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Training Courses

There are significant cost benefits in engaging URPS to design and deliver your training course. These apply particularly when eight or more employees are going to participate in the training as average daily course costs for extended sessions range from $300 to $500 per head. Given that we can manage training sessions with up to 15 participants these costs can be reduced considerably.

There are advantages for your organisation in having a number of staff undertake training at the same time. Learning is more likely to be reinforced by peers in the workplace and techniques taught can be practised collaboratively. Because we use adult learning techniques, participants develop and/or refresh their skills at a pace that suits them and in a relaxed environment. Being with people they know can reduce stress and make learning easier.

Our clients have included:

Clients Task
Electranet Communication and consultation
City of West Torrens Communication and consultation
Uniting Care Wesley Port Adelaide Strategic planning
PIRSA Advisory Board of Agriculture Strategic planning
Adelaide City Council Communication and consultation
University of South Australia The Role of Local Government in Planning and Delivery of Human Services

The Minister for Urban Development & Planning released the Ministerial Mount Barker Urban Growth Development Plan Amendment (DPA) in June 2010 for public consultation. This DPA proposes to rezone approximately 1300 hectares of rural land on the edges of Mt Barker and Nairne for residential and light industrial use.

With the aim of ensuring that its community was well informed and empowered to comment on the Ministerial DPA, the District Council of Mt Barker engaged URPS to run a series of information sessions for the local community. These six sessions were extremely well attended, with more than 300 people able to hear about and ask questions regarding the Ministerial DPA process and how to go about getting involved in this part of the planning system.

In a letter to the editor of the Mt Barker Courier, Jean Lovell of Nairne said that "Mt Barker Council is to be congratulated for its commitment to proper community consultation" and that URPS was "highly professional and responded in detail to questions in an articulate, honest and informed manner".

This is evidence of the success of these types of community information sessions and the goodwill and engagement that Mt Barker Council has fostered with its community through the process. We also believe that this type of process leads to informed and valuable input from the community to key planning initiatives such as this Ministerial DPA."