The bottom line

Do reading, maths and communication affect your bottom line? Of course they do.

If your employees have difficulties with these skills, you’ll be incurring costs.

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If you haven’t already, use our:

• skills gap indicator or
• take the test quiz

to determine whether difficulties with core skills could be affecting your bottom line.

When you improve core skills for your employees, you can see gains in:

• better quality products and services
• higher production numbers
• improved health and safety compliance
• more satisfied customers
• increased productivity through greater efficiency and time savings.

The bigger picture

Gaps in these skills – even in one part of your workplace – can affect productivity across your whole business.

When these core skills gaps aren’t addressed, other areas may need to be involved. One of your employees has to pick up the rework or deal with customer complaints. In turn this slows their own production times, impacting on your whole business.

Perhaps more importantly, these core skills are the basis of our economic transformation. They are the foundation for building a skilled, productive and competitive workforce.

As you introduce new technology, sharpen your competitive edge, become more innovative or enter new markets, you’ll gain better and faster results when your employees have the core skills they need.

Take action

When you take the next steps to improve the core skills in your workplace, you’ll find support in a number of places.

As a starting point, find out how to make it happen.