Skilled and Productive Workforce

Helping employers to develop their people

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 Working with business to drive up skills in Lancashire’s workforce to boost productivity.

Skilled and Productive Workforce objectives:

We want employers to use all options of training to develop and increase the skills of their staff, including available funded training and apprentice training, sign up to the Lancashire Skills Pledge, where knowledgeable professionals can contact you to discuss how these projects will benefit your business.

  • Need better trained and skilled people?
  • Looking to build competitive advantage through your team’s performance?
  • Want to retain people and build loyalty?
  • Keen to improve the productivity of your people?

We want to work with partners to give employers information and support, to enable them to make informed decisions about how to develop and increase the skills of their staff.

We can link you with projects which provide training needs analysis for employers, funded/part funded training for your staff and also projects which provide more information about apprenticeship training for your staff.

See projects aligned to the Skilled and Productive Workforce theme below.

Support Available for businesses in Lancashire includes:

Boost: Lancashire’s Business Growth Hub

Want your business to thrive?

Boost provides funded business support for Lancashire businesses looking to grow, scale and start.

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Multiply

Multiply is a fully funded programme, aimed at helping people to become more confident with numbers.
Get support and advice to gain the skills that people need for the job they want, to support their lifestyles, or for businesses to support the upskilling of their teams.

Multiply for employers
If your business could benefit from improving the numeracy skills of your workforce, Multiply can help.
You can access bespoke courses designed to meet your business needs, all of which are free and flexible to work around your business.
Multiply not only helps your business, but supports your employees to become more confident with numbers, reducing workforce errors and improving productivity.

Courses are being delivered across Lancashire and can be accessed in person or online.

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Train an apprentice

Are you looking to upskill your current workforce? Did you know that apprenticeship funding can be used for any age group and can also be used for your current teams?

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Find out more about the priorities in our other strategic themes

Future workforce

Future Workforce
Inclusive Workforce

Inclusive Workforce

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