Training key to surviving downturn

THE Northern Leadership Academy (NLA) is delivering a series of training and leadership programmes to ensure that the region’s SMEs have the entrepreneurial skills in place to tackle the challenges of the future.

York and Sheffield Hallam universities, which are both academy centres of the Yorkshire Forward funded academy, will be running a programme of leadership training in November and December designed to support the development of business in the region.

The NLA programme in York is also being supported by Science City York.

Professor Richard Thorpe, executive director of NLA, said: “Action Learning is based on addressing specific issues that are impacting on an individual business leader or company.

“During the past year company directors from across the region have come together to share their problems with their peers.”

“Put simply, Action Learning is about solving problems and getting things done.”

Companies wishing to apply in South Yorkshire should contact Lana House on 0114 225 3891 or by email at l.a.house@shu.ac.uk. Companies wishing to apply in York should contact Prof Khalid Hafeez on 01904 432700 or by email at kh541@york.ac.uk.