You have invested in powerful technological tools like artificial intelligence, convinced they would transform your team’s productivity. However, the return on investment is slow to materialize. Your digital transformation seems to be stagnating despite all your efforts.
The Visées program addresses this exact need. This initiative offers government funding designed to help SMEs train their teams and strengthen their digital skills, in order to take full advantage of the technologies already in place.
You are not alone in this situation. Many Quebec SMEs are experiencing the same thing: they adopt the best technologies, but their teams only exploit a fraction of them. The problem does not stem from the tools themselves, but rather from a lack of training to use them to their full potential. In addition to limiting productivity, this lack of mastery also creates security vulnerabilities: an improperly trained employee can unintentionally expose the company to risks. This is often observed, as human error remains the leading cause of security breaches in SMEs.
The good news? There is a concrete solution to maximize your return on investment without increasing your budget. The Visées program allows you to develop your employees’ digital skills through government funding that accelerates your digital shift.
What is the Visées Program and How Does It Support Your Digital Transformation?
Are you wondering how to finance your teams’ digital training without compromising your budget?
The Visées program was created exactly for that.
It is a government initiative that recognizes the challenges faced by Quebec SMEs: developing the digital skills necessary for technological modernization, despite limited resources.
The Visées program is a unique opportunity for your business to secure several thousand dollars to train your employees and finally unlock the full potential of your digital tools.
What Can You Get With the Visées Program?
- Do you want to train your employees without impacting your budget?
The program reimburses 50% of each employee’s salary during training, up to $100/hour. - Are you concerned about the costs associated with specialized training?
100% of training costs are covered. - Do you want to maximize the impact of the funding?
Get up to $8,000 per employee to develop their digital skills. - Do you have multiple employees to train?
Good news: there is no limit on the number of participants.
In summary, you train your teams on the tools you already use, improve the adoption of your digital solutions, and strengthen your internal capabilities without increasing your operating budget.
What Are the Eligibility Criteria for the Visées Program?
Are you wondering if your business is eligible?
Here are the main criteria to meet:
- Your business is registered with the Registre des entreprises du Québec (NEQ).
- You are not required to request prior ministerial authorization for agreements with federal agencies (Act M-30).
- Your business has at least one full-time salaried employee, other than shareholders or immediate family members.
If you answer “yes” to these three criteria, your business is eligible for the Visées program and can benefit from funding to train its digital teams.
Training That Addresses Your Digital Transformation Challenges
The Visées program subsidizes various areas of digital training that directly address the efficiency, cybersecurity, and compliance challenges your business faces.
Digital Technology Training
You have already invested in Microsoft 365. Your licenses are in place, and your teams use Outlook and Word every day. However, the expected gains are not always achieved. What we often observe? Advanced features of the Microsoft ecosystem, such as Teams, SharePoint, or Power Automate, remain underutilized.
Yet these tools can revolutionize the way you work:
- Teams to streamline communication and avoid scattered email exchanges
- SharePoint to centralize documentation and ensure better information governance
- Power Automate to automate repetitive tasks and free up time for your teams
This is precisely what the Visées program enables: giving your employees the digital skills needed to exploit the full potential of Microsoft 365 and your existing tools, without major additional costs.
Think about it: with a well-targeted and funded training plan, your technological investments finally become a performance driver for your SME.
Cybersecurity and Compliance Training
You can have the best security measures, the most powerful firewalls, and the most sophisticated tools… but if an employee clicks on a malicious link or mistakenly shares a confidential document, everything can collapse in an instant.
Training your employees on cyber threats is essential to prevent human error from becoming the entry point for an attack. In the reality of SMEs, it is often this human factor that makes the difference between a contained incident and a major crisis.
To strengthen this vigilance, we often begin with phishing simulation campaigns that replicate real-world scenarios your employees might face. These tests allow us to evaluate everyone’s reflexes and identify areas for improvement. Based on the results, targeted and personalized training is then offered to correct observed weaknesses and anchor proper behaviors—an approach integrated into our IT security services to build a lasting culture of vigilance within SMEs.
