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News Release from: Capita Learning and Development | Subject: Training trends amongst UK businesses
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 24 October 2002
Health ands Safety skills priotitized
Health and safety skills come top of the list of training needs for firms in the manufacturing industry, according to the results of a new survey out this week into training trends.
Health and safety skills come top of the list of training needs for firms in the manufacturing industry, according to the results of a new survey out this week into training trends amongst UK businesses The annual survey, carried out by Capita Learning and Development, a leading workforce training and development business, revealed that the most important skills sets that firms in the manufacturing industry wanted to invest in for their staff were health and safety (69%), communication skills (39%) and team working (36%)
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 17 Mar 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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For UK firms generally, 47% of businesses still rate communication skills as the most important area in which to train their staff, compared to just 10% for whom business and finance training was top of their list of training needs.
42% rated computer and IT skills as most important - an 18% drop since last year's survey - followed by health and safety (41%), customer care (34%) and people management (33%).
The annual ' Training Trends ' survey also revealed that small firms invest much more in training their employees than larger companies.
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Firms with under 25 employees spent over GBP 400 per head on training this year (up 4% from last year) compared to less than GBP 350 per head invested by larger firms.
Small firms also free up their staff to have more time for training than big business, giving them 27% more time during the working day to develop their skills - an average of 6.4 days per employee per year compared to the UK average of 4.7 days.
Commenting on the findings Christine Garner, Managing Director of Capita Learning and Development said, " " Health and safety training has always been critical for the manufacturing industry, but it was interesting to see team working and communication coming out close behind as prominent areas of demand.
We were also fascinated to find that small firms were leading the way in personnel development, making a long-term investment in motivation, staff retention and the long-term future of their business.
" The Training Trends 2002 survey was carried out amongst 821 training and HR directors, managers, officers and administrators, across different businesses around the UK in June 2002.
Published by Spiro Press in October 2002 (GBP 150) copies can be obtained by calling 0870 400 1000.
Capita Learning and Development - formerly the Industrial Society Learning and Development - is a leading workforce training and development business, offering what it believes to be the broadest range of training courses in the UK.
Acquired by The Capita Group in December 2001, it now provides training for around 40,000 individuals across four sites around the UK.
Capita Learning and Development: * Offers over 150 courses and trains around 40,000 people each year.
* Trains over 3500 client organisations across the private and public sector, including Reuters Ltd, Abbey National Plc, Orange, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Financial Services Authority.
* Works with businesses ranging from 1 employee to those with up to 250,000 staff.
The Capita Group - Capita Learning and Development is part of The Capita Group, a leading provider of integrated professional support service solutions.
The Group's service capabilities encompass customer services, insurance services, human resource services, software services, systems and strategic support and property services delivered to both public sector and private organisations.
With 16,000 people at over 160 UK sites, Capita is quoted on the London Stock Exchange and is a FTSE 100 company with estimated revenues for 2002 of GBP 895 million.
In November 2001 Capita was awarded the Management Today Most Admired Business Services Company Award.
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