We regularly advertise nabim’s distance learning programme in flour milling as ‘seven steps to success’.

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Taking the first step - How to help yourself and others develop the
love and understanding of flour milling
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Laurie (in pre-House days). A mentor people in our courses; volunteer to be their
is supposedly training a new employee mentor; don’t waste the opportunity you
but is really just standing by, letting them and they have signed up for. As you help
learn by trial and error, and criticising to develop someone’s love and understand-
when they get it wrong. “Why don’t you ing of milling, it is very likely that you will
show them the correct way?” the men- strengthen, perhaps even rekindle, your own
tor is asked. “No-one ever showed me” love; who knows, you may even learn (or
comes the reply, “why should they have re-learn) something yourself.
life any easier?” “But” replies Mr Laurie, Details of the 2011-12 course programme
Taking the first step
“wouldn’t they learn more quickly if you can be downloaded from the nabim web-
did? And wouldn’t that make your life site, at: www.nabim.org.uk/content/1/114/
easier too?”. The penny drops correspondence-courses.html. Alternatively,
Our working lives are generally easier, send an email with any questions to: info@
How to help yourself and others less frustrating and more rewarding, when nabim.org.uk.
those who work with us and for us know
develop the love and understanding of what they are doing. (Hopefully, your
boss feels the same way, having experi-
flour milling enced the ‘penny drop’ described above.)
If the people reporting to you are
developing a love and understanding of More inforMation:
milling, nurtured by yourself and others, NABIM
by Nigel Bennett, Secretary, NABIM, United Kingdom supported hopefully by the nabim dis- 21 Arlington Street
tance learning programme, then you are London, SW1A 1RN UK
going to find a lot more enjoyment from Tel: +44 20 74932521
your work than you otherwise would. Email: nigelbennett@nabim.org.uk
they make topics easier to understand. This Web: www.nabim.org.uk
W
e regularly advertise quality and its control; provide an introduc- couldn’t do) something. is a strange argument! Three steps
nabim’s distance learning tion to breadmaking and other uses of flour; If we switch the analogy from reading to I recall a training video about mentoring, So, here are three steps for you to take
programme in flour milling and encourage the student to think about walking, taking one step is not much of a produced by Video Arts and starring Hugh over the coming weeks: enrol one or more
as ‘seven steps to success’. the management of the whole operation of challenge for an adult; but, for a child, their
a flour mill. first step is a significant achievement (which
Not that clever (there are seven modules, also brings a surprising degree of delight to
and most people like an alliterative headline) Tutor & mentor their parent/mentor!).
Flour Milling Training
but it is intended to do more than just attract For each module, the student is allocated So nabim’s distance learning programme
the eye. one tutor, a miller himself, who provides is designed to take the student through the
We do regard the courses as being guidance and advice on the coursework. whole syllabus, one step at a time. Each of
stepping stones to an understanding of mill- However, we believe that an important the seven modules is taught in four separate
ing - and for many people, the more they complement to the tutor’s help is that the lessons, working their way through the
 Internationally recognised distance learning programme
understand it, the more they love it. That is student’s sponsor, normally a milling com- textbook. By allocating one tutor to each Seven Steps
why, in an age when the majority of people pany, appoints someone within the company student for the whole module, the tutor is to Success  Developed for millers by industry professionals
in the UK are expected to switch careers to act as their mentor. better able to gauge the level of understand-
several times during their working life, many The mentor should be someone close ing of the student; by building a relationship, Hygiene, Health
flour millers still don’t leave until the day they at hand, who encourages the student to the student is encouraged to produce work and Safety  Studied every year by hundreds of millers worldwide
retire - and some have been known to stick participate fully in the course and maximise for the tutor and to ask for guidance when
around even longer than that! the value both of the employer’s financial understanding proves difficult. Wheat and the
Though designed, developed and deliv- investment and the student’s investment of Screenroom An indispensable tool for developing the knowledge and
ered in the UK, British students are by no time. The mentor should also take respon- Milling in bite-size chuncks competence of flour millers and their colleagues.
means the only beneficiaries. These courses sibility for ensuring access for the student to Readers of a certain age may recall that Mill Processes and
continue to be used around the world. By relevant areas of the site, even if they do not the student of the 1980s was faced with Performance
A clear presentation of the industry and process, in 7 modules.
the time you read this, the pass lists for feature in the student’s regular responsibili- learning from two formidable textbooks
the May 2011 examinations will have been ties at work. (‘The Practice of Flour Milling’) covering a Product Handling,
published; they will feature The role of the mentor is akin to the par- similar amount of knowledge as is found Storage and Distribution
Dedicated tutor support given to every student, providing
the names of successful stu- ent helping the child to read; schoolteachers within the seven modules. professional guidance throughout the course year.
dents from over 20 differ- may provide expert tuition, but without the I can imagine students sitting down to
Flour
ent countries, spread across encouragement and support of the parent their first piece of coursework, feeling some-
five continents. Course Fees 2011-12
at home, providing opportunities for the what discouraged as they opened the tome
We believe that the distance learning child to practise their reading, success will of over 600 pages of small type. Small steps The cost per module is: £310 (+ VAT at 20% where applicable)
Power and Automation
programme can, amongst other things: teach be limited. Provided with the right learning (or bite-size chunks to change the activity includes postage, textbook and exam registration
the basics of working in a mill environment, environment, however, the child will learn to again) are better, encouraging the student to
including an appreciation of the safety of read more quickly and develop an appetite love learning. nabim Members: £210 per module (a discount of £100)
both product and people; introduce the for reading, keen for exposure to more and I have heard it said that ‘life isn’t fair’, Flour Milling Management
Non-UK Companies: £260 per module (a discount of £50)
concepts and machines used in the milling more stories. because students of today have it easier than
process; address the means by which wheat, Anyone involved in training has to past millers. I have heard it said more recently To enrol or find out more, contact:
mill stocks and flour may be conveyed and remember - and it is a difficult skill to master that the online complementary materials we
nabim 21 Arlington Street London SW1A 1RN UK Tel: +44 (0)20 7493 2521 Fax: +44 (0)20 7493 6785 email: info@nabim.org.uk www.nabim.org.uk
stored; develop an understanding of flour - what it was like when one didn’t know (or are developing are similarly unfair because
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