This document provides an agenda and details for a workforce development launch event hosted by Hallidays on July 21, 2016. The agenda includes welcome remarks, presentations on unleashing team power by Nigel Bennett of Hallidays and on apprenticeships by Ian Kerr of The Skills Company. A masterclass by Roger Longden of There be Giants and a session on creating a workforce strategy by Dawn Duggan are also included. The event aims to help businesses develop their workforces and make the most of the upcoming UK Apprenticeship Levy.

1. Productivity through People
Workforce Development Programme
Launch
Hallidays, Stockport
Thursday 21 July 2016

2. Welcome and introductions
Dawn Duggan
Executive and Workforce Development Manager
Business Growth Hub

3. Agenda
• 08:30am – Welcome and Introductions, Dawn Duggan, Executive and Development Manager,
Business Growth Hub
• 08:35am – Unleash the Power of your team, Nigel Bennett, Managing Director, Hallidays
• 08:50am – Masterclass taster session. Roger Longden, Director, The Be Giants
• 09:40am – Are you ready for the Apprenticeship Levy?, Ian Kerr, Director of Professional Services,
The Skills Company
• 09:50am – Creating a Workforce Development Strategy, Dawn Duggan, Business Growth Hub
• 09:55am – Networking
• 10:30am – Event Close

4. Housekeeping
Phones on silent
• WiFi
• Network: SSID: HALGUEST
• Password: 2513902420
• @bizgrowthhub
• #BGHEvents

5. Make a positive difference

7. Guest speaker
Nigel Bennett
Managing Director
Hallidays

10. Apple designs Macs, the best personal
computers in the world, along with OS X,
iLife, iWork and professional software.
Apple leads the digital music revolution with
its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has
reinvented the mobile phone with its
revolutionary iPhone and App store, and is
defining the future of mobile media and
computing devices with iPad.

11. To make a contribution to
the world by making tools
for the mind that advance
humankind

15. Hallidays

16. If you want
your team to
be engaged,
which team
member do
you start with?

19. Guest speaker
Roger Longden
Founder
There be Giants

20. Are you ready for the
Apprenticeship Levy?
Ian Kerr
Director of Professional Services
The Skills Company

21. The Apprenticeship Levy
Scheme

22. • In place from April 2017
• Aim – to fund 3 million Apprenticeship starts by 2020
• Applicable to all industries
• Payable by all companies with a salary bill of £3 million
or more
• Paid at a rate of 0.5% of the employer’s wage bill via Pay
AsYou Earn (PAYE)
Purpose

23. The facts
The Levy will be set at 0.5% of an employer’s pay bill with an
offset allowance of £15,000.
The levy will be collected by HMRC via the PAYE system and
placed into a digital account.
Only employers with an overall wage bill of £3 million or more
will contribute towards the Levy.
Based on the above, 98% of organisations will pay nothing at all
but can still access funding for Apprenticeships.
Employers will receive a 10% top up on Levy contributions from
the Government and this will be added to their digital account.
The money is placed directly into each employers funding pot
and paid directly from the pot to their chosen training provider.

24. Frequently Asked Questions
Q) Is this just another tax for
my business to pay?
A) It is another cost but the
difference is that you can draw
your money back in the form of
Apprenticeship training.
Q) How do I get my money
back and can I avoid
payment?
A) Turn new vacancies into
Apprenticeships or upskill your
current staff. Payment is
unavoidable; use it or lose it.

25. Frequently Asked Questions
Q) What does the levy mean
for SMEs?
A) We are expecting more
guidance from Government in
June
Q) What are Trailblazers and
how do I know these
frameworks are right for my
employees?
A) They are new employer-led
qualifications, designed to meet
employer need

26. Choosing a Training Provider

27. Choosing a Training Provider
• Meeting standards, not delivering prescriptive
frameworks
• Building a relationship, not just generating
vacancies

28. Workforce Development
Dawn Duggan
Executive and Workforce Development Manager
Business Growth Hub

29. Workforce Development Programme
• Supports businesses across Greater
Manchester to achieve growth through their
people.
• A fully funded tailored package of support
facilitated by a dedicated workforce
development advisor.

30. Operational Focus
• Organisational structure review
• Values, behaviours and business culture
• Leading, motivating and empowering the workforce
• People and performance management
• Developing workforce communication strategies
• Workforce and succession planning
• Building capability through training
• Talent attraction, acquisition and retention
• Change Management
• Information around workforce legislation
This programme may be of interest to businesses aspiring to achieve
Investors In People (IIP) accreditation.

31. How we work
• Team of advisors
• Geographical / Sector
• Diagnostic
• Organisational Needs Analysis
• Action Plan
• Sustained relationship
• Direct support
• Sign posting
• Brokerage
• Master classes

32. Please leave your feedback
Please take a couple of minutes before the
networking to complete the feedback form and
return to the Hub

33. Contact us to find out more
Phone: 0161 359 3050
Email: info@businessgrowthhub.com
www.businessgrowthhub.com
@bizgrowthhub
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