Developing your teams skills for the future
Help your business stay ready for the future by building the skills of your people.
Whether your staff are starting out or already experienced, there are programmes to help them learn new skills or improve the ones they have.
Take a look below to see what’s available.
Skills Focus
Skills Focus can help your business grow by developing the skills of your team. Funded by the Department for the Economy, it offers tailored training for small and medium‑sized businesses (under 250 employees), helping staff gain valuable qualifications to Level 2 and above.
Assured Skills
Do you want to expand or create new jobs? Assured Skills Academies support businesses in Northern Ireland by delivering short, targeted training courses that prepare people with the skills you need — ready to step into roles from day one.
The programme is open to groups of companies with similar skills needs who are willing to work together and is fully funded by the Department for the Economy. Recent academies have supported areas such as welding, data analytics and cyber security.
Start building the skills your business needs to succeed — explore the options below.
- What are Assured Skills Academies?
- How Assured Skills Academies can help your company
- How Assured Skills Academies benefit individuals
- Who can apply?
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- Current Opportunities
InnovateUs
InnovateUs helps small businesses (with fewer than 50 employees) develop the skills they need to grow and innovate.
Whether you’re new to innovation or looking to improve existing ideas, the programme supports staff at all levels to learn the skills they need to create or improve products, services or ways of working across a range of sectors.
Take the next step and explore how InnovateUs can support your business.