"Never let education get in the way of learning"_

New skills, methods and tools are being developed daily. 
The question is: How is your business positioned to make the most of these changes?

THE DIGITAL CHALLENGE

Why businesses struggle to realise value from their data_

Unlocking the full value potential of data means businesses need to engender a data-driven culture.  In practice, this means that business processes and decisions are based on data-driven insight.

Data process and decisions need to be understood both horizontally and vertically within an organisation. Everyone in the organisation should be data literate.

Business leaders are required to be the most vocal proponents of data-driven insight and therefore analytics becomes a strategic concern rather than an IT one.

Compounding the urgency is the rapid pace of change in the data and analytics space, requiring businesses to continuously seek out new employees with the relevant experience at a great expense. 

"All this to say, why not leverage the human capital present within your business?"

Hiring to fill an analytic gap within your company could cost upwards of £30k per person.  The time to fill one of these highly, in-demand position takes on average 37 days and bad hires cost companies anywhere between £20k to £50k.


Additionally, due to the urgency companies face getting the right skillsets in the door, 38% of bad hires were a result of time-sensitive need. 

LEARNING AS A LIFELONG JOURNEY

The importance of reskilling in your business_

Reskilling your workforce is materially cheaper and less risky in improving your companies analytics capabilities than simply going to the job market. 


More importantly, investing in your employees has been shown to vastly improve employee retention

Afterskills applies extensive experience in improving businesses' ability to achieve value from data by following a structured yet customized approach to quickly and effectively upskill and reskill your workforce in a fraction of the time, costs and risks associated with traditional hiring.

Every business is unique and therefore requires a different approach as there is no one size-fits-all solution. Some businesses require more technical training, others need to improve their ability to communicate data-driven insight horizontally and vertically within the organisation. 

Whatever your company's needs and schedule, Afterskills is here to work with you in finding the right solution for your organisation. 


Browse three of our sample curriculum below.

How afterskills has helped businesses like yours_

Engendering a data-driven culture within the UK's largest grocer

The UK’s largest grocer – and second largest employer in the UK -- required upskilling to horizontally and vertically engender a data driven culture within their organization, starting with 300 colleagues within the Finance dept.


We developed a 25-person, three-day curriculum for the Finance department with the stated goal of improving data-driven decision making. During the curriculum, participants learned core digital skills and practised on real-life business applications using the company’s internal data.


Value Created

-  Afterskills, over the entire program, delivered 378 hours of instruction for 300 participants.

- Overall, there was a 36% percent increase in confidence in data analysis, insights, and communication

- 96% of participants would recommend the course to colleagues

- 2,000 additional participants are scheduled to go through the curriculum.

Reinforcing competitive edge in deep-analytical know-how and establishing a Digital Practice for a premier consulting firm

To improve value created for their clients, a premier consulting firm sought to equip their workforce with better analytical tools with the objective of creating a digital practice.


The firm retained Afterskills to design annual and special purpose trainings around SQL, applied business statistics & probability, and applied Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence. Besides the technical training, the curriculum focused on translating insights into a discursive language. Communicating data in simple terms unlocked value for the consultants and secured buy-in from clients


Value Created

- 4.5x increase in analytical consulting headcount

- Afterskills retained and expanded curriculum to train new consultants

- Developed more advanced trainings to make the new digital practice 25% of the business in 2 years


Jump starting graduate scheme with Excel core analysis and modeling

After 8 years, Britain's Marquee airline sought to restart its graduate training program focusing on both qualitative and data analysis skills. The goal was to deliver a program focused on end-to-end analytical enablement and put a larger focus on data-driven insights.


Afterskills custom-designed an Excel-focused curriculum on rapid analytical upskilling. Approximately 80% of the course consisted of hands-on applications of the new skills to solidify learning, provide immediate applicability, and foster collaboration. Topics included data auditing, advanced formulas, lookups, analysis, modelling and dashboards. 


Value Created

- Satisfaction with Course 4.8/5

- Excel confidence increased by 70%. 

- 100% participants would recommend Afterskills to a colleague.


Example curriculums delivered_

Analytic Innovation

Analytic Innovation in Uncertainty introduces new and novel ways to quantify uncertainty, and most importantly how to understand what exactly the numbers are saying


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