Company profile

Faculty Training Institute is a Proprietary company, registered in South Africa. From our small beginnings as a partnership of lecturers offering part-time training in Cape Town, it has grown to become a substantial and influential organisation at the heart of skills development in critical knowledge skills in South Africa.

Core Business

FTI's main business is skills development, but to stereotype us as a 'training company' would be to underestimate the value that we contribute to company and delegate alike. Our targeted skills domains lie at the intersection of Technology and Business, at the point where organisations can maximise value. The kinds of skills we focus on include:

Business and Systems Analysis
Project Management, and Project Administration
Quality Assurance and Testing
Thinking and Problem Solving
Communication skills (Presentations, Workshop facilitation, meeting management, Business and Technical Writing)
Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture
Information and Data Modelling
Business Process Modelling and Business Process Management

Products And Services

We offer training courses aimed at developing the skills of delegates in our target markets. We also offer value-added services that allow organisations to derive better return on their training investment.

Training Courses

Our Diploma and Certificate courses are aimed at the career needs of key individuals. These are vocational qualifications that cover multiple skills in a part-time format over several months. In many cases, we have sought global accreditation or endorsement with the appropriate professional bodies so that delegates are able to obtain professional development units with these bodies (refer to individual course outlines for details).
Our short courses, usually 2-5 days in length, offer in-depth coverage of specific, focused skills.

More information can be obtained from our Course Calendar and Course Portfolio Pages

Professional Services

Our value-added services are designed to help organisations ensure that they obtain enduring value from training, whether this be by helping them select the correct delegate, or by ensuring that the work environment has evolved to support the high-end training that we deliver. These services, which are described in more detail elsewhere on this site, include:

Organisational Maturity Assessments
Workshop customisation and course development
Coaching and mentoring services
Job profiling
Employee profile assessment and screening
Competency assessments
Methodology development and customisation
Change Management

More information can be obtained from our Professional Services pages

Geographic footprint

With our head office at FTI House in Kenilworth, Cape Town, and a Training Centre in Sandton, Johannesburg, we are well placed to serve our main markets in South Africa. Our flexible delivery model means that we do a substantial amount of training on-site at large corporates, and selected courses are available in other centres.

Selected courses are already available as on-site options outside of South Africa, and our international expansion plans will see public courses offered from 3Q 2010.

Our people

FTI prides itself on the quality of its administrative and academic staff. While academic credentials and ability are important, we recruit staff primarily for their passion, professionalism and team spirit.

Our administrative staff are responsible for the behind-the-scenes running of courses. Since part of our ethos is to challenge delegates to push the boundaries of their own capabilities, training can be a stressful process, especially when assignments and exams come around. Their job is to ensure that our delegates experience the best possible experience while they are on our training courses, and they need to be strict but fair and caring when doing this. They all subscribe to FTI's Code of Ethics and Value System.

We have people to handle

Marketing and client liaison
Office Management and Venue hire
Course administration
Finance and Accounting
Human resources
Catering and housekeeping

Like most busy, growing companies, we don't always get it right, but we are frequently complimented on how helpful and caring our admin staff are, especially at one of our many graduation parties!

Our academic staff are very special people indeed. Since our courses are much more than a series of lectures, and are very practical in nature, our academic staff need to be able to walk-the-walk, as well as talk-the-talk. They are not only great facilitators and teachers, but they are able to coach, advise and mentor delegates as they complete their practical work. Since a key objective of our training approach is to develop delegates who have the self-confidence and knowledge to apply their skills when they leave us, they have been carefully coached to 'facilitate learning' rather than 'teach' . Our more experienced academic staff fill a number of roles, including

Course Manager
Lecturer or facilitator
Assessor, examiner or moderator

All academic staff need to undergo a thorough accreditation process, and our ongoing quality monitoring systems ensure that they are continually improving the quality and consistency of our educational programmes

The consulting staff in our Professional Services Division are experienced practitioners, drawn from our academic staff, and practitioners from industry. We do not body-shop. Instead, all resources are fully accredited in the products and services that they are consulting in, whether they are an Accredited FTI Performance Coach, a Competency Assessor, a Methodology Specialist or a Course Developer.

For more information, consult our Employment Opportunities pages.

Expansion and Growth

In this new Millennium, FTI has embarked on an ambitious strategy. It is our intention that the future will see us:

offering our courses throughout South Africa, including across the borders.
continuing to build capacity through innovative relationships with excellent lecturing staff drawn from academia and the IT profession
continuing to accredit our courses with relevant institutions as well as the National Qualifications Framework in South Africa
seeking strong alliances with like-minded training and business partners both locally and abroad

So, whether you are a company seeking to develop and consolidate the skills base of your IT staff, an IT professional looking to grow your career, or a professional training company seeking joint ventures relating to high quality training, if you have a training need, or a bright idea, we would like to hear from you.

FACULTY TRAINING INSTITUTE