Defying the accepted bread-and-butter downturn, Ayrshire and Cambridgeshire-based architecture contractors William Skinner & Son are demography on 5 new Modern Apprentices and aswell developing and accretion training schemes for all their absolute staff.
William Skinner & Son cadre administrator Stephanie Hammond explains: “We currently apply two apprentices aural the business, but we are planning to crop on 5 added during 2009 as allotment of our charge to developing a professional, awful accomplished workforce.”
The aggregation has now aswell devised and is operating training and development affairs for all advisers aural the company. This has been an advancing action over the endure eighteen months to move the training activities from acknowledging to proactive and to ensure that the company’s investment in humans is managed centrally to ensure bigger adequation and acknowledgment on that investment.
William Skinner & Son’s Health, Safety and Skills training plan for all site-based agents has been in operation for over a year, and is advised and prioritised on a bi-monthly basis, led by the cadre administrator with ascribe from arrangement management, a Health & Safety specialist and agent representatives. This agency that admiral can attending at up-coming projects and ensure that training efforts are directed at ensuring acceptable H&S practices on those contracts.
In addition, during the endure twelve months William Skinner & Son accept captivated twenty altered training contest for site-based employees, which accept been abounding by 138 delegates.
The aggregation has aswell developed its own centralized administration development programme in affiliation with Scottish Enterprise and the GO training consultancy. This gives every administrator with band administration albatross the befalling to appear approved workshops to acquiesce them to enhance their absolute administration skills, allotment account as a accumulation and devise strategies to accredit managers to move advanced confidently as the aggregation as a accomplished grows. This programme will run until backward bounce if Skinners will be able to absolutely appraise its success and advance agnate programmes for website admiral and specialist abutment staff.
The William Skinner & Son chief administration aggregation is aswell embarking aloft the Scottish Enterprise-sponsored ‘Leadership for Growth’ programme, which is advised to advice leaders of advance businesses advance vision, mindset, skills, acceptance and conduct to advice advance able development and business improvement.
Finally, the aggregation maintains a agog absorption in the allowances of angular administration techniques where, afterwards an ability review, advisers are nominated to plan on projects that will advance business performance. These could be annihilation that increases profit, abundance or efficiency.
Skinners accept so far undertaken two such reviews which looked at key business systems. Another is currently underway, and the aggregation will appoint a added aggregation aboriginal next year.
William Skinner & Son managing administrator Sandy Cunningham commented: “At Skinners we accept consistently believed in the amount of demography on and developing apprentices.
“Now as we are in the action of instilling a greater admeasurement of adherence into the aggregation at the aforementioned time as deepening our position in the marketplace, we see today’s apprentices as tomorrow’s abeyant managers.
“Skinners action has consistently been to advance administration and barter abilities organically. Many of our chief administration aggregation today accept barter backgrounds, which, in bike with the training with which we abutment them, provides a abundant bigger action to our present and approaching clients.”
ABOUT WILLIAM SKINNER & SON
Building contractors William Skinner & Son’s Ayrshire and Cambridgeshire bases awning Scotland and Eastern England with activities including architecture aliment with 24-hour helpdesk, retail face-lifting and construction, painting, joinery manufacture, metal fabrication, terrazzo tiling, shopfitting, Sika Trocal and Ward Topdeck roofing, and solar hot baptize installation.
William Skinner & Son accept afresh adapted into timberline houses with affairs from arch auberge and appointment centre accumulation De Vere Venues.
They accept aswell fabricated a acknowledged access into the solar heating market, alluring a ample amount of new audience throughout the UK, and accept approved their charge to the added acreage of renewable activity by installing a 6kW Proven wind agent at their HQ in St. Quivox and including PV panels in the architecture for their proposed appointment extension.
The aim now is to action accepted admonition on the adequacy of any of the accessible renewable activity techniques, or any mix of them, to break alone activity accumulation problems, and they are developing a bunch of accessible bounded ability to advice them advance that.
Founded in Ayrshire in 1964, Skinners fabricated their aboriginal move down south into England 5 years ago, renting a website and offices in Saffron Walden in Essex from which to backpack out the abundant aggregate of face-lifting plan they were again accomplishing for bazaar behemothic Tesco.
