Workforce skills

Your business can get support with:

• Workshops: A range of group workshops can be delivered digitally to your employees, including workshops on identifying transferable skills and improving specific skills.
• One-to-one support: National Careers Service can offer each employee an appointment with a qualified careers adviser to help them review their existing skills and strengths and identify ways they can improve these.
• Redundancy: National Careers Service have a proven track record of supporting small, medium and large-scale redundancies. Careers Advisers can help with information on the labour market, funding for learning and job vacancies.

Here, two employers share the impact and positive experience of engaging with Skills Support for the Workforce training provision:

https://ssw.fundingunit.org.uk/case-study-business-growth-thanks-to-digital-training/

https://ssw.fundingunit.org.uk/case-study-open-thinking-helps-unlock-new-business-ideas/

^{This Programme is part funded by the European Social Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020.}

If you would like to see your staff benefit from increased productivity and see increased staff retention, contact us. You can access up to 60% funding towards a range of training and consultancy.

In order to be eligible for support through this Programme you must:

• have business premises in the York, North Yorkshire, East Riding region (Craven, Harrogate, Hambleton, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough, Selby, York)
• be a Small to Medium Enterprise (SME): employ fewer than 250 full time equivalent staff and have either a turnover of less than €50 million, or a balance sheet of less than €43 million

^{This Programme is part funded by the European Social Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020.}

This programme offers training in:

• Sales & Marketing – An integral part to your business in all senses and training your employees in aspects of telephone sales, market research and how to adapt to the ever-changing markets will be beneficial to keeping your business competitive and productive.
• Workforce Development – Training your employees in a wide selection of transferrable skills like customer service, complaints handling, time management and presentation skills can deliver significant productivity gains.
• Digital – Social media and online presence, digital promotion and marketing as well as training packages for support in common office tools such as Microsoft Excel, essential for raising the on-line profile of your company and increasing footfall.

^{This Programme is part funded by the European Social Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020.}