding of how change is implemented and some tools for managing their reactions to change.
  • PROGRAM OUTCOMES:
  • Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
  • • List the steps necessary for preparing a change strategy and building support for the change
  • • Describe the WIFM – the individual motivators for change
  • • Use needed components to develop change management and communications plans, and to list implementation strategies
  • • Employ strategies for gathering data, addressing concerns and issues, evaluating options and adapting a change direction
  • • Utilize methods for leading change project status meetings, celebrating a successful change implementation, and sharing the results and benefits
  • • Describe the four states of Appreciative Inquiry, its purposes, and sample uses in case studies
  • • Use strategies for aligning people with a change, appealing to emotions and facts
  • • Describe the importance of resiliency and flexibility in the context of change.
12 March 2025
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Leadership Development

The Leadership Development workshop focuses on enhancing your leadership skills and helping you become a more effective and inspiring leader. Gain practical strategies to motivate teams, build strong relationships, and drive success.
  • They say that leaders are born, not made. While it is true that some people are born leaders, some leaders are born in the midst of adversity. Often, simple people who have never had a leadership role will stand up and take the lead when a situation they care about requires it. A simple example is parenting. When a child arrives, many parents discover leadership abilities they never knew existed in order to guide and protect their offspring. Once you learn the techniques of true Leadership And Influence, you will be able to build the confidence it takes to take the lead. The more experience you have acting as a genuine leader, the easier it will be for you. It is never easy to take the lead, as you will need to make decisions and face challenges, but it can become natural and rewarding.
  • PROGRAM OUTCOMES:
  • Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
  • • Define “leadership”
  • • Explain the Great Man Theory
  • • Explain the Trait Theory
  • • Understand Transformational Leadership
  • • Understand the people you lead and how to adapt your leadership styles
  • • Explain leading by Directing
  • • Explain leading by Participating
  • • Explain leading by Delegating
  • • Conduct a personal inventory
  • • Create an action plan
  • • Establish personal goals
19th March 2025
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Creative Problem Solving

The Creative Problem-Solving program teaches delegates a proven process and essential tools for tackling problems of all sizes. Learn techniques like brainstorming, data analysis, and resource identification to enhance your everyday problem-solving skills.
  • In the past few decades, psychologists and business people alike have discovered that successful problem solvers tend to use the same type of process to identify and implement the solutions to their problems. This process works for any kind of problem, large or small. The Creative Problem-Solving program will give delegates an overview of the entire creative problem solving process, as well as key problem solving tools that they can use every day. Skills such as brainstorming, information gathering, analyzing data, and identifying resources will be covered throughout the program.
  • PROGRAM OUTCOMES:
  • Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
  • • Understand problems and the creative problem solving process
  • • Identify types of information to gather and key questions to ask in problem solving
  • • Identify the importance of defining a problem correctly
  • • Identify and use four different problem definition tools
  • • Write concrete problem statements
  • • Use basic brainstorming tools to generate ideas for solutions
  • • Evaluate potential solutions against criteria, including cost/benefit analysis and group voting
  • • Perform a final analysis to select a solution
  • • Understand the roles that fact and intuition play in selecting a solution
  • • Understand the need to refine the shortlist and redefine it
  • • Use basic brainstorming tools to generate ideas for solutions
  • • Evaluate potential solutions against criteria, including cost/benefit analysis and group voting
  • • Perform a final analysis to select a solution
  • • Understand the roles that fact and intuition play in selecting a solution
9th April 2025
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Emotional & Social Intelligence

