We spend a large part of our lives at work, so making the most of this time to develop our skills and abilities is important, enjoyable and worthwhile.
Improving your skills will:
Help you to do your job better
Keep your skills up to date
Help you to progress in your career.
Employers in the floristry industry have identified many areas which will help their businesses and help you to progress, including:
Better education about conditioning, vase life etc
Florists are dealing with more informed and aware customers and need to give the customer what they want, not just what they think they want
Training in design, trends, tastes and fashion
Successful florists must keep ahead of trends and sell them to the customer
Improved IT skills
IT skills can help with running the business, marketing abroad, book keeping, ordering supplies, developing customer databases for marketing, developing a website, online ordering and accounts, and keeping training records.
Whatever your age, experience or ambitions, there are qualifications and routes into learning to suit you.
