Develop Long-Term Training & Education Aspirations, Then Deliver Them

You can now look beyond what training has always been and develop new exciting long-term training & education aspirations for your business and people, then deliver them!

As the challenging economic environment continues, businesses that define and then deliver their training & education aspirations will create the committed, skilled teams necessary for ongoing success. Within the cleaning & FM sector, we see that it’s not just about the type of training that’s delivered but how widely and effectively it’s deployed that can ultimately have the biggest impact on service delivery performance. There’s no doubt that the demand for demonstrable quality training standards is increasing across a range of skills and subjects and is now a priority discussion through which many successful businesses and service users are finding new thinking, invention, and adoption is emerging. This is strengthening their businesses and helps them to stand out significantly from the competition.

They realise training as an ‘option’ is gone, and training as a fundamental part of the business apparatus is here and becoming more diverse and measured, no more half days here and there, it must be constant, consistent, equitable and integrated to create a significant effect.

So, what do we see these businesses doing differently? They think aspirationally about education for their people, ALL their people, and have an understanding that training can and should be going further as people are more than just a resource, are savvier and expect more than ever before. Those businesses also recognise that going beyond basic training allows new standards to be set and maintained throughout a workforce, benefitting all involved, internally, and externally. They look at what is possible, developing hitherto unexplored aspirations far beyond what they previously thought they could achieve. They know, delivering the right training to the right people, can dramatically change their business and service offering for the better.

Over the past few years there has been a small boom in training solutions within the cleaning sector and choosing the right one is perhaps not an easy task. With a growing choice in both the type of training available and how it can be accessed or delivered, it is important not to be pulled into thinking that being ‘on-line’ or ‘virtual’ is, in itself, progressive (the term ‘on-line’ was coined in the 50’s and ‘virtual’ in the 70’s); just having a technological element to a solution does not guarantee standards are being met, or can be proved. It’s the ability to develop your training that is truly progressive and why the training solution you invest in is so important. It must meet needs today and aspirations tomorrow.

Available options range from: simple sets of ‘on-line’ videos accessed via websites; to Learning Management Systems (LMS) designed to deliver a set of training, possibly based on specific product ranges, sometimes certified, offering a cost-effective base to establish simple training for some, with more flexible access than traditional 1-2-1 only methods; to full Learning Platforms such as UhUb, designed to be as simple or broad as you like that deliver a fully flexible, demonstrable approach, able to deliver unlimited breadth of training for the whole workforce, at all levels.

So where to start? At UhUb, after having certified over 15,000 learners in the UK since 2016, we believe it’s good to consider what you want before seeking a solution. This is not always easy after decades of limited choice and with the most obvious sources not necessarily being up to date, forward thinking enough, or the best fit. At UhUb we encourage clients to adopt a ‘what if we could do anything’ style of thinking to develop aspirations beyond anything they previously imagined possible to deliver. This has enhanced our clients’ views on, amongst other things, deliverables around learning, development, engagement, assistance, retention, career progression management, sustainability knowledge and demonstrating accreditation credentials.

Stephen Goodall, Founder & MD at UhUb;

‘One question we ask those we speak to for the first time is, “What would the ideal training system deliver for you?” and “If you could do anything with training, what would you do?”. This begins to sort out what they ‘expect’ based on what they think is possible, from what they would ‘aspire’ to if anything were possible. It is there that they realise needs & expectations are not aspirations. It is there they start to realise UhUb is different. It is there that their minds begin to open up to previously impossible aspirations. It is there that the training conversation really starts for us.

For some that’s a bit scary and that’s OK, we are here to help, but for others its instantly exciting and their training aspirations and capabilities explode.’

We find the big challenge for most is thinking beyond the common, familiar training needs and defining the businesses aspirations for the future, which as said, is not always easy. This can be something a business has already defined, in as far as it can, but is frustrated at the lack of tools to deliver it and therefore they engage with UhUb’s capabilities immediately, through to taking a couple of years of using the UhUb platform to reach a point where aspirations coalesce. However, what is absolutely clear is that whatever training system you choose, when the right solution is embedded into a business, aspirations can develop at a surprising pace, but equally the wrong solution can and will suppress them.

Once standardised skills training has been deployed, businesses serious about developing further begin to focus on the impact training has by analysing data and trends, something that is becoming easier thanks to the increased availability of ‘live’ reporting, a key part of Learning Platforms such as UhUb. Measuring the success of training delivery, allows businesses to truly aspire to, and deliver, a broader education for their people. As we say at UhUb, ‘Data is power in planning.’

Fundamentally the cleaning sector is beginning to realise, as many leaders have done for a while, that tomorrows’ standards and aspirations cannot be taught with yesterday’s tools and methods. Change is happening quickly, and is sorely needed, to ensure modern quality training offerings are always provided with equity, through tools that can cope with growing future aspirations. At UhUb we understand this and constantly explore, collaboratively with our Client Community, new educational content, learning tools, reporting methods and user-easy solutions. This is expanding aspirational horizons across businesses, and their people, as it is realised at last that what can be delivered effectively and efficiently has, excitingly, few limits.

In just 20 minutes UhUb could change the way you think about training forever!