ODI has primary accreditation with the Services Sector Education & Training Authority (decision number 0228). ODI also has further programme approval to provide qualifications, learnerships, and skills programmes through merSETA and SABPP.
The learnerships offered by ODI are carefully selected, to support companies on their journey of Continuous Improvement.
Our Supervision for Energised WorkTeams programme has been offered since 1989. It was always used to strengthen the implementation of a structured CI programme. With the introduction of accredited learning, ODI leaped at the opportunity to give people who do all this hard work credits, and an actual qualification (National Certificate: Generic Management – Supervisory NQF3). Little did we know at the time that this will eventually lead to a full career development opportunity, that includes many different qualifications.
The offering of NQF4 and 5 management programmes in ODI was originally requested by Supervisors. Not only did they want to continue their own journey of personal development, but they also wanted their managers to experience what they did.
NQF2 was added at a later stage, as Supervisors felt that they needed assistance with the coaching of Continuous Improvement. Over the years, it has been extremely satisfying to see how people progress through these levels.
Aims
- To promote access to education and training
- To increase skills and workplace experience
- To establish a workforce that is serious about their professional and personal development
Features
- Properly structured programmes that leads to a qualification
- Time is spent on theory and practice
- Skills are implemented in the workplace
QCTO
ODI closely follows the progress made by the Quality Council for Trades and Occupations (QCTO). Workshops are regularly attended. ODI also participated in the development of selected qualifications.
The Quality Council for Trades and Occupations (QCTO) is a quality council established in 2010 in terms of the Skills Development Act No. 97 of 1998. Its role is to oversee the design, implementation, assessment, and certification of occupational qualifications, including trades, on the Occupational Qualifications Sub-Framework (OQSF).
The QCTO also offers guidance to skills development providers, who must be accredited by the QCTO to offer occupational qualifications.
Our Qualification Offering
Learnerships
General Management (Management of Productivity)
FETC: Generic Management
This qualification is intended for junior managers of small organisations, first-line managers of business units in medium and large organisations, or those aspiring to these positions. Junior managers include team leaders, supervisors, foremen, and section heads. It lays the foundation for further management development.
Process Manufacturing
FETC: Generic Management
This qualification aims to prepare first-line managers in a manufacturing environment to undertake a broader management role in their organisations. It lays the foundation for further management development and movement into more senior positions. First-line managers may include team leaders, supervisors, foremen, and section heads.
Human Resource Support
FETC: Generic Management
This qualification is intended for junior managers of small organisations, first-line managers of business units in medium and large organisations, or those aspiring to these positions. Junior managers include team leaders, supervisors, foremen, and section heads. It lays the foundation for further management development.
Competitive Operations
FETC: Production Technology
The combination of learning outcomes that comprise this qualification will provide the qualifying learner with vocational knowledge and skills appropriate to the context of production technology. This qualification provides learners with the range of learning and skills required to be able to perform a series of activities to support manufacturing, engineering, and technology processes. Learners will acquire a range of skills in the identification of production parameters in manufacturing, engineering, and technology industries, and basic strategies to achieve them.
Competitive Operations
National Certificate: Production Technology
The combination of learning outcomes that comprise this qualification will provide the qualifying learner with vocational knowledge and skills appropriate to the context of production technology. This qualification provides learners with the range of learning and skills required to be able to perform a series of activities to support manufacturing, engineering, and technology processes. Learners will acquire a range of skills in the identification of production parameters in manufacturing, engineering, and technology industries, and basic strategies to achieve them.
Competitive Operations
National Certificate: Production Technology
Operational excellence is a never ending journey, and during the development of thinking people, the way in which things are done can be challenged. This qualification will equip learners with the necessary skills and knowledge to efficiently perform tasks and activities, in order to continuously improve operational excellence.
General Management (Energised Leadership)
National Certificate: Generic Management
This qualification is designed to enable a person to manage first-line managers in an organisational entity. First-line managers may include team leaders, supervisors, junior managers, section heads, and foremen. The focus of this qualification is to enable learners to develop competence in knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values.
Skills Development Manager
National Certificate: Generic Management
This qualification is designed to enable a person to manage first-line managers in an organisational entity. First-line managers may include team leaders, supervisors, junior managers, section heads, and foremen. The focus of this qualification is to enable learners to develop competence in knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values.
Supervision for Energised WorkTeams
National Certificate: Management
This qualification aims at equipping every first-line manager with the essential knowledge and skills necessary to:
- Develop, lead and inspire productive workplace teams.
- Ensure that all team members are developed to their full potential.
The manager of the first-line manager needs to coach his/her first-line managers, and is, as such, involved in the programme. A simple-to-use benchmarking system forms the basis for ongoing coaching and development.
Productivity
National Certificate: Productivity NQF5
Implementing continuous improvement (kaizen) to increase productivity in an organisation is more than merely drawing up action plans, and implementing them. To be successful and sustainable, it requires a transformation of the organisation’s culture. Just as with changing habits, it takes exceptional measures to make this transformation complete and successful. The Operations Excellence System aims at fulfilling this role; helping the organisation to make a successful transition to a culture of continuous improvement (kaizen). Only when continuous improvement has become an organisation culture, in other words,” the way we do things”, can one be assured that the initiative will be sustained.
Project Manager
Occupational Certificate – Project Manager
Today’s markets and organisations are more complex than ever, and project management has emerged as a discipline with the potential to ensure that new ideas, products and services are successfully realised. This Occupational Certificate is aligned to two of the key global project management standards – the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and PRINCE2 – and provides project management best practices, tools and techniques.
All Qualifications and Skills Programmes are Accredited
Accreditations