This workshop equips participants with practical tools to develop self-awareness, emotional regulation, and social adaptability, fostering stronger connections, better teamwork, and personal growth. Understanding emotions—both our own and others'—is the foundation for success in leadership, collaboration, and everyday interactions.
  • Emotional and social intelligence are key to understanding oneself, building strong relationships, and positively influencing others. Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognise and manage one's own emotions, as well as understand how emotions impact motivation and behaviour in individuals and teams. While the concept has existed for decades, it gained widespread recognition through Daniel Goleman’s groundbreaking book, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. As research continues to highlight the link between emotions and workplace success, emotional intelligence has become essential for effective leadership, collaboration, and decision-making. Social intelligence, on the other hand, focuses on navigating social environments with confidence, recognising social cues, and building meaningful connections. By enhancing social intelligence, individuals improve their ability to communicate effectively, influence others, and foster positive workplace dynamics. Skills such as active listening, understanding body language, and demonstrating empathy are vital in both professional and personal interactions. This workshop equips participants with practical tools to develop self-awareness, emotional regulation, social adaptability, and effective communication, helping them create meaningful connections and drive success in all aspects of life. Understanding emotions—both our own and those of others—is the key to stronger leadership, collaboration, and personal growth.
  • PROGRAM OUTCOMES:
  • Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
  • • Develop self-awareness by recognising your own behaviours and emotions.
  • • Practice self-management through emotional regulation and self-motivation.
  • • Enhance empathy by understanding and relating to others' emotions.
  • • Improve active listening and verbal communication skills.
  • • Understand and interpret non-verbal cues such as body language and facial expressions.
  • • Recognise and respond appropriately to social cues in various interactions.
  • • Determine appropriate conversation topics to foster meaningful discussions.
  • • Apply emotional intelligence principles to enhance workplace relationships and collaboration.
  • • Learn to balance optimism and pessimism for better decision-making and resilience.
  • • Effectively influence and impact others through emotional and social intelligence skills.
14th May 2025
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Mentoring: The Skills & Processes

The Mentoring for Leadership workshop teaches leaders to mentor their teams, enhancing performance and talent development. Build a high-performance culture by improving leadership skills and fostering growth within your team and organisation.
    • This program will develop Leaders who can apply coaching/mentoring practices to enhance their leadership skills and act as internal coaches/mentors for their teams. The leader coaches/mentors will be able to effectively lead themselves and their teams from a performance and talent enhancement perspective ultimately resulting in a high performance culture within the team and organisation. The training program focuses on four key elements:
    • 1. The Individual as a Coach
    • 2. Coaching/Mentoring Skills
    • 3. Coaching/Mentoring Models
    • 4. .Coaching/Mentoring Tools / Structure
    • PROGRAM OUTCOMES:
    • Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
    • •To develop the competency of leaders within the organisation to a required level of proficiency of coaching/mentoring skills to enhance their leadership style and act as internal coaches.
    • •To provide theory, practical and experiential elements in the training.
    • •To support your team in their journey, so they can positively impact the organization.
    • •To provide a high-quality learning experience impacting the lives of each individual receiving it.
    • Note: Various customised version are created from this toolkit.
    21st May 2025
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    Coaching For Employee Development

    The Coaching for Higher Performance Workshop teaches effective techniques to build strong relationships and set strategic goals with employees. Participants will learn proven models like GROW and SMART, along with skills in listening, questioning, and overcoming obstacles to drive success.
    • You are in your office looking over your performance report and it happened again. Your low performing employee failed to meet target this month even after you spoke with them about the importance of meeting goals. This employee has a great attitude and you know they can do better. You just do not know how to motivate them to reach the goal. Money used to work, but that has worn off. You are baffled and you know being frustrated makes matters worse. What do you do? Our Performance Coaching program focuses on how to better coach your employees to higher performance. Coaching is a process of relationship building and setting goals. How well you coach is related directly to how well you are able to foster a great working relationship with your employees through understanding them and strategic goal setting.
    • PROGRAM OUTCOMES:
    • Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
    • • Define coaching and the GROW model.
    • • Identify and set appropriate goals using the SMART technique of goal setting.
    • • Identify the steps necessary in defining the current state or reality of your employee’s situation.
    • • Identify the steps in developing a finalized plan or wrapping it up and getting your employee motivated to accomplish those plans.
    • • Identify the benefits of building and fostering trust with your employee.
    • • Identify the steps in giving effective feedback while maintaining trust.
    • • Identify and overcoming common obstacles.
    • • Identify when the coaching is at an end and transitioning your employee to other growth opportunities.
    • • Identify the difference between mentoring and coaching
    11th June 2025
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    Building Resilience

    The Resilience Workshop equips participants with tools to bounce back from setbacks and thrive under pressure. Through interactive activities and practical strategies, you’ll learn to navigate challenges, manage stress, and maintain a positive outlook.
    18th June 2025
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    Improving Mindfulness

