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Are You Delivering An Outstanding Training Experience ?

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Are your contracts delivering the profitability that you need?

Are your proud of your provision and how you are delivering for learners and employers?

 A great training provider requires multiple areas to align to deliver an outstanding learner experience:

  • The right learners

  • The right staff

  • Great programme design

  • Quality teaching which promotes learning and engagement, using interesting and varied techniques plus technology

  • A robust system of learner accountability to drive performance

  • Excellent employer engagement

  • Quality systems and processes to aid efficiency and quality communication

We know from our own experience that when all these factors are in place to a high level, the job of running a training provider successfully become a lot easier and retention, achievement and profitability all improve. 

All of which is a lot easier said than done.  Especially when it can be so easy to be thrown off course by outside funding and inspection bodies demands.


What Do We Focus On To Help Training Providers?

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Six Key Areas For Training Providers

  1. Maximisation of contract drawdown and profitability through innovative curriculum design

  2. Streamlining data collection and reporting to improve real time outcome interventions

  3. Aligning employability and skills delivery to improve delivery performance and learner experience

  4. Devising great delivery strategies to improve your Profitability

  5. Making your teams more Productive through improved decision making

  6. Improving your processes and data to drive Performance


Are You Making The Best Use Of AI In Your Training Business?

As a leader in employability and skills, you’re already navigating a fast-paced environment. This training equips you with the tools to harness the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI), transforming your operations and driving impactful change.

Join us for our 1-day excursion into the world of Artificial Intelligence., "AI For Employability And Skills Leaders,"

We will demystify terms like facial recognition, chat bots, machine learning, predictive analytics, large language and image models, automation, workflow, and document management; explaining it in plain language with real-world applications.



Are You Prepared For Success In Skills Devolution?

As we approach the end of the Education and Skills Funding Agency and move toward the further devolution of adult skills funding to combined and local authorities, it's clear this shift will be a significant game-changer for providers. Are you ready to navigate the complexities and seize the opportunities?

Join us for our 1-day training course, "Making a Success of Skills Devolution," designed to help you prepare for an increasingly complex commissioning environment.


 How Does Our Fool-Proof Strategy Work?

Step 1 - Creating Your Road Map

We start by reviewing your current business-wide delivery strategy against your key business objectives, including your latest SAR.

Once that’s complete delve into key business functions to understand your business, people and what their needs are; including observations, interviews and surveys.

From this we create a series of maps or diagrams to understand your current processes, then work with key personnel to identify opportunities for improvement.

Once that’s complete we present a full Gap Analysis to key you and your stakeholders so you can decide what your key priorities to work on going forward are.

You can find out more our business redesign process here.


Step 2 – Full Technical Support

This is where our clients get to have a pick and mix approach to how they work with us.  Here are some examples of the kind of short term high impact interventions we can deliver to get things moving rapidly in the right direction: 

  • Devising the Schemes of work to implement qualification bundles

  • Budget and profile planning for new delivery model across all your contracts

  • Implementing API links between externally sourced IT systems

  • Building reporting dashboards

  • Devising an integrated employer engagement, learner engagement and marketing strategy including social media.

  • Building learner specific websites integrated to backend systems and with the ability for learners to apply for training

  • Conceptualising new initial assessments

Want to know more about potential areas to work on ?

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Step 3 – Wrap around care

Change is not easy, and sometimes we need someone external to push us in the right direction.  The biggest barrier to change?  Getting staff to be happy and confident is a key part of the battle.  Here are some examples about how we can help: 

  • Staff training for innovative delivery methods

  • Monthly accountability sessions with management teams to review actuals against profile

  • Coaching support for key staff members to develop in their roles

  • Training staff to use data dashboards to drive performance

  • Support and guidance to implement new sales, marketing and employer engagement strategies.

  • Training and supporting staff to deliver quality IAG and carry out good learner inductions

Want to talk to us ? Click the button here to schedule time in to talk.


Hot Topics : Deploying a Great ALN Strategy

Lots of providers have chosen to shy away from claiming the available additional funds to support learners with additional learning and support needs.

In the short term this can seem like a good plan for a quiet life, but as you grow it can deprive these vulnerable learners from the kinds of support that can help them to achieve.

Sues & Julia from Be Astute talk through the issues and things to think about.