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Grow Skills Higher Performing Workplaces Funding Grow Skills Higher Performing Workplaces Funding Higher Performing Workplaces is funded by the European Social Fund The training programmes offered through Higher (ESF) and managed by the West Yorkshire Consortium of Colleges. This means that businesses can receive 40% ESF funding towards the Performing Workplaces (HPW) are designed to cost of any HPW training. help SMEs grow by developing internal talent. Coaching add-on Want to grow? Choose your category: Individuals who are accessing training through HPW will be able to Export and Innovation Empowering Leaders access coaching from a selection of coaches contracted by WYCC. This These programmes are designed A range of courses developed to coaching should support individuals to embed the learning into the to increase in-house skills and nurture and progress leadership work of the business and is also eligible for 40% ESF funding. knowledge to access new domestic skills with specific interventions and international markets to drive to support female employees to To access the coaching, the business/individual will be offered a choice export. narrow the gender gap in leadership of online coaching profiles to search and choose from. WYCC will help positions. facilitate the booking of the coaching. Innovative Working Effective Human Resources Project Impact Training courses that can help Training will help individuals to use individuals to drive working and effective HR practices to support employment practices that wrap succession planning and encourage The aim of this ESF project is to complement the skills projects and around operational and employee workplace diversity and improve plans already underway in the region. The project should specifically demands. workplace cultures. contribute to: • Improving staff motivation, leadership, communication and teamwork. Eligible businesses • Increasing staff retention. Higher Performing Workplaces provides an enhanced offer to The Skills Service and is for employees of an eligible business. • Supporting with longer–term skills planning to help realise business ambitions, diversification, new products, markets or expansion. To be eligible: • Enhancing employee involvement and commitment to the company. • the business must be based in one of the following districts: Bradford, Calderdale, Craven, Harrogate, Kirklees, Leeds, Selby, Wakefield or York. • Ensuring higher levels of financial performance by SME employers. • the business needs to be an SME: employ fewer than 250 full time equivalent staff and have an annual turnover not • Enhancing and enabling business strategy and operational planning exceeding €50 million. to achieve growth. This project focuses on, but is not limited to the following sectors: Creative, Digital, Finance, Business, Hospitality, Tourism, Low Carbon, • Promoting high levels of females in leadership positions. Construction, Manufacturing, Engineering, Medical Technology, Transport and Logistics. 2 3 Find your providers Page Page Training Provider Export and Innovation Innovative Working Empowering Leaders Effective HR No Training Provider Export and Innovation Innovative Working Empowering Leaders Effective HR No Brook Corporate Pro-Development 14-15 30-31 Developments (UK) Business 16-17 Quantum Vantage 32-33 Horsepower Calderdale College 6-7 Shipley College 10-11 Sport Activity DMM Training 18-19 34-35 Professionals Harrogate The Centre for 20-21 Management Business Advisors 36-37 and Business Innovate Now Ltd 22-23 Development University of 38-39 Investors in Huddersfield 24-25 Excellence University of 40-41 Leeds, LUBS Lattitude7 26-27 Leeds Beckett Wakefield College 12-13 University, Leeds 28-29 Business School We are IVE Ltd 42-43 Luminate 8-9 Education Group WISE CIC 44-45 4 5 OUR HPW OFFER: Innovative Working Empowering Leaders • Commercial Awareness • Strategic Leadership and Management • Innovation, Research and Development • Self-Awareness, Wellbeing and Emotional Intelligence • Creating and Enhancing Relationships • Time Management (including Workload • Managing Change and Stress Management) • Motivational and Engagement Skills • Effective Delegation • Developing Your Team • Inspirational Leadership Programme • Conflict Management • Director Development Programme • Ultimate Leadership Programme Effective Human Resources • ILM Level Three Certificate in Leadership and Management • Introductory HR Management and • ILM Level Four Certificate in Leadership Calderdale College Practice and Management • Fundamentals of Performance • Strategic Leadership and Management Management “Through our dedicated employer facing “The college is very effective in identifying and • Bespoke Leadership and Management team, Calderdale College can offer high- meeting the skills needs of local employers, • Practices and Principles of Effective Training quality, tailored training to meet the needs of already working with around 3,000 businesses Coaching and Mentoring • APM Project Management businesses across a range of sectors. in the area to develop courses and deliver • Learning and Development / Planning, training that helps them grow.” Delivery and Evaluation “With highly qualified and experienced staff, learners are motivated to achieve their • CIPD Level Three in Human Resources potential and utilise their new skills to benefit the business. 