Benefits for the Employer;

• Offers organisations a flexible industrial training solution
• Improves overall business efficiency
• Increases staff motivation
• Improves customer service
• Reduces absenteeism and staff turnover
• Helps achieve business goals
• Measures competence at work
• Can be done during the course of normal day to day work
• Gives employees recognition for what they are doing
• You can demonstrate your commitment to employees by providing the opportunity for both career and personal development
• Can make a major contribution to your organisations bottom line
• Makes recruitment much easier
• NVQs for virtually all occupations and for all levels of staff
• Cost effective, structured and measurable system of staff development, offering increased efficiency, higher productivity and improved staff morale
• You can design a Job Description by referring to the standards, which list the skills and knowledge the person you recruit will need
• Suitable for virtually all organisations, whatever their current training arrangements
• Assessed in the workplace - can minimise the time people need to spend away from work
• Can be used to improve HR management functions, from appraisal and promotion systems to job expansion and multi-skilling initiatives
• Ready made framework for quality initiatives such as IIP, TQM and ISO 9000