CBI publishes training benchmarks

The guidelines state that employers should, according to their company’s individual needs and circumstances:

• Perform a skills audit to identify any skills needs and gaps which may inhibit performance and growth
  
• Raise individual core skills and employability of the workforce to maintain and develop competitiveness
  
• Make sure new skills are embedded through practical use in the workplace
  
• Identify and act to remedy literacy and numeracy problems where government funding is made available
  
• Offer high quality apprenticeships to add real value to both employees and employers
  
• Develop and continuously improve higher level skills to retain competitiveness
  
• Ensure leaders, managers and supervisors of the future are identified and developed
  
• Communicate the value of a firm’s skill strategy to employees and involve them in individual skills needs assessment to increase their commitment and job satisfaction
  
• Establish effective partnerships with education institutions to raise young people’s awareness of business and influence training to meet business demand
  
• Examine and develop innovative ways of training to combine learning and work
  
• Explore benefits of collaboration with other firms on training and skills development to improve employee competence, working practices and customer satisfaction.