Skills for Life
We can offer specialist support for your staff with their literacy, numeracy and English language needs. So, if you wish your delivery staff could spell better; your salespeople were better at adding up when giving estimates; or your European (EEC) workforce understood production instructions more clearly - we can help!
Some of our Skills for Life courses are FREE, if learners can attend College and if spaces are available. Alternatively, we may be able to teach your staff on your premises with a customised course designed specifically for your needs.
For more information about how we can help your business improve through skills for life, call us on 0845 8728722 or enquire on-line by clicking here.
It's official! Improving your staff's basic skills can improve your profits!
- Poor basic skills costs UK industry more than £4.8 billion a year. (Source: Skills for all: Proposals for a National Skills Agenda, Final report of National Task Force, DfEE, 2000.)
- Poor basic skills cost every company employing more than 50
employees £165,000 every year in poor quality control,
lost orders and poor communication.
(Source: Skills for all: Proposals for a National Skills Agenda, Final report of National Task Force, DfEE, 2000.)
- The average company employing 1,000 people or more could save £500 per person if the basic skills of employees were improved - that's half a million pounds, just from improving your staff's basic skills! (Source: Basic Skills Agency, 1993.)