Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Courses

Learn to Manage Accommodation Businesses

Hotels, Resorts, B & B's and more

Learn to understand all sorts of addictions.

Improve you ability to help others with addiction problems

Learn to understand animals

Animals do behave in relatively predictable ways; but every species is different. Even different breeds can be different.

When you understand animal behaviours you can respond better - whether dealing with pets, livestock or wildlife.

Learn about Animal Health and Welfare

• Understand the risks to good health, and how to minimise those risks.
• Know many of the more common health issues that can arise, from diseases to injuries
• Know the appropriate responses to different types of health issues
• Understands the actions that should be followed to ensure appropriate animal welfare at all times

Understand what behaviour profiling is and how it is used.

• Learn what profiling is, and when and how it is used.
• Learn about profiling techniques and compiling outcomes from such exercises.
• Understand different approaches to interviewing, and how profiling is used in recruitment.
• Learn about communication theories such as S.O.L.E.R.
• Understand the methods, purpose, and application behavioural assessments.

Apply yourself - our short courses are a great way to learn or revise a subject in a short space of time.

• Behaviour Profiling is a great resource for personal interest, or for helping you to gain insights in the workplace - as an employer, or even interviewee!

Learn about the Human Brain

• Biology - anatomy, physiology, behaviour
• Understand the chemistry and electronics
• Problems and damage
• Treatment and management of brain damage

Learn to bud and graft plants

• what plants on what rootstocks
• the techniques to use for what plants.
• an important skill for plant propagators.

Learn to be a business Coach.

Apply your knowledge and experience in business to help others perform better in their businesses.

Learn to Keep Chickens and other Types of Poultry.

• Chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese, and more
• Make better choices of what to keep
• Appreciate the ease or difficulty involved depending on what you choose to raise
• Develop a solid foundation upon which to build your experience and grow your knowledge

Learn to Manage the Risks that come with Change

• in any business or organisation
• in any workplace
• improve your awareness, plan better, reduce risk

Learn to Understand how Consumers Behave.

... then your marketing decisions will become better informed and potentially lead to more positive outcomes.

Learn about Counselling

Counsellors help people with problems that are difficult for them to negotiate.

They are not coaches and they are not psychologists. Counselling is a controlled process of interaction with a subject, based on empathy, with the aim of helping them to resolve issues that are troubling them.

Counsellors need to be informed, skilled and cautious in how they deal with their client or subject. This course raised your understanding and appreciation of the counselling process and practices.

Learn to design different types of themed gardens

• Formal, informal or natural gardens
• Large or small gardens
• Oriental, Tropical, Mediterranean, Eclectic or other styles

Learn to Design Gardens

Explore the principles and techniques that apply when preparing a garden plan, small or large.

Understand the many things that need to be considered, and how garden components may be chosen and arranged in a way that makes sense and produces a landscape which meets the criteria of the design, whether functional, aesthetic, cost or sustainability.

This is a course for anyone who is new to garden design; or for experienced designers just seeking to refresh their knowledge.

Learn to Take Better Care of Dogs

• Appreciate their needs for good health and wellbeing
• Understand how to meet those needs
• Make better choices about the dogs you choose as pets, or working dogs; and how you manage them.

Learn to Manage Too Much Water

• Flooding
• Poor drainage
• Excessively wet soils

Learn to how to practice Ecotherapy

Enhance health and wellbeing by experiencing nature

Ecotherapy is also known as nature therapy and is increasingly being used in modern therapy.

Learn to Edit any sort of written or published work.

• Articles, books, stories
• Speeches, reports, submissions, brochures
• Web sites, blogs, social media postings
• Letters, emails, or anything else

Learn to feed animals

Understand their food and nutrition requirements

Livestock, pets and wildlife

Manage animal health and wellbeing better

Improve farm productivity.

Learn to be a food and beverage manager

• Get a job
• Run your own business
• Advance your employment opportunities

• Learn something new with our fast, self paced study programs - quickly improve your knowledge!
  
