Apprenticeship

SUPPORT TAILORED TO YOUR ORGANIZATION

With #Boost your learning culture, SMEs get the support they need to increase their employees' learning attitudes and employability. Europe WSE selected four service providers to provide guidance and interventions to applicant SMEs. The guidance focuses both on optimizing concrete learning activities, based on science-based levers, and on improving the learning climate within the organization.
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Is your organization located in Flanders and has no more than 250 employees? Then submit your application now to #Boostje leerercultuur | Vlaanderen.be.

Still have questions? You can always contact BoostJeLeercultuur@Vlaanderen.be

Obelisk 1 of 4 (proud) partners

Four teams of service providers were appointed by Europe WSE to assist the SMEs. Obelisk is one of these specialized service providers. Each of these service providers was assigned a region.

Obelisk serves the provinces of Flemish Brabant and Limburg.
For other service providers, take a look at the #Boost your learning culture | Vlaanderen.be

Applications are assigned to one of the above service providers after an administrative check based on their location. The address of the branch office used for guidance is determined by the service provider. In the case of organizations having more than one branch in Flanders, only one of them will be able to participate in the counseling.

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Receive support to optimize your existing training offerings and build a strong learning culture that is 100% aligned with your employees and your company. Some examples of topics:

Our company offers many training opportunities, but employees don't seem to take those opportunities. How do we ensure that employees are motivated to take our training courses?
My employees regularly attend training but I notice that what is learned has a hard time sticking and is not really applied in the workplace. How do we ensure that a training course is permanently applied in practice?
We have worked out a nice training program for our IT workers. But because not everyone has the same job, some of them seem to find the training irrelevant. How do we ensure that the training fits well with the needs of each of them?
Our employees are required to take annual safety training, but don't see the point. Most barely pay attention during training "because they already know everything. How do we ensure that our mandatory trainings are not considered "wasted time" and they effectively learn something?
At selection interviews, applicants ask me about what we organize around learning and growth, but I actually have a hard time answering that.
I have a hard time convincing my business manager of the value of training and he or she rather sees it as a time and financial loss.
We always bet on the same forms of learning: classical training - but we want to take further steps in other forms of learning and be a little more innovative in this.

Evolve your SME into a learning organization by working on the following challenges:

Create a psychologically safe environment: make sure employees feel safe to give and receive feedback so that it becomes natural within the organization.
Reform the organizational structure: adapt the organizational structure to the ever-changing context to improve internal communication and serve customers in a timely manner.
Avoid repeated mistakes: analyze and learn from mistakes to avoid making the same mistakes over and over again.
Collaborate with stakeholders: explore with stakeholders how best to address future challenges and create a plan to get started.
Embrace a coaching leadership style: develop the skills to take on a coaching role as a leader.
Understand and reduce absenteeism: investigate the causes of employee absenteeism and develop strategies to reduce it.
Encourage continuous development: encourage employees to engage in ongoing training and development.

Meet our learning coaches within this project

Goele Nickmans

Trainer - supervisor

Didier Van Aelst

Trainer - supervisor

Stephanie Cael

Trainer - supervisor

Pieter Vanslembrouck

Trainer - supervisor