A new service designed to help businesses get the training they need to succeed. It can help businesses improve productivity and competitiveness by ensuring that staff have the right skills to do the best job.

If your business is to be successful you need to compete, and to compete you need to train your employees. For businesses, getting the right skills advice is essential to choosing the best and most appropriate training. Train to Gain helps you to do this by using experienced Skills Brokers who can:

4Offer free impartial and independent advice to businesses
4Match any training needs identified with training providers
4Ensure that training is delivered to meet business needs.

One of the key goals of the service is to make sure that both the training and the skills advice are impartial, flexible, responsive, and offered at a time and place to suit businesses. This marks a cultural shift in how skills training will be delivered, and will ensure that the delivery of training is much more responsive to the needs of every business.

Research shows that 1.3 million people go to work every day without the skills they require to do their job proficiently. Employers are increasingly investing in staff development and reaping benefits that include improved staff confidence and motivation, higher retention rates and increased productivity.

For further information about Train to Gain in Sussex, please email t2g@fesussex.org.uk alternatively click on the link >> www.traintogain.gov.uk

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