• Our Short Courses can be completed in as little as 20 hours.
  
• Enrol at any time and start studying immediately.
  
• Configure your study sessions at any length and frequency you wish.
  
• Work through at your own pace - there are no deadlines for this course.
  
• Automated self assessment tests pop up at the end of each lesson - review your results and re-do the tests if you wish.
  
• The Short Course is completed with an automated exam - if you achieve a 60% pass in the exam, you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of completion with your name on it.
  
  
• Unsure about doing a full course? Do a Short Course first!
  
  

LEARN THE KEY SKILLS TO BE A BETTER GARDENER

• At home or work
• Amateur, trade or professional
• Identifying, selecting and appreciating differences between species
• Managing water, nutrition, plant health, pruning, weed control and more

Learn about different citrus cultivar, how to grow and use them.

This course will help you learn basic principles of growing, managing and harvesting citrus plants.

Learn about the taxonomy and broader zoology of hooved animals or ungulate biology..

Learn to make a product more successful

• Don't neglect proper product development
• Take the time to optimise your product's chance of success
• Learn more techniques for making your goods and services better for selling and customer satisfaction

Learn to Identify, Investigate, Clarify and Solve Problems

Solutions don't always mitigate every issue; but they do mitigate the most important issues.

The action that should be taken is the one that eliminates the worst aspects of a problem; and there are well established ways of doing that. Sometime the only way to move past a problem is to take the time and allocate the effort to work though a process. This course helps to to understand and apply such a process. 

Stimulate Business Growth

• if sustainability is threatened
• when growth is stalled
• when profit margins are dwindling

Businesses commonly either fail or only experience modest growth after they establish - this course shows ways of stimulating further growth

• Learn something new with our fast, self paced study programs - quickly improve your knowledge!
  
• Our Short Courses can be completed in as little as 20 hours.
  
• Enrol at any time and start studying immediately.
  
• Configure your study sessions at any length and frequency you wish.
  
• Work through at your own pace - there are no deadlines for this course.
  
• Automated self assessment tests pop up at the end of each lesson - review your results and re-do the tests if you wish.
  
• The Short Course is completed with an automated exam - if you achieve a 60% pass in the exam, you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of completion with your name on it.
  
  
• Unsure about doing a full course? Do a Short Course first!
  
  
  

Learn to Manage Indoor Plants and Indoor Plantscapes

• Broaden the range of different plants you know
• Know more different ways to grow them effectively
• Understand how to better incorporate plants into interior design

Learn to promote and sell in the Modern World

• use of digital technologies for marketing
• promote products or services
• Improve your employment or business prospects

LEARN THE FUNDAMENTALS OF HUMAN NUTRITION

What nutrients are in what foods

What to eat for good health

• Learn something new with our fast, self paced study programs - quickly improve your knowledge! 
• Our Short Courses can be completed in as little as 20 hours.
• Enrol at any time and start studying immediately.
• Configure your study sessions at any length and frequency you wish.
• Work through at your own pace - there are no deadlines for this course.
• Automated self assessment tests pop up at the end of each lesson - review your results and re-do the tests if you wish.
• The short course is completed with an automated exam - if you achieve a 60% pass in the exam, you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of completion with your name on it.

Unsure about doing a full course? Do a short course first!

Learn how to Learn

• Techniques that can be applied to make learning more effective
• Get more out of the time you spend studying
• Prepare better for exams

Learn to Make a wide variety of Fermented Drinks

• Wine
• Beer
• Spirits
• Mead
• Cider
• Low alcohol Drinks
• Keifir and Kambucha

Learn to Manage a Gardening Business

• Garden Maintenance Services
• Consulting/ advice
• Garden Design
• Landscape Construction
• Lawn care, trees, flowers, shrubs, etc

Learn to Manage a Plant Nursery

• Learn something new with our fast, self paced study programs - quickly improve your knowledge!
  
• Our Short Courses can be completed in as little as 20 hours.
  
• Enrol at any time and start studying immediately.
  
