Over the last few years we have seen an increase in organisations and public administration teams asking for online tailored trainings. These have been on many different subjects to help strengthen capacity building. Common topics, such as knowledge management, leadership, M&E, theory of change and gender inclusion. As well as more specific subjects such as climate change adaptation or policy brief development.

The reasons for the increase in online tailored training vary. Over recent years there have been many shifts. In the development sector, and globally, with significant changes in how we work. Online training has the flexibility to adjust, flex and fit to specific team and individual needs. The potentials are vast!

We work closely with you and provide a needs assessment to help develop your online tailored training programme. Where possible, you can suggest facilitators from your team to work with us. Either way, you will find us flexible and adaptable. During and after your training, we will work with you to identify champions within your organisation. This ensures sustainability around the learning subject and process. We offer an intensive input, or spread over a number of weeks or longer.

Ahead of any training IMA will meet with your team to understand your training needs, expectations, challenges and goals. During the first online training day, our expert facilitators review individual participant learning needs. This ensures we provide individuals with opportunities to gain new skills of interest. At the end of the tailor made training input, we reflect on these learning goals. We identify actionable steps to making change in your workplace and put into practice your new learning.  

Tailored Flexibility - Online , Face-to-Face or Hybrid? 

Our flexible approach to online tailored training enables you to choose the right format. This considers your budgets, availability and preference. This enables you to get the best learning experience.  

We have delivered a diverse range of tailored trainings to meet different individual, team, and organisational needs. This ranges from intensive courses lasting a few days, to a week. We've supported teams with a few hours a week training spanning to over several months. We offer programme support over multiple years. We have developed self-paced learning materials, and interactive and participatory group exercises. This helps participants to embed their learning through practical application. We've delivered hybrid training models that blend online learning and face-to-face delivery. These tailored trainings have been delivered to global teams dispersed across different time zones. Also to teams working together in a single office. Following our tailored training programmes, we offer ongoing mentoring to support lasting behaviour change at 3, 6 and 12 months. So what have we learned?

We've gained valuable insights into the best user-friendly online training platforms and ways to support the online learning experience. We have learned how to make our online training as effective as face to face training. It can be adapted, and easily scaled up to train a large amount of employees. It can also support inclusion and accessibility. The mix of methods we use will continue to increase and adapt. Allowing online training to be an affordable, and effective means of training individuals and teams.

IMA International provides training through both online and face to face training. Offering open courses, online tailored training, training of trainers, as well as consultancy for organisational change, coaching and mentoring. This builds capacity in international development programmes and humanitarian action globally. We constantly draw on our 40 years of experience working with the public and private sector. Including UN Agencies, NGOs, non-profits and many others. Our aim, is to help organisations enhance their work. We do this by supporting collaboration within organisations and with their stakeholders, to work more efficiently towards their vision.

Our core values are Innovation, Inclusivity and to Inspiring Change.  We pride ourselves in our engaging, creative, supportive, and participatory training approaches. We are well-experienced in designing and facilitating training sessions and workshops to support capacity building. Always ensuring engaging and participatory knowledge-sharing and learning is encouraged, to identify important themes and develop future learnings.