Cultivating and Retaining Talent

Cultivating and Retaining Talent

The last few years has seen Australia faced with a shortage of labor and a shift in the priorities of employees as we emerge from a post-COVID environment. Therefore, more than ever, businesses are focussed on attracting, cultivating and retaining high quality talent to support their business’ growth ambitions. In order to foster long-term retention, leaders need to look beyond the day-to-day job description and offer meaningful engagement, including creating a learning environment that develops and challenges their employees, both professionally and personally. 

We continue to hear from senior leaders of private businesses questions such as:

• How do I attract employees in a labor market in short supply?

• How do I keep my team engaged and challenged?

• How can I continue to upskill and develop my finance team? 

• How can I offer professional development hours to my staff (where it is a requirement for their membership for professional accreditation)? 

PwC can help solve this problem for you with our Private Business Academy offering.

Private Business Academy

PwC Private has developed a premium on-demand, e-learning platform which has been specifically tailored for Australian accounting and finance professionals working in (and with) private businesses.

This online learning platform can support CFOs and senior management in upskilling and developing their employees, whilst also offering continuing professional development (‘CPD’) hours that are needed to maintain professional accreditation to organisations such as Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand and CPA Australia.

The platform includes: 

• PwC subject matter expert led training courses 

• 200+ CPD accredited courses handpicked by PwC 

• a range of courses covering technical sessions on tax and accounting, and non-technical courses such as business writing, teamwork skills, hybrid working, coaching/mentoring and wellness

• ability to curate playlists tailored to individual team members’ specific development needs, while tracking and recording each individual’s CPD hours

• unlimited access to all courses for 12 months

Private Business Academy covers a multitude of topics to inform and develop today’s Australian accounting and finance professionals. This includes fundamental tax and accounting topics, as well as special topics that may be outside the immediate core skillset of finance teams. For example… 

• The role of finance teams in Environment, Social and Governance (‘ESG’)

• The importance of corporate governance

• Information privacy and cyber security

• Leading and managing teams, including hybrid workforces 

• Health and wellbeing

To find out more about Private Business Academy, visit our website. 

For a more detailed discussion, please get in touch with your PwC advisor or contact.