1 developing a sector skills strategy. 2 identifying issues
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Developing a Sector Skills Strategy
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Identifying issues
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Consultation• Focus groups with individuals in the sector
in late 2010
• A focus group of ITO and industry stakeholders in November 2010
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Content of a strategy• Sector issues
• Workforce issues
• Skills and qualification issues
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Outcomes of a strategy• A more regular training and economic cycle for
the sector• Improved productivity as measured by the
industry-agreed definition• A better integrated vocational education and
training (VET) system• Higher quality skills training and a recognition
of that quality• People within the sector having a better
understanding of how their work effects others
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Finding solutions for key issues
1. Boom-Bust nature of the industry
2. Role of management/supervisory skills
3. Focusing on issues facing SMEs
4. Collaboration across the tertiary sector
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1. Boom-Bust nature of the industry • Built Environment industry is particularly
prone to economic cycles leading to boom and bust periods
• Solutions have focused on trying to remove or smooth cycles
• The industry will always be at least somewhat cyclical so it is important to think about how to respond
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1. Boom-Bust solutions:• Ensuring workers are multi-skilled
• Have a small core number of workers and bring extra people into the industry as necessary.
• Create pathways for careers in the industry including between sub-sectors
• Allow worker trainees to flexibly flow between different parts of the education and training network
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2. Role of Management/Supervisory skills
• Ongoing issue with management and supervisory skills
• These skills are necessary to ensure that businesses and workers are productive and are better placed to handle changes and fluctuations
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2. Management/Supervisory skills solutions:
• Managers are able to supervise staff effectively to ensure they are productive
• Management training (with incentives) is developed and provided for all completing trade apprentices
• Quality project management practices are in place across the industry at all levels.
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2. Management/Supervisory skills solutions:
• Succession planning is considered by all businesses, especially SMEs, to ensure businesses are long lasting.
• Management of SMEs is particularly considered as they do not generally have specialist managers.
• A new licensing class in the LBP programme is created which recognises a building contractor with the broader construction qualifications and/or experience
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3. Focusing on issues facing SMEs• The majority of businesses in the Built
Environment sector are SMEs with either sole traders or owner-operators with a small number of staff.
• SMEs face different issues than their larger counterparts and are often more vulnerable to changes including economic cycles.
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3. Issues facing SMEs solutions: • Ensuring higher levels of financial literacy
• Best practice models for HR focusing on hiring the right people and ensuring they are adequately trained.
• Recognising that people in SMEs, need to spend time on their business as well as in their business.
• Ensuring business owners and managers have training in contract management and pricing of projects.
• Overcoming issues of scale and lack of capital structure by a different form of collaboration between SMEs and larger firms.
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4. Collaboration across the tertiary sector
• The whole tertiary education sector, including training organisations and providers, needs to work collaboratively to ensure that people are trained with the right skills to work in the industry
• This will reduce proliferation of qualifications and give people in training confidence that the skills they are learning will be relevant in to their future employment.
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4. Collaboration across the sector solutions:
• Developing and providing broad school based pathways into the industry
• Developing and providing generic entry level qualifications to replace the current multiple pre-trades and which can be accessed in schools as well as in providers and workplaces
• Shared qualification development and review of qualifications.
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4. Collaboration across the sector solutions:
• Putting in place shared/stair-cased delivery.
• Creating clear pathways between qualifications and programmes being offered in different parts of the sector.
• ITOs and providers working together to promote the industry and recruit people into training for careers in the industry.