PowerPointPrsentation

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Monika Elsik 25 April 2006
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Know-how Secures Success

• Continuing and further vocational education and
  training represents a guarantee for the
  entrepreneurs success, an engine for
  innovations, and contributes substantially to
  securing jobs.
• For 60 years the WIFI has been a competent
  partner of the Austrian economy.
• This tradition is our commitment to innovation.
  The WIFI stands for applied knowledge and
  dialogue between business and learning.

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Facts Figures
The market leader will promote your career

• 300,000 customers across Austria
• 25,000 courses, seminars and programmes every
  year
• 11,000 top trainers from the business sphere
• One main WIFI in each province
• Over 80 offices

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Major Trends in the Sector of Learning

• Prolongation of employment
• Lifelong learning also for elderly people
• Demand for self-directed, flexible learning (e.g.
  e-learning, one-on-one training)
• Trend towards higher learning and university
  degrees
• Trend towards internationalisation
• Trend towards customer relationship management
• Trend towards work-life balance

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The WIFI Offers Numerous Advantages

• Practice-orientation of learning contents and
  teaching methods
• Top-notch trainers from the world of business
• High quality offers
• Wide range of offers from dual vocational
  training to MBA programmes
• Recognition of WIFI degrees in the business
  sphere
• Continuous development of innovative educational
  products in demand on the market
• Customer-friendly opening-hours
• Nation-wide presence

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Also Our Customers See the Advantages

• 78 percent of course participants gain benefits
  for their professional and personal life through
  a WIFI course attendance.
• 75 percent of opinion leaders always recommend
  the WIFI.
• 54 percent of graduates are convinced that their
  professional situation has improved through a
  WIFI course attendance.
• 46 percent of all participants in continuing and
  further education and training measures in
  Austria attend WIFI courses.

Source Gallup/Karmasin study Image Analysis
2005
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The WIFI has Profile

• Spontaneous awareness in total population 70
• Spontaneous awareness among Chamber members 80
• Spontaneous awareness among opinion leaders 76
• Aided awareness in total population 87
• Aided awareness among Chamber members 100
• Aided awareness among opinion leaders 100
• Questioned opinion leaders included journalists,
  politicians, HR managers,
• top managers and freelancers

Source Image Analysis 2005 / Gallup-Karmasin
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What the WIFI Can Offer You

• Seminar and courses
• Academic degrees, e.g. university-type
  programmes, MBA programmes, Fachhochschule
  courses
• Specialised colleges and part-time industrial
  master colleges
• Examinations providing university access for
  skilled workers
• Internationally recognised certificates, e.g. for
  language courses Cambridge in accounting
  European Management Accountants Association
• Personnel certificates, e.g. in welding technology

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The WIFI Offers Flexible Forms of Learning

• One-on-one training programmes
• Customised time arrangements with WIFI trainers
• Personal skills needs and knowledge requirements
  are met
• Fast learning success
• Coaching sessions
• Person- and target-oriented support and
  assistance provided by WIFI experts, e.g. for
  people changing their workplace or employer
• E-learning
• Learning independent of time and space
• Self-directed learning volume
• Support provided by WIFI trainer during
  attendance phase

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The WIFI Comes to Your Company

• FIT - in-house training programmes
• Exclusivity for your company
• In-house skills training programmes
• Large pool of trainers
• Professional project management
• Know-how about funding
• Optimal cost-benefit ratio
• Implementation in nation-wide network

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The WIFIs Business Fields

• Management / Corporate Leadership
• Personality
• Languages
• Applied Business Administration
• Applied Data Processing / Information Technology
• Technology
• Sectors of Industry

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Business Field Management / Corporate Leadership

• Corporate leadership / organisation
• HR development / HR management
• Business start-ups / self-employment

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Business Field Personality

• Communication
• Individual working techniques
• Self-management
• Wellness
• Berufsreifeprüfung (examination providing
  university access for skilled workers) / general
  education
• Social and counselling occupations
• Health and care occupations

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Business Field Languages

• English
• French
• Italian
• Spanish
• German as a foreign language
• Other languages

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Business Field Applied Business Administration

• Applied business administration - general
• Marketing / sales
• Export
• Purchasing / warehouse
• Finance and accounting
• Courses for the secretariat
• Law

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Business Field Applied Data Processing /
Information Technology

