• The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) has launched a Women in Leadership training programme, designed to address the challenges that are holding female leaders back in the sector. The Women in Leadership programme combines one day of face-to-face training with three 90-minute mastermind sessions where delegates work together to examine the content, discuss the barriers and create a support network to help them develop and achieve their full potential.

The training helps tackle self-doubt, imposter syndrome and other barriers that females in recruitment are facing in their professional lives. The programme will leave delegates with an understanding of how they can best:

• Understand the systemic and personal barriers to career advancement
• Create a strategic vision for authentic leadership and promotion
• Recognise the invisible habits that hold many women back and build new, effective replacements
• Deal with self-doubt and an imposter mindset effectively
• Use practical tools and techniques to overcome barriers and plan for success
• Manage stakeholders and build champions
• Speak out with impact in meetings.

• Pertemps Network Group (PNG) has been named as one of the inaugural Changemakers partners at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. The Warwickshire-based recruiter will be supporting the centre of excellence over the coming years, with colleagues set to get involved in both fundraising activities and volunteering events. PNG is part of a small group of high-profile, corporate partners aiming to raise at least £1m a year for the hospital to allow it to better plan investment for transformational projects that will benefit thousands of sick children for decades to come.

• Social impact firm WithYouWithMe has launched a new product that empowers businesses to create an accurate assessment of their workforce’s potential and identify opportunities for internal upskilling and workforce optimisation.

‘Grow Potential’ has been developed specifically for organisations looking to create meaningful career pathways for their employees. Through the ‘Grow Potential’ platform, employers and HR teams can identify the true capabilities within their workforce, adopt a ‘retrain to retain’ mindset by building engagement through training and internal mobility to find alternative sources of talent, and ultimately make data-driven decisions through aptitude assessment, which can be matched to an existing skills framework.