Workforce digital skills support for employers
How to build a digitally capable and AI ready workforce
FutureDotNow helps organisations understand their workforce digital skills gap, identify what to do next and take practical action.
Start with the challenge facing your organisation. We will help you find the most useful next step.
Digital capability affects every part of your organisation. Where is your organisation today?
Essential digital skills help people use technology well and create stronger foundations for productivity, cyber resilience, AI adoption and successful change, so understanding where your workforce is today is critical.
Our Organisational Maturity Framework shows the stages employers typically move through; from identifying where their workforce is today to improving and scaling a workforce upskilling programme. Select the stage that best reflects where you are today. You’ll find typical questions and a small selection of free resources. Join the FutureDotNow community to unlock our full suite of content.
Stage 0
Do essential digital skills matter to my organisation?
Questions we can help you answer include:
- What are the essential digital and AI skills?
- Why do these matter to our bottom line or growth?
- How is the national evidence relevant to our organisation?
- How does the skill gap vary by sector and region?
To answer these we recommend you start with trusted evidence
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Get a personalised digital and AI readiness report for your organisation
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Explore the skills and tasks in the Essential Digital Skills Framework
Stage 1
Identify your starting point
You can use our workforce assessment tools to measure the confidence of your workforce against the tasks in the Essential Digital Skills framework. This will show you where the most significant gaps are, so you can prioritise your next move.
Questions we can help you answer include:
- What skills do people need now and, in the future, including AI?
- Where are the gaps and which are most significant?
- How can we baseline affordably and credibly?
Resources to help you measure and prioritise
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Explore digital skills data, insights and sector benchmarks
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Help employees understand their current digital skills and confidence
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Assessment templates & tools
Practical tools to capture findings, identify gaps and agree next actions.
Stage 2
Build your business case and senior support.
Combine national insights with organisation-specific data to make a compelling case for action.
Questions we can help you answer include:
- What are the benefits to people, productivity and profitability?
- What is the cost of doing nothing?
- What investment is needed and when will benefits appear?
- Who needs to support this and how do we bring them with us?
Resources that help you turn evidence into commitment
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Model the economic
gains that could be
unlocked by closing the
skills gap
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Business case template
Build a clear, evidence-led case for investment and action.
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Senior engagement pack
Help leaders understand the opportunity, risks and case for taking action
Stage 3
Design your programme
You can design and deliver targeted learning and support linked to the roles and tasks where it can make the greatest difference. Start small and scale over time. There’s lots of training content available, much of it free.
Questions we can help you answer include:
- What type of learning will work for our people?
- Should we build training internally, buy support or both?
- Where are the quick wins and where do we start?
- What can we learn from others?
Resources that help you build a workable plan
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Explore the employer actions that are proven to help adults build essential digital skills
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Learn how other organisations have approached workforce digital skills in practice.
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Find trusted learning resources to build workforce digital skills
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First 90-day plan
Set out the actions, owners and milestones for your first three months.
Stage 4
Implement your digital skills programme
In development
- Launch learning in priority cohorts.
- Build engagement and internal ownership.
- Support managers and digital champions.
- Track participation, adoption and early signals.
Proposed resources to help implement the digital skills programme
Implementation playbook
Practical guidance for rolling out your digital skills programme
Digital Champions starter pack
Equip champions to support and promote digital skills across your organisation
Members action clinics
Get expert support to overcome challenges and maintain progress
Engagement and tracking tools
Monitor participation, track progress and identify areas for improvement
Stage 5
Measure and scale your programme
In development
- Measure impact against the starting point and the adoption of key technologies
- Identify what is working and what needs to change.
- Scale successful approaches across the organisation.
Proposed resources to help implement the digital skills programme
Progress review
Track progress and identify opportunities for improvement
Peer benchmarking
Compare your organisation’s progress against peers and sector benchmarks
Impact measurement template
Track outcomes, evidence progress and demonstrate the value of your activity.
Members case studies and showcase
Learn from organisations making workforce digital skills work in practice
Member benefits
Curated guidance, practical tools and peer connections to help your organisation become digitally and AI ready
Access exclusive member resources, events and support, alongside a growing library of free tools and insights, with optional premium services available for organisations seeking more tailored support.
Open access
Free
Evidence and resources that build awareness and help more organisations get started.
- Workforce Readiness Report and public research
- Essential Digital Skills Framework
- Organisational Maturity Framework
- Sector and place insight
- Workforce Digital Skills Charter
- Selected guidance and case studies
Annual membership
Member
A more guided experience that helps organisations use FutureDotNow insight and resources to make progress.
- Guided journey through the Organisational Maturity Framework
- Exclusive reports, tools, videos and guides
- Digital Skills Learning Directory
- Member events and learning opportunities
- Priority access to flagship events
- Peer and expert connections
- Advocacy and profile opportunities
Potential add-ons
Premium
Optional tailored support for organisations that want additional help beyond the standard member offer.
- Facilitated workforce diagnostic
- Tailored business-case workshop
- Bespoke action plan or roadmap
- Advisory support
- Benchmarking as data develops
- Digital Champion or cohort-based support
- Supply-chain or sector programmes
Annual membership fee
Simple pricing based on organisation size.
Annual membership gives access to the core member benefits shown above.
Fewer than 50 employees
£250
per year
50 to 999 employees
£1,000
per year
1,000 employees or more
£5,000
per year
Build the digital capability and
confidence of your workforce.
Explore the resources, expertise and community available through FutureDotNow membership.