• Configure your study sessions at any length and frequency you wish.
  
• Work through at your own pace - there are no deadlines for this course.
  
• Automated self assessment tests pop up at the end of each lesson - review your results and re-do the tests if you wish.
  
• The Short Course is completed with an automated exam - if you achieve a 60% pass in the exam, you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of completion with your name on it.
  
  
• Unsure about doing a full course? Do a Short Course first!
  
  
  

• Learn something new with our fast, self paced study programs - quickly improve your knowledge!
  
• Our Short Courses can be completed in as little as 20 hours.
  
• Enrol at any time and start studying immediately.
  
• Configure your study sessions at any length and frequency you wish.
  
• Work through at your own pace - there are no deadlines for this course.
  
• Automated self assessment tests pop up at the end of each lesson - review your results and re-do the tests if you wish.
  
• The Short Course is completed with an automated exam - if you achieve a 60% pass in the exam, you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of completion with your name on it.
  
  
• Unsure about doing a full course? Do a Short Course first!
  
  
  

Learn about Marine Vertebrate Animals.

• Their diversity
• Distinguishing characteristics
• Morphology, behaviour and more.

• Learn something new with our fast, self paced study programs - quickly improve your knowledge!
  
• Our Short Courses can be completed in as little as 20 hours.
  
• Enrol at any time and start studying immediately.
  
• Configure your study sessions at any length and frequency you wish.
  
• Work through at your own pace - there are no deadlines for this course.
  
• Automated self assessment tests pop up at the end of each lesson - review your results and re-do the tests if you wish.
  
• The Short Course is completed with an automated exam - if you achieve a 60% pass in the exam, you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of completion with your name on it.
  
  
• Unsure about doing a full course? Do a Short Course first!
  
  
  

Learn to manage plant nutrition in Soil-less Cultivation

• for hydroponics or tissue culture
• understand the nutrients a plant requires
• understand the factors that impact the availability of those nutrients
• manage chemical and physical conditions in the root zone for better nutrition outcomes

Learn How People think at Work

Learn to Exercise Properly

Physical fitness requires exercise to maintain good condition not only in the muscles, but also the internal organs and bones. Heart and lung fitness in particular is important. Too little exercise is not good for the body, but too much or inappropriate exercise can also be problematic.

This course helps you understand and manage exercise better - your own, or others.

LEARN TO MANAGE PLANT HEATH ISSUES

There is a logical system to understanding illness in plants. This course helps you understand that system.

Problems are either caused by living things attacking the plant or by non living factors being unsuited to plant health.

• Learn something new with our fast, self paced study programs - quickly improve your knowledge!
• Our Short Courses can be completed in as little as 20 hours.
• Enrol at any time and start studying immediately.
• Configure your study sessions at any length and frequency you wish.
• Work through at your own pace - there are no deadlines for this course.
• Automated self assessment tests pop up at the end of each lesson - review your results and re-do the tests if you wish.
• The short course is completed with an automated exam - if you achieve a 60% pass in the exam, you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of completion with your name on it.

Learn a Lot More about Plants

• Get better results - fewer sick or dead plants
• Simply make better choices about what you choose to plant where
  
  
  

Learn a wide variety of different food preserving methods.

• Become more self sufficient - extent the shelf life of foods
• Produce tasty food products
• Manufacture preserves to share swap or sell
• Start a food manufacturing business, or get a job
• Reduce wood waste - contribute to food security

Learn to be a Professional Consultant

The work of a consultant may vary a little from one industry to another; but once you get beyond the area of expertise which a consultant imparts; much of what they do will not vary from one industry to another.

This course raises your awareness, and teaches you about those things that matter for being a successful consultant in any industry.

• Learn something new with our fast, self paced study programs - quickly improve your knowledge!
• Our Short Courses can be completed in as little as 20 hours.
• Enrol at any time and start studying immediately.
• Configure your study sessions at any length and frequency you wish.
• Work through at your own pace - there are no deadlines for this course.
• Automated self assessment tests pop up at the end of each lesson - review your results and re-do the tests if you wish.
• The short course is completed with an automated exam - if you achieve a 60% pass in the exam, you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of completion with your name on it.

