What are the benefits of training?

The benefits to your company:

• Highly skilled staff using their new skills to share ideas, problems and solutions
• A culture of creativity and continuous improvement which is reinvested in the organisation
• Being more competitive by being a 'learning organisation'
• Access to GLOBAL expertise and facilities
• Motivated staff working towards a recognised qualification

The benefits to your employees:

• The opportunity to accumulate credit from a range of learning activities towards a university award
• Improved potential through commitment to learning and personal development
• Developing new professional skills to change career direction
• Training whilst working towards a recognised qualification

What are the secrets of effective employee training?

Understandably many small business owners hesitate to spend a lot of energy, time or money on training, feeling that the expense doesn't justify the end result. Training opportunities help to create a motivated and productive workforce, once workers are trained they appreciate the chance to use their new skills. Training should be seen as an investment not an expense. The time and money a company spends training its employees to do their job better, could turn out to be its wisest investment.

How to make your workforce more effective:

• Make training an ongoing process
• Provide employees with opportunities to use their skills, good workers want to learn
• Encourage workers to talk about their training needs
• Seek help from a reputable trainer to identify your company's training requirements

"Training should be seen, by employers and employees, as an essential investment with rich returns for both when it is properly focused"