• There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
    Edith Wharton

  • Education is the movement from darkness to light.
    Allan Bloom

  • The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
    Hazrat Inayat Khan

  • That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
    Ben Sweetland

  • Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World
    Christopher Columbus

  • The difficulties we experience always illuminate the lessons we need most
    Unknown

  • We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
    Oscar Wilde

  • As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
    Carl Jung

  • What is to give light must endure burning.
    Dr Viktor Frankel

  • When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
    Carl Sagan

Training and Development

Highly competent leaders, team members and communicators come to light from Illuma Consulting's training and development programs. Our programs focus on developing better interpersonal skills, including influencing, sales and customer service; delivering compelling presentations and speeches; and enhancing training, facilitation and coaching abilities.

We utilise participative and experiential techniques, along with approaches that are respectful of our learners as curious, responsible adults. Training is always relevant, enjoyable for participants and designed to achieve the client's objectives.

The Principal of Illuma Consulting, Rhonda Tranks, has an impressive background in organisational training and development, including needs analysis, curriculum design, training design and evaluation.

She's a highly skilled trainer who quickly builds a stimulating and supportive environment that's conducive to reflection and insights, rapid learning and sustained application of new skills and capabilities.

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Workshop conducted by Rhonda Tranks on co-facilitation, AFN Conference, Bathurst 2008

We offer customised training programs for clients, along with the following generic programs which can be run as public courses or adapted for in-house programs:

  • Turn teams around with the KGI™: (Group Instrument for Effective Leadership and Participation in Teams.) One day workshop for consultants and OD/HR practitioners on how to use the Klein Group Instrument KGI™ for coaching and team development.
  • Coaching Conversations with Staff and Peers: 1 day workshop.
  • Into the Spotlight: develop confidence and competence in impromptu speaking at meetings and events. 1 day workshop.
  • Group Facilitation: an introduction to effective group and meeting facilitation. 2 day workshop.
  • From Instructor to Facilitative Trainer: 2 day workshop.

Contact us for information on our Coaching Packages and Team Development packages, and read about the essentials of training design in this article by Rhonda Tranks.