Engaging and working with micro- businesses - unlocking potential employment & training outcomes

[Background] [Aims] [Outcomes] [Audience][Programme] [Event Information] [Application Conditions]

Background

The policy environment is fast moving at the present time with proposals around the Heseltine Review, the Single Pot for local funding, for City Deals, Community budgets and the anticipated spending review.  Amidst this change agenda, there are some consistent messages:

- we need to be smarter and more effective in how we use resources: and
- we need to listen to and respond in different and tailored ways with each type of business.

Micro-businesses are defined as businesses employing fewer than ten people. Although they account for over 25% of UK job vacancies, micro-businesses remain relatively unengaged by learning providers. Where micro-businesses have been successfully engaged, numerous job opportunities have been opened up for unemployed learners and local micro-businesses have been helped to prosper and expand.

This one day training introduces delegates to the unique nature of micro-businesses and to the approach required to engage them. As well as introducing helpful approaches to delivering pre-employment training, Apprenticeships and work-based training for micro-businesses, this training course enables providers to consider the cost effectiveness for their organisations of engaging micro-businesses. 

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Aims

This training aims to introduce learning provider managers and practitioners to the nature of micro-businesses and to practical approaches to engaging and delivering pre-employment training, apprenticeships and work based training for micro-businesses.

Participants who attended this training previously said:

A good overview for re-focusing on micro-businesses as a crucial aspect of my organisation's overall business approach.

It opens up another "hidden job market" that may have not been considered before

Good insight into the importance of engaging what is approximately 30% of the marketplace in terms of potential apprenticeship business

Good insight as to how we could improve our relationship with micros.

Coming from a training provider where over 95% of our employers are micros/ SME's, I have found the training very useful and I have learned a lot from it... I would recommend it.

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Outcomes

By the end of the day participants will:

• have improved their knowledge on how to initially engage and sustain relationships with micro-businesses
• be able to describe approaches to pre-employment and work based training for micro-businesses
• be aware of practical approaches to establishing apprenticeships for micro-businesses
• be aware of the key determinants of the financial viability of engaging micro-businesses. 

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 Audience

This training will be particularly relevant to managers and practitioners within learning providers who:

• Engage employers to establish apprenticeships, pre-employment training or work based training including training delivered on a full cost recovery basis or;
• have direct contact with employers during the delivery of training such as apprenticeship assessors, work-based trainers and pre-employment trainers. 

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Programme

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Event Information

Arrival, registration is at 9.30 for a 10:00am start. The event will end at 4:00pm

Event fee per person: £185 NIACE members fee
Event fee per person: £225 Non NIACE members fee
(includes sandwich lunch, tea/coffee)

NB: NIACE does not charge VAT on conference or course fees.

Only online application forms with the payments section completed will be processed.

NB: If you wish us to invoice your employer we require a copy of the Purchase Order before the form is processed.

Places will be allocated in order of receipt of completed applications (one online application per person)

Video cameras may be in use at this event. If you do not wish to be photographed or appear on the video outputs please indicate this on the application form and make yourself known at registration

Participants should be prepared to take their own notes as there may not be handouts for all sessions

If you have not received an e-mail confirming your attendance and joining instructions 4 working days before the event please contact: events@niace.org.uk 

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Application Conditions

Event: Wednesday 1 May 2013
Closing Date: Monday 15April 2013

The full fee is payable prior to the event

Substitutions are to be advised 5 working days prior to the event

Cancellations are non-refundable

A 15 working days notice period is required for provision of electronic note-takers, sign language interpreters and transcription to Braille

Places are to be reserved online - scroll up and click on Apply Now

Reservations by telephone cannot be accepted