Certificate in Workplace Transversal Skills

Course description

Award: NFQ Level 7, Minor Award

Core transversal skills are becoming ever more important to an individual’s successful and sustainable employment. This course is for those who wish to enhance their personal and professional development and aims to provide participants with a set of cross functional skills within an organisation. There are a wide range of skills which are deemed to be necessary to empower the workforce and promote individual employability.

Course delivery combines traditional distance education with online learning and approximately three on-campus days per semester. Face to face classroom sessions are supported with recorded / live lectures to present information. An in-company project will ensure a strong focus on the integration of the concepts tools and techniques in the participant’s organisation during the course of the course.

This course is suitable for:

• Those who want to advance their employability.
• Those who want to improve their interrelationships with their colleagues.
• Those who want to transfer their aspirations to practical goals.
• Those who want to improve their teamwork skills.
• Those who want to enhance their problem solving skills

Entry Requirements:

The main objective of this course is to upskill the Irish workforce in terms of the general and transversal skills they need in order to be more effective in their workplace. Therefore, there is no academic pre-requirement for entering this course of study. All applicants with a Leaving Cert are eligible to apply for this course.