Skills for Growth

Skills for Growth: the Workforce Development Program is a Victorian Government initiative dedicated to working with small and medium-sized businesses to help you plan your business future and explore training and education opportunities to develop the skills of your staff.

The program will assist you in:

·         identifying your business objectives and priorities

·         assessing the skill needs of your business and your employees

·         establishing a customised workforce training and development plan in line with your strategic business goals

·         placing staff into accredited training

Participating in the program will lead to increased productivity, business growth and training solutions that meet your business needs. Your business will then have appropriately trained staff to help tackle new challenges and make sure your business can adapt in a highly competitive and evolving market.

Service Providers and Specialists will help you place staff into the identified training. Specialists will also follow-up with a visit to your business to review how the business is progressing.

What you get from the program

The Skills for Growth Program helps to ensure that your business has qualified staff with a focus on growing the business. This is done through a review of your business objectives, skills assessment and training recommendations as mentioned below.

A review of your business objectives and priorities includes:

·         listing strategic business priorities, identifying barriers to business performance and opportunities for improvement  

·         providing  workforce planning advice, a Workforce Action Plan and forecasting future skill needs

Assessing skills needs includes:

·         onsite assessment focusing on workforce planning, training needs and skills development

·         analysing skills needs for the entire business and auditing of training needs

·         assessing individual eligibility for the Victorian Training Guarantee

Providing a training and development plan includes:

·         identifying appropriate vocational training choices and delivering the workforce training plan

·         providing referrals to relevant training programs

Facilitating training includes:

·         identifying preferred options for training

·         establishing customised delivery requirements for business if required

·         facilitating placement/purchase of the agreed training (including coordinating with training providers)

Providing a follow-up review includes:

·         on-site follow-up with your business (approximately six months following the completion of a training plan)

·         identifying business outcomes and improvements

·         updating and reviewing action and training plans

·         providing further skills needs assessments where appropriate