Webinars for employers
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Check out what's available and coming up soon
Browse our range of on-demand and upcoming webinars for employers. Then stay tuned over the coming months as we pilot a new series about skills and workforce planning.
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Webinars coming up soon
Tourism/Heritage Sector Skills
Learn about the challenges faced by the tourism and heritage sectors in terms of talent attraction and recruitment. Join Skills Development Scotland's Diane Cunningham and Lawrence Durden as they speak to a range of leaders across both sectors.
Unlock the Benefits of Inclusive Recruitment
Could you recruit more effectively? This webinar will introduce you to our Inclusive Recruitment Guide and show you how it can help transform your recruitment strategy.
Skills Development Scotland Employer Offer
The first of a series of webinars from Skills Development Scotland. Employer Engagement Executive Andrew Dearie outlines the support available to Scottish businesses as they navigate the skills system.
Help to Grow Programme
Employer Engagement Executive Nicola McCormack explores the support available to Scottish businesses through the Help to Grow programme, delivered by the university network.
Skills for a Changing Landscape
Join the first episode in our series of Skills for a Changing Landscape webinars. You'll hear everything you need to know about how digital skills can help transform your business.
During this session you'll meet Claire Gillespie, Digital Economy Skills Manager at Skills Development Scotland (SDS), who'll share insights from The Digital Economy Skills Action Plan (DESAP). This shows that digital skills are no longer unique to the technology sector. Instead, digital talent is now essential across all jobs and industries.
Our guest industry speaker Cecilia Grigor, Director of Planit Scotland will give insight about how she successfully pivoted her business during the pandemic. This'll include how she has embraced Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve productivity by allowing her colleagues to focus on the more ‘human’ parts of the customer experience.
And to finish off, SDS Employer Engagement Executives Michelle Denoon and Pam Ralston will help you put what your hear into action. They’ll leave you with information on digital support and resources you can get from SDS and partners — including the opportunity for a one-to-one employer skills support session.
Workforce development and succession planning
Your employees are your biggest asset — help them develop and grow within your business.
Succession Planning
This webinar will look at 4 key steps to support your business’ plans for the future. We’ll show you how to bring your team along, identify budding stars, create an upskilling/reskilling strategy and communicate your plans to the team. Hear from some top business leaders in Scotland about succession planning and how they did it.
Workforce Development
Industry experts will chat about the benefits of workforce development through skill enhancement. Then, they'll show you real-life business examples which demonstrate success. Join us as we delve into upskilling, reskilling, and continuous learning.
Supervisors’ Success Formula: Motivating teams with recognition and reward
Money isn’t always the answer when it comes to motivating your team to do great work.
Discover practical ways supervisors can boost team morale, hold on to employees and improve performance.
The best part – it won’t cost you a penny! This is followed by a Q and A session with our host, business psychologist Julie Begbie.
Talent Attraction
This webinar will help you bring a skills focus to your recruitment process. You’ll learn what makes you stand out as an employer and how to engage with your talent pipeline.
Get ready to hear about fresh, innovative approaches to recruitment.
You’ll hear from guest speakers: Graeme Butler (Assistant Director/Early ID Marketing and Campaigns Attraction Manager at EY), Bernadette Johnston (Head of Talent Attraction at Gleneagles) and Lee Midlane (CEO and Founder at IT Central).
Thinking about taking on apprentices?
Get up to speed with our series of on-demand webinars!
Unlocking Potential: The Power of Mentoring with Apprenticeships
Recorded during Scottish Apprenticeship Week, we discuss the value of mentoring apprentices. Discover the benefits mentoring can bring your business and hear from AIX SurviveX employees.
Unlocking Potential: Attracting Young Talent through Apprenticeships
Discover why apprenticeships are a great way of attracting young talent into your business.
Unlocking Potential Employers Influencing the Apprenticeship System
As an employer, you can help shape the future of Scotland's apprenticeships system. Watch and learn how businesses like yours can influence tomorrow's apprenticeships.
Unlocking Potential: Apprenticeships in a Challenging Labour Market
Interested in how Scotland's economy and labour market affects employers like you? We'll discuss the challenges, the future and how apprenticeships can help you succeed.
Learn, Lead, Succeed: The business owner’s guide to creating a learning culture
This webinar is full of practical tips to help you make learning a key part of your business.
We show you why creating a learning culture is vital for small business success in the current climate.
This is followed by a Q and A session with our host, business psychologist Julie Begbie.
Keep your employees happy, fit and healthy at work
If your employees are fit and well, you'll reap the benefits. Listen in and learn from the experts.
Wellbeing at Work: Key management skills for a thriving workforce
The job market is very competitive – taking care of your employees’ happiness is vital. We’ll show you 7 practical ways to boost your staff’s wellbeing while improving your business’ success.
Joyful Workspaces: Mastering skills for cultivating workplace happiness
Delve into success stories of companies who’ve thrived by prioritising employee happiness. This webinar will give you handy, practical tips to make your own workplace a great place to be.