LANCASHIRE BUSINESS DAY DEBATE
PRESENT: Richard Slater
Lancashire Business View (Chair)
Zak Khan Hyndburn Council Helen Binns Beever and Struther
Neil Burrows Burnley College
William Lancaster Ember Energy
David Dunwell Lancashire Mind
Sharon Myers Stanley House
Rob Hallam Bigtank Productions
Tom Smith Brabners
John Harrison Allica Bank
David Walker +24 Marketing
HARNESSING THE POWER OF COLLABORATION
Collaboration was the theme of our Lancashire Business Day roundtable at Accrington Stanley FC
What do you understand collaboration and cooperation to mean?
DW: It’s where a group of people, individuals, or businesses come together in a shared goal. Our business has had to be collaborative over the years.
It started as me in a bedroom 13 years ago and you can’t really provide all of the services on your own, so we’ve had to collaborate from a very early stage and even today, though we’ve got 20 staff, we have a list of around 100 different suppliers we collaborate with on a weekly basis.
We are a partnership agency so we collaborate
with our clients in a partnerships across a range of services.
HB: It’s crucial in our role to collaborate with other businesses. It is important you have good contacts so that you can help your clients. You have to collaborate with other businesses to be able to advise properly and know what’s going on.
NB: Learning is in our DNA and for us to support and inspire those learners we’ve got to work with businesses. We work with lots of colleges but collaboration with businesses is the key for us. We have to provide skills and we can’t do that if we don’t speak to businesses.
There is a Lancashire College Group with 13
members and it has become really close in that collaboration. A lot of funds have been available coming out of Covid and we’ve worked together to provide the right skills in the right areas.
DD: For me it’s about doing what you’re best at and looking at other people and understanding what they’re better at than you.
If you can get that right and work with the right people to bring in those skills, resources, assets, whatever that might be, long-term you’ll feel the benefit.
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