With recruitment challenges facing many organisations across the country, upskilling and retraining your workforce is a great way to address the skills challenges you are facing and redeploy your staff, improving your business efficiency as well as improving your employee motivation and performance.
There are many methods that businesses can use to upskill your staff, recognising the challenges or opportunities that your organisation is facing. One skillset which has been recognised by many employers as a concern is numeracy skills.
Numeracy skills are vital in all aspects of life and work, and by developing these skills it can reduce mistakes, save money and improve productivity.
Manyhands Solutions are a Worcestershire business who have taken advantage of local support programmes, such as Multiply to upskill their staff.
Manyhands Solutions have been working with the local teams at Seetec Plus for over almost 2 years now and the Multiply offer has been instrumental in supporting their employees by providing clear and comprehensive information about their take-home pay, helping them understand the support available through the Department for Work and Pensions, particularly around childcare, and offering guidance through the Restart scheme.
Jay Didlick, Managing Director, Manyhands Solutions Ltd, said: “Multiply has played a crucial role in dispelling myths and correcting misinformation about how work impacts benefits. This support has enabled us to attract higher quality staff and effectively support our existing team, ensuring that we can consistently deliver the best quality service to our customers.”
Multiply is a support programme that works directly with employers and the training partner to build unique training programmes that can help the organisation to grow in a method which works for them.
Seetec are one of the local delivery partners for Multiply, working with Worcestershire County Council.
Jay continued: “Every member of the Seetec team have been amazing and our continued relationship in the area has seen Manyhands Solutions make placement after placement helping the local economy and community and Multiply has been instrumental in this.”
Multiply training can help your staff with, Problem Solving, Information Processing, Data analysis, Decision Making and Project Management.
