Skillnet Training: Driving Business, People and Innovation Forward

It has been a challenging year for us all but what we have found is that Irish businesses have found ways to overcome these challenges and move forward. How have we done this?

By calling on the talent within our respective businesses, focussing on the company goals and upskilling and developing our talented employees to achieve these goals. The greatest attribute of Irish business is their agility, in the face of challenge, and succeed. Fingal Chamber Skillnet, with thanks to our training network companies have delivered excellent results over the past three years in the area of business training and upskilling in the Fingal region. Many of our members have experienced this talent development coupled with the financial benefit of learning in a business training network environment along with part-funding through Skillnet from the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. The network provides excellent assistance with your annual training plan and providing efficiencies to reduce overall annual training cost.

This is the time of year when many of our members will contact us with their proposed training plans for the following year which allows the network to select the best trainers to deliver a wide array of training subjects for your employees at varying levels of proficiency. Our members use a number of methods to set out their plans, often using the reliable Excel table but many now are turning to Learning Management Systems (LMS) to upload their employees details and assign training to them over an annual timetable. This enables the HR manager to allocate the best times for training, allowing for holidays and shift patterns, to provide the maximum number of employees per course at any one time.

At the recent Skillnet Ireland conference on 9th November, attendees learned of the focus for the coming year on Talent development. In a time where market conditions and global trends continually change, investing in talent enables companies to weather short term shocks and prepare for long term challenges such as increased digitalisation and the impact of sustainability and climate change. It has never been more important than now to invest in your workforce talent to take us through the difficult years ahead.

In 2022, we will focus on delivering talent development to meet the following challenges that we face over the coming years:

• Digital acceleration

• Business sustainability and climate action

• Workforce innovation

• SME Leadership

• Supporting foreign direct investment in Ireland

Helpful Link:

We have set up a webcal link to add all training courses to your calendar – please find the link here: https:// www.fingalchamber.ie/training