Jun20177 Leading the Pivot of Canada’s Education Industry A premier provider of professional training programs, Procept Associates Ltd. is a specialist service with a highly motivated attitude it wishes to share with its clients. With a focus on project management, agile project management, business analysis, IT service management, change management and leadership development, the range of courses and educational services it offers gives both depth and breadth of learning. In addition, Procept’s consultation division has been working to offer strategically sound services in its field since 1982 – something that it has only developed and improved since. It also has a wholly owned US subsidiary under its belt, offering management training and consulting since 1965. Its growth since these early days successes has been exponential; presently, it employs over 70 qualified and accredited course instructors across its home nation of Canada and has taught over one million people across 17,000 organizations. To delve a little deeper into its history, an important year for this business was 1994. During this time, Procept seized the opportunity to enter the training and business education industry, becoming the first public course in Canada aligned with the Project Management Body of Knowledge. This governing body operating out of the Project Management Institute seeks to prepare candidates for the PMP exam. Since its debut, Procept’s PMP preparation course has helped more Canadians pass the exam than any other, and it has become a Charter Global Registered Education Provider with the Institute. It also provides training and consultancy directly to organisations and higher education institutions across Canada and overseas, with many of its instructors boasting advanced degrees up to the Masters or PhD level. Working within such a dynamic market has meant Procept is adept at reading emerging marketplace trends through in-depth research and surveys. This helps it identify what subject matters to offer next, and what about its services require evolution. It also heavily invests in the development of its courses, creating instructor-led and self-directed e-learning solutions that fit a mobile workforce, appropriate for a mid-pandemic world climate. It takes great pride in the flexibility and customisation of its work and the instructional quality that it offers through its diverse and skilled instruction team. It also prizes its maintenance of such things within a highly fragmented industry. Procept has found that as it has grown it has far outpaced the smaller more boutique training firms with only 1-4 training courses and a small operating area. It also does not have much in the way of similarly sized competition, but the smaller firms maintain a very loyal client base that can make expansion difficult. In another industry trend that it has been keeping tabs on, the impact of Covid-19 Procept Associates Ltd, the fourth largest educational training company in Canada, discusses its past, present, and future within a dynamic and evolving sector. Issue 3 2021 39 has been causing many such competitors to struggle to maintain some of their current contracts. This has largely been due to organisations tightening their belts across the board, and thus being less willing to spend on education and training courses. Many of its competitors also struggled with the pivot to fully remote learning, but Procept elegantly and efficiently managed this thanks to its existing proficiency with online educational tools. Due to its adaptability, flexibility, and quick responses during the pandemic, Procept has found that it is now in a good position for future growth. Due to this, going forward it will be continuing to grow its e-learning and self-directed services. The renewed focus on these that the pandemic necessitated will likely cause these to remain the format of choice for the educational industry in the foreseeable future, such courses acting as an alternative to in person learning as well as a hybrid model for selected institutions. It also expects to see a projected growth in demand for its data management training and change management courses. Such courses could prove invaluable to organisations adapting to the ever-changing climate of the pandemic, and it expects that even after the pandemic, its e-learning will still be hugely popular due to the newly built infrastructures that make them so accessible. As a final note, Procept has entered 2021 with optimism after the success of its 2020 online International Project Management Day conference. With participation higher than ever both in terms of guests and attendees, Procept is confident that with its positivity and responsiveness, it will pull through any further difficulties the outbreak may present. Company: Procept Associates Ltd. Contact: Kevin Aguanno Website: www.Procept.com The renewed focus on these that the pandemic necessitated will likely cause these to remain the format of choice for the educational industry in the foreseeable future, such courses acting as an alternative to in person learning as well as a hybrid model for selected institutions. It also expects to see a projected growth in demand for its data management training and change management courses.
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