Continuing vocational training and skills development play an important role in managing rapidly changing job demands, in the realisation of strategic corporate goals and in the reorientation of enterprises. The success of company training measures is dependant to a large extent on whether the necessary training and qualification activities are developed an realised along with corporate goals and corporate processes. However, the appropriate procedures for this are absent in many European enterprises. For this reason there is an intensive search for new procedures for systematic planning, management, implementation and evaluation of company training measures. The way in which enterprises in Europe prepare their workforce for future qualification demands and the measures and instruments they already utilise for the achievement of effective training as well as those which they deem necessary for the future is the subject of this publication.
