Spotlight on Skills

Programme Overview

The Spotlight on Skills programme is a collaboration between Enterprise Ireland, Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and the Irish Management Institute, it has been developed to help businesses create a company skills plan. The initiative is run regionally and will support your company to identify and address critical skills needs, to build capability and achieve strategic growth. As part of the process your company has a focused engagement with their local Regional Skills Manager to get a response from the Educational and Training Providers in your region to address your critical skills needs.

Participants should include two members of your company’s senior executive team who are:

Familiar with your business strategy for the next 1-5 years.
Understand the entire business operation.

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Learning outcomes

Equip you with an approach (and toolkit) to identify those skills which differentially impact business success.
Assess skills gaps and identify where you need to develop
Enable your business to strengthen your critical skills in line with business strategy
Provide inputs to policy on skills needs
Enable you and other SMEs to engage with the education system for upskilling and recruitment needs

Format

Session 1

Strategy Clarification workshop, where you will clarify you company goals, strategic ambitions, strategic priorities and identify the organisational capabilities that need to be in place to achieve your goals (2.5 hours)

Session 2

Critical Skills workshop, where you will identify your critical skills needs and use the findings to produce a company skills plan, and identify solutions to skill requirements (4 hours)

One to one meeting 

One to one meeting your IMI skills consultant to fine-tuned and validate your company skills plan (90 mins)

Engage with your Regional Skills Forum Manager

Meet with your regional skills manager to address your critical skills needs.

Training Provider

Enterprise Ireland in collaboration with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and the Irish Management Institute (IMI).