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Investing in employee skills development through training programs, workshops, and professional development opportunities not only enhances individual performance but also strengthens a business’s overall capability to innovate, adapt to change, and achieve strategic objectives.

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Employers look for workers with soft skills as they struggle to fill talent gap

Soft skills like openness to change are becoming more desirable as the technical skills gap continues to tighten. Here are the employee characteristics that bosses are most interested in.

Employing & managing staff

Future employees need international skills to secure work

UK students who study abroad are 9 per cent more likely to gain a 1st or 2:1 degree, as employers urge students to secure international skills.

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Brexit, cashflow and employee skills gap are Brits’ biggest concern

Poll of 500 UK business owners and decision makers by Litmos Heroes shows Brexit to be the biggest issue for concern, followed by cashflow and the upskilling of staff.

Employing & managing staff

Building a highly-skilled future workforce

Here, Lauren Brown of Developing the Young Workforce West Lothian discusses how forward-thinking businesses have an opportunity to inspire and develop a highly-skilled future workforce.

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Revealed: The scariest workplace tasks, according to office workers

With Halloween spooking office workers across the country, new research reveals the scariest office tasks that employees have to do.

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Unsung heroes of the office are worth £525 million a year to UK SMEs

Trainline for Business has revealed that the unsung heroes of the workplace, or ‘Office Oracles’, who book business travel, fix printers, and manage the conference call system, are worth £525 million annually to SMEs, with those working within the technology sector worth the most.

Employing & managing staff

What type of employee are you?

There will be many types of people that you will have to work with in your career. Check out this infographic to find out which type of employee you are.

Business management

Guide to effectively capturing your employees’ skills

Here, we take a look at how you as a small business owner can harness the power of your employees skills to improve your business.

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Senior decision makers reveal people skills are an employee’s most valuable asset

People skills are an employee’s most valuable asset when hiring new staff, according to a survey of 500 senior decision makers.

Business management

Five ways business skills can transfer into everyday life

Here, we look at the ways in which business skills can be useful for your personal life as well as professional.

Business management

How small businesses can close the soft skills gap

Louize Clarke discusses the role that soft skills play in the often under-resourced small business environment and how business owners can be mindful of developing their own, as well as recruiting them into their own businesses.

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Soft skills lacking among job candidates 

Four fifths of people no longer have the necessary interpersonal skills for business life, a study suggests.

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