Newsletter December 2008 - QED Consulting

This Month...

As you are all busy preparing for the festive season, we wanted to give you a little present of our own, a brief but informative Christmas E bulletin! In our Christmas edition we bring you: 10 top tips around strategic planning to kick start your 2009 planning Information about the European Social Fund (ESF), Learning and Skills Council for Yorkshire & Humber (LSC) and Yorkshire Forward’s (YF) enhancement funding for businesses of all size’s in the Yorkshire and Humber. But most of all we would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a relaxing Christmas and a prosperous new year from everybody at QED Consulting

Top Ten Tips for Strategic Planning – and 5 Criteria ‘Strategy’ is a word often bandied about at work, but creating a winning strategy isn’t easy. Here are some thoughts you might find helpful. TIP 1 – Strategy Implementation is a lot harder than Strategy Development! Some Boards work really hard to develop excellent strategies and then wonder why they fail. Successful execution usually requires acceptance and belief from all those who have to implement the strategy, not just its creators! Read more...

Enhancement Funding Businesses in Yorkshire and Humberside area now access funding to support their individual businesses training and development needs. This funding project is known as the ‘Enhancement Fund’ and is aiming to engage employers into the skills development of their staff. This scheme should equally be of interest to training providers as it supports many types of training, even areas that can’t be funded through the Train to Gain (TTG) Programme. Bespoke and non – accredited training is often most beneficial for private sector organisations and of interest to employers in this sector, which Enhancement funding can support Read more...

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Top Ten Tips for Strategic Planning – and 5 Criteria

Enhancement Funding