Developing Your Organisation

Having a confident and competent workforce helps to build individual motivation, effective team working, and to embed the efficient delivery of services. This is critical to the successful operation of any public service. Motivation creates a more efficient environment with less waste on staff absenteeism and retention problems. Well-trained employees are also more likely to complete tasks to a higher standard, faster, and are able to identify problems earlier. This in turn, should help your organisation to achieve targets and improve against performance indicators.

Working to overcome the barriers of up-skilling your workforce, localenvironmentskills.org aims to help you to improve local environmental quality through:

Implementing effective monitoring systems to identify shortfalls in service provision
Planning service delivery effectively and efficiently
Providing frontline staff with technical and tactical skills required to maximise resources
Understanding the impact that your customers have on LEQ, and what they expect
Learning how to engage and communicate with the public and key service delivery partners.

Localenvironmentskills.org has been designed to benefit deliverers of street scene services in a number of ways. Planning for, and spending budget on, the development of workforces has often been difficult to justify. This website will help you to address some barriers associated with cost, quality and relevance:

Cost

‘Spend to save’ is a term written for skills development. By carefully selecting the opportunities promoted on localenvironmentskills.org the cost of the courses will be outweighed by the savings created by having a highly skilled and motivated workforce.
Regional availability has been encouraged amongst skills providers to make available opportunities with low travel, and no accommodation, costs.
Hosting training sessions enables providers to visit you, helping to reduce costs.
E-learning and other forms of self-training are also promoted, which can be more flexible and cost-effective.

Quality

Information is provided about each learning opportunity, including any independent formal recognition that it has, or any qualifications it awards, the learning style and other measures, to help you to evaluate whether a training opportunity suits your requirements.
Supporting partners are involved in steering the direction of the website, to ensure that it continues to be relevant to the needs of everyone involved in the local environmental management sector.

Relevance

Government Priority Givernment is committed to improving skills and the opportunities available to those working in improving the local environment. They have set 5 skills challenges to help improve the delivery of these services.
Occupational and Functional Mapping is the Skills Profession’s way of identifying tasks undertaken within a sector. We have undertaken such an exercise for local environmental management and have used the findings to determine the types of skills development opportunities required by you.
Individual Learning Styles vary widely so we actively promote a number of formats including seeing, listening and doing.