LMS

Exceptional Care’s founder, Gill, is committed to developing the skills of her workforce. Having considered several Learning Management Systems on the market, none quite met the objectives she had set for her business. Gill decided to create a bespoke LMS and engaged a team of experienced developers to create a platform that not only met her company’s requirements but would be available to any employer in the Health and Social Care Sector.

The key features of our new LMS system are:

• Available on any internet-enabled device
  Safe, secure and GDPR compliant
  Native mobile apps available for iOS and Android
  Easy access to all course material including videos and workbooks
  Visibility of all learners’ course progress
  Real-time alerts and notifications
  Course refresher/renewal reminders
  Daily, weekly and monthly calendar view
  Simple booking tools with immediate confirmation to all learners
  Course attendance registers
  User support and ‘how to’ guides to help get you started
  Flexible subscriptions available to suit your needs

We are confident that our ground-breaking LMS will revolutionise training in the sector, which is why we are so excited to make it available to you.

To book a demo or chat about our new LMS, please get in touch!

Website

We have also given our website a full refresh, enabling you to access the courses on our LMS, incorporating a new colour scheme and additional content.

The website includes details of:

All course information
An Annual Training Calendar so you can plan your learning timetable
Our Physical Intervention Programme, TANK
A Think Tank Community section which will include exciting news stories, our newsletter and testimonials
A help section for colleagues, learners and clients

Over the coming weeks and months, we’re going to continue to expand the website, so keep an eye out for new content being posted!

Our Introductory Offers and Competition

To celebrate the launch of our new LMS and Website, we’re running an exclusive offer and a competition!

If you purchase any of our courses through our new site, you will receive 20% off your first order!

We’re also running a competition on our social media channels. To be in with a chance of winning, like and share our post that will go up on Friday, 4th November.

The winner will be announced on our online Eventbrite Communication Skills course on the 28th November! To find out more about this course, click here

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Darren at Think Tank Academy, and Elle and Helen at Exceptional Care for completing their CMI Level 4 Certificate in Management and Leadership.

Here they are with their certificates!

In October we walked and fundraised!
Elle Fisher’s Light Up The Night Walk

A huge well done to Elle Fisher, who raised £290 for the Woodlands Hospice this month on their ‘Light Up The Night’ walk.

The walk was a great chance for family and friends of the hospice to remember their loved ones whilst raising vital funds.

The walk set off from Crosby Lakeside Adventure Centre at 6pm, heading along the coastline before taking walkers around the leafy streets of Crosby and Waterloo.

After Elle’s long walk, she looped back around to the Crosby Lakeside Adventure Centre to receive her medal and join other walkers for a night of entertainment.

Mark Spanner’s Three Peak Challenge

This month Mark Spanner completed his ‘Three Peaks Team Walk for Kaz’ to fundraise for Halton Haven Hospice.

Mark Shared his, and the walking teams, story with us:

“WE DID IT!

At the beginning of June 2022, our niece, Karan Waller was admitted to Halton Haven Hospice for end-of-life care. The care that she, the family, and her friends received astonished us all. It truly was a home from home, and they went above and beyond to make us feel welcome and treated like one of their family, the Halton Haven family.

Halton Haven is a very special place and it’s not until you have had a personal experience there that you realise how much we need this remarkable hospice in our community. All of the staff and volunteers touched our family dearly and we have created bonds with them that will last forever.

After weekends of training including Snowden, Scafell Pike, Helvellyn and other, the Team of 25 set out on Friday 14th October travelling to Fort William, staying overnight in a hostel, before waking early next morning to scale Ben Nevis. Conditions were brutal as the summit was reached, with high winds and minus 8-degree temperature. It was bitterly cold and resulted in frozen hair for the girls.

As the oldest member of the Team, I always knew it would be a real challenge and I had trained hard. Unfortunately, I suffered an Achilles Heel injury and had turn back half-way up Ben Nevis. My challenge was over, but I spent the next two days helping out, driving 900 miles and making sure the others were ok.

The Team travelled back to Cumbria on the Saturday afternoon, staying overnight in a hotel in Gosforth. On Sunday we set off early to climb Scafell Pike in the dark, with our headtorches lighting up the path. Conditions were better, and the Team was able to set off for Wales and Snowden by late morning.

It’s fair to say that although we had climbed Snowden on several occasions during the training weeks, it was clear that scaling two mountains and driving hundreds of miles in a day would take its toll. However, we did it, albeit tired and sore from our efforts.

It’s a challenge that some would never want to do again, but everyone felt a huge sense of achievement, and all for a great cause.”

SME Awards Ceremony

Think Tank Academy has been shortlisted for the Skills for Growth Award by Edge Hill University, and will be attending the NW SME Growth and Innovation Awards ceremony on the 10th November at the Bliss Hotel, Southport.

This is an invite only event and we’ll be in the company of some of the North West’s leading SMEs.

Keep your fingers crossed and your eyes peeled on our social media to see how we get on…