Workplace Learning

Introduction

The biggest cost to a business is usually staffing, making it important for business success to find ways of increasing competence. Adult learning is one of the tools that can be used to develop staff and maintain their effectiveness.

Addressing skills gaps is a key part of the government's agenda and NIACE can provide a variety of services and resources to help employers meet this challenge. Our partnership work with the National Offender Management Service and the British Army to deliver an embedded strategic approach gives us unrivalled expertise in work-based literacy, language and numeracy.

We have also worked with:

• First Group
• Learning and Skills Councils
• Local Authorities
• NHS Trusts
• Police forces
• Regional Development Agencies
• Sector Skills Councils
• Trade Unions
• Unionlearn

Employability skills within workplace learning

Employability skills are vital to enable employees to effectively undertake their work, progress within work and transfer between different types of work. They include a wide variety of non-vocational skills such as communication skills, team working skills and problem solving skills.

Many employees have unmet employability skills needs which can cause them to struggle in their work and lose confidence. NIACE works with policy makers, employers and training providers to develop helpful ways of enabling employees to gain the employability skills they need.