Consultancy

Our business development team provides specialised consultancy to help you achieve your business goals. We'll work with you to develop a training and development strategy to meet your business needs. We can customise training and professional development, and tailor resources and materials for your organisation.

We will work with you to:

• assess your organisation's readiness for change
• assess the gap between existing and desired performance of your staff
• assess the current knowledge, skills and attitudes of your staff and those needed to achieve your organisation's goals
• design and tailor training solutions to address the performance gap
• measure and evaluate the benefits of your investment in training
• identify other opportunities to work together on initiatives, including research that leads to innovative technologies and business solutions.

Find out more about our workforce training and consultancy services.

Training and development

Get an immediate return on your training investment by enrolling your staff in a nationally accredited qualification or a tailored program. We work with most industry sectors to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes that staff need to:

• achieve organisational goals and strategic objectives
• improve processes and productivity
• improve the standard of products or level of service delivered to customers
• improve morale and staff satisfaction, and lower staff turnover and recruitment costs
• achieve best practice
• maximise profits and outcomes.

Our training is delivered by VUIT, our dedicated corporate training entity.

Australia's workforce development needs

The Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency has developed a paper to:

• present its research on current issues in relation to productivity and workforce participation
• examine issues in relation to future demand from industry
• explore policy options.

Read 'Australia's skills and workforce development needs', Discussion Paper, July 2012

Delivery of customised training

Our customised workforce solutions are designed to suit the needs of your organisation. We can tailor training resources and materials by incorporating activities based on real situations or projects in your organisation or industry.

We can customise content by incorporating your policies and procedures, or designing materials to bring about change in your organisation.

We provide flexible delivery options for training your staff. We can work with you to provide:

• work-based training that is immediately transferable to your workplace
• simulated learning opportunities that provide opportunities to experiment with new approaches and strategies
• training that is delivered in partnership with you
• blended training solutions that include facilitated workshop, online delivery, self-paced learning, coaching and mentoring (or other methods of delivery)
• formal recognition and credit for existing knowledge and skills – recognition of prior learning
• training in your workplace or at one of our campuses.

Contact us

If you would like to find out how we can help your organisation grow, please contact:

Grant Dreher
Vice President, Vocational Education
Phone: +61 3 9919 8603
grant.dreher@vu.edu.au