Futureproof your workforce: Succession planning for an aging manufacturing workforce

This webinar will provide practical, actionable steps to help you build capability, strengthen recruitment and retention strategies, reduce key person dependency, and future-proof your workforce, including:

• Understanding the risks: The impact of an ageing workforce on operations and business continuity.
• Identifying critical gaps: Where your business is most exposed.
• Making workforce risk visible and manageable: Practical ways to assess and plan.
• Capturing and transferring knowledge: Ensuring critical expertise isn’t lost.
• Building internal capability: Developing people and creating clear succession pathways.
• Recruitment and retention strategies: Attracting and retaining the right people to support long-term workforce sustainability.
• Future-proofing your workforce: Preparing your business for what’s next.

Practical strategies to safeguard skills, strengthen recruitment and retention, and ensure continuity as manufacturers face workforce ageing.

This webinar, presented by Manufacturing Skills Queensland and Edwards HR during Queensland Small Business Month, addresses the challenges manufacturing businesses face due to an ageing workforce and the risk of losing vital skills, knowledge, and experience. It offers practical, actionable strategies to protect business continuity by building capability, improving recruitment and retention, and reducing reliance on key individuals. With an ageing workforce, many manufacturing businesses face the growing risk of losing critical skills, knowledge and experience. So how do you protect your business and ensure continuity for the future?