How do I improve the skills of my workforce?

Whatever the size of your business and whichever sector you operate in, to be successful you need to identify areas where you can improve your performance.

Developing the skills of people working in your business is an important way of achieving this – new skills can improve your productivity, competitiveness and profitability. Comparing and evaluating the skills you have with the skills you need to achieve your business goals is an important step towards improving your overall performance.

Business Link Yorkshire’s Skills Brokerage Service provides businesses with a full range of solutions to enhance the skills of its employees as a route to improving business performance and the productivity of its people.

There is also a dedicated team for large businesses with over 250 employees. This specialist team of Skills Advisers provide strategic client management support for all the HR, training and development functions, that are often stretched and restricted to tight budgets within the larger business.

So, whether it’s taking on an apprentice, developing leadership and management, work based learning, or short courses, we will be able to help you identify the right training solutions and funding support where available.
 

Subjects covered in this section

• Qualifying your workforce to minimum level 3
 
• Enhancing the skills of your workforce
 
• Developing leaders and managers
 
• Support for training when times are tough
 
• Evaluating your training