Essential Skills in English and Maths
Employees with inadequate English, maths and communications skills are often aware that they have a problem.
It could be affecting your business.
A lack of essential skills in the workplace is causing:
• Lost business • Miscalculated invoices
• Staff absenteeism • High staff turnover
• Incorrect records • Accidents
The cost to business is estimated to be £500,000 per year.
Poor skills + lack of awareness = poor productivity
One in five employed adults do not have the ability to read, write and do maths at a level necessary to fulfil many everyday functions, including:
• Following instructions
• Communicating effectively (with customers, suppliers and other employees)
• Working as part of a team
• Report writing and documentation
• Understanding signs and notices (eg Health and Safety, COSHH notices)
• Recording faults and analysing problems
• Making calculations
• Taking on additional responsibility
Your business could be paying for this in reduced productivity. The impact on a company with up to 100 employees could be as high as £50,000 per year.
How will it benefit your business?
If you improve your employees reading, writing and communication skills you increase performance. The benefits for your business are:
• Improved productivity • Higher staff retention
• Reduced wastage • Reduced recruitment costs
• Fewer mistakes • More accurate recording
• A confident, adaptable workforce that feels valued and better equipped to contribute to a changing and developing organisation
We offer a range of courses and training solutions to help you and your employees. Courses lead to:
• Certificate in Adult Literacy (level 1 or level 2)
• Certificate in Adult Numeracy (level 1 or level 2)
The certificates measure skills up to the same level as a GSCE, so if there’s a gap in your employees qualifications, we can help fill it!
We use a computer based assessment which means that results are available within minutes of taking the assessment. For further details on how Every Step can help you please contact us 01206 710943 or by email enquiries@everystepltd.co.uk