training in tough times

Training in tough times

Donald Clark

Clark

Baby Boomers Gen Y

Millenials

Barnett formula (1979) • higher per head funding for Scotland (117% of UK average)

• £1,644 more spent per head in Scotland

• Lords inquiry 2009 ‘arbitrary & unfair’

• change soon

John Swinney MSPCrawford W Beveridge CBE (Chair), Sir Neil McIntosh CBE Robert Wilson

"We are in for a long hard financial winter, which will require very difficult choices to be made about priorities."

Robert Black, Auditor General for Scotland

Scottish Government Expenditure

RecommendationsFraser of Allander Institute ( FAI)

Scenario 1

"up to 126,000 economy wide job losses by 2014-15 comprising up to 90,000 in the public sector and 37,000 private sector job losses." 

Scenario 2

“reduce jobs in the public sector by the slightly lower number of just under 78,000 while private sector employment rises by nearly 14,000.”

Local Government

Frozen council tax – rapid thaw

“The Scottish Government and Parliament should consider the option of discontinuing the current council tax freeze, which does not appear sustainable in the projected economic environment.”

“find savings… new approaches need to be considered, including service redesign, more joint working and collaboration“

Audit Scotland

Recommendations

"The 32 Scottish local authorities run virtually identical back office services - finance administration, HR, payroll, procurement, revenues & benefits etc.”

“Despite much talk of shared services, there has been only modest progress towards any sharing of significant back office services between councils"

COSLA

SOLACE

Recommendations

“The Panel believes that the challenges arising from the projected financial outlook should act as a stimulus for the public sector to review its current delivery models, including consideration of alternatives.”

Recommendations

“The Panel believes that any reduction in the level of absence has the potential to contribute to greater public service efficiency …………..

………should identify clear targets for reducing absence, ultimately to a level equivalent to the private sector average.”

7 evils of training delivery

1. Cognitive overload

2. Tyranny of time

3. Tyranny of location

4. Low retention

5. High cost

6. Non-scalable

7. LOW USE OF TECHNOLOGY

7 principles of training delivery in recession

1. Achieve more with less  optimise limited budgets and time

2. Fast access to learning  available 24x7 at point of need

3. Flexible  respond quickly to organisation’s needs

4. Raise productivity  skills & knowledge when needed

5. Reduce carbon footprint  reduce travel & meeting costs

6. Scalable learners/resources/experts

7. EMBRACE TECHNOLOGY

From here to there……

– Identify and develop champions

– Adopt blended learning

– Simple and small steps

– Easy access to shared content

– Explain the benefits

– Provide training

– Share successes

– Involve everyone

Great divide

Change management

Kotter’s 8 steps

1. Urgency

2. Guiding team

3. Vision

4. Communicate

5. Empower

6. Short-term wins

7. Build momentum

8. Nurture new culture

Change management

Kotter’s 8 steps

1. Urgency - CUTS

2. Guiding team – COSLA, SOLACE

3. Vision – COMMIT TO COST SAVINGS (ROI)

4. Communicate -

5. Empower – COLLABORATION

6. Short-term wins - ABSENTEEISM

7. Build momentum - COMMUNITY

8. Nurture new culture – BURN BRIDGES

7 scientific reasons for using technology

1. Motivation

2. Timeshift

3. Self-paced/cognitive overload

4. Media mix: episodic/semantic

5. Learn by doing

6. Spaced practice

7. Collaboration

1. Motivation

2. Timeshift

Tyranny of time:

1. Agricultural timetable

2. Hour of learning

3. Fixed length courses

4. No recording and distribution

Timeshift don’t timetable

3. Cognitive overload

3. Self-paced (personalised)

“better to see a first class lecture on video than a mediocre one in the flesh”

Recording lectures

Media sharing

YouTube

Flickr

iTunes

Timeshift

DVD

iPlayer

VOD

4. Media mix

5. Learn by doing1. Specific tasks

How to tie a tie

How to solve a Rubik’s Cube

How to draw

2. Sexual

How to kiss

How to have sex

How to flirt

3. Health

How to lose weight

How to deal with allergies

How to get fit/do a sport

4. Wealth

How to make money

How to get bargains

How to manage debt

5. Computer skills

How to get rid of a virus

How to remove software

How to use software

6. Careers

How to get a job

How to get promotion

How to careers advice

7. Education

How to pass a test

How to choose a course

How to teach

8. Food and drink

How to cook

How to buy wine

How to entertain

9. Home & garden

How to fix things

How to grow things

How to build things

10. Complex skills

How to write a book

How to manage a team

How to get a divorce

5. Learn by doing - context

6. Spaced practice

7. Collaboration

7. Collaboration - learningpool

Transformation research

Carol Twigg$8.8 million Pew grant30 community colleges, colleges and universities

Is it cost-effective? YESAre we seeing better learning? YESCan drop-out rates be reduced? YES

Transformational success:

1. Concentrate on large enrollment courses2. Improvements apply to many types of courses3. Don’t fiddle, redesign the whole course5. Don’t stay with unaltered concept of classroom instruction4. Don’t bolt on new technologies to existing system6. Move students from passive, "note-taking" role to an active-learning orientation7. Move from an entirely lecture-based to a student-engagement approach

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