Skills Awareness for Workplace Managers

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Skills Awareness for Workplace Managers

• Jo Cripps
• Adult Learning
• Oxfordshire County Council

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Skills Awareness for Workplace Managers

• Workshop structure
• Aims
• Participants
• Organisations
• Programme structure
• Evaluation

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SKILLSAWARENESSfor MANAGERS
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Skills Awareness for Managers

• Tailored learning programme
• raise awareness of Language, Literacy, Numeracy
  IT in the workplace
• practice techniques to support staff development

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Participants

• Managers
• Supervisors
• Team Leaders
• Union Representatives

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Organisations

• NHS Acute Teaching Trust
• Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust
• Primary Care Trusts
• SE Oxon PCT
• SW Oxon PCT
• District Councils
• Cherwell
• Oxford City
• Social Care
• Oxfordshire Group Homes (registered charity)

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Skills Awareness for Managers (SAM)
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6 Hour Programme

• Confidential Discussion (1 hour)
• Group Seminar (2 hours)
• Guided Learning Log (2 hours)
• De-Brief (1 hour)

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Initial Discussion

• What?
• Audit
• One to one
• Confidential
• Talked about
• Skills for Life
• Recruitment and selection
• Departmental skills assessment
• Individual skill development.
• How to raise standards
• Appraisal and/or supervision

• Why?
• Facilitator
• Uses input to inform programme
• Identifies individual needs
• Participant
• Introduced to programme
• Skills required
• Areas to develop
• How the course will develop his/her knowledge and
  practice.

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Group Seminar aims

• By the end of the session, participants will be
  able to
• Describe skills required by department
• Identify Skills for Life required for daily tasks
• Informally assess self and staff
• Access training
• Take group ideas back into workplace to resolve
  issues

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Group Seminar

• Role of managers
• Skills participants need for their job
• Skills required by participants staff for their
  job
• Workplace tasks analysis Skills for Life
  (Language, Literacy, Numeracy and IT)
• Identification and assessment of skills gaps
• Barriers to learning and developing
• Troubleshooting!

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Matching Skills to Tasks
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Learning Log
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X Y Theory
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De-Brief
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EvaluationComments
Now know availability and type of courses and
access points.
Answered questions I didnt know I had!
I understand the importance of learning styles
and of taking that into consideration
It will certainly help me look at my team in a
more open way
I can use and adapt the materials
Sessions have addressed questions and given
relevant information and contacts
It has certainly helped me understand what
candidates have to be able to do.
I now understand the skills involved in daily
tasks
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Contact Details

• Jo Cripps
• 07834 994 112
• jo_at_skillsescalator.org.uk
• www.skillsescalator.org.uk