Training and skills development
What standards should I use to conduct a best practice skills audit?
- Published on 30 Jul 2013
- Naomi Kleynhans
Conducting a best practice skills audit requires the HR practitioner to develop and implement a skills audit plan that meets the needs of both the organisation and the workforce while complying with legislation and best practice standards.
The hard facts on soft skills: What REALLY drives workplace performance?
- Published on 9 Jul 2013
- Ricky Robinson
Over the last two to three years, there has been a dramatic shift in the way skills are viewed in the workplace. Business leaders are now recognising that no matter how highly qualified, skilled or intelligent an employee is, if they don't have strong soft skills they won't contribute to the workplace in the most meaningful way they can. And with business being conducted at an increasingly fast pace, employers also want people who are agile, adaptable and creative problem solvers.
How to draft a workplace skills plan
- Published on 26 Jun 2013
- Lia Marus
A workplace skills plan (WSP) is, according to the Services Seta website:
“…a strategic document that articulates how the employer is going to address the training and development needs in the workplace.”
Each employer must appoint a registered skills development facilitator who, with his skills development committee (SDC) will spearhead the process of developing your company’s WSP.
4 Things you need to check on before you even start putting your WSP together...
- Published on 24 Jun 2013
- Lia Marus
The deadline for submitting your workplace skills plan (WSP) and annual training report (ATR) is fast approaching. But before you spend any time incorrectly drafting either of these documents, make sure that you’ve gone through these four steps.
The value you get from your employees attending conferences and how to maximise it
- Published on 20 Jun 2013
- Lia Marus
A perennial complaint I hear from employers is that their employees ask to go on countless conferences, but these individuals cannot explain the value their employers will get out of said exercise. All the business owner can really see is that they will have to pay for the attendance fees plus their staff member’s salary while they are away – and who knows if they will really be focusing on the conference?
