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Learning at Work Day
ULR Action Plan Presentation
Aims of the Action Plan presentation
• Find out general information on Learning at Work Day
• Develop an Action Plan for Learning at Work Day – from ‘making the case’ to ‘measuring success’
• Learn some tips on promoting learning and how to motivate colleagues to learn
• Find out about funding opportunities• Learn more about how to help colleagues
get “fit for work, fit for the future”
About Learning at Work Day
Learning at Work Day primes people up for
learning
How?By…• being fun
• offering bite-size tasters of learning• embedding learning in the
organisation• building learning motivation• establishing a sense of achievement• acting as a springboard on to other
opportunities … for the individual, for the organisation/business
Why learn in the workplace
• • Productivity • Confidence • Profits• Customer satisfaction • Job satisfaction Productivity
•Accidents
•Absenteeism
• Social exclusion
When?
• Or any day during Adult Learners’ Week, 18 – 25 May 2007
• Or any day throughout the year …see the wall planner – available to order from the resources section on the Learning at Work Day website www.learningatworkday.com
Thursday 24th May 2007
How can I make it happen? Available support and resources
• Support from Campaign for Learning … contact us!Rachel Johnstone, Campaign for Learning, Southern Region tel: 01823 660040 email: [email protected] Reed, Campaign for Learning, Northern Region, tel: 01925 283270email: [email protected] CfL Marketing team: tel: 020 7766 0017 email: [email protected]
• Learning at Work Day website www.learningatworkday.com • Live Long & Prosper website www.retail.learningatworkday.com• Workplace Learning Network www.workplacelearningnetwork.com• Sharing ideas with colleagues• BBC RaW campaign: www.bbc.co.uk/raw/• Adult Learners’ Week www.alw.org.uk• Funding opportunities for Learning at Work Day and beyond on the
ULR Learning at Work Day pages www.learningatworkday.com
A case study: Thanet District Council
• Planning Team: Senior managers, ULRs and corporate training team
• Varied programme: from massage therapy and genealogy to speaking in public and languages
• Think local: local providers with info stands; IT delivered by IT team; sport provided by Thanet Leisure Force
• Leverage: Planning Group block-booked rooms and reached an agreement on release for staff
• Role of ULR: meeting tutors on arrival, setting up training room, introducing tutors to staff, being on hand during the day
• Outcomes: 120 staff attended; discussions re provider discount to continue learning; sourcing a local tutor for more sign language
7 steps to a ‘heavenly‘ Learning at Work Day
event
Aims and theme
Make the case
Activities
Promotion
Deliver
Progress
Evaluate
Developing your action Plan
Action - Print off the Action Plan Document at
[insert document link]. The presentation will now take you through the steps you need to plan your Learning at Work Day. At the end of each Action Plan step fill out the relevant section of the document.
Action Plan 1. Aims/objectives of the event
Begin with the end in mind
What do you want to achieve by running a Learning at Work Day
event?
Think SMART … it will help you to make the case
SpecificMeasurableAchievableRealisticTime-bound
Eg, Staff take fewer sick days throughout the year after learning stress-busting techniques and immune boosters on LAW Day.
Your objectives/aims should be:
Action Plan – 1. Aims/objectives of the event
Action Plan - 2. Making the case for participation
• Think about the benefits for employees and the benefits for the organisation
• ‘Sell’ your SMART aims and objectives to management ACTION - see ‘making your case’ on the Learning at Work Day planning pages
• To encourage participation make sure Learning at Work Day is driven from the ‘bottom’ – meet a need and ensure ownership
• Build on previous experience and evaluation• What support is available to help me ‘sell’ the idea to my
employer?
Learning for individual- an enthusiasm for learning (fun)
Learning for the organisation - achieving business goals
Engaging learners
Motivation to learn = Benefits +
Expectancy of success - Barriers
To engage learners you will have to sell the benefits to them of the learning, increase the likelihood that the learning they do will be successful and reduce any barriers that may prevent them taking up the learning opportunities. ACTION - Download the Creating Learning Opportunities for All presentation from the ULR Learning at Work Day pages
Action Plan - 2. Making the case for participation
Action Plan - 3. What activities will the event involve?
• Pick a theme … a hook • Make them fun, engaging, accessible
• Consult staff as stakeholders
(as you do!)• Set up a Planning Group • Discover the hidden talents: a skills audit• Some activity suggestions…
Increasing energy levels of workforce
• Desk Workout• Brain Gym• Cycle mechanics• Eating for energy …
the Brain Food Check• ‘Walk your Way to Health’
Action Plan - 3. What activities will the event involve?
Helping the workforce to be stress-free
• Achieving a work-life balance• Deep breaths!• Improving your memory• Yoga• The Stress Gym:
www.channel4.com/health
Action Plan - 3. What activities will the event involve?
Supporting employees to gain financial control
• The basics of budgeting• Are you on the pension ladder?• Understanding your payslip• FSA Learn Online• A Give & Take Reuse Event
Action Plan - 3. What activities will the event involve?
ACTION - For more ideas and downloadable resources visit:
www.learningatworkday.com and click on the resources pages for the A-Z of activities and New for 2007 pages or visit:
www.retail.learningatworkday.com
Action Plan - 3. What activities will the event involve?
The AIDA ProcessOnce you’ve developed your product you need to sell it to your audience...
Action!
Desire Interest
Awareness
Action Plan - 4. Promoting your event
The AIDA ProcessAction Plan - 4. Promoting your event
Use the AIDA process to think about how you will move your colleagues from an awareness of your Learning at Work Day to signing up to take part. Think about…
1. Getting the message out…Posters Newsletters Promotional Competitions Tasters Email teasers Word of mouth
2. Highlighting the benefits to the individual of taking part
3. Including a call to action…sign up here… speak to your manager…return the form…
Grab the interest!
Make your colleagues curious with teasers like these…
Action Plan - 4. Promoting your event
Things to consider:• How will you ensure that people are ready
and primed up to learn?• Create a buzz - a ‘positive learning
climate’ … music, colour, ‘toys’, humour• Publish a ‘Programme of
Activities’ - what’s happening where and when
• Take photos and pick up anecdotal evidence
Action Plan – 5. Delivering your event
• There’s more funding for progression on to longer courses
• What’s the next opportunity or learning campaign?
• Build in opportunities to review the learning
ACTION - Work with Train to GainVisit www.traintogain.gov.uk
Action Plan – 6. Maintain that momentum!
Answer the following questions:• Why are you evaluating? What will
you do with the data?• What’s to be evaluated? Formative
evaluation or summative evaluation?• For whose purpose are you
evaluating?• How will you evaluate? What
approaches will you use?
Action Plan – 7. Evaluation – why, what, how?
Actions to take forward your plan…
Action Plan – 8. My next step
Useful websites
• www.support4learning.org.uk• BHF Think Fit! Campaign:
www.bhf.org.uk/thinkfit/ • www.bbc.co.uk/bigchallenge/healthyworkplace/• Stress UK: www.stress.org.uk• British Nutrition Foundation:
www.nutrition.org.uk• www.moneymadeclear.fsa.gov.uk• Walk your way to health: www.whi.org.uk