But the company’s contempo amplification and about-face into new areas of business including renewable activity and timberline houses has fabricated all-important the acquirement of their own beyond accessories absolute an 8,000 sq ft yard, 1,900 sq ft of appointment space, and a 1,620 sq ft warehouse.
The new bounds in Meldreth, abreast Cambridge, were clearly opened beforehand this year by Andrew Lansley, MP for South Cambridgeshire.
William Skinner & Son managing administrator Sandy Cunningham said: “Our charge in Meldreth is a admeasurement of the accent to us of the bazaar in London, the South East, Midlands and East Anglia.
“The Meldreth abject provides top above warehouse, branch and appointment acclimation from which we can advance and ascendancy our bazaar penetration. It has accommodation for amplification to abutment several times its present akin of activity.”
Sandy Cunningham concluded: “William Skinner & Son is now accretion abundantly on all fronts from our address in Ayrshire and our new abject in south-east England. We are acceptable architecture contractors who accept developed a assorted ambit of untraditional new skills, and we ambition abeyant audience in England and in Scotland to be acquainted of the absolute architecture abilities and acquaintance that we offer.”
Further information:
Sandy Cunningham
Managing Director
William Skinner & Son
Cunningham House
Highfield
St Quivox
Ayr KA6 5HQ
Ayrshire, Scotland
Tel: 0845 051 9060
Fax: 01292 671133
E-mail: scunningham@williamskinner.co.uk
Website: http://www.williamskinner.co.uk
OR:
William Skinner & Son
Southern Office
College Farm Business Centre
North End
Meldreth
Cambridgeshire
SG8 6NT
England
Tel: 0845 051 9070
Fax: 01763 262916
THE ELITE AYRSHIRE BUSINESS CIRCLE
Building contractors William Skinner & Son of Ayrshire in Scotland and Cambridgeshire in England are architect associates of the Elite Ayrshire Business Circle.
The Elite Ayrshire Business Circle is an affiliation formed endure year of some of the top companies in Ayrshire.
Its purpose is to publicise its members, and to bless and advance the affluent assortment of industry, business and business casework accessible aural the canton boundaries of Ayrshire.
Members cover the Clydesdale Bank, Ayr Racecourse and the Western House Hotel, and affiliate aggregation activities cover architecture and construction, architectural practice, acreage agency and acreage management, accountant accountancy, allowance broking, acknowledged services, golf club management, business casework and casting creation, web architecture and accessible relations consultancy.
For added advice about The Elite Ayrshire Business Circle and to administer for membership, e-mail eliteayrshire@gmail.com
Founder associates of the Elite Ayrshire Business Circle:
Clydesdale Bank http://www.cbonline.co.uk
Ayr Racecourse http://www.ayr-racecourse.co.uk
Western House Hotel http://www.ayr-racecourse.co.uk/hotel.html
CKD Galbraith Property Consultants http://www.ckdgalbraith.co.uk
Frazer Coogans Solicitors http://www.frazercoogans.co.uk
Accident & Injury Claims Centre http://www.accidentclaims.com
MacKay Corporate Insurance Brokers http://www.mackaycorporate-brokers.com
Donald Ross Estate Agents: http://www.donaldross.co.uk
William Skinner & Son Building Contractors http://www.williamskinner.co.uk
Sinclair Scott Chartered Accountants http://www.sinclairscott.com
Paligap Creative Agency http://www.paligap.com
ARP Lorimer & Associates Architects http://www.arpl.co.uk
Brunston Castle Golf Club http://www.brunstoncastle.co.uk
Accident & Injury Claims Centre http://www.accidentclaims.com
Visimetrics http://www.visimetrics.com
Fouters Restaurant http://www.fouters.co.uk
Christie Financial Planning Ltd http://www.christiefp.com
Allison Lightbody Waddell Chartered Surveyors http://www.alwsurveyors.com
Kestrel Press http://www.kestrelpress.com
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Enquiries:
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Fame Publicity Services
10 Miller Road
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Ayrshire, Scotland
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Issued on account of William Skinner & Son architecture contractors in Ayrshire, Scotland and Cambridgeshire, England by Fame Publicity Services accessible relations consultancy.
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