Steve Du Bruyn
Summary
Results-oriented Training Consultant focused on improving company operations, performance and employee satisfaction with high-quality, highly customized and innovative training programs. Bringing top strengths in planning, organizing, cost savings, efficiency and decision making.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Real Estate Agent
Pam Golding Properties
04.2017 - 01.2023
- Negotiated, facilitated, and managed most real estate transactions in city.
- Managed contracts, negotiations, and all aspects of sales to finalize purchases and exceed customer expectations.
- Advised clients on market conditions and property value for informed decision-making.
- Presented purchase offers to sellers for consideration.
- Managed leases and sales.
- Advertised client properties through websites, social media, and real estate guides.
- Wrote listings detailing and professionally highlighting property features to increase sales chances.
- Specialist area agent
Training Consultant
Proactive Training
01.2011 - 12.2016
- Ran own successful training consultancy and developed highly customized training programs around Continuous improvement and Kaizen principles.
- Marketed training solutions to management
- Developed innovative business game targeting areas for improvement in natural work teams.
- Consulted with organization management to assess needs and plan improvements.
- Visited employees in their workplaces and underground to develop programs.
- Coordinated logistics of and delivering training natural work teams.
- Evaluated success of training programs, measured results and recommended improvements to upper management.
- Compiled training handbooks, trained trainers and measured bottom line results.
- Trained trainers who would continue process.
- Clients were mainly blue chip companies in platinum, diamond, gold, coal mines and plants with 10 000 to 50 000 employees who would all do training.
- Other clients include pharmaceutical, timber, building and embassy staff.
- Conducted needs assessments to identify gaps in performance and develop targeted and highly customized programs.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Languages And Politics
University of Port Elizabeth
South AfricaNo Degree - Property Practitioner
Chartel College
South Africa01.2018
Skills
- Marketing and Advertising
- Strategic Photography
- Microsoft Office
- Mac os
- Adobe creative suite
- Wordpress, website development
- Languages English, Afrikaans, Sesotho, Zulu, Spanish, French, some Japanese
- Cultural diversity understanding
- Work Well Independently
- Continuous improvement
- Training Materials development
- Business Management Principles
- Material Preparation
- Program Management
- Motivational Speaking
- Training Solutions Development
- Multimedia Development
- Behavior Modification
- Feedback Analysis
- Performance Measurement
- Problem solving
- Quality Improvement
- Verbal and Written Communication
- Business Needs Analysis
- Processes understanding
- Presentations
- Real estate
- Closing Sales
- Property management
- Short term letting management
Accomplishments
Sold most number of properties in Pretoria (South Africa's capital city) for 2 years.
Sold second highest number of properties for 1 year.
Selected to go on conference abroad with our CEO as a gold club agent for 4 years.
Owned and ran a successful training consultancy for 5 years.
Developed highly customized training programs for companies such as de Beers diamonds, Sasol synthetic fuels, Anglo American coal, Gold and Platinum.
Satisfaction guarantee on all my products that rely on measurable improvement. Improvement proven to all clients
Scuba diving, sailing, hiking, photography and keeping fit.
I enjoy the outdoors and the ocean. I love to travel and to take creative photographs. I'm a qualified yacht skipper and a scuba diving instructor. I like to ride my bike, go to gym and to jog. I create synthesizer soundtracks.
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
French
Intermediate (B1)
Spanish
Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese
Elementary (A2)
Japanese
Beginner (A1)
Timeline
Real Estate Agent
Pam Golding Properties
04.2017 - 01.2023
Training Consultant
Proactive Training
01.2011 - 12.2016
Bachelor of Arts - Languages And Politics
University of Port Elizabeth
No Degree - Property Practitioner
Chartel College
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