Skills for Business
The North West Business Leadership Team (NWBLT) is committed to promoting the development of business skills throughout the region’s schools, colleges and communities
As a group of leading employers in the region, we are undertaking or supporting a number of initiatives aimed at helping people of all ages and abilities to maximise their potential whilst contributing to an increasingly competitive regional economy.
In particular NWBLT aims to:-
- Provide work placements for university and college students at each of our member companies.
- Encourage each of our member companies to work closely with a number of local schools, with opportunities for students from each of these schools to visit our companies’ premises.
We also ask each of our member companies to:-
- Consider awarding bursaries to outstanding school leavers to assist them with university education.
- Make managers available to mentor SMEs and individuals starting their own businesses in the region.
NWBLT believes in the prime importance of business skills such as financial, communication and teamwork skills, and in the need for more priority to be given to science and technology education. We strongly support schools, colleges and universities which seek to develop those personal values (eg motivation, professionalism, adaptability and entrepreneurship) which contribute to successful competitive careers.
NWBLT also supports, and collaborates closely with, other regional skills initiatives such as the North West Regional Development Agency’s ‘Releasing the Potential of the Region’s Workforce’ initiative and Business in the Community’s ‘Talent Map’ programme to promote better understanding between business, educational services and Government.
Examples of skills initiatives undertaken by NWBLT’s member companies can be seen on the NWBLT website at www.nwblt.com/content.asp?cat=2&type=3
