Future Print’s Business Transformation Project will look at the possibilities for individual businesses to thrive
Printers are invited to register for Future Print leadership briefings which are taking place in every state, as the programme reaches the second stage in its $11m programme roll-out, with a Business Transformation Project to help individual businesses upskill and lift the entire industry. The project includes leadership briefings, industry benchmarking, business diagnostics, individual business reviews, facilitated workshops, one-on-one business mentoring and subsidised training. Contracts with the government to provide funding for the next two years have been signed, with places for 350 businesses to take part in the initial phase of the project.
Peter Mansfield
Peter Mansfield, general manager of member services with the PIAA, is now inviting businesses to register for the first of three stages, a series of leadership briefings in August and September. He says, “The first stage is a series of two-hour leadership briefings, which will be an opportunity for business owners to dip their toes in the water – to understand the framework they will need to work within, to formulate the right questions to ask for their own businesses and to start to form a clearer picture of where they will fit in the industry of the future. “Businesses who decide they want to participate in the broader programme will then be able to move on to obtain their own customised Business Snapshot which will give them an important overview of their business and an assessment of their current position against national benchmarks.” The briefings will be held from August 14 to September 12 in Adelaide, Hobart, Launceston, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth – with registration on the Future Print website. As the two-year programme progresses, Mansfield says Future Print will run facilitated workshops to provide businesses with specialist diagnostic tools to help them assess the ongoing viability of the business and identify new areas of potential. One-on-one mentoring with a group of six independent business advisors will also help businesses to work through the findings of the analysis. Mansfield says, “From there, businesses can apply for access to subsidised training which will allow them to upskill their staff to meet future challenges. “We will have 500 training places available and, importantly, this is not the apprenticeship or trade-based training for which Future Print is already well known – this will be far more broadly based, covering key areas like front-line management, sales, marketing, lean manufacturing, IT and other vital business areas.” He says the project aims to help printers to indentify where they will fit and prosper in the market of the future, then help them to make the necessary changes to reach that goal including improvements in productivity and upskilling workers. For further information or to register for a leadership briefing, visit www.futureprint.org.au or contact Peter Mansfield or Kay Scutter at the PIAA on (08) 8373 0622.
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