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Who is Tony Green?• - Chief Executive of the Employment NTO

• Previous job - Regional Commercial Director, Central Opencast

• 20 years experience in Personnel, Training,Trade Unions and Commercial

Management in the Mining Industry

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What are the factors for success in improving business performance in the workplace?

People in the workplace

- quality of trainers

-competence standards and qualifications

-working with partners

- government

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In the next 40 minutes

• What is an NTO?

• The NTO framework

• Who and what is the Employment NTO

• Training & Competence - unlocking people potential

• The Value of competence based standards and qualifications

• The work of the Employment NTO

• Government strategy and competence based frameworks

• trainers and competence - the key to the future

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All of the principles that are outlined are

TRANSNATIONAL

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What is an NTO?

• NTOs are the Nationally recognised voices of employers on education and Training

• NTOs bring employers together to say what skills are needed in their areas and how those skills can be achieved.

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• NTOs lead the development of qualifications based on national occupational standards of competence

• NTOs represent their employers’ sector(s) to government and others

• NTOs are crucial in the area of LabourMarket Intelligence and in identifying solutions

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The National Training Organisation Framework and The economic infrastructure of the UK

The Employment NTO

Sector NTOs

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The 70 Sector NTOs are involved with:• strategy within their economic sector

• implementation within their sector

The Employment NTO and the other 6 All Sector NTOs also :

• have a strategic involvement across

ALL SECTORS OF THE UK ECONOMY

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What is the Employment NTOs aim?

“Developing the Competence of people who work with people in the workplace”

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The Role of the Employment NTO

• Representing the Employment Arena

• Developing National, Sectoral and local partnerships on wider education and training issues

• promoting employer investment in people as central to competitive business

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• Assessing and responding to the education, training and development needs of the Employment arena

• Emphasising the need to adopt and implement the competence based National Vocational Standards and Qualifications of the Employment NTO

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• Responsibility for the Assessment and Verification standards - the cement binding the competence based National Vocational Qualifications framework together

• One of the seven All Sector NTOs who together, are responsible for generic, transferable skills that employers are looking for

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Who is the Employment Community?

Trainers

Personnel

Health & Safety

Trade Unions

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Now joined by

Advice

Counselling

Mediation

Psychotherapy

Guidance

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How do we work?

Executive Board

Council

Chief Executive & Team

5 Workgroups

6 Review and Specialist Groups

Over 200 people

Networks

Partnerships

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Why should we exist?• To create a better qualified, educated and trained

workforce

• Help to reduce confusion in the provision of qualifications

• Help to bridge the gap between “Academic” and “Vocational” qualifications

• Overall, add to competitiveness

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Current Standards and Qualifications

Training & Development 3 4,4 5

Personnel 3 4 5

Trade Unions 3 4

Health & Safety 2 3,3 4

Recruitment 3

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The importance of training and competence

If you see people as resources, you will treat people as resources

People need to be - valued

- motivated

- involved

- developed

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The traditional view of people

COSTS ASSETS

People -£££ Machinery +£££

Training -£££ Buildings +£££

Education -£££ Cash +£££

Development -£££

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Unlocking the potential of people at work

• recognition of the strategic role in the economy of the competence of people

• development of standards and qualifications based on competence

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Unlocking the potential of people at work

• recognition of the vital role of trainers and developers

• support from government in the implementation of a competence based policy

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Unlocking the potential of people at workhow the framework operates

ACCREDITING BODIES

NTOs AWARDING BODIES TRAINERS

CUSTOMERS

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Unlocking the potential of people at workWHAT EXISTS?

• A framework across ALL economic activity of the UK

• involvement of the employers and Trade Unions

• based on competence standards and qualifications

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The Value of Competence Standards

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They are OUTPUT based

and have the fundamental principle of

CAN DO

based on

Knowledge Understanding

Experience

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The Value of Standards - the setting• A large, educationally disenfranchised workforce

• A climate of continuous change

• Market Globalisation - IT & ICT

• Market Proliferation - Size - Type - Transient - volatile

- Worldwide - Aggressive

• 90% of people in the UK work in firms of less than 25 people

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The Value of Standards - What they Offer• Transparency

• Quality measurement - benchmarks

• Development Strategies - individual needs - organisational needs

• Operational Strategies - salary structures

- performance evaluation

- job roles

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The Value of Standards - what they offer

• More effective and focused investment in people

• Based on competence

• Provide credibility based on rigour

• NOT dependent on a professional qualification

• Flexible in - achievement

- application

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The Value of Competence based Qualifications

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The Value of Competence based Qualifications• outcomes based

• Developmental

• Based on rigorous standards

• Nationally accredited and recognised

• Portable and Transferable

• Continuous Personal and Professional Development

• Do not need Professional recognition

• Open Access

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• The value of competence based qualifications

• Employment Currency

• Quality Assured

• Flexible in application

• Value recognised by the individual - a self assessment

• External recognition of value

• Commitment from the organisation and the individual

• Validation of the organisation

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What is the Employment NTO Doing?

• Working with the ALL SECTOR NTOs - that are crucial for Transferable Skills - the Key to improved business performance

• Rapidly developing working partnerships and strategic alliance with Further and Higher Education

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• An holistic approach to the current review of all our Standards and Qualifications

• The development of supporting products for standards and qualifications, particularly geared to small organisations

• Developing strategic partnerships with:– government - training providers - employers

– awarding bodies - trade unions - further and higher

education

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• Widening the scope and use of the Assessor and Verifier Qualifications

• Attacking the issue of quality of training through development of an Assessor and Verifier Network

• INFLUENCING GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNMENT STRATEGY

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• Working with Government and a range of partners to develop qualifications for Work Based Trainers, who deliver programmes using Government funds.

• These qualifications are based on the Employment NTO standards.

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government strategy and competence based frameworks of

training

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Government Strategy and competence based frameworks

77 NTOs 49 Learning Skills Councils

12 Regional Development Agencies

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Government Strategy and Competence based frameworks

NTOs - deliver competence standards and qualifications

- deliver market intelligence on skill needs and workforce development

RDAs - deliver economic strategies, guidance and investment

LSCs - deliver government investment in people

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government strategy and competence based frameworks

Learning Skills Councils will be the mechanism to deliver

£6 billion through training and education providers to people in

the workplace each year

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government strategy and competence based frameworks

these three government supported and promoted frameworks to work together to :

• to invest in people at work

• to focus that investment effectively based on real information

• to drive that investment on competence based standards and qualifications

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Recognition of the role of competent trainers to deliver the objectives for the

UK

• a suite of trainer qualifications based on the

• Employment NTO competence standards

• flexible, achievable and meeting needs of small as well as large organisations

• measurable to ensure rigour and quality

• mandatory

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Government strategy and competence frameworks

• this work being taken forward by the Employment NTO, in partnership with Government, employers, trainers, professional bodies, further education and

others

• this training qualification framework to be in place in 2001

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lessons for the future• people are the way to to improve economic success

• quality development and training unlock this potential

• the development of quality trainers is essential

• competence based frameworks for trainers and those to be trained provide the key

• partnership employers, trade unions, and government organisations is essential

• understanding and promotion by government is critical

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• This is the UK scene

• The Employment NTO is already working in partnership with other European countries on Standards issues

• THESE PRINCIPLES ARE TRANSFERABLE

• STANDARDS ARE TRANSFERABLE

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To contact the Employment NTO :

• phone 0116 2517979

• fax 0116 2511464

• email empnto@empnto.co.uk

• web www.empnto.co.uk

Tony Green