Learning at Work Week - Why should team skills development be top of your list?

It's Learning at Work Week, an "annual event to build learning cultures at work, aiming to put a spotlight on the importance and benefits of continual learning and development." - The?Learning at Work Week team??

As an Apprenticeships and Training Provider, we provide solutions and advice to a range of organisations across the West Midlands, about developing their greatest resource to achieve their business objectives - through their people. We fundamentally believe that businesses need people in their organisation who continually develop and re-develop their skills, knowledge and behaviours to maximise achievement and digitally transform. ??

This years campaign theme is 'Create the Future', something that we wholeheartedly believe in and deliver frequently in our industry as a Government Funded Training Provider. However, it is vital that we are also walking the walk and practicing what we preach as an organisation, providing these opportunities internally as well, supporting employees to achieve goals, improve, drive innovation and achieve both organisational and personal ambitions.

TDM is an organisation like any other. Continual training and development is paramount for success, for each employee and for the business as a whole. Perishable (hard skills) and non-perishable skills (soft skills) development is vital for both elements of an individuals job role, due to the growing "interdependence of human and technical skills" (Chief Learning Officer.com). This is not simply a 'nice to have' or the result of a box ticking exercise, but a business necessity and something that cannot afford to be overlooked, done incorrectly or inconsistently.

The new three Rs of the 21st century (Reflection, Research and Responsibility) also show us this, being the new essential skills required by, not only Tech & Digital careers, but careers in general, and is something which is embedded throughout our delivery to learners and our investment into our team internally as well.

TDM invests in developing its employees, both professionally and personally. We do this in a number of ways:

• Offering many opportunities for employees to receive additional training. We currently have five members of staff completing Apprenticeship programmes, across a range of technical and digital areas, making up over 10% of the organisation. Three of these being Degree Level and two at Level 3
• Enrolling 44% of our employees onto a bespoke Skills Bootcamp, equipping them with the skills to become Digital Skills Champions and further the knowledge and support they’re able to provide internally as well as externally
• Enrolling a number of employees onto Adult Education Budget funded Adult Qualifications in Information, Advice and Guidance and Mental Health First Aid

We want to use this national campaign this week to mark the learning at work that we are doing within our organisation, whilst also campaigning for and providing learning and development for others. We hope that the Learning at Work campaign can be the catalyst to changing attitudes towards learning at work, creating better awareness of opportunities to learn and promoting better engagement with learning at work, finding the time and allowing business leaders to recognise, invest in and celebrate internal talent.

Is this something that you are already doing as a leader of your business? Are you aware of how to keep investing in your teams and ensure their learning is constantly developing? Did you know that there is funding available to you to do exactly that? Did you know that TDM has access to that funding to help you right now? ????

Reach out to us today, or whenever you are ready, for a non-obligation chat with our completely employer responsive team.