How we can help your organisation
FutureDotNow exists to close the UK’s workforce essential digital skills gap by turning shared ambition into practical action.
We can help your organisation move from intent to impact by giving you the evidence, tools and shared frameworks you need to understand the challenge, make a strong case for action and take practical steps that build confidence and capability at scale.
Find out below how we can help your organisation take its next steps to digitally confidence, future-fit workforce
Building a business case for action
One of the biggest barriers to securing investment in digital upskilling programmes is being able to demonstrate the return on investment.
FutureDotNow’s Economic Impact Calculator allows you to quantify the exact cost of upskilling your workforce with essential digital skills, tailored to your sector region and headcount.
For example, did you know that a construction firm in the North-West with 100 employees would see a productivity boost of c.£300K p.a. from digital upkskilling?
The opportunity for your business
FutureDotNow has resources that can help you measure your organisations digital skills gap and identify the tools and training you need to close it.
Measuring the skills gap in your people
Understanding the reality of the essential digital skills gap in your people is crucial to making progress.
Our colleague self-assessment guide can help you direct feedback from your employees, raises their awareness of their digital skills – one of the first steps to affecting change.
It empowers individuals to take ownership of their development and provides you with valuable insights to tailor and target your training initiatives.
Learning that clicks
Guidance to help employers boost digital skills
Our research has uncovered what motivates workers to improve their digital skills, and what really works when designing successful upskilling programmes
Tools to help you close the skills gap
You don’t need to build new learning resources from scratch.
Plenty of high-quality digital skills training already exists – you just need a quick way to find what’s right for your people.
FutureDotNow’s Digital Skills Learning Directory brings together trusted thirdparty programmes in one place. Filter by skill, online or in-person delivery, and paid or free options to pinpoint the best fit fast.
The essential digital skills framework
Specificity on the skills needed
The colleague self-assessment guide helps you to engage your workforce and get a measure of confidence for each task.
Showing leadership and intent
The Workforce Digital Skills Charter is a shared statement of ambition – a rallying cry for concerted and focused action to close the essential digital skills gap in the UK workforce.
The first stage of joining our shared mission to close the workforce digital skills gap, the Charter invites you to join us as we commit to:
- Raise awareness of the workforce essential digital skill gap.
- Work together to supercharge action as part of a national change programme.
- Empower people of working age to build solid digital foundations.
About the Essential Digital Skills Maturity Framework
This exclusive framework aims to help employers understand and move through the typical stages of workforce digital upskilling so businesses can find relevant content quickly and efficiently to accelerate progress and measure impact.
Ufi VocTech Trust and FutureDotNow share a commitment to helping organisations understand where they are now and what good looks like next, using insight, evidence and technology. We’re proud to be a FutureDotNow Strategic Partner as we work together to unlock better skills outcomes for people, employers and the economy.
Rebecca Garrod-Waters,
Chief Executive, Ufi VocTech Trust
