We can provide:
- Training needs analysis
- Access to training facilities, if there are on available on your site
- Flexible workplace courses in English, basic computers, maths and ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages)
- Recognised qualifications
Your company could benefit from improved:
- Production
- Quality assurance
- Communication
- Compliance with regulations
- Customer relations
- Recruitment
- Staff retention
- Increased profits
Did you know that one in five adults in the UK struggles with literacy or numeracy - a much higher proportion than in our competitor economies?
- Lack of confidence in reading, writing and maths skills is a sensitive issue, often concealed at work
- Advances in technology and new working practices demand flexible, multi-skilled staff - staff who need to feel confident in their communication, maths and computer skills
- Basic skills training in the workplace builds these skills and improves the performance of the workforce
Do you need employees who can:
- Communicate effectively?
- Extract information from signs and notices?
- Give and follow instructions?
- Record faults and analyse problems?
- Complete timesheets and paperwork accurately?
- Perform calculations?
- Take on additional responsibility?
Become a Learning Organisation and help your organisation to improve
Working with you, we take responsibility for the design, management and delivery of a basic skills programme to meet the needs of your organisation.
Examples of Workplace Essential / Basic Skills Training Courses:
Report Writing
- How to make relevant notes
- Tackling spelling, grammar and punctuation
- Practicing different styles of report writing so as to produce the required ‘house style’
- Writing detailed and concise answers to questions
Support in the Workplace
- Reading for meaning and recognizing the main points in a text
- Memory aids
- Spellings of technical words and workplace vocabulary
- Identifying reasons for spelling problems: individual analysis of learning skill / difficulties
- Practice exercises as simulations of real transactions
- Form Filling
- NVQ Support
Maths for the workplace
- Checking the understanding of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
- Workplace maths topics e.g. Metric measures, calculating loads, ratios of raw materials for mixtures, decimal fractions and percentages, converting from one set of units to another
Basic Computers
- Switching on computer / loading Windows
- Use of keyboard
- Printing
- Naming / saving files
- Load saved file from disk or drive
- Enhance text (embolden, underline, italicize, centre, font)
- Proof reading and use of spell checker
- Layout of a letter
For further information
Contact the Basic and Key Skills Department: Tel: 01244 831531 ext. 4702 or make an online enquiry.
