Wellbeing is currently a major issue in businesses today and often part of governance policies. As well as the core responsibility of ensuring that your business staff are properly cared for, it makes commercial sense because staff performing at peak levels deliver superior performance.

The Annual Manufacturing Report 2017 (AMR), published by Hennik Research, reflects a surprisingly resilient mood among UK manufacturers; surprising that is to those who haven’t been paying attention. While many observers have predicted post-referendum disaster, manufacturers have been quick to capitalise on the benefits accruing from a pound that was revalued downwards sharply after the vote. Exports are up, order books are booming and jobs are plentiful.

The Prime Minister has formally launched the government’s latest x-point plan for the UK economy. This announcement sets out where thinking has got to on a new industrial strategy in a new green paper and will essentially fire the starting gun on a period of consultation with businesses.

Following the announcement of the WBS set of Process Minimilism training courses being accepted for CPD accreditation, we can now add our revised Problem Solving course which has also gained accreditation for CPD.