Central Regional Leadership Group
Talent and Skills
This Leadership Group consists of forward thinking SBC members leading on the skills and employability agenda. Their vision is to help increase Scottish business competitiveness by raising awareness of how employers and their staff can benefit from engaging with young people and unemployed adults.
Click here for details on Scottish Business in the Community's pre-employability programme
The employers on the Leadership group recognise that:
- People are their vital asset and need to be given challenging opportunities to develop their skills and
- It is in their interest to look longer term and ensure that all of Scotland’s people are ready to compete internationally when the current situation changes.
The businesses on the group lead by providing innovative staff development opportunities that also support young people and unemployed adults.
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HUMAN RESOURCES: Putting the Human back into Human Resources
| Vision HR is a local independent, professionally qualified Human Resource Consultancy. They provide support, advice and solutions to complex HR issues across all sectors and all localities. Through their responsible business strategies, Vision HR is committed to supporting and developing Good Practice HR Policies and Procedures across Third Sector Organisations. |
LEGAL: Legal Roles, Responsibilities, Functions and Authorities
| Anderson Strathern Solicitors, whose clients include some of the largest companies in Europe, strive to create innovative solutions to complex problems. They are a firm with a strong ethos and are committed to sustainability and to acting in a way which is socially responsible in their workplace, marketplace, environment and communities. |
Over the past year, the Group has:
- Commissioned and taken part in a unique piece of research that identified the business benefits of engaging with young people and unemployed adults.
- Hosted breakfast and lunch events
- Led on the successful Scotland’s Got Talent campaign, which has engaged employers previously unaware of this critical CSR issue.
For information on the group click here.
The group has set itself some challenging target for the next six months, to galvanise more businesses engagement, share their good practice and raise the profile of this agenda even higher.
To view the full strategy click here.
Members of the group include:
Amey | Gordon Wilson |
Anderson Strathern | Robin Stimpson |
BT | Liz Turner |
Design Links | Mike Stevenson |
Edinburgh Napier University | Ronald McQuaid |
Halcrow | Donald Bell |
Haven Products | Tom Henderson |
Johnson and Johnson | Hugh Tuckerman |
KPMG | Donald Histead |
Marks and Spencer | Susan Simpson |
Nairn’s Oatcake | Mark Laing |
National Australia Bank | Karen McGinlay |
Scottish Government | Isla Mcrone |
Scottish Government | Julie Bilotti |
Scottish Government | Sandra Bell |
ScottishPower | Phil Duffield |
Scottish and Southern Energy | Iwan Tukalo |
SCHWL | Steve Bell |
Standard Life | Rona Doig and Tina Livingston |
Redeem | Lisbeth Robertson |
Royal Mail | Carroll Cain |
Weber Shandwick | Paula McNulty |
