Skillzone - About us

SkillZone is a division of the Macquarie Institute which provides International Internship Program and specialised services in training, learning and development for individuals, professionals, corporates, government and other organisations.

The SkillZone Division focuses in two main areas:

o Student development
o International and local internship placement

Client demand for training and the availability of accessible funding have allowed us to form a series of partnerships in the general training and RTO training areas and this is proving increasingly popular with many organisations as they seek to provide meaningful training opportunities for their staff

Initially focusing on Business Management training we identified a need among client organisations of other companies in our group to offer a broader and more flexible training service particularly in business operations deployment.

We offer programs covering a wide range of business and industry needs and can tailor our offering to the unique requirements of most organisations.

In partnership with other training organisations and selected universities we began to engage graduate and undergraduate students in work experience internships, placing these in turn with our client organisations. This program proved very popular and has since expanded into a fully operational local and international internship placement company. The parent company is the Macquarie Institute based in Chatswood, NSW.

Our Offerings:

SkillZone training services meet national and international benchmark industry standards.
We provide off-the-shelf or specifically customised programs for almost any type of industry

Telecommunications,
Manufacturing,
Industrial,
Mining
Food Processing,
Pharmaceutical,
Medical equipment,
Hospital and Medical
General SME business,
Corporate, Banking,
Financial,
Insurance
Government agency,
Warehousing,
Packaging
and many more.

Our Approach:

SkillZone Training & Development programs are based on world-leading practices. We offer a range of consulting services to business and industry to help them improve operational efficiencies to maximise productivity and profits. Because we understand business we ensure that key outcomes are achieved when we work with your staff. Culture and business awareness develop and improve at the same time as technical and soft skills.

We have redefined the training model away from the mundane class room style approach and offer highly interactive sessions that keep participants engaged and interested. This differs from the traditional training approach. Our customised courses ensure your people and organisation gain the maximum benefit.
We recognise you have a business to run and prefer minimum downtime, so our programs are designed to result in minimum disruption to your work schedules.

Our Training & Development team attends to your needs through a five stage process:

1. Discussion of training needs and your organisational needs and challenges.
2. Developing various suggested solutions and training packages
3. Evaluation of possible financial grants to offset costs.
4. Flexible delivery of Group Training, 1:1 training, evaluation, follow- up, momentum building
5. Evaluation and feedback on outcomes

Courses can be delivered in-house in your organisation or at our recommended training venues.

Courses conducted by our Training & Development experts are structured to comply with local and international criteria. The Australian and New Zealand Qualifications Framework set guidelines for recognition of prior learning and ability for staff to gain various certifications.

Training areas

You can choose from a broad range of programs offered including the following areas:
- Stress Prevention
- Project planning
- Effective Time Management
- Team Building
- Job Planning
- Customer Service
- Communication skills
- Creative problem solving
- Right attitude, right culture
- Competitive Manufacturing
- Frontline Management
- Six Sigma
- Business strategy

Funding & Grants:

Training programs may be cost effective solutions to your business needs as many can be offset, often to 100%
As an employer you may be eligible for government funding in areas relating to custom and course-work staff education programs. Grants and funding initiatives may be available for eligible staff programs.

Although funding programs are many and varied, each has different qualification requirements. We and our partners have wide experience in assisting clients to define suitable programs for the needs of your staff and your business. We of course handle the complexities in preparing client applications in order to achieve funding outcomes to offset an organisation's investment.