Welcome To Bridge Professional Development Centre

Four learning options for you

1)PERSONAL : this is a one-to-one option where you work with a dedicated trainer or teacher. Choose this if you need flexibility in your schedule, your learning path and learning speed.
2)GROUP : you may prefer a more social experience joining a group of between 6 and 20 students, of similar level and needs to you. The group interaction adds colour and texture and lots of opportunities for practice and feedback. This group option is scheduled Monday, Wednesday and Friday with 90-minute classes each day.
3)SMALL GROUPS: groups of friends, families and work colleagues choose this option where they value small group size – between 3 and 5 students – and familiarity. These small groups often share the same goals the teacher can respond with focused and relevant activities.
4)ONLINE LEARNING: many choose this learning option when they are unable to join a face-to-face class for personal or business reasons. You can do this as a single learner or join others in a similar situation. Going online has all the same ingredients as face-to-face learning … but without the travel!

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Programmes

1. Training We offer business and communication soft skills training in a variety of formats – intensive and bitesize, open public access and in-company. We also facilitate retreats. We call them awaydays. Some of our popular courses at Bridge include – Communication Skills, Leadership, Customer Service, Team Building, Administration and Intercultural Skills. We have an amazing training facility in Gurd Sholla, Addis Ababa where we deliver training face-to-face. All our training programmes can also be delivered virtually via zoom. Bridge works with people from all sectors including international and local NGOs, the corporate sector and private sector.

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2. Consulting We offer a range of consulting services for various sectors in the area of learning and development. One of the areas is performance management for companies. Our service includes introducing performance management through training but also making sure a performance management system is in place. The other area where we give consultancy service is how to build healthy organisational culture. We have a tool that can help companies diagnose their culture. Then we can offer training and follow up regarding how to build healthy organisational culture. A complete school solutions is another package that we have for schools. This package addresses two core support which includes: Leadership and management: Helping school leaders lead the learning and teaching rather than focusing only the administration work. Learning and Teaching: Equipping teachers with 21st century skills which include creativity, problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration and others. Last but not the least, we offer consulting service for the hospitality sector. We have a tool which diagnose the quality of the service. Then we can discuss the possible interventions to make sure the company is customer centric.
3. Coaching We also offer coaching service for individuals who would like to develop professionally and improve performance with guidance and support. Our Director is a certified Life and Leadership Coach. Our coaching provides committed expertise, bringing insight, perspective, and a growth mind-set to the coaching relationship. We also provide group coaching for companies after we deliver training.

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4. Reading Champions This is a programme for children. Bridge and our partner Reading For Life have been running a variety of activities so that children read books for pleasure. We have a monthly come-and-read-your-favourite-book event. We have also run a wonderfully successful reading challenge programmes in July and August for the past three years. We give children appropriate age-related books to read at home and then they return to Bridge to do various activities based around the stories they've read. The children develop a love of reading and story-telling and we bring the experience alive in a caring, interactive monitored environment. We have also been reading stories in English for children on Ethiopian Children’s TV for the past few years. We have a variety of people reading stories in English so that children develop love for reading. We consider this as our social responsibility.
5. Facilitating retreats At Bridge, we facilitate retreats. We have facilitated retreats for all kinds of organisations. We usually do it outside Addis Ababa. We call retreats awaydays because people are away from their work.

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  Personally I believe in listening but I was not an active listener. Today I was able to find my gaps in listening and also understood my qualities in the work place. I am also able to understand my colleagues better now and understand their gap. I will definitely work on this subject with my team.  

SM from Safaricom

  The training at Bridge is much more interactive, they really conduct amazing activities that make participants interested to understand what's going on. They speak good English and Amharic too, that was also a deciding factor when we chose The Bridge.  

Aisha Imran, Marketing Manager, Moplaco Trading PLC

  It will help me prioritize my task or work as to their importance. The training approach is friendly; we could raise office issues freely. The group assignments helped us point out our stress and overcome them. The training materials are catchy and not easily forgotten.  

A manager working at an international NGO

  Thank you for this fantastic team building training! It has provided me with lots of insight on how I can support my team to build and support team spirit and work towards achieving excellence!  

An employee working at a UN agency