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hi I'm Simon Parkinson I'm the chief
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exec of the WEA we're the largest
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charitable provider of adult learning
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across England and Scotland I'm
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delighted to be in Chesterfield today
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here with the bill Stein group we've
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been working with them to support
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workers whose English is their second
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language so we call that Esau and to
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help encourage health and safety in the
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workplace and it's done a tremendous
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amount of good for the employees and for
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Bilstein group and also it's had wider
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impacts so let's go and see what we've
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been doing
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so we decided to look at Esau for health
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and safety and because it's more to do
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with our Workforce and the balance that
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we've got we've currently got around 25
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of our Workforce who have English as a
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second language and we felt that there
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was some um barriers to their
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understanding and we wanted to make sure
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that we did something to address that
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we manage people from the front line and
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when we're delivering health and safety
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briefs every morning every afternoon
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which we do daily you kind of see some
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people are kind of vacant and I don't
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see that anymore the the actually get
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involved and they're asking questions
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and I it's massive from the valve and
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for team building you were kind enough
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to tailor the course to our needs and
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you're prepared to come on site once a
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week and so that our teams didn't have
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to travel anywhere you made it with
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sport for what we needed to have
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delivered and it was fantastic and I
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think the participants were quite sad
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when it ended to be fair I think they
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were carried on indefinitely really
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um but yeah it was enjoyable for them
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all
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in the past I was struggling with
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English very bad
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and now I'm more confident by myself to
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speaking here and outside the same also
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outside of work as well yeah because I
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have kids and I go in park and I speak
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with the parents and it's much better
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the English course give me the the good
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starts you know to improve my English I
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think so I speak well not maybe not very
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well but not perfect but I I can't I
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more understand and I can speak
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I happy people understand me as well we
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go to anywhere is a lot of people there
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we much better speaking and everybody
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else that English lesson is very good
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very good very high quality lessons
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we're all happy that one and we were
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talking about a lot of people is
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everybody happy
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it's helped with engagement and the fact
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that they've done it as a team they may
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have sort of just known each other and
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passing downstairs before but now
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they've gone through something together
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and you know they've got that common
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Bond and it's just had so much with with
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with the team downstairs the motivations
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improved The Works improved and they're
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just so more engaged as well investing
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in people you know invest in the talent
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what you've got on side your staff
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turnover is going to come down across
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the train is going to come down
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definitely do it if you've not invested
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in English courses if you've got you
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know multinationals on your site then
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invest in your people it's well worth it
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developed into other roles because
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they've got more confidence so it's
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helped us as a Workforce we've got a
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wider pool of people that we can look at
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for other roles and it's just been a
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win-win really for us and for them
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this is a huge operation it's
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pan-european you know headquartered in
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Germany it's an organization that's
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growing and it's an organization that's
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still willing to invest in the UK we've
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seen some great leadership
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um in action and you get a real sense
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that you know the team are together they
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understand what's expected of them and
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there is that real values driven
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approach so great that it's it's a good
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partnership I'm pleased that it's had
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the impact it's had already I just hope
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we can do more and more with Bilstein
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and with you know other similar
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companies as well
