Skilling your staff is good for your business and good for your workforce.

Good for your business

Training can improve business performance, profit and staff morale.  Advantages to your business include:

  • You choose what new skills your workforce acquires, targeting skills to meet the needs of your operation for now and in the future
  • Through Skills in the Workplace, you can get government funding to help meet between 50% and 90% of training costs
  • Training your staff can result in better customer service, better work safety practices and productivity improvements
  • You demonstrate to your workforce that you value them enough to invest in them, improving loyalty and staff retention. In turn, retention is a saving to you.
  • By 1 July  2012, a network of workforce development advisers will be in place to support you in developing your workforce plans.
  • The government will subsidise the cost of the services of these endorsed workforce development advisers. The advisers will be training and workforce development experts with industry experience. They will advise on strategies to meet your skilled workforce needs.

Workforce plans will become an essential part of the Skills in the Workplace program. A list of endorsed workforce development advisers will be available online. Let us know if you’d like to stay informed.

Good for your workers

Training has many benefits for your staff 

  • They acquire new skills, increasing their contribution to the business and building their self-esteem
  • The training they do can take them into other positions within the organisation – positions with better prospects and/or better pay
  • They’re upskilled to do new and different tasks, which keeps them motivated and fresh
  • Because they’re being trained on your time, they see that you value them enough to invest in them.  A good company is seen as one that retrains rather than churns.

Explore options for funding of training.