What keeps you up at night? This is a question workforce and education professionals often ask employers during a consult. Employers revealed the answers by sharing their top 2019 workplace concerns in a XpertHR survey of more than 800 HR professionals.
Among their many concerns include attracting and retaining a quality workforce, approximately 64% of employers surveyed stated, finding high quality applicants; followed by 52% ensuring employees and supervisors have the necessary skill sets; creating a succession plan came in at 50%; and 49% of employers said, increasing employee engagement, morale and satisfaction is what keeps them up at night.
How are your consultations with employers designed to share insights like this study and ask the right probing questions to bring value during your interaction? Do you consistently search for studies like the XpertHR survey or other industry data to share trends that affect the employer with whom you are consulting? Do you share your local knowledge about the workforce market to build your credibility as a workforce expert with depth and breadth of your region's business solutions to help your customers become more competitive? Are you aggregating the responses to strategic questions during your needs assessment to help you evaluate trends among various employer market segments (e.g., sector, skills required, training needed, etc.)? How are you sharing these trends to position you and your organization as the “go-to” source for employers?
At Business U’s accredited business engagement courses, we spend time on role playing and elevating the skill set of employer-facing practitioners to develop conversations with company executives that move beyond a transactional ask (e.g., hire my job seeker; participate in an apprenticeship, sit on our advisory board) and instead, demonstrate the value and support that workforce and education organizations provide to keep companies competitive with thier workforce strategies.
Our curriculum is delivered by a co-facilitator team that has five decades of private sector experience and deep knowledge in workforce and education, which is why over 99% of Business U graduates would recommend our courses.
Our Certified Business Engagement Professional™ cohort for February has sold out. Contact us for our 2019 line-up of accredited courses offered onsite and online.
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