NCCLSC Spring Conference Thank you to our sponsors

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NCC/LSC Spring Conference Thank you to our
sponsors
Soon to be known as
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Catalyst Programme
Alan Clarke Sector Engagement Manager 1 April
2009
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Content
Lifelong Learning UK The Catalyst
Programme Benefits of Engagement
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Lifelong Learning UK
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Workforce Strategy FE sector England

• Priority 1 Understanding the nature of the
  workforce
• Priority 2 Attracting and recruiting the best
  people and improving the sector image
• Priority 3 Retaining and developing the modern,
  professionalised workforce
• Priority 4 Ensuring equality and diversity is at
  the heart of the strategy, policy making,
  planning and training

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Catalyst programme

• Catalyst comprises four major sub-programmes
  which will support further education (FE)
  providers in taking a structured approach to the
  development of leaders and managers and in
  ensuring teachers, tutors and trainers keep their
  vocational and subject specialist skills
  up-to-date. This will be achieved by building
  strong relationships between FE sector employers
  and businesses.

Further education sector FE colleges, adult and
community learning, work based learning)
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Catalyst Programme
Leaders and Managers
Developing Teachers
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Pass on Your Skills

• First phase of the programme and 219 people have
  successfully completed the PTLLS qualification
• Accessible database of 777 vocational experts
  with engineering and health and social care
  experience - to-date 4 people have now obtained
  jobs in the sector
• New national advertising campaign for future
  teachers, trainers tutors or assessors, in
  vocational areas- Health and social care,
  engineering, technology and manufacturing,
  Science and maths, Retail and commercial services
  including catering health and beauty and
  hospitality, literacy and numeracy.
• The second phase of pass on Your Skills will be
  launched at the end of March aiming to recruit
  300 new entrants by March 2010.

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Business interchange

• The first phase of Business Interchange enabled
  527 placements to take place in funded industrial
  up-dating activities last year.
• New design went live in January 2009. Based on
  Self Regulation and working in partnership with
  Sector Skills Councils.
• Our aim is to register 300 participants by 31
  March 2009, with a total of 1,400 Business
  Interchanges having taken place by March 2010.
• All placements agreed by 31 March 2009 attract a
  payment for completed outputs of 1000 per
  participant.

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Make a Difference

• National campaign to attract and develop 210
  graduate calibre individuals into the sector.
• Current model recruits individuals to a talent
  pool and encourages the sector to include
  candidates in their recruitment process.
• Currently re-designing the programme. New model
  aims to recruit to vacancy and support each
  providers recruitment methods.
• Make a Difference adds value to all Management
  Recruitment by-
• advertising these live vacancies to
  candidates outside of the sector
• providing assessment centre support to
  providers, where requested
• Providing a fully funded 12-month leadership
  development programme to successful candidates.
• To-date 84 FE providers are registered with 121
  high quality candidates

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Business Talent

• We are currently working in partnership with LSIS
  and we are developing a web based recruitment
  resource to encourage the sector to recruit to
  senior posts from outside of the sector as well
  as from inside the sector. This has been based
  on the paper based resource developed by LLUK and
  when completed will be available on the catalyst
  and LSIS websites

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Models for successful engagement

• Needs-analysis for employers specialist
  trainers
• Attending business network meetings
• Staff engaging with occupational networks
• Employers engaging with new curriculum
  developments
• Employer support of work placements and visits
• Use of local market information to anticipate
  training needs.

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Infrastructure for employer engagement

• Train to Gain contacts
• Role of skills brokers
• Enterprise and business units with central points
  of contact
• Training Quality Standard
• Employers working to inform curriculum
• Bespoke and accredited training and learning

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Quality
Quality in a service or product is not what you
put into it. It is what the client or customer
gets out of it.Peter Drucker
The quality of our work depends on the quality of
our people.Unknown
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Employee engagement
The goal of increased employee engagement is
improved organisational performance rather than
an end in itself.
Put customers second? Put your staff first they
will put their customers first.
Dan Bazinet President Overland Trading
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Value of Employee Engagement
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and
not everything that counts can be counted."
Albert Einstein
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Key Messages

• Use Business Interchange to assist to fund your
  CPD activities this year and next year.
• Use Pass on Your Skills to provide access to
  high quality teacher, trainer, tutor, assessor
  candidates register your vacancies now and
  search our site until March 2010.
• Use Make a Difference to support your recruitment
  process for all management Vacancies and enable
  successful candidates to undertake a 12 month
  leadership development programme.

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Opportunities to engage

• Pass on Your Skills PTTLS www.passonyourskills.
  com
• Make a Difference www.changeyourfuture.org
• Business Interchange www.takeeducationfu
  rther.org
• Business Talent www.catalystbusinesstalent.c
  om
• www.catalystprogramme.org