15 Jul 2009
One of the East Midlands’ leading providers of Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) management training has had its products and services officially endorsed by the National Skills Academy Process Industries.
East Midlands-based Focus Management for Business is one of five regional education and training providers that now have Academy endorsement, giving them access to hundreds of UK employers looking for specialist training to help them address the urgent skills crisis facing this £67 billion sector.
The East Midlands process industries, which cover the chemicals, polymers and pharmaceutical sectors, employ over 36,000 people and turn over the equivalent of £9000 per minute.
Focus has successfully trained nearly 500 ILM students over the past 10 years, and has gone through a rigorous assessment process to be accredited as an Academy Centre of Leadership and Management.
Its staff will
be working alongside the Academy and regional employers to create bespoke
courses as part of a national training and accreditation framework that will
help resolve industry skills issues.
Part of a
national network, the Skills Academy was established to help close the process
industries skills gap, and chose the East Midlands as one of five regional bases
where a high concentration of process industry employers are located.
Led completely
by employers, the Academy is a one stop shop for training issues, bringing
employers and training specialists together to identify and address skills
issues, in addition to lobbying for funding at a national level.
The Academy’s
Regional Skills Manager for the East and West
Midlands, Neil Wilkinson said: “We are delighted to welcome Focus
to our list of accredited providers, and look forward to helping them create
partnerships with employers looking for high quality, specialist leadership and
management training.
Focus
Management for Business Managing Director Malcolm Yates said: “It’s fantastic
that the Skills Academy has a base here in the Midlands. It means that we’re able to get support
specific to our needs, with a skills manager who knows exactly what the issues
are in our region.
“The Academy is
developing training programmes that meet the needs of employers and will
'up-skill' the staff employed by them. We provide high quality management
training and are able to give the process companies access to first class
training and development of all their management
staff.
“Having the
Academy’s support endorses our products and services, and will give employers
confidence in the quality of our training. “We look
forward to helping play a full and active part in the development of the
Academy’s activities here in the region.”
Other providers
in the East and West Midlands who are now Academy-accredited include
West Nottingham College, Derby College, Walsall College and Chesterfield College.
Photo
captions: Sharon Bowskill and the FOCUS management solutions team presenting a
collated approach to management and leadership
training.
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