Benefits

Affordable

New European funding means that learndirect and Business Advantage will match - and in many cases, even exceed! - your investment in training.

A Training Advisor can visit your business and conduct detailed assessments for your staff. They will help you to choose the courses that are right for your specific business – and ensure that you avoid the wasted time and expense of unnecessary training. They will also calculate the exact level of financial support that’s available to you.

Flexible

Conventional business training is delivered in intensive sessions away from the workplace. Lots of information packed in, but how much is ever remembered? And what about the disruption to your business of having whole departments off-site for hours or even days at a time?

With learndirect, employees learn online in bite-sized chunks, at a time and pace that suits the needs of your business and their own work and family commitments. Many of our courses can be followed in the workplace or at home to reduce staff travel time, eliminate time off-site and deliver the greatest value for money.

Relevant

There's a huge range of courses available under the scheme, to meet the training needs of all business sectors and the current skills levels of your employees. You can benefit from the matched funding programme to train staff in the following areas:

• Management
• Personnel Support and Management
• Business Start Up
• Accounting *
• Customer Service
• Supply Chain Management *
• Health and Social Care
• Marketing
• Purchasing and Supply
• Selling and Sales Management
• Business Administration
• Human Resources Development *
• Business Practice

Some courses and programmes will enable your staff to work towards nationally recognised qualifications - from ILM to NVQs.

Your Training Advisor will work in partnership with you to devise a customised programme based around the specific needs of your business and your employees.

* subject to availability