Understand your skills needs
Step 1: Understand your skills needs
A good starting point is to think about your business goals. Some key questions to ask:
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Are you looking to expand your top line or optimising your bottom line?
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Are you looking to strengthen managerial capabilities or enabling the workforce to transform the business with you?
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Are you planning to enter new markets or building new skillsets to seize more opportunities?
Resources to help identify your skills needs
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The Skills Framework provides sector-specific information on employment, career pathways, job roles, existing and emerging skills and competencies, as well as relevant training programmes which allows you to design your human resource practices and make informed decisions on skills investment.
The Skills Framework is developed in partnership with employers, industry associations, unions, and professional bodies to promote mastery and recognition of skills, and to foster a culture of lifelong learning. It covers more than 30 industry sectors.
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SkillsFuture Queen Bees (SFQBs) are industry leaders who take on a leading role to champion skills development in organisations, particularly for SMEs.
Approach a SkillsFuture Queen Bee partner for advice on identifying relevant skills training courses or initiatives. You can read up on their areas of specialty before deciding which Skills Manager to engage.
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You can also approach these SkillsFuture partners:
(i) SME Centres
(ii) SCCCI - Christina Soh, Manager (christina@sccci.org.sg)
(iii) Unions - trainingandtransformation@ntuc.org.sg
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A step-by-step guide to identify the business impact on skills and the resources you can tap on to get the most out of the transformation process.
5-step guide to skills transformation
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Identify the job role to transform
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Design the To-Be job role
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Conduct As-Is of current skillsets
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Identify the skills gaps
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Bridge the gaps
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Proceed to Step 2 to check your eligibility for subsidies and funding after determining your skills needs.