KAEFER: Building Better Managers: Essential Skills for Leadership
Posted on 24 August 2026
Building Better Managers: Essential Skills for Leadership is a best-practice sharing session focused on a challenge facing organisations across our industry – how we equip middle managers and supervisors with the essential skills they need to lead teams effectively.
At the event, KAEFER and Skills Builder will share how we have implemented the Skills Builder Universal Framework across our workforce, and how this approach is helping us to develop essential skills, refine recruitment and build a sustainable leadership pipeline.
What attendees can expect:
- Insights from KAEFER’s journey developing essential skills across our workforce
- An industry panel and spotlight session, moderated by Michael Englard, UK CEO of Skills Builder Partnership, including experiences from frontline managers
- Practical insights and tools that can be applied within their own organisations
- A takeaway resource designed to help organisations upskill their management teams to become coaches for essential skills development
Event details:
Date - 17th September 2026
Time - 9am - 12:30pm
Location - The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, Gateshead
Price - Free
