People can be productive, effective and resilient when they have developed the right skills. Our unique human skills training ecosystem has been designed to prepare your people to become confident, capable contributors to your national, sector or business growth strategy.

What we’re offering isn’t just a training programme — it’s the way we deliver the learning that makes it powerful.

While automation and AI are transforming the workplace, there are essential qualities and abilities that only humans possess, including leadership, self-regulation and creative thinking that are mainly left to the individual to gain by osmosis.
The prefix ‘human’ provides a category for these skills that sit outside of academic and vocational syllabi but which we know are vital - not just for job acquisition and performance, but for life-long personal and career fulfilment.
We have built an academic frame of reference called the Human Skills Matrix which underpins our training programmes.
The Human Skills Matrix is our research-based framework which provides a common language and reference point from which we build our programmes. Sources include international research completed by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation, World Economic Forum and International Labour Organisation.
The Human Skills Matrix categorises skills into two groups: cognitive and metacognitive, and social and emotional competencies.
We enable and track progress against these competencies in The Quad.
The Quad is our human skills training ecosystem - the learning platform where human skills are gained.
Provision is in the form of scaffolded learning, structured in micro modules, with interactive and multimedia elements. Our unique blended teaching and coaching pedagogy enables responsive personalisation and differentiation to help each learner achieve their best outcome.
Skills training can be tailored to meet specific national or industrial objectives, for example related to upskilling junior managers, or enabling career starters to transition into the workforce.
Content can also be placed within career and personal development contexts, such as personal branding, recruitment, personal leadership and adding value in the workplace.
Learner progress is tracked against KPIs for commissioners, and learners are able to monitor their own development.
Our unique approach is applied to your key messages and content to enable learners to take proactive steps towards employment, successfully enter or progress through the workforce, and thrive.
Your key information, skills training and career inspiration can reach and engage a national audience, including those with additional learning needs, providing exceptional ROI.
We can align learning with national careers and skills frameworks and make cross-curricular links to support education and training objectives, which ensures high levels of engagement and reach, whether learners are accessing through their education, work or training setting.
Engaging activities enable learners to develop the human skills you require, such as verbal communication, adaptability and learning strategies.
Your content can be tailored to meet the needs of specific categories of learners, such as career starters, people with additional learning needs, and women.
Learners can evidence progress and skills achievement, aiding job acquisition and career progression. Using engagement data captured, you, as a Government or sector body or employer, can identify engaged or promising participants and offer them more specific outreach programmes and opportunities.

Vitruvia helps Governments and employers build future-ready workforces who are equipped with the human skills that power long-term prosperity.

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Longer Lives, Longer Careers?

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From ‘soft’ to ‘human’: what’s in a name?

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We have come to accept, however subconsciously, that scientists and engineers deal with hard things, like machines, test tubes and pipes. Solid manly things. Meanwhile, therapists, teachers and nurses deal with soft things, like people and feelings. Feminine, unquantifiable things. Over the decades, society has tended to place more value on professions involving hard skills - value that has seen high salaries and status for those who develop ‘hard’ skills.

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AI and job displacement: Should we be fanning the flames of fear?

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We like to call this the Fire and Anguish Narrative (FAN) surrounding AI, with hyped-up concerns about productivity and job displacement increasingly prevalent in the media and political discourse. Such a narrative FANs (sorry, couldn’t resist) the flames of anxiety for educators, parents and young people, who are completing the preparatory work for entrance into the workforce, which requires some horizon scanning.

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We believe that working in partnership with Governments and industry enables educators to align skills training with job markets and economic objectives to unlock human potential.