Professional development

We can increase your organisation's capacity through specialised supply chain and logistics training. We deliver customised training, seminars and short courses, as well as nationally accredited diploma and degree courses.

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Training and development strategy

Get an immediate return on your training investment by enrolling your staff in a nationally accredited qualification or a tailored program.  In collaboration with you, we can formulate a training and development strategy to meet your business needs. We will work with you to:

  • assess the gap between existing and desired performance of your staff
  • assess the current knowledge, skills and attitudes of your staff and those needed to achieve your organisation’s goals
  • design and tailor training solutions to address the performance gap
  • achieve organisational goals and strategic objectives
  • improve processes and productivity
  • improve the standard of products or level of service delivered to customers
  • improve morale and staff satisfaction, lower staff turnover and reduce recruitment costs
  • achieve best practice
  • maximise profits and outcomes

Effective learning is achieved not so much from simple 'instruction' but from a broader context that promotes learning. On-the-job training allows students to link theory and practice with relevant experience. We provide the opportunities to improve professional and vocational practice through training delivered at your workplace. 

Customised training

ISCL provides specialised training programs in supply chain, logistics and transport to help you develop your staff, grow your organisation and become an industry leader.

We are able to identify the appropriate, nationally recognised qualification and customise its delivery to meet the specific needs of your organisation.

Delivery of training

We provide flexible delivery options for training your staff. We can work with you to provide:

  • work-based training that is immediately transferable to your workplace
  • simulated learning opportunities that provide opportunities to experiment with new approaches and strategies
  • training that is delivered in partnership with you
  • blended training solutions that include facilitated workshop, online delivery, self-paced learning, coaching and mentoring (or other methods of delivery)
  • formal recognition and credit for existing knowledge and skills–recognition of prior learning
  • training in your workplace offsite or at one of our campuses

We can tailor training resources and materials by incorporating activities based on real situations or projects in your organisation or industry and can can customise content by incorporating your policies and procedures, or designing materials to bring about change in your organisation.

Seminars and short courses

We are able to provide a range of topical seminars and short courses to corporate clients.

The seminars are designed to promote an understanding of the topic and provide the opportunity to explore the impact on organisational operations and strategic development.  They may be offered as a stand alone program or a series may be developed to address specific topics of interest. 

The selection of short courses focuses on developing the essential skills of an effective logistics manager. 

Supply Chain: Contemporary Issues Seminar Series

These may include the following topics:

  • carbon and the supply chain
  • impact of national regulatory changes on supply chain strategy
  • infrastructure investment and supply chain effectiveness and productivity
  • coastal shipping and land bridging alternatives
  • ethical supply chains
  • reverse logistics

Supply Chain Skills Development Program

These may include short courses on the following subjects:

  • building the supply chain leader
  • globalisation and environmental change
  • logistics performance cost and value measures
  • supply chain risk management and risk appetite
  • effective supplier management
  • solutions based thinking
  • systematic problem solving
  • design led thinking in the supply chain
  • business to business customer service

ISCL facilitators are highly experienced, well qualified supply chain professionals with extensive, relevant, current industry and public sector experience. 

Please consider these professional development program options as a starting point for our discussions.  Customisation of the content and the delivery strategies is possible, and ISCL is flexible in scheduling the delivery to suit your organisation.

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