Your Route to TQS Certification (1) Plan for the Future

Achieving the Training Quality Standard is important to you and to your organisation, but it is only a milestone on your journey to success.

You are looking, over the medium term, to develop your business with employers. You are looking to do more work with employers and you’re looking to build relationships with employers.

This means you need a plan.

Some organisations immediately say they have a plan. It usually turns out to be a business profile with income targets. That is, it’s full of the sort of information that is of interest within their organisation, but has no place in front of employers.

What you need is a real plan, a document that says how you intend to help employers. You need a document which explains how you intend to support employers as they seek to make a profit, meet their objectives and survive in difficult times. You need a plan that is clear about your role in their success.

If you have that sort of plan, then you will be able to write about your strategy for supporting employers (A0) easily, and your strategy for supporting a sector, or sectors, (B0) with confidence.

Thus, your first strategy for success is a broad business development strategy and one that will help you to be more successful overall, as well as leading you closer to TQS certification.