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Martin Hilton, Director of Learning & Education at CPL Learning, is also
Martin Hilton, Director of Learning & Education at CPL Learning, is also
The last year has been undoubtedly challenging for the hospitality sector. Here at CPL Learning, we’ve tried to help support those affected team members and businesses by providing free learning and development resources throughout the year and by continually looking for new ways to help. Find out how we’re backing the fantastic work of Hospitality Action in their efforts to support the sector.
We have been humbled and proud to be part of the hospitality sector during these challenging few months of lockdown. The road ahead isn’t fully clear, venues are operating at a lower capacity than normal or may not have reopened at all, operations have changed, the public may be feeling nervous about returning to normal.
Here at CPL Learning, we knew we needed to play our part in supporting the sector. Here, we’ll look at some of the challenges, the solutions and what we’ve learnt for the future and how learning and development will look as we enter the new normal.
At the start of 2020, no one could have imagined how different things would be just a few short months down the line for ourselves, our businesses, and our teams. And as we start to turn our thoughts to the easing of lockdown and preparing for reopening, we want to continue to offer support to the hospitality industry. Find out everything you need to know about our brand new Ready to Serve learning programme as the first Team Member course modules are released today.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the hospitality sector, with a 21% decline in trade in the first quarter of 2020 as the industry moved into lockdown – 10% worse than the whole economy. Now there has been a near wipe-out of trade with around a third of businesses reporting that they will never reopen some sites. #FAIR4Hospitality outlines the key areas that the government can focus on to support the sector in reopening.
This week, UKHospitality and CPL Learning launch a new online training platform for hospitality team members. UKH Pathway is free to use while hospitality businesses remain closed due to the COVID-19 crisis and provides access to learning, well-being and personal development resources for furloughed team members.
As partners to the hospitality industry, we’re so glad to see the sector coming together to support each other in what are unprecedented and tough times for the countries third biggest employment sector.
The fight against coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to hit the hospitality sector hard. With many already being forced to close due to staff shortages and lack of customers the latest advice means that the remaining pubs, restaurants and other establishments have no choice but to close to aid in social distancing.
Well, what a night! The Publican awards came back this week and were bigger than ever. And this year we were once again proud sponsors of the leading industry awards, along with our parent company CGA.
With some of the biggest names in the pub industry in attendance, tensions were high as we waited to find out the winners. Here’s all the news from the highly anticipated event.
CPL Online are proud to announce that our e-learning courses are now endorsed by the Institute of Hospitality. CPL and the IOH proudly share the values of lifelong learning and development and this endorsement demonstrates CPL Online’s commitment to a professional programme of study within the hospitality industry.