Explaining this course to your employer
Every year all Reservists have to attend ‘Annual Camp’, a two-week continuous training session either at a local TA centre in the UK or overseas.
Annual Camp is critical as is allows them to consolidate the skills they have developed during their military career so far and be assessed so they can maintain the high standards required to remain operationally effective.
The nature of each Annual Camp varies according to the role performed by the Reservist’s unit and from year to year. Reservists also have to undertake preparatory training in the months leading up to Annual Camp.
What does the training involve?
- Training in group skills
- Training in individual skills
- Training based on the Reservist’s particular rank or trade (such as first aid, map reading, driving, operating radios or firing artillery)
- Field exercises
What would it cost?
According to research endorsed by the Chartered Management Institute, if your employer were to pay for training to deliver equivalent employee development it would cost them in the order of £1,500. This only relates to the skills that would be relevant to a civilian workplace - areas such as self-confidence and presentation skills.
How does it benefit your employer?
Annual Camp also builds the following transferable skills:
- Arranging resources
- Managing a group and motivating others
- Self confidence
- Presentation skills
- Planning, based on situational analysis and set procedures
- Decision-making in high-pressure, challenging situations
- Leading a team of between seven and 27 other Reservists in physically demanding conditions
- Communicating plans clearly to others to ensure delivery
The more senior ranks within the Unit will develop their skills in:
- Planning and managing complicated programmes of activity
- Arranging and managing the supporting logistics, including transport, accommodation, food and the management of hazardous materials
- Conducting inherently dangerous activity in a safe and effective manner according to strict rules
- Leading large groups of Reservists, with responsibility for their training and welfare
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