How to develop new skills

We need a proper understanding of how people really do learn. We do not have that at Government level in the UK. If we did we would not make children start formal schooling at 4 years of age. In the years 4 to 7 years children are in a transitional stage where they bring together
motor skills, sound processing and visual processing in order to achieve motor sensory integration i.e. the ability to combine motor skills with all their senses and to create the foundations to read for meaning and so on. We have no checks on this process, nor any curriculum to support it properly such as daily PE, nor screening for sound processing or binocular vision. If a person has a traumatic experience in life they can suppress their senses in order to minimise the emotional pain, but this can affect their global skill set - we have no checks and no serious strategy to help people recover.
Without the basic foundations in place and no funding to correct such issues then Londoners, like the rest of the UK, will struggle to access higher level skills.
We have to stop doing short-term coping strategies and start investing in real skills development for life and making it a daily habit; to maximise well-being and to fend off cognitive decline in old age. www.fit-2-learn.com

There are 1m small businesses in London and those that are training their people (less than 50%) are largely doing so based on guesswork. There is no process available that can examine the performance of any business based on bench-marking and from that, deduce what the people in it are good/bad at.

Yet the answer is simple ie develop an online dashboard linked to an SME business performance database that any business can access for free and get the answers in minutes. eg if their % of new customers acquired is below 50% of norm, they need to train in marketing or recruit readymade skills. The same would apply for scores in say: customer service; business/ tech efficiency; people productivity; profitability; business value.

Then link all that to courses where outcomes can be measured

I can provide the know-how to do this for free and very quickly if you ask me. [email protected]

Cheap or free access to industry software such as Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and Rhino would help me to build skills and produce a portfolio to enter creative roles that London is a hub for.
Software companies already see the benefit of doing this for students so why not for unemployed people to up-skill themselves? These people will be future clients once they start working in the field.