NOW Train
We provide one-to-one and group training and mentoring consultancy services. From single-day to multi-day sessions and creating individual training development plans, our collaborative approach helps organisations and their people grow, with a specific emphasis on a low-carbon future.
Macro-environment Education Services
It is important for young aspiring professionals in the refrigeration and built environment sectors to learn and appreciate the macro-environment in which their organisation operates. This intends to encourage and promote their personal development and full appreciation of the business’s overriding goals and their colleagues’ work. Examples of macro-environment education services include:
- F-Gas Regulations/Kigali Agreement – To introduce and highlight the continuous need for low-carbon change and innovation.
- Sustainable Development Goals & Low Carbon Technology – To introduce, highlight, and discuss how to create targets to improve the natural environment and become more sustainable as the move to achieving a low-carbon future intensifies.
- Competitor Analysis & Market Awareness – To introduce and highlight the need to be aware of what competitor organisations are doing. This education aims to promote innovation as the move to a low-carbon future intensifies.
Technical Education Services
It is essential for young aspiring professionals to acquire a basic technical understanding or in-depth knowledge of refrigeration, HVAC, and the built environment. OMEGA has developed the following courses that we have delivered to many satisfied customers:
- An introduction to refrigeration
- Refrigeration basics
- Non-ideal refrigeration processes and system efficiency
- An introduction to CO2 refrigeration
- An introduction to HFO refrigeration
- An introduction to DSEAR and ATEX
- An introduction to Inverter and digital scroll technology
- An introduction to heat recovery
- An introduction to Adiabatic cooling
- Designing a convenience store refrigeration system
- Calculating cooling loads
- Pipe sizing for refrigeration systems
- Selecting refrigeration compressors
- Selecting expansion valves
- Selecting condensers & gas coolers
- Expansion Valves & Driers
- Oil Management systems
- A2L Refrigerants and system design
- Pressure Enthalpy charts
- The Pressure Equipment Directive
- The F-Gas regulations
- An overview of BS EN-378
- Energy & Emissions Profiling of Refrigeration systems (Through modelling, we have developed calculation apps that accurately project refrigeration systems’ energy consumption and environmental impact – covering HFC, HFO and naturally occurring refrigerants in direct expansion and secondary refrigeration systems)
Management Education Services
It is crucial for young aspiring professionals to develop an understanding of management and leadership, as this will prepare them and their organisations to grow, flourish, and be well-prepared for the low-carbon transition. Example management education services include:
- Business Strategy – An introduction to understanding the business environment (including but not limited to the importance of a company mission, vision, beliefs, and values) and an introduction to the importance of establishing an effective business strategy; strategies that are deeply aligned to the demands of meeting a low carbon future
- Leadership & Culture – An introduction to effective leadership styles and the importance of culture in an organisation. Key focus areas are transitional and adaptive leadership centralised around a low-carbon future and the positive impact that this will have on creating a best-in-class culture
- Marketing – An introduction to understanding the business environment from the perspective of positioning and how to identify and evaluate opportunities and risks. Key learnings and takeaways surround the environmental, socio-economic, and commercial benefits that a low-carbon-focused marketing strategy can provide an organisation.
- Motivation, Resistance & Change – An introduction to understanding how to motivate individuals and teams, recognise and manage resistance, and successfully navigate change that a low carbon future will bring.
- Correcting Mistakes & Measurement – An introduction to understanding how to identify and correct mistakes and how to measure success and improve. This service follows a two-fold approach: traditional business measurement perspectives and metrics, and how a business can measure its environmental successes on the journey to a low-carbon future
- Group Working – With an absolute focus on Net Zero, the theme of this topic surrounds an introduction and application of Action Learning and Communities of Practice as a management tool to increase shared learning, motivation, and teamwork
- The Bottom Line & Beyond the Bottom Line – An introduction to appreciating and understanding time management and productivity to support profitability and the importance of company positioning, highlighting the need and tangible benefits of aligning a business profit with the Triple Bottom Line concept.