How do you ensure that talent is identified and developed to sustain your company in the future? This was the question young leaders sought to answer on the recent EIIL masterclass ‘Designing the Sustainable Organisation’. For some, the findings were a surprise. ‘I think I will think about my own individual development plan more carefully’…
Companies in the ‘traditional’ industries (energy, petrochemical, chemicals and plastics) talk of a ‘War for Talent’. Competition to attract the best of the best technology graduates is tougher than ever before. ‘Retaining Generation C’, a study of over five hundred 18-30 year olds and two hundred and fifty industry managers by the European Institute for…
Graduate recruitment for industrial companies is increasingly using social media campaigns to appeal to the requirements of a cool, societally conscientious Next Generation. A survey of more than five hundred potential recruits in six European countries has shown that all this could be wasted if the workplace into which they are recruited fails to meet…
Corporate recruitment is already being re-thought in order to attract the best of ‘the Connected Generation’ – those entering university today who have grown up with a life time of access to the internet. But few companies are preparing their existing talent pool for the challenges of managing this new generation. This will be key…
EIIL’s 10th Anniversary Chairman’s Address – Patrick Thomas, Chairman IAB When the EIIL started in 2003, European focus was on the Lisbon Agenda. Europe was to be the world’s foremost knowledge-based economy by 2015. Its industry needed to attract and retain, in manufacturing careers, the engineers and scientists who would help this to happen. These…
Objective Industrial Marketing is introduced as an essential component within the business strategy process with an emphasis on proposing realistic, well planned business models and valuations. Through interactions with experienced senior industry practitioners participants will identify good practices in the use Industrial Marketing to creatively analyse market opportunities, devise suitable segmentations and business models to…
Whether as a grandparent, parent, uncle, aunt, family friend or even sibling, you will have a relationship with a young person between the ages of 18 and 30.Chances are, if we are to believe much of what is written, this person’s future is less certain than yours was at a similar age. We’re told that…
Objective The ability to develop and present a clear and easily communicated business plan or investment / project proposal is a key requirement for those wanting to progress in any growing organisation. Understanding how different stakeholders look at Business Plans and on what basis they choose to invest (their time, money or other resources) is therefore essential. This…
To fully participate in this workshop, delegates must have completed HPL 0: ‘A Teamworking Skills Foundation’ which will preceed this workshop on 16th November 2020. Objective This two-day workshop will provide participants with the opportunity to explore the characteristics of a high performance team and how to observe and evaluate their own team against these…
In 2014, the European Institute for Industrial Leadership (EIIL) completed an investigation into managing young technology graduates from the so-called ‘Connected Generation’. The study was sponsored by manufacturing companies from the Process Industry. The problem was that recruitment and retention of young graduates was becoming problematic. In addition, current managers in these industries did not…