'Beat the crunch' with team building training

Date: 26/01/2009

Organisations around the UK need to focus their attentions on staff retention as the threat of other companies getting hold of great people can be demotivating for a business as a whole.

Michael Carrington of University College Birmingham told Big Hospitality that the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) is actively encouraging businesses to use all resources available to them, even offering a number of companies grants to invest in business events to help in motivating employees.

He said: "Those [businesses] that make the right investment in training and development will be in a much better place when we come out if the recession."

Mr Carrington added that "now is not the time to lose employees to competition", emphasising the role of incentive schemes and team building events to bring a company closer together.

The LSC was established in 2001 as a non-departmental public body to improve the British workforce in all sectors of industry.

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