Times And Trends Academy FAQs

Vocational Training is the kind of education that focuses on a specific trade or career, on skill development. We can see that Indian Education system is undergoing a change. These are short time courses that are skill oriented and provide hands-on training. Since there is a large gap in the education system, vocational courses are designed in a way to fill this gap and make a solid career for those pursuing it. They simply make you job ready and help achieve highly paid jobs. Such courses are required in every field, may it be fashion designers, event managers, interior designers, Animators or may it be engineering, banking, etc.

There are huge numbers of colleges where the seats are not filled. This is because all the students want education that makes them employable, not just give certificates. NO one wants to take the education which takes huge amount of money and don’t even make you eligible for job. Here, the vocational courses come in picture. They are more of practical based and they design the syllabus as per the latest industry trends.

There can be seen a huge gap between the demand and supply of skilled/ trained manpower, as per the National Skill Development Corporation. In Maharashtra alone, it is estimated that there is requirement of about 50 lakh trained professionals. This can be filled only by such vocational courses. These factors have boosted the need for vocational training.

What makes us unique?

1. A study says that less than 10% job failures are due to lack of the technical knowledge and more than 90% job failures are due to lack of interpersonal skills, lack of motivation, lack of confidence etc. So here at TTA, we not only focus on your technical skills but a lot on your personality development as well. There are online trainings on time management, mastering the interviews, developing leadership, learning effective communication and presentation etc.
2. Our mission is making you a highly paid expert. So we provide more of practical based education similar to industry works. This involves workshops, industry visits, subject matter expert lectures. Our syllabus is constantly updated with the latest industry trends. We also help you right from writing resume to creating portfolio. We conduct mock interviews, mock roll plays as well.
3. We have Entrepreneurship Developmental Programs. As per our aim of building careers and building the nation, we genuinely take efforts to guide you rightly considering your skillsets. If you want to start your business, we provide many guidelines and directions for you to be successful entrepreneurs.

Unique mission and strategic execution makes us stand out amongst our competitors.

The success of the business format franchisee in boosting the growth of vocational training and institutes in India (and also internationally) is without question the most vital news in business. If you look at the statistics of past one year, business format franchisees have grown by over 95% in contrast to the more than 50% failure rate of new businesses that are owned independently. And when statistics show that almost over 80% of all the independent businesses fail in the first five years of starting, whereas success rate of franchise business format is more than 75%. So, this tells us in which basket should be our eggs.

At Times And Trends Academy, the Prototype becomes the model of the dream. The system runs the business. The people run the system.

At Times and Trends Academy (TTA) our ethos is “Building Careers and Building the Nation” We live this every day. We want to make a positive transformation in the lives of aspiring students, professionals, teenagers and youth who walk through the doors of our academy with a dream in their eyes. We want to ensure that their dreams come true. They succeed in their life and achieve peace of mind, financial freedom and a career for life. We are seeking partners who believe in this core philosophy. We are choosing like-minded entrepreneurs who consider Times and Trends Academy (TTA) as their primary venture and believe in helping generation today to develop a skilled India.

Undoubtedly, e-commerce and m-commerce have changed the dynamics in the education industry. And it has amazing potential. Students having access to information and knowledge from any corner is a brilliant thing. And Times and Trends Academy (TTA) has already initiated the E-learning concept long back. Anything repeated for more than 16 times becomes a part of your subconscious mind. And with e-learning, all lectures can be accessed any number of times. All of our lectures and demonstrations are recorded and uploaded online for students to be accessed from anywhere and anytime. Education is no more bound by time and geographical constraints. And we take pride in leveraging technology.

Times And Trends Academy is a product of the last 12 years of me running a design academy successfully and profitably here in Pune, Maharashtra, India. It was almost twelve years before I founded my firm Times And Trends, which morphed into Times And Trends Academy Pvt. Ltd. It was here that we developed the complete franchise prototype system keeping in mind the growth of all TTA franchisees and the career development of all our students, and then all assumptions were put to the test at our own TTA corporate office and learning centre to see how well they work before putting it forward to the franchisees. Once having now completed the prototype system, we are now ready to turn to our franchisees and say “Let us show you how it works.” The system runs the business. People run the system.

• Complete Blueprint With Proven Strategies And Insights
• Franchisee Prototype
• Standard Operations Manual With Scripts, Processes And Systems
• R Manual With Policies And Reporting Formats
• Marketing Manual With Scripts And Formats
• Sales Manual With PPT, Scripts And Research Data
• Academics Manual With Session Plan, PPT, Videos And Batch File Format
• 5 Year Business Plan Updated On Regular Basis
• 1 Year Marketing Plan Based On Market Research And Updated On A Continuous Basis
• Hiring And Training Support On Need Basis
• Access To Operational Systems And ERP
• Academy Design And Plan With Blueprints
• On-Going Training Support To Technical And Non-Technical Staff
• Periodic Evaluation And On-Going Marketing And Sales Support
• Online Access to 12 Comprehensive Training Programs to Each And Every Student.

Twelve Comprehensive Programs That We Offer Online Across All Franchises For Our Students:

1. The Business Mastery
2. The Sales Mastery
3. The Marketing Mastery
4. The Leadership Mastery
5. The Unlimited You
6. How to be Happy
7. Time Management for Busy People
8. The Art of Effective Communication
9. Public Speaking
10. The Interview Mastery
11. The Art of Effective Presentation
12. Love Yourself – Love Your Health

We offer two models for our prospective partners/investors interested to work along with us:

• Franchise-Owned Franchise Operated Model: This Model is for prospects/partners that have solid experience in Education Domain. So, it will be about forming a synergic partnership and growing the brand.
• Franchise-Owned Corporate Operated Model: This model is ideally suited for prospects/investors that are proactively looking for better investment options without having to manage it personally, on a day-to-day basis. In this scenario, a Business model can be formed that will work on our Standard Prototype System that is already in place and shall be operated professionally by Times and Trends Academy (TTA) Corporate Office. Here, we guarantee a minimum of 18% Per Annum Interest as Returns, or Profits, whichever is higher, to the investors. We take care of all the on-going Operations that are required to help the business grow.

If I were to make a right analogy, I would say our growth plans are like ‘Hare and Tortoise’ story. We want to grow our brand and expand slowly and steadily. Though we are highly ambitious, we will still cherry-pick on our partners. We are very selective in finalizing on franchisees because we want to make sure that we work with people who share same thoughts and vision as that of us.

Both of these tested and proved franchise model types are what we are looking at:

• Franchise-Owned Franchise Operated Model
• Franchise-Owned Corporate Operated Model

Over a period of time, we are planning to create 12 Centres of Excellence in major cities of India. And all of these centres will have right to create their own sub-franchisees. And these 12 centres will act like master franchises to other centres under them.

• Existing outlets (company-owned +franchise): Pune –Corporate Office and Learning Centre + 11 Franchises in Pune.

• Required area for opening brand’s franchise:
  • Unit Franchise – 2400 Sq. Ft (Approx.)
  • Master Franchise – 7500 Sq. Ft (Approx.)

• Target cities for expansion: 12 Major Cities (Tier 1) in Phase 1. Tier 2 & 3 in Phase 2.

• Break-Even – 20-24 Months

• The Preferred location for opening your brand’s franchise outlet: As per market research and study done by us.

Mission: To inspire and instruct teenagers and youth on how to improve their lives and achieve peace of mind, financial freedom and a career for life.