So, you’ve just gotten word that your organization has finally been accepted for that workforce development grant you applied for. First of all, take time to celebrate the accomplishment; you’ve earned it! Once the initial excitement wears off, though, there’s still the question of how to use government and workforce development grants effectively.
At Clayton State Continuing and Professional Education (CaPE), we believe that continuing education is one of the best investments you can make in workplace development. On a surface level, it gives your staff important skills and knowledge that they can use throughout their careers. On a less tangible level, though, it gives them more confidence in their abilities as working professionals, increasing their morale and productivity tenfold. That’s why we’ve devised our contract training program for organizations that have received workforce development grants in Georgia.
The Benefits of Our Contract Training Program
When you choose to partner with us through our contract training program, we supply our services as a continuing education institution to your entire workforce. However, that doesn’t mean that you’re going to get mass-produced quality, so to speak. We work closely with our contracted organizations to customize our training programs.
For example, let’s say you have a deficit of employees in a high-demand sector of your organization. Rather than deal with the process of getting outside hires to fill that gap, you can work with us to train your existing workforce. As they’re already familiar with your organization’s processes and procedures, they’ll pick up the new information we teach much more easily, allowing you to place them in those high-demand positions without slowing down operations.
Of course, we can work to meet other workplace needs as well. Perhaps your issue isn’t a skill deficit in the workplace, but poor communication and conflict resolution skills among your workforce. You can simply partner with CaPE to teach the relevant courses, equipping your workforce with the skills they need to communicate effectively, reducing unnecessary tensions in the workplace. This same principle applies to just about any other unmet need in your workforce. If you can name it, we can work with you to develop a training plan that’ll fix it.
So, does the idea of a customized contract training program appeal to you? If you’ve decided to invest your grant money in partnering with us, reach out to Dr. Turner, our Executive Director of Continuing Education today!
