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Good Ideas Institute

The Good Ideas Institute is our new online learning platform for the voluntary sector. Trainers working in the voluntary sector can now work together through one shared learning platform to sell their courses, reach more people and save costs.

Customers can purchase any of the courses from our growing online catalogue here. Please note customers don’t have to ‘join’ to make their purchases.

 

 

 

 

Then join us – share our learning platform, save costs and reach more learners!

 

How to join the Good Ideas Institute and sell your training online.

Step 1 – Our training programme for trainers

The Good Learning Journeys training programme is a practical ‘train the trainer’ course for designing, developing and facilitating online learning courses on our platform. As part of this course we support you to

All of this training and support costs just £350 – put simply, it is designed to get you up and running on the platform, designing and delivering quality learning experiences for your learners.

This one-off fee not only includes the training course itself and mentoring support but also one to one support to ensure you are confident and competent at using the platform (subject to you developing your course content to an agreed schedule). All trainers who work on the platform have to successfully complete this course and they are then awarded their Trainer e-badge.

Step 2 – Membership of the Good Ideas Institute

Trainers must successfully complete the Good Learning Journeys course before they can sell their online training courses or work on  our platform. (This is an important part of our quality assurance process for the Institute). Organisations and charities who wish to become a Member of the Good Ideas Institute must have at least one of their trainers successfully complete our training course. The organisation is then awarded the Member e-badge.

To learn more

On Friday 8th October 2021 we officially launched the Good Ideas Institute. The first trainers to complete the Good Learning Journeys course described their new online learning courses and what they have learned from the training.To hear directly from them check out our free demo course ‘Launch of the Good Ideas Institutehere.

If you’d like to arrange an informal chat, a demonstration or you’d like to discuss having your very own cost effective learning platform linked to the Good Ideas Institute please email us – we’ll be happy to talk you through that option too!

 

Who founded the Good Ideas Institute?

Dr. Sue Newberry is the Managing Director of Good Ideas Ltd. Sue has spent over 35 years working in and for the voluntary sector – as chief executive of a charity providing IT training for people with disabilities and then as a consultant and trainer. Sue explained ‘The Good Ideas Institute is a mechanism through which we can deliver our own training to more customers. We’ve also worked with wonderful trainers and charities over the years – they provide great quality training. So this is potentially a really useful way for them to generate more income and to reach more learners!’

 

"Feasibility Study

After securing funding for our feasibility project, I contacted various companies whom stated they could provide this service. After speaking to Sue for 5 minutes, I knew I had the correct person to oversee such an important piece of work. I had a connection straight away with Sue and felt we were on same wavelength from the off. What I was asking for was quite unique and very specific. I was confident that Sue and her team were the ones for us, however I discussed this with my colleagues, a further meeting was arranged and after that meeting we were in no doubt Sue was the correct choice.

Sue and her team were helpful from the off, very approachable, and accustomed to our Yorkshire sense of humour. Sue made us feel that our project meant a great deal to her personally, extremely helpful every step of the way. Providing updates at every stage, readily contactable, and most importantly very patient with a bunch of novices.

Although we knew our service was required, it was very important to get an independent view to demonstrate what we thought we knew already. This independent view, demonstrated what we believed in, providing us with the courage to follow our dream.

We would 'definitely' use Good Ideas again or recommend them to others. Sue and her team felt more like friends who shared our passion."



- Nick Dunham, Managing Director, Parity Care Ltd
Parity Care | Research
 
 

Research

Undertaking research work such as feasibility studies, surveys, documentary analysis, interviews and consultations as well as leading research and development projects.


Research

Resources

Building your organisation's through strategic business planning, fundraising and by training your board members, staff and volunteers.


Resources

Relationships

Facilitating productive partnerships and healthy working relationships. Supporting cultural change and leadership & team development. Strengthening governance and management processes


Relationships

Results

Using quality standards to evidence the quality and value your work (Licensed mentors and assessors for Trusted Charity and Investing in Volunteers). Demonstrating your impact through external evaluation.


Results
 
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