Training is a valuable investment for your business.  It can help grow your business by providing the capacity to expand and encourage employees to work harder and, more importantly - smarter.  Training can lead to new ideas and innovative approaches which can in turn save your business money. 

A good place to start is your business plan - what is your business trying to achieve?  What are your aims and objectives?   With this in mind think of the skills and knowledge needed to achieve these objectives and match them against the existing skills in your organisation. 

Now you can identify the skills gap and start to define the training needed to fill the gap. 

Business West is offering free people and business skills assessments for businesses with 5 or more staff - Email for further details. 

skillup.co.uk helps small business owners and managers identify and address training needs.  This website signposts to factsheets, websites, information books, training products and other sources of advice for small businesses.  Why not try the online 10 minute business check up?