Education and Training
Elevate your IT Awareness and Skills
The workplace is where most adults learn, the extent and quality of training undertaken by businesses is thus important for productivity and profitability.
At renownIT, we offer on demand training tailored to meet your unique needs, empowering you and your team to develop essential IT skills and increase capabilities. Harness our expertise and drive efficiency, profitability and growth within your organisation.
Many owner-managers consider that undergoing training themselves will not enhance their ability to operate the firm, although fear of exposing deficiencies in their knowledge is sometimes behind their reluctance to participate.
Poaching of skilled workers by other businesses and training leading to wage demands, are frequently identified as obstacles. Thus, many provide only in-house firm-specific training, which produces skills that are less transferable in the open market.
Businesses often report difficulty accessing training tailored to their needs in terms of type and quality, scheduling, location etc. Providers are reluctant to supply businesses, given costs of organising and customising the training, the often-small numbers.
Local businesses in Fiji
Local businesses in Fiji consistently identify more barriers to training than global firms. The main obstacles, according to our research, are listed below
Most employers commonly lack information on what training is available to them, as well as evidence of the benefits of training to set against perceived and real barriers to training activity.
Even where they perceive training to be of value, releasing employees for (especially formal) training is more difficult for employers. Lost working time is an especially important constraint with respect to owner-manager training.
Lack of access to economies of scale in training raises training costs for smaller employers, who, compared to large firms, pay typically three times more per member of staff undergoing formal training.
The often-small numbers of trainees, and employer reticence with respect to paying the full cost.