COLLABORATE TO COMPETE! WORK TOGETHER TO WIN!

How employers can work together to upskill their employees

Three leading members of Bognor Regis Ltd, URT, JCC Lighting and Heirlooms-Linens, have come together with the University of Chichester’s School of Enterprise Management and Leadership (SEMAL) to identify particular areas of their businesses where skills development is required. 

All three companies are keen to invest in their employees to ensure they have the skills to maintain their long-term competitive position, enhance their ability to react to changing market conditions and continually improve their performance at home and abroad.

URT, JCC and Heirlooms worked with the University of Chichester to identify their main skills priorities and highlighted Operations Management as one key area for development.  The University is working to develop a programme to upskill selected URT and Heirlooms employees in this important area. This programme is planned to be delivered in February 2015. Is this an area of development for your company?

JCC have identified a range of leadership and management areas as key to their development and, again, the University will be identifying ways to address these important priorities.

URT, Heirlooms, JCC and the University are keen to invite other BRL members to consider their skills and development needs and work together with the University as a collective group to address them.

There may well be other areas such as Coaching, Strategic Management, Marketing, Supply Chain/Purchasing, and Performance Management on which other BRL members may like to work together.

Companies from different sectors working together can stimulate new ideas, different approaches and ways of working which can boost performance and maintain competitiveness.

If you feel your business could benefit from this exciting approach please contact Andrew Adams on 07796 655247 – a.adams@chi.ac.uk at the University of Chichester for an informal discussion.

Ruth Douglas  Heirlooms Linens   -    www.heirlooms-linens.com
Kevin Emmitt   URT                     -    www.urtgroupltd.com
Nikki Keane     JCC Lighting          -    www.jcc.co.uk