    The Improving Mindfulness program helps participants live in the present and overcome distorted thinking. By cultivating positive emotions and practicing mindfulness, you’ll enhance both personal well-being and professional success.
    • Mindfulness is a term that is frequently used but rarely defined. Practicing true mindfulness encourages living in the present while it addresses the danger of distorted thinking, Staying in tune both mentally and emotionally improves perspective to enhance personal a professional success. With our Improving Mindfulness program, your delegates will begin to identify their own patterns of thinking. As they learn to practice mindfulness, they will cultivate positive emotions that will have a dramatic effect on the work environment.
    • PROGRAM OUTCOMES:
    • Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
    • • Define mindfulness
    • • Develop techniques to make oneself more attuned to the present moment
    • • Understand the value and utility of one’s emotions
    • • Learn how to identify and counter distorted thinking
    • • Learn how to cultivate genuine positive emotions
    • • Become more fully present in social interactions
    9th July 2025
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    Effective Communication

    The Effective Communication Workshop enhances your ability to convey messages clearly through both verbal and non-verbal techniques. Participants will learn to build stronger connections, reduce misunderstandings, and communicate with confidence in any setting.
    • For the better part of every day, we are communicating to and with others. Whether it's the speech you deliver in the boardroom, the level of attention you give your spouse when they are talking to you, or the look you give the cat, it all means something. Our Communication Strategies program will help delegates understand the different methods of communication and how to make the most of each of them. These strategies will provide a great benefit for any organization and its employees. They will trickle down throughout the organization and positively impact everyone involved.
    • PROGRAM OUTCOMES:
    • Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
    • • Understand what communication is
    • • Identify ways that communication can happen
    • • Identify barriers to communication and how to overcome them
    • • Develop their non-verbal and paraverbal communication skills
    • • Use the STAR method to speak on the spot
    • • Listen actively and effectively
    • • Ask good questions
    • • Use appreciative inquiry as a communication tool
    • • Adeptly converse and network with others
    • • Identify and mitigate precipitating factors
    • • Establish common ground with others
    • • Use “I” messages
    23rd July 2025
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    Time Management

    The Time Management Workshop provides essential strategies to take control of your workload, reduce stress, and boost productivity. Participants will learn skills like delegation, organisation, and crisis management to focus on what truly matters for personal and professional success.
    • Personal time management skills are essential for professional success in any workplace. Those able to successfully implement time management strategies are able to control their workload rather than spend each day in a frenzy of activity reacting to crisis after crisis - stress declines and personal productivity soars! These highly effective individuals are able to focus on the tasks with the greatest impact to them and their organization. The Time Management program will cover strategies to help delegates learn these crucial strategies. Your delegates will be given a skill set that include personal motivation, delegation skills, organization tools, and crisis management. We’ll cover all this and more during this program.
    • PROGRAM OUTCOMES:
    • Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
    • • Plan and prioritize each day’s activities in a more efficient, productive manner
    • • Overcome procrastination quickly and easily
    • • Handle crises effectively and quickly
    • • Organize your workspace and workflow to make better use of time
    • • Delegate more efficiently
    • • Use rituals to make your life run smoother
    • • Plan meetings more appropriately and effectively
    13th August 2025
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    Workplace Harrasment

    The Harassment and Bullying in the Workplace program equips participants with the tools to recognise harassment and understand their legal rights and responsibilities. This workshop emphasizes the importance of creating a safe, respectful workplace and implementing effective anti-harassment policies.
    • Harassment can be based on a variety of factors that differ from the one doing the harassment, such as race, sex, and disability. Experiencing uncomfortable situations in the workplace may be more than an offense against an individual. It can be a crime committed against the law, which is why this topic has become a very important for every organization. The Sexual Harassment and Bullying in the Workplace program will help give delegates the tools necessary to recognize harassment in the workplace as well understand your rights and responsibilities under the law, with regard to safety in the workplace. Through this program your delegates will recognize that it is necessary for everyone to help create programs that teach employees to identify harassment and exercise anti-harassment policies.
    • PROGRAM OUTCOMES:
    • Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
    • • Identify the words and actions that constitute harassment.
    • • Understand what the law says about harassment.
    • • Implement anti-harassment policies.
    • • Educate employees and develop anti-harassment policies.
    • • Discuss employer and employee’s rights and responsibilities.
    • • Address accusations of harassment.
    • • Apply proper mediation procedures.
    • • Deal with the aftermath of harassment.
    27th August 2025
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