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Enrol for one of our SETA approved short courses now!
Choose from one of our 15 short courses for your team and give them skills and knowledge they need to be able to take their careers to new heights. Short courses are great for enhancing and learning on-the-job skills.

Lee-Anne brings a wealth of knowledge and experience specifically with regards to merSETA standards and requirements; working with the NSDMS portal and leveraging training interventions and cost for maximum value-added return. With Drake Training Academy's intervention and support, we have managed to formalise training interventions within the strategic objectives of the Company and are seeing the return of our investment both in our people and in our B-BBEE Skills Development spend
Lee-Ann Harris - Group HR Manager
Available Short Courses
Our short are divided into two categories: Compliance & Soft Skills.
Compliance Short Courses
DTA’s compliance short courses delve into various compliance issues in the workplace. Current best practices and applicable case law are utilised to provide you with the relevant experience to ensure procedural and substantive compliance.

POPIA

Shop Steward

HR/IR

Initiate & Chair a Disciplinary Enquiry

Management of sick leave

Employment Equity
Soft Skills Short Courses
Soft skills are non-technical skills that impact the way employees retain information, go about their daily activities at work and how they interact with others. The benefit of soft skills is that they are transferable across industries and positions and can enhance the performance of staff and the organisation. DTA’s soft skills courses are specially customised to address the common challenges of communication and empathy in the workplace.

Business Etiquette

Change Leadership

Customer Service Excellence

Emotional Intelligence

Employee Engagement & Retention

Frontline & Telephone Skills

Managing Time

Problem Solving

Sensitivity & Diversity in the Workplace

Our Facilitators

Lynette Todkill
Lynette's 18 years of real-world experience has largely been spent in the trenches of people development and talent management
Her unique combination of experience in the fields of HR Management and Training & Development combined with her expertise in psychometry and group dynamics means that team development is a core passion that drives this HR Professional's endeavours and interests.

Kirsten John
Kirsten completed studies in teaching English abroad and a facilitators course. This is where she knew she wanted to expand her knowledge and experiences within the education and training sector.
She completed two learnerships with the DTA and obtained her Generic Management NQF 3 certification with the Services SETA, as well as her Business Administration Accreditation to facilitate. She believes that the purpose of life is not only to be happy, but to be compassionate and make a difference in someone’s life.

Gillian Logiotis
Gillian is an experienced facilitator and coach who has worked in, amongst others, the automotive, hospitality, and education sectors.
She is passionate about changing people's experiences of learning and her work across broad sectors has created agility in her interactions with connections and ignite change in individuals and organisations.

Lee-Anne Pattle
Lee-Anne is the General Manager of the Drake Training Academy. Having worked in Education for over 20 years managing interventions for multinational organisations, she is well placed to provide the support and expertise to a team of dedicated staff at the DTA.
Her work covers a vast array of diverse clients within various sectors and thus provides her with the opportunity to understand the nuances in each sector when it comes to her specialist area - namely Learning and Development. Lee-Anne is also an appointed Skills Development Facilitator for 5 companies in Gqeberha.

Dave Pattle
Dave is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa with extensive practical experience in virtually every area of labour law and related subject matters.
As a senior facilitator, most of his experience has been delivered at a post graduate level at institutions such as Rhodes Business School and Wits Business School. Dave has shared his practical experiences with delegates across the length and breadth of South Africa as a facilitator.

Roger Peters
Training and development saw Roger expanding on pedagogics and integrating these into a wider world of education and training. Being challenged with increasingly new insights and fields of training, led to his own development, which also saw him engaging in various tertiary and post-graduate studies to remain informed within the field of organisational as well as personal development.
The passion he has for developing people has made his foray into the world of varied, rich and meaningful learning experiences the drive to fulfilling his purpose: the development of others.

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