Improve performance through skills
Changing business needs and the widening skills gaps have led to the need for a different way to teach our employees and operatives new skills. Ongoing adult learning is critical to business performance as it helps to generate new ideas, new ways to overcome challenges, new processes to reduce cost, improve business performance and increase customer satisfaction.
We recognise however, that your employees and operatives cannot always take time out to do courses, attend colleges and join face to face training sessions. Now, we have the technology to help our customers to learn how to get the most from building in timber frame using digital tools for agile learning and learning in the flow of work.
Our new learning portal, GRASSP, enables your people to learn at their own pace, on the job. Using a Coach in your Pocket format, employees can access the portal 24-7-365 and learn as they work. Lessons are short and easy to do, with a mix of video, animation, best practice and guides to teach you everything from design, costs and site build – using all the knowledge and know-how we have developed over the last 50 years.
The benefit to your business is a team of employees who understand clearly what to do, how to plan and realise the true benefits of timber frame. The result is a talented, skilled, energised, and confident workplace, capable of delivering the right results.
Why learning improves financial success
It’s sometimes easy to forget that long term and senior employees need development and new learning. It’s often easy to concentrate on apprentices and graduates, the new joiners. However, providing robust and relevant skills learning to your core employees will boost productivity as they grow and develop their thinking. Not only does that give them a boost in value, but it encourages loyalty and retention, key at a time when skills and labour shortages are challenging growth.
Improving employee knowledge and skills gives them confidence to overcome challenges, find solutions to issues, develop ideas to grow your business. Employees that are better equipped to make good decisions, plan well and realise value, will create value in your business.
In a market where margin is important, the right skill and understanding of how to design, cost and build in timber frame, is key. Learning will enable you to transition more easily to timber frame, give your team confidence, so you see the true financial benefits more quickly.
Learning in depth about timber frame will increase confidence and confidence brings better decision making. It also helps to distinguish you in the market, bringing better value while achieving your business goals.
