25 March 2009
Dubai, UAE: Sun Learning Systems is an organization of high integrity and ethics with a reputation for delivering high quality certification in the areas of sales, marketing, management, and customer service. Sun Learning Systems offers their services to help organisations lead and implement their vision, recruit, develop and retain excellent talent in order to stay competitive. As the business world of today is in a constant state of change, for organizations to maximize success the impetus is to offer training.

Sun Learning Systems was founded in Dubai in late 2001 by Nigel Fann, when he recognized the need for a training company in the Middle East that focused on the clients' needs and delivered training aligned with the company's strategy. "Globalization has placed businesses on the edge to continually improve employee skills in order to perk up their bottom-line and stay competitive," said Nigel Fann, CEO of Sun Learning Systems.

"However, employee loyalty has become a rare commodity given todays economic and employment dynamics and maintaining staff morale in times of a downturn can prove to be a challenging task. Delivering value to both your team and organization has become essential in order to succeed in this new and changing environment. Training helps to optimize a company's human assets in not only achieving organizational goals, but individual ones too. It is important to give employees the adequate tools to work better for their companies, but also for their own sense of achievement. In the long run training has a very positive impact on retention, increasing staff morale and enhancing overall job satisfaction, as well as improving productivity and performance. Sun Learning Systems has designed and implemented targeted training programmes that set out to do just that," he further added.

Sun Learning Systems' training services focus on three main areas: Building and Developing sales people and sales capacity, Leadership and Management Development and ensuring quality Customer Service for ultimate longevity of the enterprise. Sun Learning Systems has designed various leadership development programs, as well as its own sales training programmes - "Selling Dynamics" I and II - that are accredited by the Canadian Professional Sales Association as Certified Sales Professional (CSP). Sun Learning Systems provides CSP training worldwide with the objective to enhance the value and credibility of the sales profession through professional standards and certification. By becoming a CSP individuals are identified as highly qualified sales professionals with the right knowledge, skills and attitude. It is the standard for professionalism, integrity and excellence in sales.

Approved as an Institute of Certified Professional Managers (ICPM is an educational institute and business centre of the James Madison University, College of Business located in Virginia, USA) International Training Partner in February 2007, Sun Learning Systems works diligently to brand the Certified Manager™ (CM™) certification programme in the Middle East, as well as develop a market for CM™ certification in North Carolina, USA. The CM™ is a general management certification and the CM™ body of knowledge covers over 60 core competencies that are essential to effective management. The CM™ programme is appropriate for supervisors, managers and leaders at all levels and in all industries, and consists of three Management Skills courses: Foundations of Management, Planning and Organizing, and Leading and Controlling. In 2008, Sun Learning Systems was recognized as CM™ Training Partner of the Year; an award presented annually to an ICPM training partner that excels in recruiting new certificants and delivering high- quality training. 

Furthermore, Sun Learning Systems has partnered with PsychPress, a talent management psychologists, to bring companies the very best in employee assessment tools. As part of Sun Learning Systems' comprehensive human resource management system, these talent management tools are designed for executives, managers and human resource professionals who want to select the right employee for the job, retain them, enhance their performance and build their leadership skills. Companies across the US rely on Sun Learning Systems employee assessments for selection, coaching and maximizing human capital! Sun Learning Systems' Online Assessment Center offers a customized, branded, online human resource system with a user-friendly interface for candidates and employees and instantaneous results sent to the professionals who need them.

Over the years, Sun Learning Systems has grown from a one man show to being one of the most professional training companies operating in the Middle East. Sun Learning Systems works with numerous national and international corporations on long-term developmental projects and holds proven track record in developing individuals and motivating teams. Their clients are situated in Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and they have also worked for international clients in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Sudan and the United Kingdom. Sun Learning Systems has just completed a long term contract with one of the Middle East's largest private property developers by certifying their sales staff and their agents as "Certified Sales Professionals". Various companies in the oil and gas industry have also awarded them with long term contracts for the development of their staff in the areas of Leadership and Management. Here again a robust certification process is in place.

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