This method transforms training into concrete and measurable learning: your teams learn to recognize the signs of a phishing attempt, react safely, and adopt the right reflexes daily.
Artificial Intelligence and Automation Training
AI can transform the way your teams work… provided they know how to use it.
This is often where the problem lies: tools like Microsoft Copilot or Power Automate are powerful, but their impact depends entirely on the employees’ ability to use them intelligently.
Learning to ask the right questions, automate simple tasks, or interpret AI results is what allows you to derive real value and accelerate your digital adoption.
Warning! Investing in training without a clear strategy risks not seeing the effects. To ensure that every hour of training brings real value to your business, you need a well-structured development plan adapted to your processes and the technologies you use, as well as trainers who understand the reality of SMEs.
Good training relies on several criteria: clear objectives, applicable learning, and above all, consolidation of knowledge to ensure that new skills are truly understood and integrated into your teams’ daily routines.
This is why we support our clients in defining a coherent plan and collaborate with specialized partners to offer training that generates tangible results.
Make Training a Sustainable Driver of Digital Performance
Navigating grant programs and identifying the most relevant training for your business can seem complex. Training is an important step. But the real difference is made when it is part of a structured approach, adapted to the reality of your business.
What we offer our clients is to build a digital transformation support plan in five steps:
1. Environment Analysis
We evaluate your Microsoft tools, your processes, and the digital maturity of your teams to identify real priorities.
2. Personalized Training Plan
We establish a plan consistent with your digital transformation projects, your productivity goals, and your obligations (such as Law 25).
3. Guidance Toward the Right Partners
Whether internal or external, we support you in choosing the partner best suited to your situation.
4. Follow-up and Integration
After the training, we help you integrate new reflexes into your operations and measure the gains achieved.
5. Continuous Evolution
Your needs change? We adjust your plan over time to support your growth and keep your teams up to date.
This support allows you to secure your technological investments while developing your internal talent—two essential levers for your company’s performance.
Training is a key step, but it takes on its full meaning when integrated into a coherent technological strategy. This is exactly what we do with our IT optimization support, where every initiative aims to strengthen the productivity and digital resilience of SMEs.
Guiding Your Teams Toward a Sustainable Digital Transformation
Technology alone is not enough to transform a business. It is your teams, armed with the right digital skills, who make the difference. The Visées program represents an exceptional opportunity to maximize the return on your digital investments without compromising your budget.
We believe that digital transformation starts with people. Our role is not simply to sell you solutions, but to support you so that these solutions generate concrete and lasting results.
The grant program offers a unique opportunity for your SME to obtain thousands of dollars in funding to strengthen your teams’ skills and succeed in your digital shift.
Do you want to take full advantage of your digital tools?
Contact our experts to build a training plan tailored to your business and accelerate your digital transformation. Together, let’s make your technologies a sustainable driver of performance for your company.
FAQ – Your Questions About the Visées Program
What is the Visées program?
Visées is a government initiative that supports the digital transformation of Quebec businesses. Its goal is to help SMEs train their employees on the digital skills needed to better use existing technologies and accelerate their modernization.
Who can apply?
Any business registered with the Registre des entreprises du Québec (NEQ) that employs at least one full-time salaried person, other than shareholders or immediate family members, can apply.
What are the amounts and financial support offered?
The Visées program offers generous funding to support digital training for employees. It covers 50% of the salary of participants in training and reimburses 100% of eligible training costs. The total amount can reach up to $8,000 per employee, with no limit on the number of people trained in your organization.
What types of training are eligible?
Eligible training for the Visées program includes those aimed at developing digital and technological skills in the workplace. The program relies on a catalog of validated training covering various fields: Advanced Manufacturing, Bioproduction, Clean Technologies, Agricultural Technologies, Cybersecurity, and Digital Technologies.
How can Grav-ITI support you in this process?
Grav-ITI helps you validate your eligibility, prepare your application, and build a training plan adapted to your tools and priorities. Our support ensures that every training session funded by the Visées program generates concrete results in productivity, security, and digital adoption.