• Applied data processing - basic training
• User programmes
• Telecommunications / telematics
• Operating systems / networks
• Software development
• Apple MacIntosh
• Multimedia / virtual reality
• Extensive training programmes (courses,
  examinations)
• Applied data processing - specialised topics

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Business Field Technology

• Working techniques / organisation of work
• Business technology / company organisation
• Design and manufacturing techniques
• Materials technology
• Welding technology
• Automation technology / mechatronics
• Power engineering
• Quality management
• Environmental protection / environmental
  technology
• Security technology / employee protection
• Innovation
• Communications technology / technical computer
  science
• Technical services

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Business Field Sectors of Industry

• Commerce
• Crafts, trades and services
• Industry
• Tourism and leisure industry
• Transport
• Banks and insurance enterprises
• Services

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Share of Business Fields by Participant Hours
Management / Corporate Leadership
Applied Business Administration
Languages
5
6
28
Personality
10
Technology
11
Sectors of Industry
Applied Data Processing / Information Technology
26
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(Source WIFI Educational Statistics 2004/2005
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Reasons for Participation
Source WIFI Participant Survey 2003
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Financing of WIFI Events
Source WIFI Participant Survey 2003
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Educational Structure of WIFI Customers
Source WIFI Participant Survey 2003
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What Entrepreneurs / Managers Say About the WIFI

• Mag. Julian Hadschieff, Managing Shareholder of
  Humanomed Krankenhaus Management GmbH
• The WIFI offers a really wide range of
  programmes and has the important advantage that
  they always meet state-of-the-art requirements.
  Like its innovative educational products for the
  health sector, for example, which enterprises
  need urgently.
• DI Christoph Hinteregger, Division Manager
  Technology Doppelmayr Seilbahnen
• I recommend my technicians to get fit for the
  future by attending WIFI courses. For us, optimal
  CVET units include courses for hydraulics,
  special-purpose software, presentation
  techniques, languages for jobs abroad,
  mathematics, CNC-programming. In addition, the
  WIFI is located near our company, this saves us a
  lot of time!

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What Entrepreneurs / Managers Say About the WIFI

• Jutta Piffl, Head of Accounting and HR of BÄKO,
  co-operative of bakers/confectioners
• Our employees deal with customers and suppliers
  every day, therefore we got immediately
  interested in the presentation of the in-house
  training programmes we were offered by the WIFI
  experts.
• Mag. Michael Walser, Director of Human Resources
  of HEAD Sport AG
• We spontaneously decided for the WIFIs
  in-house training programmes. Our employees
  satisfaction confirmed us, not only because of
  the practice-oriented, customised learning offers
  which meet individual requirements but also
  because they got to know one another better and
  gained insights into the activities and views of
  the other departments.

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What Trainers Say About the WIFI

• Ingrid Amon, WIFI trainer for voice training and
  elocution, author of Die Macht der Stimme
• The Power of the Voice)The WIFI has always
  been open for my didactic, pedagogical and
  subject-related ideas. This creates a positive
  climate of innovation, which benefits everybody
  The WIFI is the first provider to offer
  innovative approaches on the market, and I feel
  encouraged in my creativity. At the same time,
  direct feedback provided by WIFI customers
  ensures continuous market orientation.
• Gerhard Sauli, Managing Director of innotech
  Betriebstechnik GmbH, Trainer at the Part-time
• Industrial Master College for Mechanical
  EngineeringParticularly for industrial masters
  it is difficult to change from our position at
  the machine to management tasks. As a trainer it
  is my duty to assist course participants in this
  change, give them security and support them. The
  WIFI provides me with the optimal platform to
  apply my 30 years of experience as a trainer and
  business consultant.

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What Trainers Say About the WIFI

• Gerhard Menapace, refrigeration technician, Linde
  Kältetechnik GmbH in Vienna
• To us it is extremely important that there is
  an institution like the WIFI where trainers can
  pass on their practical experience and new
  technologies also to people outside their own
  company. Being a trainer myself, I feel
  encouraged and satisfied because participants in
  my courses show great enthusiasm.
• Mag. Michaela Kern, core competency Executive
  TrainingTrainer in the WIFI Management
  ForumThe WIFI Management Forum provides
  top-notch training oriented towards a key
  management circle in Austria. This trainer
  quality combined with experience exchanges at the
  highest level guarantee our participants that
  they are taught knowledge and skills which they
  will be able to put into practice efficiently.