Getting the best out of your workforce and upskilling your staff during the current recruitment crisis will be the major themes at an upcoming business breakfast at Coventry University.
The university will be hosting Business Insider’s Developing Your Workforce Breakfast event on Tuesday June 14, featuring a panel of speakers from the likes of Vodafone, Tarmac, and Severn Trent on the challenges and opportunities in developing workforces.
The panel will discuss the best strategies they have found to retain and train staff, including working directly with universities to give employees the skills they need to thrive and get ahead, and why recruiting externally is not always the answer to a skills shortage.
Paul Noon, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Enterprise and Innovation at Coventry University and a speaker on the panel, said: “With companies finding it harder and harder to recruit top talent externally and fill those skill gaps, developing and upskilling staff has become more important than ever for businesses of all sizes.
“We’ve established a highly knowledgeable panel of speakers who have first-hand experience of dealing with a post-pandemic skills gap and finding the best way to improve the staff they have.
“And from Coventry University’s perspective, our subsidiary company PeoplesFuture Ltd works directly with companies all over the country to assess what skills they need and to ensure the university’s courses teach those skills to graduates.
“It’ll be a really fascinating and useful discussion, and we’d encourage any interested businesses to attend on the day.”
The event will be held at the Beatrice Shilling Building, 5 Gulson Road, Coventry, CV1 5JH, and runs from 8.30am to 9.45am, with on-the-day registration at 8am.
Alongside Paul Noon, the panel will consist of: Sarah Harris, Head of Academy at Severn Trent; Peter Kay, Head of Learning and Development at Tarmac; Dan Pech, regional sales manager at Vodafone UK; David Gaughan, Head of Skills Recovery at West Midlands Combined Authority; and Jill Bassett, Operations Director and Talent Solutions Brand Lead at Manpower.
Register for free at https://www.insidermedia.com/event/insider-developing-your-workforce-breakfast/register