When facing a skills gap within a team, HR managers must choose between hiring new staff or upskilling existing team members. 

The latter offers a number of benefits, include the ability to scale in-house training. Courses can be adapted to suit one or two people or can be delivered to 20 or more people at a time. This en masse approach not only saves money but also allows for a particular time span to be blocked out by a company and reserved as training for all members of the company – therefore smoothly working into project timelines. 

With everyone in the room priveé to the same information, relevant case studies can be used as part of training. Individuals in the room can discuss, plan and consider new ideas surrounding projects the team are either currently, or going to work on. This hyper-relevant training delivers team members practical insights and prepares them for projects ahead in an innovative way. 

Further benefits to in-house training, that edge it out as being more useful than hiring a new individual, include the presence of real-time feedback. With everyone working on educational content together, it can quickly reveal strengths and weaknesses within the team that need to be compensated for. 

This can also highlight the capability of individual team members for future projects the group will tackle together. Collaboration is naturally fostered in this environment, and the team dynamic is made stronger as a result. 

CIOB Resources

CIOB Academy have many in-house resources that you can use to drive forward your teams’ professional abilities – at CIOB Academy we pride ourselves on the wide breadth of our course offerings, covering everything from pre-planning and foundations to project completion and site management, find the skills that match your team with the wide range of options available with CIOB Academy.

All our courses, no matter which topic they focus on, have content curated by industry experts, and are regularly updated to ensure total relevance to your current practices. Due to the experience these experts have, all case studies are crafted from real-world examples and are designed to deliver practical actionable insights that push course-participant ability forward. 

Track the progress of your workers through our module portal, monitor feedback and gain a deeper understanding of your team through administration provided by CIOB Academy. 

With everyone empowered by our in-house training, your workforce will go from having weak links – to each member being as strong as the next.