training in tough times
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Donald Clark's presentation entitled Training in Tough Times delivered at the Edinburgh Breakfast briefing on 23 September 2010TRANSCRIPT
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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