Learn Counselling Skills

• to help people deal with  relationship issues
• in any context - family, social or work.

Improve your sales skills or those of your staff!

• 20-hour online course
• written in conjunction with Garden Centres of Australia

Learn the art of selling - understanding that a more professional approach to selling is the key to improved sales in today’s competitive environment.

• Learn something new with our fast, self paced study programs - quickly improve your knowledge!
• Our Short Courses can be completed in as little as 20 hours.
• Enrol at any time and start studying immediately.
• Configure your study sessions at any length and frequency you wish.
• Work through at your own pace - there are no deadlines for this course.
• Automated self assessment tests pop up at the end of each lesson - review your results and re-do the tests if you wish.
• The short course is completed with an automated exam - if you achieve a 60% pass in the exam, you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of completion with your name on it.
  
  

Unsure about doing a full course? Do a short course first!

Learn about many different sheep breeds

Understand and compare characteristics in order to better choose the breed most appropriate for your needs.

• Learn something new with our fast, self paced study programs - quickly improve your knowledge!
• Our Short Courses can be completed in as little as 20 hours.
• Enrol at any time and start studying immediately.
• Configure your study sessions at any length and frequency you wish.
• Work through at your own pace - there are no deadlines for this course.
• Automated self assessment tests pop up at the end of each lesson - review your results and re-do the tests if you wish.
• The short course is completed with an automated exam - if you achieve a 60% pass in the exam, you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of completion with your name on it.
  
  

Unsure about doing a full course? Do a short course first!

• Learn something new with our fast, self paced study programs - quickly improve your knowledge!
  
• Our Short Courses can be completed in as little as 20 hours.
  
• Enrol at any time and start studying immediately.
  
• Configure your study sessions at any length and frequency you wish.
  
• Work through at your own pace - there are no deadlines for this course.
  
• Automated self assessment tests pop up at the end of each lesson - review your results and re-do the tests if you wish.
  
• The Short Course is completed with an automated exam - if you achieve a 60% pass in the exam, you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of completion with your name on it.
  
  
• Unsure about doing a full course? Do a Short Course first!
  
  
  

Learn Statistics

• A refresher course for anyone needing to work with statistics
• Supplementary learning for students struggling with their statistics course
• A way to fast track learning the fundamentals, for anyone who has not studied statistics before

This is a self paced online course. It's as easy as it gets to learn the fundamentals.

Learn all about Technical Writing

for science, commerce, management and more.

• Learn something new with our fast, self paced study programs - quickly improve your knowledge!
• Our Short Courses can be completed in as little as 20 hours.
• Enrol at any time and start studying immediately.
• Configure your study sessions at any length and frequency you wish.
• Work through at your own pace - there are no deadlines for this course.
• Automated self assessment tests pop up at the end of each lesson - review your results and re-do the tests if you wish.
• The short course is completed with an automated exam - if you achieve a 60% pass in the exam, you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of completion with your name on it.
  
  

Unsure about doing a full course? Do a short course first!

• Learn something new with our fast, self paced study programs - quickly improve your knowledge!
• Our Short Courses can be completed in as little as 20 hours.
• Enrol at any time and start studying immediately.
• Configure your study sessions at any length and frequency you wish.
• Work through at your own pace - there are no deadlines for this course.
• Automated self assessment tests pop up at the end of each lesson - review your results and re-do the tests if you wish.
• The short course is completed with an automated exam - if you achieve a 60% pass in the exam, you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of completion with your name on it.
• Unsure about doing a full course? Do a short course first!

Learn to create vertical gardens and farms - small or large - to grow crops or decorative plants.

Learn to Manage Remote Work

Your own or your employees

Adjust and manage remote work practices for yourself, in your business or in how you manage your work team.

Learn how to be a Successful Novelist