6 7 OUR HPW OFFER: Empowering Leaders • CMI Level Three Managing Performance (unit) • CMI Level Three Principles of Management and Leadership (unit) • CMI Level Three Managing a Team to Achieve Results (unit) • CMI Level Three Responding to Conflict in the workplace (unit) • CMI Level Five Developing, Managing and Leading Individuals and Teams to Achieve Success (unit) Luminate Education Effective Human Resources Group • CIPD Level Three Managing Employee “The Luminate Education Group is one of of all sizes by using our expertise in delivering Relations (unit) the largest further education institutions in training and development to employers in • CIPD Level Three Performance and the country with more than 20,000 students a huge range of industry sectors including Reward Management (unit) studying specialist technical and vocational leadership and management to business • CIPD Level Five Employee Engagement qualifications in campuses across the Leeds City development and beyond. (unit) Region. • CIPD Level Five Reward Management “Our dedicated commercial training team (unit) “Working with over 1000 employer partners specialise in understanding employer needs we are transforming the way we boost and creating flexible, bespoke and industry- employer skills development, recognising the recognised training to boost business growth vital part we can play in supporting businesses and sustainability.” 8 9 OUR HPW OFFER: Innovative Working • Level Three Customer Service Empowering Leaders • Award in Team Leading Skills • ILM Level Three Award in Leadership and Management • ILM Level Five Award in Leadership and Management Shipley College Effective Human Resources “Here at Shipley College, we believe a talented our business specialisms, and our working workforce is the key to success. The college relationships with organisations of all sizes in • Coaching and Mentoring Skills is situated in the UNSECO World Heritage the region. Site of Saltaire, in the District of Bradford. The • ILM Level Three Certificate in Effective college offers education and training provision “Our wide range of part-time courses and the Coaching and Mentoring on campus, in community venues and on professional knowledge of our staff continues employer premises across the region. to attract over 3,500 adult learners each year. Our students benefit from gaining new skills “We value both the reputation we have and insights, developing interests and social built up for the quality of our training across interaction.” 10 11 OUR HPW OFFER: Empowering Leaders Example of units that lead to CMI Level Three Principles of Management and Leadership (Award, Certificate and A range of Leadership and Management Diploma): courses taken from the Chartered • Managing a Team to Achieve Results Management Institute suite of qualifications and units, and which can lead to Chartered • Supporting Teams and Individuals Manager status. Courses can be tailored through Change to meet the needs of the business and • Managing Budgets and Resources individual. • Contributing to the Delivery of a Project All courses can be undertaken remotely with tutor support, or face to face in • Managing Data and Information classroom sessions at the college or in the • Principles of Communication in the workplace: Workplace CMI Level Three Courses CMI Level Five Courses • CMI Level Three Principles of • CMI Level Five Management and Management and Leadership Award Leadership Award (single unit) Wakefield College (single unit excluding units 307, 309 and 319) • CMI Level Five Management and Leadership Award (two+ units) “Wakefield College is a large, general further good practice in the involvement of employers • CMI Level Three Principles of education college based on two campuses in and students in the development of significant Management and Leadership Award • CMI Level Five Management and Leadership Certificate central Wakefield and Castleford. projects that contribute to the higher education (two+ units) strategy. • CMI Level Three Unit 307 - Developing • CMI Level Five Management and “The college aims to promote social mobility the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Leadership Diploma and improve life chances by providing “The college has a long history
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