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There's so much discussion about workplace productivity, either economically, how can we create it,

or from our own business perspective, how do we get more from our own teams?

And I was really intrigued to recently visit a brilliant textiles business in Burnley called Panaz.

And they embodied the realisation that a lot of leaders are coming to,

that to win in business and to grow,

you need to focus on skills and training teams.

I really enjoyed seeing first hand how this business is putting apprenticeship

programmes in place and how they're training their leaders.

If you're interested in training and employment schemes for your business,

search Skills for Life,

or why not take a look at this short film that I made by clicking the link in the show notes,

search Skills for Life or check out the link in the show notes.

Music Search Skills for Life or check out the link in the show notes. This is Eat, Sleep, Work, Repeat.

It's a podcast about making work better.

I'm Bruce Daisley.

Well, as expected, it's been a pretty intense start to the year.

The really interesting thing, I think, is that we're observing a continuation of a trend,

which is pretty consistent with how firms behave in recessionary times, in depression times,

that they heard firms generally look at each other, they work out what each other's doing and they

kind of copy it.

It's sort of risk mitigation really.

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