Sample Training and Consulting Projects
TRU’s customized training and consulting projects involve a wide range of of specializations. We invite you to view a list and scope of recent projects below:
Project: Language and Cultural Immersion Program
Location: Kamloops, BC
Clients and Partner Organizations: Individual students and small groups from educational institutions
The aim of these three and four-week programs is to develop English language skills through classroom instruction, integrated activities, and homestay experiences. Participants will be encouraged to be active learners and speak English at all times in order to take full advantage of the immersive English environment.
Our program is learner-centered. The themes, learning outcomes, methodology, and materials selected are targeted to the learner's language ability, needs and interests.
Project: Executive Leadership Training for Principals
Location: Kamloops, BC
Client Organizations: Beijing Haidian District Education Bureau, Shanghai Xuhui District Education Bureau
Project Partner: School District No. 73 (Kamloops)
The customized program for Principals and Vice-Principals focuses on skills development in educational leadership through training and professional placements. The program addresses curriculum development, external relations, innovative delivery methods, human resource issues, and planning.
Project: Olympic Training Contract
Location: Beijing, China
Major Funding Source: China Network Communications Corporation (CNC)
A team from TRU provided specialized training for 100 site managers from the China Network Communications Corporation - the largest telecom in China and the official telecommunications provider for the 2008 Olympic Games. The program provided training in English, customer service, intercultural communications, as well as event support and emergency response. Project trainees then went on to serve as Telecommunications Customer Support Site Managers during the 2008 Games.
Project: Customized Tourism and Language for Cabin Attendant Students
Location: Kamloops, BC
Client Organization: J.F. Oberlin University
The project aims to develop the students' English language skills through classroom instructions, integrated activities, and homestay experiences. The project builds upon the students' existing language skill level, with a focus on moving the students to the next level of proficiency. In addition to the language skills, students were introduced to culturally sensitive tourism training in the customer service sector, organizational skills, challenges facing the tourism industry, and the eight sectors of tourism.
Project: Respiratory Therapy Training
Location: Changsha, China
Major Funding Source: Hunan Ministry of Health, Hunan Peoples' Provincial Hospital (HPPH)
Client and Partner Organizations: Hunan Peoples' Provincial Hospital
TRU delivers two different types of respiratory care education programs for doctors and nurses at the Hunan Peoples' Provincial Hospital (HPPH). Each summer, faculty members from TRU travel to Hunan to provide a custom-designed training course to doctors and nurses from HPPH as well as additional staff from surround hospitals.
In addition, every year a small group of HPPH doctors travels to Kamloops for several weeks of specialized training. The program begins with customized English language training for Respiratory Therapy and the doctors are then placed in hospitals throughout British Columbia for four-weeks of clinical education