Who we are
RIPA International have been growing and evolving as a trusted, leading provider of international public service management training for nearly 60 years.
Our expertise in providing training, coaching and consultancy has helped thousands of people in the public and private sector work more efficiently, increasing productivity and making a lasting impact for the organisation.
We will work with you to identify solutions and provide a programme delivered in a format and time frame that will suit your distinct set of circumstances. We take a proactive approach in utilising our diverse mix of skills and depth of international experience, designing and developing solutions that focus on transforming critical issues and obstacles into positive results. We want to ensure that the solutions you invest in will purposefully meet the challenges you face in attaining your unique organisational goals.
Importantly, we want all of our clients, both new and established, to understand that we have the capability and flexibility to meet very specific requirements through bespoke training solutions, coaching and consultancy.
RIPA International works across eight core areas of competence:
- Human Resource Development
- Leadership
- Policy and Strategic Planning
- Service Delivery, Accountability and Modernisation
- Citizen Engagement and Community Development
- Financial Management and Procurement
- Justice Sector Reform
- Professional Skills Development
Open Training Programmes in London
These programmes are designed for individuals across a variety of organisations and regions, with a typical course attracting participants from Africa, Asia, the Middle and Far East as well as Europe. The diversity of backgrounds of delegates attending our open programmes enables those attending to secure a networking base which continues long after their course ends. Our extensive range of programmes internationally benchmark the latest trends in strategic and operational management, organisational development and capacity building, enabling participants to make a positive impact within their own organisation.
All London open training courses include dedicated visits to organisations which offer practical insights and experiences of specific subject areas relevant to each course, strengthening the participants’ overall learning experience. The visits are carefully selected and arranged to offer a contemporary view of key initiatives coupled with the experiences of senior staff involved in those initiatives - complementing and enhancing the learning taking place in the training room.
Open Programmes in Your Country
RIPA International is always keen to proactively demonstrate our desire to meet client requests. After feedback from senior staff from a variety of nations, our skills support in your country is principally targeted at ensuring core management skills can be provided to middle-ranking staff within their organisation – supporting clients’ individual, team and organisational development.
These regional events provide participants with the opportunity to network and share experiences with each other and to take stock of best practices and lessons learned, taking into account experiences gathered in a discovery-based learning environment.
Comprehensive Training
To gain a comprehensive insight into the subject areas that are most relevant to you, we encourage you to link together separate open courses to cover all the development areas that you need to assist in building necessary knowledge and skills. We call these comprehensive training programmes (and suggest a number of combination programmes) as they are intended to offer more focused support to your precise learning needs enabling you to achieve the right training and acquire the right skills to take back with you to your organisation.
Enhance your knowledge and fully support your learning experience by selecting one of our comprehensive training programmes today.
Off the Shelf Training Programmes
If your organisation or department has a common training need then we can lift any of our open training programmes off the shelf and deliver specifically for you. This can be either in London to reap the benefits of meeting peers working in the UK, or in your own country should resources dictate that this is preferable. This option provides an opportunity for staff to discuss shared organisational goals and objectives and encourages improved team working – providing positive and practical learning.
Customised Training
Through our ability and experience of evaluating ongoing client development needs and in the implementation of client projects across a wide range of management and organisational development disciplines, RIPA International is able to bring a fresh and adaptable approach to the design and delivery of bespoke training programmes.
Working with our clients, particularly at the identification and inception phase of a dedicated, bespoke solution, we will seek to precisely meet your organisational requirements and address the key objectives and intended outcomes which we will work with you to develop, ensuring that a tangible return on investment and your active involvement are the enabling hallmarks of the solution we provide.
Consultancy
RIPA International prides itself on delivering successful projects and developing long-term relationships with clients and we recognise the way to achieve this is through delivering excellent customer service throughout all stages and elements of a project or consulting assignment.
We have the experience of proven management resources in supporting and sustaining long-term consulting assignments. Where appropriate, we will partner with relevant organisations that can provide a particular capability and may well be an indigenous establishment in our client organisation’s home country. This approach assists RIPA International in ensuring that we capitalise on our capability to deliver the rigfht support, in the right way, and with the
right people. We seek to demonstrate proven experience and understanding of delivering on contracts to time and budget and to the proactive management of risk in projects.
Timely and regular communication with clients at key milestones agreed in the inception phase of any scheme of work ensures that all necessary information and contingency dimensions are in place to meet any eventuality in the life of a specific consultancy assignment.
Coaching
Coaching is a learning tool that is becoming more and more popular although there does remain some confusion as to exactly what coaching is. The CIPD defines coaching as developing a person’s skills and knowledge so that their job performance improves. It targets high performance and improvement at work, although it may also have an impact on an individual’s private life. It usually lasts for a short period and focuses on specific skills and goals.
RIPA International can provide executive coaching for senior personnel who for whatever reason are not able to attend training programmes. Our coaches operate in highly supportive roles to those who wish to make some form of significant change happen.
Coaches offer their clients a supportive and motivating environment to explore what they want and how they might achieve their aspirations. By assisting our clients in committing to action and by being a sounding-board to their experiences, coaching allows the individual the personal space and support needed to grow and develop. The coach's key role is often is assisting the client to maintain the motivation and commitment needed to achieve their goals.
Although coaching is most effective on a face to face basis, increasingly coaching relationships can be continued on an email basis once initial contact has been made.
Study and Benchmarking Tours
These tours are arranged for senior personnel who wish to update and benchmark their knowledge of specific subject areas; visits to sites of best practice are thoroughly researched and selected to complement overall objectives and are drawn from RIPA International’s wide circle of host organisations that support our individual open training programmes.