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Why Invest in Skills?

Improving the skills of your workforce can improve your businesses' productivity, competitiveness and profitability.

A well-trained and professional workforce is better equipped to:

  • Work effectively with minimal supervision helping to raise productivity
  • Improve customer satisfaction by giving knowledgeable responses to enquiries
  • Be flexible so staff can be employed on related jobs and cope with work-level fluctuations and absences
  • Take a creative approach to business problems and develop new products and services
  • Appreciate the value of developing their personal skills and be highly motivated.

Around one quarter (27%) of skill gaps are felt by employers to be due to a lack of training and development (National Employer Skills Survey, 2004).

Train to Gain is a new service designed to help businesses get the training they need to succeed.

There are a number of tools available to help businesses develop their workforce:

  • Investors in People is designed to advance an organisation's performance through its people by linking the training and development of employees to business objectives. 
  • The Inspirational Leadership tool enables you to identify, understand and use your strongest attributes for inspiring others. 
  • The UK Benchmark Index offers advice on benchmarking and an instant mini-benchmark of your business through it's health check tool.  
  • The Business Performance Diagnostic offers a fuller diagnosis of your business' needs, including your skills needs.  Contact your Business Link for further information on 0845 600 9 006.

 

 

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