Is cross-skilling the answer to increasing your business’s resilience?

Protect and increase your bottom line through a more flexible workforce

UK manufacturers’ business resilience has been tested to the limit as the additional challenges of the pandemic have compounded the ongoing skills shortage. As we emerge into the post-pandemic working world, the so-called Great Resignation is presenting yet more workforce challenges. Building your business’s resilience to boost your bottom line has never been more crucial.

So what is business resilience and why does it matter to your bottom line?

Greater business resilience helps companies be prepared for unforeseen issues however they arise, whether from staff sickness, machine failure or even new legislation. Having a more agile workforce that can help you adjust and absorb potential disruption is a key business resilience strategy, protecting your company’s productivity, competitiveness and ultimately profit.

And that’s where MTC Training can help. Cross-skilling is a proven approach to creating more flexible workforces while keeping down recruitment costs, by training employees in skills, jobs and tasks that sit outside their current role but are relevant to it. As well as making your workforce more responsive under pressure and ensuring your ongoing capability to fulfil orders, cross-skilled employees also collaborate more effectively and spot process improvements more readily, continuously increasing your business’s efficiency and profitability.

Protect your operations through cross-skilling

MTC Training’s cross-skilling programmes will help you to achieve a consistent minimum level of competence throughout your workforce, improving working practices and time on breakdowns, and promoting a wider awareness of engineering across teams. We’ll help you to prepare for better problem solving, efficiency and productivity through a more flexible, competent workforce that feels engaged, confident and valued.

With the return of face-to-face delivery within our state-of-the-art training centres, we’re delighted to announce three brand new appreciation courses to help start your business’s cross-skilling journey:

• Pneumatics/Electro Pneumatics (3 days) – £1,350 pp
  • Understand pneumatic control sequences, assembly, drawings and fault finding.
• Electrical Installation (5 days) – £2,250 pp
  • Gain an understanding of essential health and safety and Lock Out Tag Out (LOTO) processes, and the ability to wire and test industrial electrical cabinets.
• Mechanical assembly (5 days) – £2,250 pp
  • Cover basic maintenance and assembly tasks, tooling and hand skills with exposure to transmission type training systems.

These courses are useful refreshers for non-general specialists and sector changers, qualified engineers experiencing skills fade, or new starters with backgrounds in different engineering disciplines. They’re also suitable for experienced workers without formal qualifications who require proof of professional competence.

Used individually, these cross-skilling courses will help to upskill your electrical-biased employees to beginner or intermediate level in mechanical engineering, and your mechanical-biased workers to beginner level in electrical engineering. They can also be used as a package to provide a strong foundation for a subsequent Level 3 vocational qualification in the workplace.

We’re already running monthly appreciation courses due to high demand, so book early to avoid disappointment. There are also bespoke session options for group bookings of six or more.

To view all of our available face-to-face and online courses, please visit https://the-amtc.co.uk/training/.